>> the main character in the book, and all-american hero, being airbrushed from history is colonel frank howling man haole. he is going to end up as commandant of the american sector. a fascinating character, full of energy, dynamic, and he's determined to get his way in berlin, he finds himself left to head in a class with his soviet opposite number. they will never ci to eye. what is interesting about colonel haole is the americans and the brits, with instructions from the government to get on with soviet wartime partner. this helped win the war, governments in washington and london are determined to keep this going but colonel haole, when he arrives in berlin, the cold -- these are not allies. he writes in his diary and memoir, came to berlin thinking the germans are the enemy and i realized straight away the soviets are the enemy. the soviet commandant is thereunder instruction from stalin to kick the americans and british out of berlin. they want to take over the whole of berlin, the states are massive, the whole of europe up for grabs. and colonel haole is determined to prevent the

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her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jonas joined this evening by his daughter alexandria so welcome to both of you. john's new book "the last li

to be frank with you. what i have said it can be give and take prince's part of the process we will be in the room in that give-and-take. >> human senator manchin different fundamental views of government and society and what government should do. how do you resolve such philosophical differences. >> i'm not going to disparage senator manchin i respect him you're right we differ. what i would say is this, a lot of the media talks about compromise and all that stuff. we have got 48 senators that support we have two that do not. to be very honest with you i believe that our current healthcare system is totally dysfunctional. i strongly, strongly believe medicare for all single payout program. i could in five minutes critic chuck schumer senate majority leader and say chuck i cannot support this bill unless you have medicare for all provision and it. but i'm not going to do it because i know, maybe half of the members of the caucus or a third of the member will be responsible. my concern with mr. manchin is n

and if you look at acquisitions, i complained about that and frank the one of the challengese an under for acquisition and deputy we don't have the assistant secretary in that area were spending $400 million a year. and that said, under frank and carter and others in the last administration, they say a lot of good progress in terms of improving the acquisition but is not a far we have come, is how far we still have to go and you look at f example, the newâ– ' undersecretary research and engineering, she is going to basically lot of these technology are. cy when i organize for combat and we need to be, too much of it is just collecting sh money were spending and the question is, are getting on target there read but military and if you look in the military, when they do each and every day today we have over 30000 for thearden resee active-duty hopingo covid-19 and hurricanes and fires a 911 to now, over 1 million membersâ– t of se serve overseast home and a bargain for the taxpayer.e active when the needed.â– o úhand we the recru and retain te very best people that' goingo fiedn morehaâ

>> no, i do believe too little to be frank with you. what i have said, it's going to be a different take. >> you and senator manchin just cap different amount of use of government control and the site, how do you resolve these differences? >> i'm not here to disparage senator manchin, i respect him. what i would say is this, i know media talks about compromise and all that stuff, we got 48 senators to support three and a half trillion. to be honest, i think all of you know i believe our current healthcare system is totally dysfunctional and i strongly believe in medicare for all. i put in five minutes, go to chuck schumer, senate majority leader and say i can't support this unless you have medicare for all are not going to do that because i know, maybe half or third, there would be responsible. my concern is not so much that, i disagree with him but wrong, it's not playing fair that one or two people think they should be able to stop 28 members of the democrat caucus what the american people want in the president want, that would be my

a classic example is with the dodd frank act. dodd frank prohibited consumers of financial products to engage in "abusive" acts or practices. but the law's definition of this new term is so vague. during the cfpb's entire existence, it has never bothered to issue a rule to clarify this definition. that did not stop the obama cfpb from bringing enforcement actions, accusing businesses of abusive conduct. the trump cfpb issued a sensible policy to curb this practice. the biden cfpb however quickly rescinded this policy and took no steps to provide regulatory clarity. instead, in just his second week on the job, the director brought and settled an enforcement action against the company for abusive contact, even though the cfpb did not define the term. cfpb alleged "an abusive market dominance," which is a foreign concept taken from european antitrust legal theories, not american consumer laws. the biden cfpb exceeded the bounds of its statutory authority by acting outside of its jurisdiction. take the cfpb's overreach into landlord-

