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Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive...

Mister donovan, before we get to july 1969, started 1957, what was the effect of sputnik on this country . Guest the first artificial satellite created a sensation in this country. We went crazy. Somehow they out science us. Started wondering what was next . Bombs coming down . Nuclear bombs . Space stations with Nuclear Missiles . And of course it created nasa a year later. Had to respond somehow at the height of the cold war. A lot of people now dont understand how tense everything was. A lot of people thought world war iii was starting. Host did the fact that sputnik happened, did we have a...

[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be jo im sure aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over ...

[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be joined by others. The faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 fli...

Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federa the faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions ...