For his best friend. Steve admiral dave thomas, as you reflect on the morning of september 11th, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well this was culminating an 18 month project. So ive been on the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input to the defense review. Steve explained that project. What was the review all about and what was your specific role . Admiral thomas every four years, all the services and the joint staff and the department of defense have a report to congress. It is quadrennial hely. A review of our defense posture in the force structure that supports it. This was to be a policybased review. I had been in the strategy and policy directorate on the navy staff.
You reflect on the morning of september 11, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well there was a culminating 18month project. So i had been in the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input to the defense review. Steve explained that project. What was the review all about and what was your specific role . Admiral thomas every four years, all the services and the joint staff and the department of defense have a report to congress. It is quadrennial he. A review of our defense posture in the force structure that supports it. This was to be a policybased review. I had been in the strategy and policy director at on the navy staff. I became the executive officer of this under a navy fl
Earlier today, former louisiana senator attended that House Oversight subcommittee hearing on louisiana flooding and the federal response. She served three terms in the senate and was in office when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in august, 2005. She chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee from 2014 to 2015. If you missed any of todays hearing on the louisiana flooding, well be showing it again tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Other programming this weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. And here are some of our programs for this coming weekend. Saturday night at 9 00 eastern, new york city principal talks about starting an inner City Middle School in her book the bridge to brilliance how one principal in in a tough community is inspiring the world. She was featured on the humans of new york website which subsequently went viral. At 10 00, former u. S. Attorney general Alberto Gonzalez talks about his life during the george w. Bush ad
This year, cspan a string cities across the country, exploring American History. A look at our recent visit to denver, colorado. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Cable tv keeps me thinking. Brian kenny it really started and rural areas. A lot of the cities do not have it until the late 1970s and early 1980s. The cable center is a Nonprofit Organization founded by the Cable Television pioneers whose main mission is to tell the story of the cable industry. Cable grew out of the fact that tv signals cannot get into the valleys. So cable started as Community Antenna television. The idea was to put up the antenna on the hill, collect the signal, send it back down to peoples homes. In 1973, hub shaftly, the inventor of the teleprompter and the cable company, he demonstrated at the anaheim cable tv show that you could use a portable earth station to distribute the signal. You can get the cable tv signal from the satellite and send it to any had head
To an undisclosed location. He recounts his experiences that day, from his aerial view of the pentagon to his description of the secret location for congressional leaders regrouped and determine how to respond to the terrorist attacks against United States. Take us back to the morning of september 11, 2001. How did your day again . Sen. Daschle steve, my day began by my normal preparation for what we were going to hold a routine leadership meeting, every tuesday we would do that. I came in early and john glenn, a dear friend, came by. He was going to get, he was actually going to do an interview and had a little time, so he came by for a cup of coffee. We were sitting in my office that morning when we had the television on and watched a plane fly into the first tower of the trade center and i remember very clearly johns reaction. I said, did you see that . A pilot just flew into the World Trade Center. He said pilots dont fly into buildings that wasnt a pilot. And thats how it started.