wolf, but if not, frank, over to you. >> thanks. hi, general. i just wondered if he could give us an update on the f35 a availability. i believe fairly recently of the 297 i guess assigned aircraft that they had it was 40 some odd, 46 were down for power modules or some engine issues, but i wanted to see your expectation on a daily basis how many f aircraft you would like o see be able to be available to fly and basically if the pilots had enough training right now if they are called upon to go to war. i think at one time it was some 300 hours a year. i guess like 25 hours per month now of a flight time, but i'm wondering what the status of the flight hours for-- per month is that pilots are getting to fly and in terms of simulators the hours, any supplemental hours there. >> good question. thank you. starting with our first thing you touched on, i think the numbers pretty close that a few weeks ago also with-- we were down about 46, 40f135 engines and we have actually made progress and i will now say we are sub 40 without giving sp

america's best experts -- general mark milley, general frank mackenzie, and general scott miller -- all advised the president to keep 2,500 troops in afghanistan, so it would remain stable. basically, at the end of the day, this was a state department and president's decision. instead, the president's strategy turned into billions in american equipment handed over to the taliban, our most valuable airfield, bagram, maybe one of the most valuable in the world, abandoned in the dead of the night, americans left behind in enemy lines that are still there, and a complete abandonment of our allies. -- in afghanistan. what a disaster. president biden was more concerned about a good september 11 headline than a great strategy, more concerned about his press than saving american lives. the president's withdrawal will continue to be a stain on his legacy. joe biden created the worst american military foreign policy disaster in recent history. and the united states will be haunted by this decision for many years to come. another fact about this is biden's america. president biden's policies have

it was frank knowing i had options. it took long for me to feel me a like me again until recently when i gave this speech. to all the black women and girls who have had abortions and will have abortions, we have nothing to be ashamed of. we live in a society that has failed to legislate love and justice for us so we deserve better. we demand better. we are worthy of better so that is why i'm here to tell my story. i sit before you as that nurse, that pastor, as the activist, the survivor, the single mom that congresswoman to testify that in the summer of 1994, i was raped, i became pregnant and i chose to have an abortion. our yield. >> thank you. you are now recognized for your testimony. >> chairwoman maloney and ranking member, thank you for inviting me to speak today. i speak to you as one of the one in four women in america who have had in abortion. for you to understand how i ultimately decided to have an abortion, i have to start earlier with the birth of my first child. they were born at 26.54 weeks -- 26.5 week

. >> let's hear it from you frank from west virginia thank you for calling. go ahead. >> on this infrastructure why don't let they american people vote on it and in north carolina and virginia and places like that there used to be clothing factories that the congress goes in there they don't ask the american people what they want or need. host: i suppose is host and producer one of the themes as i had a vision and a certain industry that went away now i have to do something else. >> yes. that is a story we hear over and over again which just because things went away doesn't mean there isn't help. we do have stories people who have found second and third chapters. they are not quite as exalted as an earlier time in their life but they are back in their feet to see that again and again calling the forrest gump of the experience because in different places for a war correspondent and so these are the cycles people are going through an lc with one job for their entire career. >> this happen personally and directly? >> yes. i had to reinvent myself and i am now se

i keep telling frank and remind him we've been doing this together a long time. i know delaware is small. i know how important new jersey is but delaware is the high water mark in new jersey. you know what i mean? and one of my favorite memories of congress when i campaigned for and she won in spite of me, mikey sherrill, incredible person. i want to acknowledge senator booker admin and as who represent you so well in washington. they're down there trying to get this all moving. i'm here today to talk about what's fundamentally at stake for the families of newjersey , the whole region and for our country. for most of the 20th century we lead the world by significant margins not just by a significant margin because we invested in ourselves and invested in our people. not only in our roads and highways and ourbridges but our people . and our families . we are among the first to provide access to free education. 12 years of free education for all anyone who is an american beginning back in the late 1800s and early1900s . and that decision to invest in our children a

her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor don

when frank harper, again philadelphia was a hotbed of abolitionist activity and i talked about just for campaigns and the excitement coming through and how courageous were the quakers and the abolitionists fighting the people who would come to try to take them back and harper devoting herself because a free man is kidnapped and stolen and then she writes one of her famous poems and i talk about that but also when she would give box on the abolitionists were good she would read the poem and send them when john brown after harpers ferry she befriended his widow and was found among his possessions. people might not be exposed and come alive and make it relevant to our moment. i and the chapter by comparing to some of the young women who looked eloquent during the protest in the spring of 2020. they were sort of like her daughters in some ways. >> and that is so beautiful. >> i fell in love with francis harper when i was a college student. i discovered she was in philadelphia and dad he knew nothing about her. i could have taught him about her. >> have you been back to philadelphia recently

