Every fleischer. Thanks for being my guest today. It was a real pleasure to talk with you. Thank you on youre always a gentleman. You im bill harris. Im the acting director here at the fdr president ial library museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over t
Museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over the format some of you may know it and you may hear this over and over again today, but therell be about a 30 minute talk from the author then well have a 10 minute or so period of question and answer and then af
Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War. Champions of the world, germany win the world cup for the fourth time. Israels bombing of gaza continues as the conflict enters the 7th day and casualties are rising as they focus on the northern part of the territory overnight and israel plans to intensify air strikes. The death toll now stands at 172 palestinians. International appeals for a cease fire are being ignored and john is at the hospital dealing with most of the injured. Reporter this hospital is the Main Medical Center in gaza city where serious patients are taken. A couple of nights ago when the chiefs house was struck survivors were brought here but we learned the most when we went inside. The burn unit is full of patients who have been struck in these air strikes and other attacks. But those are not the patients who are being neglected when it comes to treatment, it is the cancer patients, the heart patients, the chronic patients who are normally treated he
Per year. Thats every year for to implement her bill in the army, navy, air force and marines. Not only is her bill not executable in a cost neutral basis, it is not possible to grow the total inventory of nearly 600 judge advocate officers and legal assistants required by the bill within the 180 days of enactment. The decision we make today will have significant consequence on the future of our miltle militaries. The bill were debating this week threatens to tear apart what i believe is the fabric of our armed forces, the chain of command. I cant find people i can confide in and talk to personally who have been in the military who dont agree with this. I was in the uniform code of military justice when i was in the United States army, not at the level that the that the some of the senators who have been more recently, senator graham, for example, and at a higher level. I was an enlisted man but i was a reporter and a lot of times the reporters, the enlisted personnel really know more
2006. I spent that amount in helena at the Historical Society to work on the cypress hill massacre. Has anybody heard of this massacre . Excellent. It was at that even as a sort of a notorious but obscure 1873 slaughter in which a group of montana who wolf trap first slipped across into canada and held to a dozen indians. But i thought i would use this event and this is why i had gone in the first place, to explain the hardening of the u. S. Canada border ever after, the socalled wild west of the United States and the mild west of canada north and 49th. This is why i was in montana that summer. The problem was i became very bored with the story which is a bad sign in the new project. Adding to my displeasure is the fact i was living in on the glamorous life that is the typical of an academic eating tv dinners and eating Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day and allowing myself only one diet coke in an effort to stretch my grant from the Historical Society as far as i c