Brief. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. I remember every day of the oil spill was brutal. Spillmber during the oil poppedn Rolling Stone to their story about stanley mcchrystal, got a call about a fourstar general back from afghanistan and i remember walking to the residents and called the president. I said i think you need to read this story. I walked over and he met me downstairs and he read the first two paragraphs and we had a quick conversation and he said whos ever left, lets meet in the oval office. You had these events area i remember the shooting at fort hood, what awful day that was. A decent part of the evening, weise we probably spent hours in the oval office with bob gates and admiral mullen and bob mueller from the head of the fbi and the president talking some of
Up with the latest history news. Pressmer white house secretarys from the ford, reagan, george h. W. Bush, clinton, and Obama Administrations. They talk about how the position has changed over time. Nesson,ls include ron fitzwater, mike mccurry, and robert gibbs. This was hosted by the national archives. In the words lets go to work. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. Is that ok . [applause] you are welcome. There are others here who served. If you served in any of the administrations, will you be known to us . Give us a little wave. [applause] can we say thank you . Thank you. Lets talk about the relationship between the media and press secretaries. Are there any press secretaries here . Returned my phone calls, thank you. If you did not, thank you anyway. Thank you for coming. T
Of my lighting to l. E. D. S. I put probes in all of my electrical meters. I found ways to improve things. Little things, biodegradable trash bags, china paper plates are 100 recycles. I still use them. Trash bags, i would like to use biodegradable trash bags they are shipped 50 on top of each other and eight folded so theyre not on a roll and they dont have a draw string or elastic in them. I wont use them because theyre inconvenient. Its really just packaging and distribution. I have been consulted with austins strategies board, look here is some firsthand knowledge im gaining about trying to live that way with things are easy to adopt and others wont adopt unless we fix the form factor of the delivery of these solutions. Were going to take a break and come back with a new speaker to finish the program. A big round of applause for richard garriott. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015 in 2011, nasa
In space in the first place . Well, as you rightly said clearly at a time when we had just come out of a fairly meaningful world war and us young kids growing up in the 50s were aware of first of all, the incredible cultural significance of americas presence in the world at that time. Its obviously aid to come into the war and without woman i dont think we would have won. We first of all have that sense of indebtedness to the u. S. A. , but it led to fascination of what was going on as things developed over those next few years, the impact of american culture, of tvs and movies and then of course the rise of the cold war tensions, the development of Rocket Science and where that took us. I suppose by the time that i was 10 years old i was devouring anything to do with rocket ships and the earliest forms of Science Fiction which were becoming lovely again as a result of american Science Fiction writers available in the u. K. So into my teens, i suppose i got to know a lot of fanciful mo
If that dress looks familiar, it is. Why kate proved once more you can wear it again. Time for taylor . What about putin or protesters. Weve shown you the short list and were about to reveal time magazines pick for person of the year exclusively. Today, wednesday, december 10th, 201 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Today is a wednesday morning. Have you cast your vote for person of the year . Or persons. Thats right. Never know. We will find out exclusively who that will be a little later in the show. Then we will unleash the debate to talk about who wasnt chosen. Well get to that in a little while. To the top story, that damning Senate Report in the wake of 9 11. The program went much farther than any knew. That report laying it out in explicit detail. This morning, a lot of people are appalled. Nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest on this. Good morning to