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Speakers lecture series. Its an hour and 40 minutes. Thanks so much for inviting me to be with you and for joining me on this gorgeous new york morning. This is the third presentation ive given in this fantastic auditorium at the New York Historical society in just over a year. And all i can say is you folks are gluttons for punishment. Were going to talk about the second world war. I was just in normandy for the 70th anniversary of dday. And that campaign certainly has taken center stage this spring just as it has in our National Narrative about the liberation of europe since june 6th, 1944, ...

I think that there needs to be a campaign of writing letters instead of all these emails because they can keep those lett letters instead of they cant keep the emails. Theyre in space. Letters are tangible. And reread them. Thats the wonderful part. And years and years from now, those soldiers can read them and think back. It is very necessary for people to write letters. At 5 00 a booth will open over by the statue where you can make a card to send to a current soldier. We have time for one more question. We have one more. I have to get through the maze. Thank you. What effect or what memorie...

Enough and lucky enough to take advantage of the Sunni Awakening , the decision of several sunni tribes to switch sides and fight against the iraqi branch of al qaeda. He was a remarkable general, a remarkable man. Vietnam whentudy he did his own doctorate work at princeton university. Counterinsurgency very deeply. I was privileged to work with him on rewriting the marine corps counterinsurgency, which we published in 2006 just a few months before he took command of the effort in iraq. A fairly extraordinary event in military history. Lucky. S was he was fortunate that most of the american un...

I walked home in the fog and i was pursued by that stupid thing every inch of the way and it was all because of the war. Thats got to be hard to top. Were here to commemorate the 70th anniversary of dday what are your dday memories, how did you hear . Was it one of hope . Was it the light at the end of the tunnel after all these years, anything come to mind . Of course i was working at firestone on that day, and we had all heard at firestone that dday was happening and all the churches were open what i planned to do on my way home from work, i stopped at the church and prayed for my husband i ...

Susan rice have done an outstanding job and he decided he needed somebody 100 of the time . He believes that person will be an official to the broader effort. [indiscernible] i want to make sure we get around the room. What was motivating his choice . It was beneficial to his response to have somebody with s credentials focus on the task 100 of the time. Questions two quick questions. The president has made it clear in the military piece is one prong. The other is the arming and equipping of syrian rebel forces. In the more than one month that has passed since the president gave his address, h...