Significantly. A typical aircraft squadron might have 85 fully operational. More investments are being made and stealthy, longrange aircraft, Unmanned Systems in the air or under sees hypersonic missiles, small satellites and artificial we will be leaving this here and take you to a live discussion on president ial transition and National Security hosted by the university of virginia plus Miller Center. To moderate todays conversation. It is a real pleasure to be with you all and have these terrific guests. The president ial transition act was stopped by congress in 1963 to provide important statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since then and today we will discuss some of the important issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief o
Agriculture. Nations ive talked about this before, the vast majority of the population are people who live on farms. Especially in the confederate states. Youre dealing with the population that is overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet, they will struggle to feed themselves. More often they will run out of our moments. This is surprising when you think of agriculture nation. The second big irony here, is that the foundations of the confederacy, the documents and the secession documents, before they join the confederate say, we want in limited government with more power to the states. Yet, the confederate government is going to become stronger, and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point. In order to wage war, and try to feed everyone. Two key ironies, we are going to talk about how they come about. A flash point for this question of how you feed everyone is a series of riots. In the spring of 1863. In the confederacy, most notably in the capital city o
Our way through like every other News Organization. We have done something truly impressive and made a real commitment to hardhitting and investigative groundbreaking journalism and im grateful for that and i thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen chairman and editorinchief of kiplinger publications. [applause] good evening. I am from the kiplinger letter and i will be referred. I am not related in any way to the other nights, including john and james. I wish that i were but i am not our honorary this evening is the first kipping letter award who has never worked as a professional journalist. Paradoxically he is one of the most influential figures in this totally reshape the journalism profession too adapted to the new realities of the digital age. And because beneath the guise of the lawyer, a newspaper publisher and a Foundation Executive while he was never a professional journalist, he was once a student journalist in 1965. A busload of students went down to alabama from connect
Next Jonathan Horn recounts robert e. Lees decision to join the Confederate Army after being sought by the north and the south. From louisville kentucky, its about an hour. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Horn. He is an author and former white house president ial speechmaker who spent years researching and writing his robert e. Lee biography the man who would not be washington published in january of this year. Jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and nbc radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times the Weekly Standard and other outlets. During his time the white house jonathan served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush and as a graduate of io university and we welcome him to louisville university. [applause] thank you so much for that lovely introduction judy. As was mentioned i used to work as a president ial speechwriter before i started writing this book. So you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book did
[inaudible screaming] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] tucker liam sore was just a few feet away from the attack when it occurred pretty joins us now from spain. Liam, where were you when this happened . I was in on the road just next to the rambler when and i was halfway down the rambler down the street. I was listening to my music. And from my left, i hear noises, and in the space of like five seconds, and go from hearing that to because at this point i am looking forward and straight. And then i see everyone from the bar and to the shops start screaming and running. And then at this point, from the corner of my left eye is where the van stops. And obviously, i continue traveling forward. I was still on my skateboard. And at this point, i jumped off, picked up my skateboard, and ran to the nearest place i could get into. Which was, the theater. I think, and at first they saw us all into the gift shop. I tried to get into the theater, the door was locked. So the