Provider. [applause] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, meese be seated. It is my distinct honor to introduce a special guest and a good friend, this is the second of our jack brennan distinguished Leadership Series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months. Jack brennan was the first president of president nixon, Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, retired from the marines rather than leave nixons side and when he had a gift of the library we thought we would name the series for and we had a distinguished we remind people that jack brennan served and continued to serve and could glad youre here. I youre a veteran or member of active duty. Would you stand and allow to us thank you. [applause] now, our guest is admiral james stavridis. From the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He went on a 37 year career and some extraordinary duty stations along the way, including, as the combat Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, and of course, nato allied
Our guest is admiral james brady graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976. Thirtyseven year career and some extraordinary stations along the way. Including as a matter of Southern Command from 2006 2009. Nato alloy supreme commander. He earned his phd as well a master of arts. He subsequently went on to lead a team after his retirement from the navy. He was the author of two books. He is also an executive of the Carlyle Group which americans know as the preeminent venture capitalists of the United States printed is one of the most treasured guesstimate radio show. And leading a virtual campaign, to have him on the board of elise one and maybe three tech companies. So they Google Facebook and amazon have their perspective from their discussions on the National Security from the United States from somebody knowledgeable in all of these things bernie fo. [applause]. So for 37 years. [applause]. Id also like to point out that he spent 11 of those years, out of sight of land. It
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the next in library and welcome to this replica of the east room. Im a board member in the Nixon Foundation as grandson of the 30 seventh president Richard Nixon. It is my honor and pleasure to have you at the library and im glad to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd which makes me excited and i see a lot of young faces in the crowd meaning a lot of young conservatives. So that is great to see and i encourage all of you after the event to walk around the library, one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons, one of my Favorite Places in the world, the birthplace is beautiful, weve done one of the exhibits in the library, a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do research into my fathers presidency. I am happy to have you here today but of course tonight, today we will begin our program by honoring our nation as we always do. Will you please welcome our special guest today, charlie ki
Television company as a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. Ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome president nixon grandson. [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to the beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, a board member at the Nixon Foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president richard dixon. It is my honor and pleasure to have you at the library and i am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd which makes me really excited and i see a lot of young faces which means we have a lot of young conservatives. [cheering] so that is really great to see and i would really encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library and one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world, i think its the birthplace is beautiful, we have just redone a lot of the exhibits in the library and a lot of new stuff to see
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to this beautiful replica. Im Christopher Nixon a board member here at the foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon. [applause] it is my honor and pleasure to have you here at the library today and i am so welcome to the happy to welcome you. I see a lot of new faces which makes me excited, and i see a lot of young faces in the crowd. There are a lot of younger conservatives. [cheering] so that is great to see and i encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library. Of course one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world and we have just read on a lot of the exhibits in the library, so there is a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do a Little Research into my grandfathers presidency. There is so much to do here so i am so happy to have you here today. Of course, tonight, today we