to be frank with you, she has not spoken as many free state foundation events commissioners but she has spoken previously as a longtime friend and admired for a long time as well. i thought it was important to have her here today because she has a perspective going back quite far. with her permission, just the brief highlights so we can get her up here. she established consulting in 2001 after she left the fcc serving as the chief of the cable services bureau where she started in 1998. in that position she led a team of 100 plus lawyers, economists and engineers. and that was at a time just to put a plate on it when we were beginning to talk about the digital convergence and how the landscape was changing and of course importantly for the way in which we think about things and what that would mean for changes in theul regulatory policy. deborah has served on the boards of the major fortune 500 corporations, for example, and has been a director of theri british telecom and held many other positions. so, without further ado if you would come up. [applause] ... >> but first i really want t

warring desolate irish neighborhood and what really changed things up was the brother of the famous frank mccourt of angela's ashes who himself is a wonderful writer and he's remarkable and he opened a bar called maliki's two blocks away from the barbizon and it was the first singles bar in new york and it was obviously a magnet for all the women staying at the barbizon. that really changed the social landscape of the upper east side for these women. >> one of our viewers is wondering was that popular culture at the time or later in the movie or stories or novels or whatever? >> the bell jar and it is literally about her experience at the barbizon 1953. that cancels out saying that everybody knows it's biographical but i would say to an extreme extent it's biographical having spoken to a lot of the women that were there with her and really what she recounts, she becomes asked her her -- esper but everything that happened there really did happen including her famously during her wardrobe off the roof of the hotel the last night that she was there and then going home and having her first su

. >> i thank you so important and i remember when senator grassley was leading this back in the don frank act and working across the party lines, i think that having whistleblowers be part of the examination enforcement and having income from manipulating markets also helps companies could of the actors to draw better. because is not certainty for investors rated. >> i'm inviting and requesting by colleagues to play support the legislation and congress can weigh in and have a significant impact pretty so grateful to you and i think my colleagues and i look forward to working with you and thank you for your support. >> thank you very much and the gentleman from georgia is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you and can you hear me now yes okay and thank you. [inaudible]. thank you for this opportunity. you testified in this committee that you and i discussed the consolidated trail and the most that the investors information that was originally going to be including social security numbers to be collected because they were working on that data however, it appears the changes still hav

that said, under frank kendall in the last administration, they've made a lot of progress in terms of improving acquisition products not how far we've come, it how far we still have to go. if you look at the new undersecretary for research and engineering, she is a firm from a she's going to basically move out smartly in the technology area. cyber, there's a lot going on, we are not organized for combat like general jones is suggesting we need to be much too much is just putting out saying how much money we are spending our week beginning on target there? you look at our military, what they do each and every day, today we have 30,000 numbers of the card reserve on active duty working, helping, and hurricanes and fires. at 11 until now, over 1 million members of the card reserve have been mobilized to serve overseas in here at home and there are bargains for the taxpayers who didn't have to build any schools or hospitals or equipment shops are family housing because they are part-time but they served on active duty so there is a lot of good and i think we do have military in the world

this is not an easy discussion for me too participate in to be very honest and frank about it. i felt that unfortunately they pandemic certainly curtailed a lot of the things we wanted to do how complicated the history of suffrage has been and is in this country. to commemorate self, keeping the politics out of it with a documented having said that, i felt the commission as it could have been and amplify history of women of color how they were summarily dismissed out the women's movement. and for full disclosure on the president and ceo it's the historical park. i am also a school member of delta sigma theta sorority sorority that fully participated with the suffrage movement and the very important in 1913. and so i come at this from living in this space all the time as a leader responsible caring for. kevin's legacy. which is about 20 miles 1849. one year after the establishment. how race impacts all of what we do. frankly before i built the race issue the commission should have done a much better job in amplifying the stork number of women we elected congress in 2018, that wa

and kind of this it's to the late frank. my mother and i, she was a very ordinary doctor in china. we were already privileged but she was by no means part of the elite party bureaucracy and i think she knew before she even learned english that you had to get to the best zip code in the u.s. to then reap the benefit of tax dollars and education system. for a long time i thought we both pronounced greenwich as greenwich and i was confused why a greenwich was the mascot of this town that was supposed to be very wealthy and that was my introduction to the place. i was already somewhat aware of the advantages and my mother was willing to make these sacrifices. even i i think was somewhat ignorant of that gap with the rest of america and the world and i'm just curious i always wondered was that because i was conditioned to understanding american culture? were you aware of these privileges? >> i think yes is the answer. i've come to this in an oblique way. you described at the outset with my family as a kind of mishmash of different traditions than my father's side of the family and my mo

i just kind of came back to new york after that and the frank, i could not get out of bed. i was really depressed and shaken. one day i just got up and started writing. that came with the new yorker essay. i did not imagine it. i guess that the connections to the book is that it had that element, that combined personal story with history and that focuses exactly on the way that history reverberates to people's lives. that is the connection. it is not like i wrote the essay because it was a part of the book or anything like that. they were conceived of a separate thing. they do share that sensibility of combining personal with historical. >> another question. want to know if you use chronologies when you are writing? >> yes. i love chronologies. i feel like, you know, if something happens, like, things that happen matter. when it happens, the order that it happens in, it shapes what a particular event means. i took a lot of notes. i took them completely chronological. i would note them in my document chronologically because it would give me the sense of where things fit and

. >> the three of you convinced me that it was pretty well under reagan with frank simplicity and so forth so if it works so well under reagan i will grant jamie's argument we haven't seen that moral clarity so there is a question i will hit you with in a moment that donald trump, god bless him in my opinion he set the speeches including in warsaw that hr mentioned. then walked away from the lectern and never behaved as if he had given those. why is it that reagan's example it works why is it so hard to follow? >> it is a puzzle but old habits die hard. but we do have to be careful as we look back at reagan and his successes from the hindsight of course it worked out it's so simple because between that wasn't really clear reagan had confidence that he had a lot of criticism because he was trying very risky things and challenging a lot of wisdom and it was somewhat different from the russia that we face today especially on the nucleoside and on the economic side but went to take away china especially remember our adversary is the chinese communist party but they are central allies the

and to be perfectly frank i don't think he did. that sort of portrayal of him made him interesting to me as a person. what i tried to do in the book is create one single continuous personality that progress and did not change dramatically he didn't suddenly incompetent he was never incompetent. i think it's very true that french historical memory does not rate lafayette as american historiography does. i think the french have a tendency to underrate him. it's not they are french than another on history but that got it right. most often something i would feel is more the case the french have their own running battles about the french revolution that are ongoing to this very day. the french revolution continues to be a live thing in french politics. what you think there are people who supported their people who opposed him. he's very much alive figure there are people who defendant. lafayette's position in the french revolution is simultaneously trying to impose a constitutional monarchy on france in opposition to conservatives, mona

him in my book but shortly after i got on the senate appropriations committee i was seated next to frank from new jersey. of course the democrats set on one side of the republicans on the other side of the room and just have gotten elected had just been elected and i was on the committee. he sat there with her issues about spending you could see his face got contorted and he would raise his thumb like this and then go down like that and look across the aisle at us what you think about that? i thought it was sophomoric at best. but it said something about what was happening, that somebody came now for a reason to block i've never had five words but that person in the time we were in the senate together. it just was not possible. >> what are two or three of your preferred concrete fixes to restore some institutional conversation here? >> trust. we have to trust one another. you have to trust that when you talk with somebody they're going to listen to what you have to say and share their thoughts back with you. that is important. you're going to have to trust that when you get together some

manliness was his characteristic generous, truthful liberal in his judgment of others forgetful of self and frank and his with ever adhere. he made many friends and he never contracted the. dignity of his respect. he was modest almost to bashfulness. he was nevertheless very determined in a supportive any opinions he informed in the execution of any work he had undertaken. the memorial book itself is an interesting artifact in cambridge massachusetts by figueroa ann is a probe keeps getting -- keepsake. six signature appears in a copy we have at stevenson ranch. the inscription is addressed to james h. blake jr. and may have been lieutenant james blake jr. the 44th massachusetts company who is from boston. he and blake had served together. the book begins with a short iger fee about the general. thomas grey stevenson was born in boston on third day of february ad, 1836. he was the middle of three children. he had an older sister and a younger brother and was a cheerful disposition growing up. the schools of his native city the book says at an early age had decided preference for the pursuit of co

