Singing of the National Anthem by lisa. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there zero say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] please be seated. Thank you to the high school and the junior rotc honor guard and lisa. I would like to welcome some special guests that are with us this evening. Please welcome two members from the board of directors of the Richard Nixon foundation, john barr and sandy clinton. [applause] Orange County supervisor todd fischer. [applause] members of the Yorba Linda City Council including mayor peggy, jeanne hernandos and city manager mark vallone delete [applause] close friend friend of the richd Nixon Foundation, rutan and ruth shannon. [applause] the National Archives and Records Administration direct about the Nixon Library in his associate cliff wallis director of education. [applause] and our most important resource that is the envy of the other 12 president ial libraries, those that are here tonight to represent 150 volunteers, thank you. [applause] the Nixon Foundation is largely supported by its members. Members support Educational Programs and opportunities for the youth to engage in the civic discourse and learning. Memberships also supports special engagement programs like this evenings event. The impact of your philanthropic support allows the foundation to continue its important work and allows president nixons core vision of building a lasting structure of peace and building a more just society to expand other parts of the country into the world and make differences in peoples lives. If you are not already a member i would encourage you to join us this evening we have a Membership Program where you entered this evening and can be a part of the extended and extended family. Now, president nixon was a navy man. He was exempt from the draft of world war ii because of his state as a quaker and he never backed down and enlisted voluntarily in the u. S. Navy. He served honorably in the South Pacific command air transport command eventually becoming its officer in charge of the guadalcanal in the solomon islands. While he was honorably discharged in 1946, he didnt retire from the u. S. Naval reserve until 20 years later, in 1996. During which time he served as a u. S. Congressman coming u. S. Senator and Vice President of the united states. As president , Richard Nixons commitment to the military was unwavering. Upon entering office, he faced the reality that young men had d been shipped off by the thousands to fight in the jungles of vietnam. Facing that challenge, Richard Nixon focused on negotiating the end of and five hours which are some. He negotiated the release of all pows from the prisons of the vietnam and welcomed them home in 1973. He ended the draft and instituted todays all volunteer military. Todays secretary of defense recently visited the Nixon Library, and from this very podium said an enemy on 9 11 thought he could scare us by hurting us the maniacs who murdered over 3,000 innocents it is for our country and 70 other countries that they have all been taught a hard lesson by the all volunteer military that president nixon was confident could protect our country. Thats why the foundation is so honored today to have Robert Oneill as our guest. Its now my pleasure to introduce the featured speaker in this evenings moderator. Robert oneill is a highly decorated combat veteran and a man who killed Osama Bin Laden. [applause] while wearing the equipment displayed in the court county of clement is on display for the very first time i might add, he fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden during the raid on the compound in pakistan on may 2, 2011. Robert oneill participated in hundreds o of topsecret missios including the rescue of the captain Richard Phillips from somali pirates in 2009 and he bled the retrieval of the fellow seal marcus luttrell, the lone survival in afghanistan in the summer of 2,005. [applause] following his Honorable Discharge from the navy in 2012, he cofounded a grateful nation in non for profit that helps the military elite special operations veterans transition into their next successful careers. He will be joined this evening on stage by robert klepper. Rob served in the army for two decades and was deployed all over the world. He received the general Douglas MacarthurLeadership Award from expounding leadership throughout his career and honor that distinguished him for more than 35,000 officers. Rob will be joined on stage tonight with gunnar his lovable black lab service dog. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand and welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial library. [applause] [applause] [applause] thank you. We needed a navy guy to do it. Come here. [laughter] wasnt that interesting they introduced us by a song by senator kidd rock. [laughter] [applause] what a crowd. You look really good. Who picked out the wardrobe . [laughter] great to see so many wonderful friendly faces. Those that are not friendly are able to stand in the back. [laughter] know its great to have you with us. We are going to jump in. The one question everybody wants to know, how did a guy from Butte Montana and up in the navy, much less having a career like you . Thats funny. That is interesting because i am a big believer that life is what happens around you while you are making a plan. 95 of the stuff you worry about never happens anyway. I joined the navy because of a girl. [laughter] on accident. Actually the first sentence in my book is about that. I had my heart broken by a girl named hillary and Butte Montana. I was never going to join the military. I decided one day i needed to get out of town and i had friends for two years older than me that wanted to be a marine growing up and when they graduated