Page 61 - Agent Orange News Today

And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereign...

Weekend, on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next on the president s how do make decisions, whether it is firing cabinet officials or going to war . We will hear from advisers to president s Ronald Reagan, bill clinton, george w. Bush, and barack obama. Former secretary of defense leon panetta moderated the discussion. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, and i welcome all of you to the final forum of our lecture series this year. I think, as you all...

Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanie...

Tonight, we are going to take a look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions, and residents, frankly, influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of the United States has today assumed incredible responsibilities and facing incredible pressures in that position. Since 1914, we have had 17 president s of the United States, all of whom, you know, will have various places in history. We have gone from wilson to harding, truman to eise...

Now. Its not as long as some people, but its getting old. Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] are we able to get his information so we can well get back to you, sir. Hello, sir. I want to thank you for coming tonight. The best way to solve a problem is facetoface with the veterans. I come here tonight to stop one of the policies that are causing veterans to commit suicide and killing veterans. When veterans are in an abusive situation with a pac team, it doesnt matter if its a pac team leader abu...

The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. Understand that your testimony will be a little bit different today than what we are accustomed to with reference to chart to help us better understand what you are seeing in terms of the challenges that lay ahead and i would say that is indeed a welcome change. So too is the open as you have had with me with membe...

Position of the v. A. Secretary comes with tremendous responsibility and commands someone who understands the sacrifices and needs of both our veterans and their families. The next secretary of the v. A. Must be willing and ready to lead the v. A. In a new direction. While im grateful for the service of both general shinseki and acting secretary sloan gibson, and thousands of dedicated employees on the ground, i believe the current state of v. A. Affairs or the affairs at v. A. Demands bold lead...

Glooinchtsds. Certainly there could be a future statute, mr. E whether theres sunset clause or a reexamination. Thats kind of a coverage of the domestic legal basis for using force that i look at as a military lawyer when i advise my cliebtsds. We also pay very close attention to the use of force within the conflict itself. What we would call yugs use in bellow. Irts not just what law gets you into conflict in the first place or aut rihorizes you to be in conflict in the first place. But also, w...

Then, as the general mentioned, youre going to have to have a guard and reserve thats ready to go. I mean, up until we had a volunteer military, the guard or reserves was a place to go to get away from home on the one of the things i had to do was persuade president reagan to keep it. He had campaigned against it. Libertarian and all of that. One of the argument, i made was, look, you may have a prolonged conflict and you want to be able to mobilize. All right. Now, we did not do that at the hei...

Is going to join attorney general eric holder and travel to ferguson. The former vermont senator died today. In 2001, senator jeffords announced he was leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent. He cited in congress with the democrats, with gate which gave them 51 votes in a chamber which had been split 50 50. That move gave the democrats a majority. A funeral is being planned in his home town of rutland, vermont. Was 80. Ords now, a debate on the safety of genetically modified fo...