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Good morning. Were going to use this morning to consider the nomination of Patrick Shanahan to be deputy defen defense secretary of the United States. We thank you for your willingness to serve our nation at an important time. We welcome your family and friends. As is our tradition, we invite you to introduce them at the beginning of your testimony. Its important that this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress be able to receive testimony, briefings, and other communications of information. So it is a standard for this committee they ask certain questions in order to exerc...

Good morning. We need to consider the nomination of Patrick Shanahan. Mr. Shanahan, we thank you for joining us today and for your willingness to save country and serve our nation at an important time. We welcome your family and friends. As is our tradition, we invite you to introduce them at the beginning of your testimony. It is important that this committee and other appropriate committees of congress be able to receive testimony, briefings and other indications of information. So as it standard for this committee to ask certain questions to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibi...

Testimony, briefings and other communications of information. So it is standard for this committee to ask certain questions on order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibilities. Have you adhere to applicable laws and regulations governing complex of interest . I have. Will you ensure that your staff complies with the deadlines established request to communications, including questions for the record in hearings . I will. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefings in response to congressional requests . I will. Will those witnesses be protected from reprisals for the...

You are a go. Water systems. Go grades operations. All clear to launch. Mercury capsule. Go. All prestart panel lights are correct. The ready light is on. In the fall of 1958, nasas first administrator, t. Keith glennan, approved project mercury with the goal of sending a man into space and bringing him home safely. And do it before the russians do it. But first, nasa needed a spacecraft. Specifications were sent to 20 companies. Eleven bid on the highly prized contract. And in january, 1959, st. Louisbased Mcdonnell Aircraft Corporation was picked to build what had never been built before. Th...

Is featuring highlights from the cspan cities tour with the support of our cable partners. The mission was peace through deterrence. Our job was to project a credible threat, to be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force that we would devastate the soviet union even if they had launched their missiles first. Were at the Titan Missile museum in arizona about 25 miles south of Downtown Tucson and were in the Launch Control center of the missile sit...