Facing the navy, marine corps and coast guard. Today represents our second dialogue for 2017, and we look forward to welcome you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would also like to thank in a special way Lockheed Martin and Huntington Industries for their support in making this event really this series possible. Before we get under way, for big events like this, we also like to make a brief announcement, safety announcement. We dont expect any difficulties. But should there be anything as a convener, we want to make sure you know weve got exits on the back on both sides and stairs down the front. Both myself and anthony bell in the back will be your responsible officers to kind of direct you in the right way just in case anything should come up, just look for one of us. And so for our formal introduction to get us started, im going to turn things over to vice admiral peter daley, retired, chief officer of u. S. Naval insitituteinstitute. Were happy to have him her
On how elections are being run here in philadelphia. Are the handful of people in charge of elections actually doing the job they were elected to do . Right now the Watchdog Group the committee of 70 is working to change the way those who oversee elections actually land their jobs. Ceo David Thornburg believes philadelphia commissioners should be appointed rather than elected. The Philadelphia City commissioners are a threemember bipartisan board. Theyre the people who make sure your vote counts, literally. Theyre in charge of elections and Voter Registration for the city. Commissioners are elected to fouryear terms, and there are no term limits. Right now the three commissioners serving are chairman anthony clashing, vice chairman al schmitt, and lisa. Anthony clark has been under fire for not showing up to work as chairman. He makes nearly 140,000 a year. But clark says he stays in touch with his staff by phone, even when hes on vacation and often works away from the office. Well, wi
Nothing that has happened since has changed that picture. And hes a very interesting character. Interesting isnt the right word. I did my best to undermine him. What did you do other than find john oneil . Probably called veterans organization. It was no black operation. I passed on information to reporters and others information that wasnt complimentary. Hes got this idea that i ran this big campaign. He said this in the 2004 electi election, he said the bush people are pulling all the stops out against me, now i have chuck dolson working against me. Bush had some long conversations with him. I wasnt involved in the campaign. Do not believe as a religious leader i should be involved in the campaign. Tell you what kind of a guy kerry is. This is interesting. May not be interesting. I went to the National Prayer breakfast in the early 90s. The speaker is never announced until the last moment. The speaker was announced john kerry. Kerry came in the mid 90s, and i was sitting two tables f
He could have a drink or two before dinner and always a bottle of wine, vintage wine, very good wine that he would save for himself and the other people at the table would be left with the drinks. I thought he went too far. There was never a time when i was with him was he not in complete control of his faculties. He was never dangerous. There were two or three phone calls, i suspect have been listened to when i thought he was over the edge. April 30th when he fired haldeman. He sure sounded it. One night he called me. I was up sitting with my dad, he was sick and he had just come back from russia. My dad had had a heart attack, i was in massachusetts, i get a call from the president at 2 00 in the morning. And he is incoherent. I couldnt make head nor tail out of what he was saying. He would Say Something and then slur off. I went to a neighbors house, and i said, i have to make a phone call and dont ask any questions. Its 2 00 in the morning. But i need to get a telephone, so i could
National committee, i would love to do. Or the labor department. I think those were the things, theyre in the file somewhere. I was the first one of the senior staff to be invited up to camp david for dinner with the president. So i come in, and its just very cheerful evening, the wine is flowing, and the steaks are great. Nixons talking about the great future. He says, chuck, if you want to stay, there will be the right position for you, but i think youd be wonderful in the cabinet, maybe General Council of Republican National committee and you could be my outside adviser, help me from the outside so i was beginning to get a sense of things. Paul was sitting there nodding and so when we left that evening and went back to our lodge, i said, what does this mean . I said, does he want me to stay or not . Bob says, i think you should go. You can do better on the outside. So they poisoned him against you . Well, ive always thought so, you read more of the tapes than i have. Not everything