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I am a fellow, prod to have you all here, and also i am one of your two cohosts from representing the school of Public Policy and Public Administration, where we prepare lots and lots of wonderful students for federal service as well as service in a variety of part of the public and nonprofit sector. Im delighted to be here for several reasons. Good to see a lot of my old friends. With 12 of our faculty are not the fellows. At least a couple of us are here at this sort of midsummer, a lot of people at the beach and its great you all are you. Its an important topic, and we are delighted to be h...

Environment. This is a little more than two hours. Thank you, kathy. Thank you all of you for joining us on an august when state for not being on recess. And instead coming to join us for what we think is a very timely event. I would also like to thank kathy barbara and the American University school of Public Administration for sponsoring the event. For those of you may not be familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit chartered organization. Charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help federal, state, and local governments improve. The academys mission is to...

Familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit congressionally chartered organization, charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help state and local governments improve their performance. The academys mission is to provide trusted advice, advice it is timely, actionable, and objective on Public Management issues. The source of our expert ceases or membership who are current and former cabinet officials, members of congress, governors, mayors, legislators, jurists, business executives, public managers, and scholars. They are elected fellows because of the distinguis...

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Honoring the honorable secretary of defense. Ladies and gentlemen please stand and remain standing. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. [applause] [applause] [military command] ladies and gentlemen please stand for the advancement of the colors and remain standing for the national anthem. [military commands] anthem] ladies and gentlemen, please receded. [military commands] please be seated. [military commands] the chairman of the 14th that will distinguish the civilian award. He served as the 25th secretary. During this period he strengthened the joint...

[inaudible conversations] good evening. My name is eileen and i am the Program Library in here. I would like to welcome you both this evening to hear them majorr general discuss his book entitled war and politics and thank the friends of the library for sponsoring this event. Tonight they provided the baguette portion. [applause] i would ask that you silence your cell phones or anything phg that might interrupt the presentation. Thank you. Tonight we will have the introduction, the author talk and afterwards a question and answer session. There will be a microphone set up in the center aisle i...