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More direct warfare . Lighth the afghan likethe afghan team with the afghan team . Mike what we did with afghanistan was remarkable. I would not equate that with the same as what putin has done in ukraine. This is the marriage of precision warfare with nonprecision warfare. If you compare to iraq maybe yes. Media. Kim do you need to ramp up the number of u. S. Advisers on the ,round, joint air controllers things that would make the iraqi forces, the Kurdish Forces, more effective in the battlefi...

To the physician payment reform i think lance for the optimism to my belief that they will be avoided change the way that there going to get in such a way that help to close some of those even as new people become eligible. And, of course, we will also be bring in more people who better coverage throughout the lifetime. I think we have reason to believe that can make a difference and helping us of the people who are becoming eligible for medicare which also has an impact. The ben keating Prevent...

Going to become greece. But heres the good news. We are one big deal away from saving america. Here is the bad news. Nobody in this campaign is talking about it. When i put revenue on the table, if the democrats would adjust the age of retirement, yes. I am not going to raise taxes but i would eliminate a deduction to pay down debt. How do we have money for Alzheimers Research and Everything Else outside of medicare and Social Security . To reform the system wont we lose the ability to defend ou...

Observatory hill on the campus of the University Wisconsin in madison. We are next to effigy mounds. Madison has more effigy mounds than any other city in the united states. We are approaching table and rock chamberlain rock, it was moved from the lakeshore. Coming up on the wing tip of a bird effigy mound built here around 1000 years ago. Effigy mounds are difficult to photograph. Every time they see a camera, they sink into the earth and hide. They are not spectacular or prominent, but they ar...

Medical history from a collection at marylands National Museum of health and medicine. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums to reveal what americans know about american history. Lamar alexander from richard rings onto bill clinton. He recalled his walk across tennessee after part of his 1978 gubernatorial campaign. And he shared stories behind his mementos in his d. C. Office. My walk across tennessee was 1978. I began on january 26th at my parentss home in east tennessee. And then ...

Follow me along. We would set it up. They would get up and play music. A crowd would gather. I would make a speech. Sometimes i would play the trombone or washboard. And then we would go to the next place. It was sort of a throwback to a campaign from 50 or 60 years ago. So i walked across the state 1,000 miles. Spent the night every night with someone in their homes. I went home on weekends. Usually saturday and sunday night. Then i would go right back to the same place. People would give me wa...

It was a levi shirt that they made right there in that factory. I had to think about what am i going to wear . You dont walk across the state in a blue suit. I had this red and black plaid shirt in my closet. I went to the Friedman Army surplus and bought a dozen more. I wouldnt want to wear the same one every day. Then as i walked across the state i auctioned them off to raise money for the campaign. I knew i was doing better by the time i got to middle tennessee around nashville, one shirt wen...

Staff would say put your shirt on and go back out and walk with people. So even today we have an annual mule day parade, the first saturday of the year in columbia, tennessee. There might be 100,000 people there. I wear my red and black shirt and walk in the parade. The rule of thumb is walk in parades. If its the mule day parade, walk in the front. It affected everything about my political career. I dont think i would have been elected without it. Because it gave me a personality or a story tha...

Trombone slide froze. So i just took off walking. I think my parents were probably pretty embarrassed. They raised me to be a respectable young man. I was standing on their porch announcing i was going to walk 1,000 miles across tennessee. I would rye to shake 1,000 hands a day. Usually we would plan ahead. Maybe i would stop and have lunch with certain people. By late afternoon, particularly as the weather got better, i would get to a town. And i would have a family to stay with. It might be th...

Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things t...