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We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the of...

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Interview him. We will piece all of that together as the investigation moves forward. Ortiz faces charges of attempted murder of a Law Enforcement officer. Reporter now earlier today, sheriff denning he celebrated his 16th birthday earlier. This fall actually. Jim also late breaking tonight, a second case of the zika virus county. There are two in Orange County, in angela right now investigators in Marion Island say that the man found in his home last night committed suicide. Police are keeping ...

Me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get organized for the sessions sessions that we hope will p...

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Napa california trying to recover from what could be billions in damage. Thousands of people packed a st. Louis church today to say goodbye to Michael Brown. Browns funeral took place more than two weeks after he was shot and killed by a Police Officer in nearby ferguson. The shooting triggered days of unrest. During the service, browns stepmother recalled a conversation of which she said brown predicted his own death. He said because i have been dreaming of death. I have been seeing pictures of...

Im very happy to speak with you this morning. My question i have memories of the vietnam war from my preschool days until it ended. I was unable to be enlisted at the time. What about the ability of the u. N. , even now, in the present days on the president s enactment of using such a body to enable peace . And to avoid conflicts that are not reported well. As i remember of my military service. That is my question. Guest it is a wonderful question. I wish it were asked time and time again. The r...

Presidency will look different to us in 20 years and different again 20 years after that. George w. Bushs presidency must be defined by that events of september 11, 2001, when the United States of america was vicious he attacked by an enemy whose leader, Osama Bin Laden skated as far back as 1983 that the United States stated as far back as 1983 that the United States was the mortal enemy of islam and must be destroyed. On 9 11 he declared that he would do whatever was necessary to protect our c...

Im going to try to look at or hope i have time to look at three similar episodes in what was my life after 9 11. Once the very chilling effects of that attack had sunk in and we had realized at the state department, i think its safe to say throughout the government that the profunded di of what had happened to us and what kind of action we were going to present to the world. We sat down on the policy planning staff as did some other people in the state and we thought about it. One of the things ...

United states should be in the conflict in the middle east. Here are the numbers. You can also find us online. You can tweet us cspanwj. Facebook. Ee spoc here is the have one of the washington post. Secretary clinton will travel to the middle east as israel always risky choices on and gaza. Clinton will travel to the middle east today to discuss ongoing violence in gaza according to white house officials she will talk with leaders in jerusalem, ramallah and cairo. Issues leading the east asia s...