For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Alan dershowitz talks about becoming a lawyer and the many cases hes handled over the past 50 years. This hourlong program is next on booktv. [applause] welcome, everybody. Its delightful to see you all, and remarkable in a funny way for the two of us to be here, alan. I feel as if you ought to be tutoring me for one of our final exams, which you used to do. Weve known each other for over 50 years, as you just heard, and i dont know how that came to be. But you say in your book that you were a dreadful student until you went to college. That during elementary and secondary school, you were a disaster. What turned it around . I dont know. I wish i knew. In Elementary School and high school, i was a c and d student. I have in my book an actual photograph of my senior semester report card with a 60 in physics, red circle around it, 60 in math, red circle around it, 65 in history, and i managed to squeeze out an 80 in english. So i had a 67 avera
Just israel a potentially transformed. Is he a new judgment willing and able to make the kind of choices necessary, forget concluding the peace agreemen agreement about t advancing that process to its next phase. A year ago i got a letter from a man that said stop smearing me. Im going to do it. Speak but as for one to 67. You can say these numbers and i dont know if anyone has heard him say one step or two steps in 1967 to have him utter these numbers when he was speaking to the conference and then i see him saying they are going to be a part of israel. He has to made up his mind. Im not going to get into the name game. They are going through a transformation and i know that they have taken so much. Ii am not comparing this conflt with any other conflict. This is about history, religion, failure, and with enough honestly it is difficult for me and then but at the end of today its time for decisions, not negotiations. I want to live with a two state solution. They start preparing his p
Sacrifice shall never be in vain. Thank you for what you all have done for our country. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the secretary of the army. Good morning. A very special day. Secretary hagel, sir, thank you obviously for your gracious words in your presence here today. As well for the tremendous leadership, steady hand youve brought to these very challenging times. Chief, mrs. O. , Sergeant Major, distinguished members of congress, all of the department of defense family, particularly those from the United States army, but especially to the families and the honorees who are with us here today, welcome. It is wonder to see all of you again. As ive become the 21st secretary of the army, ive had many occasions to attend some pretty Historic Events and i probably should go without saying today is certainly one of them. As president obama noted yesterday, this injunction serves as the largest single induction of medal of honor honorees since world war ii. 24 and amazing soldiers who
His pistol and a russian Cruise Missile missile. These are all one in the same because they involve the technology and the chemistry of gunpowder, right quest of course not, we would never do that but somehow its accessible in this space. Or take the organizations for example i had a senior u. S. Military official argue with me that and al qaeda were the same thing. Wherever you stand on anonymous and i have a good outfit i am more pathetic towards them than anyone in the d. C. s security establishment but the bottom line is wherever you stand on than they differ from al qaeda in everything from their organization, their personnel, their profile, there means, their ends, pretty much the only thing they share is they are doctors that begin with the letter a. These gaps in understanding the disconnect of policy reality intact knowledge he mean that we are not only seeing growing tension. Its one of the things that is feeding into the u. S. China relationship but it also means we are bein
Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in korea on sepp 4, 1950. That evening under cover of darkness and a dreary mist, an enemy battalion moved to within a few yards of Master Sergeant penas platoon. Recognizing the enemys approach, Master Sergeant pena and his men owned fire, but the enemys sudden emergence and accurate pointblank fire forced the friendly troops to withdraw. Master Sergeant Pena rapidly reorganized his men and led them in a counterattack which succeeded in regaining the positions they had just lost. He and his men quickly established a defensive perimeter and laid down devastating fire, but enemy troops continued to hurl themselves at the defenses in overwhelming numbers. Realizing that their supply of ammunition would soon make their positions untenable, Master Sergeant pena covered his mens withdrawal. He single handlely handedly held back the enemy until he was killed. Master Sergeant Penas extraordinary heroism and the selflessness at the cost