sort of desolate irish neighborhood and what really changed things up was the brother of the famous frank mccourt of angela's ashes who himself is aened who -- who himself is a wonderful writer, he's remarkable, he opened a bar two blocks away from the barbizon, and it was sort of the first singles bar in new york, and it was obviously a magnet for all the women staying at the barbizon, and that really sort of changed the social landscape of the upper east side, for these young women. >> so one of our viewers is wondering if there are any depictions at the barbizon or the new women in popular culture at the time and later in stories or novels or whatever? >> yes, silvia [inaudible] wrote about her experience at the barbizon in 1953. they are careful about saying that it is -- i mean everybody knows it is biographical, but to what extent; right? i would say to an extreme extent it is biographical, having spoken to a lot of the women who were there with her. really what she recounts, i mean, the barbizon, she becomes esther. she sort of turns the [inaudible]. but everything that happens the

i don't feel like he dramatically changed as a person and to be frank, i don't think that he did. what i tried to do in the book tis mostly create one single continuous personality who progressed in the revolutionary didn't change dramatically or become incompetent. he never was incompetent. and ir think that it's very true that french historical memory does not rate lafayette as highly as american historiography and i think they have a tendency to overrate him. it's not because they know their own history and they got it right. it's because often something that i would feel when i would talk about this. it's more the case that the french have their own running battles about the revolution that are ongoing to this very day. it continues to be a live thing in french politics and they have a home inside of that like what do you think of the rogue sphere there are people that are opposed and also people that will defend him. he is simultaneously trying to impose a constitutional monarchy on france in opposition to conservatives, monarchists, catholics who don't like any of this. he t

it was frank knowing i had options. it took long for me to feel me a like me again until recently when i gave this speech. to all the black women and girls who have had abortions and will have abortions, we have nothing to be ashamed of. we live in a society that has failed to legislate love and justice for us so we deserve better. we demand better. we are worthy of better so that is why i'm here to tell my story. i sit before you as that nurse, that pastor, as the activist, the survivor, the single mom that congresswoman to testify that in the summer of 1994, i was raped, i became pregnant and i chose to have an abortion. our yield. >> thank you. you are now recognized for your testimony. >> chairwoman maloney and ranking member, thank you for inviting me to speak today. i speak to you as one of the one in four women in america who have had in abortion. for you to understand how i ultimately decided to have an abortion, i have to start earlier with the birth of my first child. they were born at 26.54 weeks -- 26.5 week

i think that was something that really, really stuck with me for this frank conversations of what you do when you are a fire fighter and can't fight the fire? >> no, that is a great point. i noticed some of that in your book as well that's related to losing. for firefighters the pride they take in being able to stop a fire or save someone's home. and then in essence when you lose at firefighting there's safety at risk. there is property at stake. you mention the emotional toll which we don't talk about much. i think it's becoming more and more of a conversation because not only is it a community there trying to protect, they may actually live in some of these communities and have to try to fight a fire or their home is being evacuated. and their pets, or other animals in their families have to be taken somewhere else. so there really is a growing challenge and normal conversations need to be had about that. thank you for sharing that piece. the next thought i had was the concept of this part of being a translator. it is such an important piece. they speak to my members and other profe

and then william of douglas next year and frank murphy next year and robert jackson james burns next year and about the employees, they are just one after another. >> there was so many opportunities there was a compromise and they came to him, customers coming true believer but others, they came to him repeatedly with montana and with offers to compromise and he just would not have it in the state said in moving ahead and he wouldn't even recognize the reality of what is happening in his own allies were coming to him with stories of what was going on out there and now he was losing support and constituencies buried it was boneheaded on that antics extraordinary and again this is a timing and credit him and his exquisite sensitivity to political winds and he just was dead set on this. >> is a little parallel in this that i think that is maybe an explanation of that predict the attorney general was really the draftsman or the proponent of this and part of the problem on the supreme court was justie mcreynolds, one of the four horsemen, was an appointee, and then a wilson administration

my book, but shortly after i got on the senate appropriations committee i was seated right next to frank lautenberg from new jersey and, of course, the democrat sat on the one side and republicans on the other side of the room and it was a freshman just got elected, the election before just then in the, just elected and on the committee. and he sat there when there were issues about spending. you could see his face got contorted and he would raise his thumb like this and it would go down like that and look across the aisle at us like what do you think about that? i thought it was sophomoric at best. but it said something about what was happening, that somebody came now for a reason to block as opposed to care. i better not have five words with that person at a time when we were in the senate together. it just wasn't possible. >> what are two or three of your preferred concrete fix is to restore some institutional conversation here? >> guest: well, trust. you have to trust one another. have to trust that if you're going to talk to somebody that they are going to listen to what you have to