high school they joined the same day and every time they came home i remember thinking thats awesome, marines are tough and strong, the uniforms are incredible and it was like i want to join the marine corps so i went to join the marines because sometimes it is better to be lucky than it is to be good and the marines proved it was not the opposite. [laughter] and the needy wives, [laughter] the only reason i went into the navy is because by marine friends told me something i didnt know and many of you may not know. They said the marine corps is part of the department of the navy. [laughter] just the mens department. [laughter] i went in to ask where are the marines because i want to be a sniper and he said the best snipers in the world with no further. We have snipers in the navy. You need to become a seal first but no big deal. [laughter] she kind of glossed over that. Its a 19yearold kid from montana that didnt know how to swim. Not a lot of swimming going on. Its cold. So i look at him like im 19, kind of naive. This guy is a professional recruiter why is he going to lie to me. I signed up that day and we watched a recruiting video after we signed the paperwork and i was like im in a pickle here i dont know how to swim and i just signed up with the government. It then okay i found out about the training and at least it is an adventure i will go and probably wont make it through training than four years later i will have good stories when i come back. Ive learned quite 95 of the all volunteer military is there because of a girl. [laughter] then i went to seal training and they worked hard. Then 17 years later im in bin ladens bedroom. It proves no matter where youre from or what you look like, work hard, stay positive, never quit, and run away from a girl. [applause] you have to figure a lot of things out. [laughter] [applause] and that went out the door. The group probably wants to know so you didnt know how to swim. That might be something you need to learn how to do. I didnt know how but i figured how hard can it be a. That was the plan going into the water. So two links not even 50 yards and im exhausted. A buddy of mine i went to high school with one of the few that did swim. He slammed for four years and came up to me and said dont get me wrong its great to see you, but ive never seen you in the pool before today. I said i just joined the navy today. [laughter] im going to be a seal. [laughter] he said yeah, not like that youre not. He taught me the breast stroke andsign stroke side stro stroke. Then i went to the navy. [laughter] so, fast forward to camp. Southern california, talk about your first couple experiences. Every seal goes through basic underwater demolition Field Training. 85 of the people dont make it. Its tough. Its in the books and the movies. Its essentially like a beat down for eight months. It gets so hard i remember seeing it like it was yesterday. [laughter] we get this longterm goal done to wake up in the morning on time and make your bed the right way then brush your teeth make it to the 5 a. M. Workout on time and then breakfast, think of getting to lunch and then dinner and everything you need to do regardless of how bad your day was you get a fresh start tomorrow. I had an instructor tony dont quit now, just click tomorrow. Little victory and th then its five years before graduation and im thinking im going to be a navy seal, what am i supposed to do. [laughter] Little Victories at a time. And my seal training was you could thousand situps, pushups a day, hundreds of pullups, all kinds of statistics there was a generalized spot where we would get tortured and it wa was on my own from there to the dinner hall so every day we were running 6 miles just to eat and thats not even working out, thats just to eat, and additional 14 miles. One of the traits is a sense of humor because it gets so bad if you cant laugh at yourself at what kind of horrible decision, why did she dump me, why am i here. It comes with a sense of humor. Dont be afraid to enjoy ourselves every single day smi smile. Because think about this none of us are getting out of it alive. [laughter] i dont believe in statistics but im sure ten out of ten people died, so enjoy yourself. [laughter] you talk about sense of humor and clearly army guys have a much better one. [laughter] they have a lot of time to think about jokes when we are doing dishes. [laughter] but you talk about a sense of humor. Why dont you share one or two of the stories where you first got introduced in the sense of humor. The first time i realized that aspect they had 220 of us to start out. Were terrified. This guy is superman. He can kill us if he wants to. So hes the first seal we ever met that looks like a seal. Camouflage pants. Shiny boots, blue tshirt. Guy is ripped. That fews tattoos down to his muscles and is ridiculously good looking because he is a navy seal. And he stood on the stage, and like i said, were staring at him in silence and he kind of relished silence. And then he finally said, looking good today, jim. Not you, me. I know what youre thinking. I look a little tired. I am. Was up all night. I had to get my wife out of jail. She was arrested for shoplifting earlier that afternoon we were leaving the mall together. She had her arm around me. Security thought she was trying to steal an anatomy chart. Were just sitting there like what is this psychopath talking about. So, what we later realized is he was messing with us. He was bored, and he had been there before and thought he would have fun at our expense youch realize, he might decapitate me. This guy is funny. A roughedged, wry sense of humor. We saw on the bin laden mission. I was in the helicopter that didnt crash. Which is a good thing. And when we got hit we didnt know i dont mean to fast forward but