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And he gets no recognition from the va for that effort. And they need it badly. Thank you, congressman. Thank you. I thank the entire panel for being here today. I go back, as a young military medical officer during the vietnam era, and i was thinking as i was listening to the testimony, what training i had had and i am an ob gyn doctor what training i had going into the military and what training i received in the military to deal with this. And i can tell you, as for what i received in the mil...

Shooting. Police got 911 calls and kids could hear screaming coming over the intercom. The school was quickly placed on lockdown. Teachers locking doors, pulling shades, keeping kids away from windows and doors. The shooting was apparently contained to two rooms. A day of unimaginable horror here. The gym teachers directed us to stay against the wall and everybody started kind of panicking. Most of the lights were off and the teacher had my teacher mrs. Sullivan had to close the blinds and she h...

And under threat, why the West Bank School built outool built recycled material would become scrap once again. From washington to paris to tehran a plan for, syria to give up chemical weapons could be a breakthrough and iran and france and china welcomed the proposal that came monday from the Prime Minister and could put the military strike on hold if the details are worked out and we have more from washington. This was supposed to be president Barack Obamas chance to convince the American Peopl...

Host weve been talking with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. Thanks, tim. Guest thank you very much, appreciate it. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american president s. The authors collection includes warren g. Hardings Founding Fathers invoked during his 1920s president ial campaign, Theodore Roosevelts use of the word muckraker in a speech critical of specific journalists, and military Industrial Complex delivered by president eisenhower during...

It will be passed on for this and this. I try to find what it is i can tell the press because they have a got a job to do. That is my rule of thumb. I have a piece of people paper here. I go back to 1993. Were you on the force . I was. There were 454 murders in the district of columbia. Last year, 2012, there were 88. What happened . A lot of things have happened. The initial decline of the 500 down to the 200 range, that decline over a 10year period was rolling down on the cocaine epidemic. Tha...

Being a police chief is not that much different. How many officers do you have . Why is the press difficult . It is washington d. C. Everything is national news. Some of the Little Things go viral in the press. It is sometimes puzzling why those things are of such interest and for so long. It is how to manage that constant beast, that Everybody Needs a story. It is such a big part of reporting in washington d. C. Every day, we do with a lot. What are your own personal rules with dealing with an ...

Next on booktv, Henry Gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for James Meredith, the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi in september 1962. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you, john and my gratitude to the library of congress for hosting the event. I will try to put in 30 minutes what happened to me 50 years ago with some reflection. This is my tenth book event since the book was published in september and each event is different ...

And then immediately after the First World War or the second world war, sorry, we had the only major incidence of increased fertility rate, and thats the baby boom. Everybody knows about the baby boom. And it really was a remarkable moment, because not only did the fertility rate increase quite high, as high as 3. 7, i think, for white americans and, i think, 3. 9 for black americans, not only did it jump up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. It was a really long lasting effect. People ...

And i had a roll in my kitchen of parchment paper, and so, thats what i used for my foundation, cause it was handy and its lightweight, and so, for every quadrant, i cut myself a piece of lightweight parchment paper baking parchment. And you decided to do that instead of a strip set because string piecing like that is kind of fun, right . Exactly. I think, you know. Yeah, then i would have you know, actually, think about it is if i made strip sets. The order would be all the same in certain ones...

Principled in their pursuit of this objective and we can move on that issue also. And with that, madam president , i would yield the floor. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, madam president. I rise to address the amendment that i have. I will formally ask to call it up in a few moments, but i want to say a few words about it. And id like to start by a little bit of background and reminder of where how we got here and the circum...