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The new York Military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. Thank you for the kind of introduction and bob for the invitation, im not only happy to be here given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here, as i watch the clock tick away, not only in the palisades as we were driving down from west point, but also in the cab trying to get us from the hotel to here. It was a close return thing as some would say. What i would do this evening would be to really start with something that happened last week in the white house and there was an uproar as you might have recalled last week at the w...

York military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. [ applause ] thank you, robert, for the kind introduction and bob for the invitation. Im not only happy to be here, given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here. [ laughter ] ize watch the clock tick away, not only only palisades driving down from west point but also in the cab trying to get us from the hotel to here, it was a it was a closerun thing, as some will say. So, what i thought i would do this evening would be to really start with something that happened last week in the white house. And there was an uproar, as you might h...

Suits against and that happened time and time again. I asked the office how much has been spent and they wouldnt give me the figure. Anytime the any time the legislator asks for the figures on the Appropriations Committee thats wrong. We should receive those numbers so we can do a better job. But the point of the budget this year. We were given a 7. 2 billion budget bill at 10 a. M. In the morning on the last friday of the session and the first vote was that 12 32 and a half years later when the legislators dont have the proper time to review the budget we certainly cannot see the best type of...

But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was tha...

Look at James Madisons role in creating the constitution. Next on American History tv, colonel Gregory Daddis discusses u. S. Military strategy during the vietnam war, featuring on William Westmoreland, he argues that the generals ideas were sound, but an inability to i implement them led to failures in South Vietnam. Its an hour and a half. Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United States military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the American History ...