Admiral James Stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme a
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
A similar loss on the s p. Big loss on the nasdaq composite. Why the nasdaq down so much . Well, just look at this. Big tech being taken to the cleaners this morning. Start with apple. Look at that. Its still a trillion dollar company, way down this morning after its Financial Report late yesterday. Ive got more on all this. Amazon, huge drop, down 120. They are plowing their profit into coping with the virus. Microsoft, not much impact from the virus but its caught in the downdraft. Microsoft is down nearly 2 , 3. 46. Next case, the political news. Topping that this morning is joe biden. He has denied a Sexual Assault allegation. He says quote, this never happened. Ive got more on that in a moment, too. Got a big weekend coming up. Texas opens up a lot of businesses. Who will go to the store, the barbershop, the restaurant . Thats going to be a pretty good indicator of the urge to get out of the house. In california, the governor has relocked down the beaches. How will that go down .
The u. S. Botanic garden and, of course, thank you all for attending. My task here this morning is to give you an overview of the first 100 years or so of the white house grounds. Focusing on the various uses of the landscape as well as the physical development and to squeeze this all in in a little under 30 minutes. Now thats a bit of a tall order. Were obviously not going to be able to touch on everything. But i like a challenge. I think well do just fine. Okay. So lets start with the basics. As im sure youre aware, the who us is the official residence of the president of the united states. And is located just a few hundred yards south of near downtown washington. The white house itself stands as the centerpiece of a grand 18. 7 acre site which we know as the white house grounds. Having been established in 1790, the white house grounds in fact constitute the oldest continually maintained landscape in the nation. The grounds are older than the mansion itself. George washington is rath
From 1917 to 1974. It features an interview with wwi and wwii veteran captain joy hancock. Who is pictured here. The second half of the film explores how contributions by navy women increased beginning in the mid1960s. As restrictions were removed, opportunities opened up in a variety of fields. music music music music music it was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned to the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The navys first woman admiral gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new, unusual type of ship with a mission to assist the efforts to improve morale and flexibility by home boarding combat and ships overseas. It will provide services to deploy dependence wherever the fleet is assigned. In addition to this forward step, the sanctuary has also been accepted as the ship to be dissipated in the pilot program, which will evaluate the utilization of women for