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The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these a...

Rivers who heads up our national heretment and also pastors in north charleston. He has been a very significant addition to the National Action network around the country. We are proud that he is on our National Staff along with trudy grant. [applause] rh. Coordinator elder johnson, standing up in the back , gave elder johnson a hand. South carolina National Action network. We believe in bringing along the next innovation. Iof you saw last night grew up as used director for reverend jackson, which is why it is he deals with health issues, we are right there with him, because i told him when we...

Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. W...

Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 he wouldnt let them determine what was happening domestically, only focused on the soviet union. So, the cia was hobbled in its ability to inform the white house and the president what was actually happening. Its totally fanciful that the cia was using u. S. Government money to pay off the opposition. You mentioned jimmy carter in essence being held hostage because of the crisis. In december of 79, he was on the mall, he did not like the National Christmas tree as a symbol of those held hostage. Did that become another metaphor how this be...

The Public Policy program here at the center. Thank you for joining us today for this Panel Discussion on the 40th anniversary of the iran hostage crisis. On november 4th, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of ukrainian studeniranian studentd the u. S. Embassy in the wake of the iranian revolution in february of 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the hostages on january 20th, 1981, after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 440, some 444 days, it has had a lasting influence on the relationship between the two countries. Images of student...