douglas, frank murphy the next year, robert jackson and james burns the next year, and those eight roosevelt a appointees are just, you know, one after another in the wings starting in the summer of '37. >> and there were so many opportunities for him to compromise, and they came to him -- not so much cummings he was a true believer, his attorney general, but others came to him repeatedly with -- [inaudible] wheeler from montana, with offers to compromise, and he just wouldn't have it. i mean, he was dead set on moving ahead. you wouldn't even recognize the reality -- he wouldn't even recognize the reality of what was happening. his own allies were coming to him with stories of what was going on out there and how he was losing, you know, support in his constituencies. but he was very bullheaded in that, and it is extraordinary, again, with his sense of timing we created him with and his exquisite sensitivity to political winds, he just was dead set on this. >> there's a little kernel in in that i think is maybe an explanation of this. homer cummings, the attorney general, was really the draf

i hope we can have a frank and transparent conversation here today. ... ... >>. >> will. >>. >> ... >>. >> ... >>. >> ... i would ask you to be mindful and quickly wrap around your testimony if you are the time. chair gensler, you are now recognized for five minutes to presentyour oral testimony . >> good afternoon chairwoman . waters c, ranking member mchenry, allthe members of this committee u . good to be back with you andi look forward to the day when we can be here in person and that wonderful hearing room . i'm honored to sit here today second timeas chair of the securities and exchange commission and as customary i'll note my views are my own . i'm not speaking on behalf of myfellow staff . i've worked in and around markets my entire adult life and i believe the us capital markets are the best in the world and there are many reasons we represent 38 percent of the worlds capital markets but we can't pick our remarkable capitalmarkets for granted . new technologies change the face of finance for businesses around our country. more retail investors than ever are accessing our mark

senators, kennedy biden john warner, and people who i would introduce them part say i have a problem frank i don't get my lawn form involved. and i talk to others about same thing. you do things like that and we don't lobby people. it is a we have to have this. did lobby months on an appropriation bill and it never happened but i decided i did not want to do that anymore, once was enough. dennis your friends to give $4 million for this client of ours. it is supposed to be helpful but i think it was. and that was my last shot at that. >> did you know that all of cspan's american history programs are available to watch online, go to cspan.org/history type in your topic of interest in the search box, thousands of programs looking at the people in places that shaped our nation and all available online at cspan.org/history. >> weekend is on "c-span2" are an intellectual feast, every saturday american history tv america's stories, and on sundays book tv brings you the latest of nonfiction books and authors. funding for "c-span2" comes from these television companies and more including, the world

that said under frank kendall and ellen ward in the last administration they made a lot of good progress in terms of improving acquisitions but it's not howfar we've come, is how far we still have to go . if you look at for example the new undersecretary for research and engineering, she's up and going to basically move irout and a lot of these high technology areas. cyber. there's a lot going on there. they're not organized for combat like joseph suggested we need to be. too much is just putting out press releases that say how much money we're spending and the question is are we really kind of thing still on target there again in our military if you lookat our military , what they do each and every day. today we have 30,000 members of the guard reserve, one active-duty helping in hurricanes and fires. from 9/11 to now 1 million members of the guard reserve has been mobilized to serve overseas and here at home and they're a bargain for the taxpayer. we didn't have to build schools or hospitals or equipment shops family housing because their part-time but they serve on active duty when th

and to be perfectly frank i don't think he did. that sort of a portrayal of him made him interesting to me as a person. but i tried to do in the book is mostly create one single continuous personality that progressed. you'd not changed dramatically did not sell the become incompetent he never was incompetent. and i think it is very true that french historical memory does not rate lafayette as highly as american does. i think the french underrate him. it is not that they are french and they know their own history and they've got it right. that's often something i would feel when i would talk to them about this. it is more the case the french have their own running battles about the french revolution thereng are ongoing to this day. the french revolution continues to be a thing and french politics. these other people have a home inside of that debate. there are people who supported my people who are opposed to me is very much alive i figure there are people who will defend him. lafayette position in the french revolution is simultane