be got inside the house and i didnt know it crash, guys in my helicopter didnt know it cashed, and one of the guys called the helicopter and said what Helicopter Crash . I think they sent other guys in that got shot down and we lost 30 friends. He said, bronx our Helicopter Crashed in the frontyard. You walked right past it. So im trying to calculate this in my head. One of the snipers that had our dog was running around the entire compound. Just make sure that there was no out, and he went up to this famous spot where you could see the tail of the helicopter, right, and he came to that and didnt know it crashed either, as were having this conversation he says over the radio, be on alert, theyre ready for us. They have training mockup of our super secret helicopter. In the front yard. [laughter] and this is the most Important Mission since normandie, and you hear the Ground Force Commander go, no, you jackass, thats ours. We crashed. And he had this awkward pause, and he said, yeah, that makes a lot more sense than the shit i was just saying. [laughter] so we stayed funny the whole time. So obviously Field Training is relatively long. A lot ofs ups and downs throughout it. Whats the one story probably related to not dying, but what is the one story about never never quit. Theres a we would do tests every single day. To make sure you stick around. Pass or fail or time, whatever the test is, just to keep you in the program. The tested hard to understand. Air not like an algorithm youll type code. Basically one of the tests is, its simple. Simple to understand, not simple to do. 50meter underwater shim. Jump the pool, do a flip underwater, swim half the distance of a football field fast. We had tests where they would tie our hand behind our back and feet together and throw is in the deep end of the pool for 45 minutes at a time, doing different drills like kale exhaling all the air outer lounges. Throw masks and you had to grab them off the bottom with your teeth. The test there is introducing you thank you what its like to not be able to breathe, but theres still this panic will not help so chill out. Drownproofing. Found it relaxing. Thats an hour a day no one could yell at me. The tests we had was underwealth knot tying. Tied a rope with a foot off the bottom, so 14 feet down is a rope, and then on the surface there will be a student and an instructor, oneonone, and to student has an 18inch rope of his own and were in the navy so we know how to tie a bunch of knots so the test is go tie a series of knots and with this rope and that rope. So he would say tie a bowlen knot. The instructor will stay on the surface with a no,le and mask he is breathing and watching. You go untie your knot and back off, stay down there, he comes down slowly, and like looking at the knot and the student and act like he has never seen it before. This first one is always wrong so he goss back up for air and of course its wrong so you untie it. Retie the same gnat. Hands out. Spends a minutes and 15 seconds, he comes down and looks at the knot and says, yeah, okay. You untie the knot and go to the surface, one breath of care and he tellsout about knot none two, tie a square knot. And you come up, one breath of air, knot number three. The testes simple tie five knots in a row and you pass. A friend of mine named john. Doesnt get all the knots right, never be a navy seal. On hi fifth knot he drowns. So, the instructor came down to get him. Not trying to kill him. So he grabbed john, swam him up and threw him over the side of the school rolled him over and yelling for the corpsman on the other side of the pool. Gather his stuff and kind of rung around, the struck your realizes its too much time so he standard it decide a sternum run and started cpr and we could hear him yell, come back to the light. So john was out for a minute and a half. Finally spit up all the water out of his lungs. This first word out of his mouth were, did i pass . So the instructor kind of sat back on him and you could see him getting the color back in his face because he gets to keep his job. He didnt kill anyone. And he goes, yeah, man, you passed. And john said, thank god, finally tied the fifth knot. And the instructor says, no, you didnt look, i mean, im in a great move ride now so im going to let you in on secret. I dont care how many nudities you know how to tie mitchell job is to see how far youll push yourself. You just killed yourself. You passed the god damn test. [applause] thats other never quit attitude. You graduate. What was first assignment. Seal team two theyre divided be number so the odd numbers are in san diego. 1, 3, 5, 7 and even numbers in virginia. Went out there did some more training, year worth or training and then deployed. So fast forward, 9 11 happens. What is going through your head and, you had a major change, career change. 9 11 was we were all faked, some more than ooms because deployed already overseas and we saw it help. When the second plane hit the cell tower, didnt take a seconds for someone to say its Osama Bin Laden. My plan was to every found out was a seal was, be in the knifey for four years go to butte, montana, and kill them. Met the guys so reenlisted. Didnt want to leave. I was young, and then reenlisted when 9 11 happened. My country trained me to fight and i need fight. So i found out about another seal team. We just knew we would get the assignment. It change from going to the uk to train with special forces, like the germans and the norwegians to were going to afghanistan and fight the war on terror. You led a had an interesting career. So one of the Main Operations 0 missions you were part of was the rescue of captain Richard Phillips. Takes through how the alert and the yeah. For Richard Phillips, we were actually in Virginia Beach. It w