hometounchts my name lauren kristy, i'm from memphis, tennessee. >> what did you think of today's commencement speakers? >> i really enjoyed them. i especially enjoyed lindsay anderson's speech ar empathy. i thought that -- it really spoke to the values of the school of communication. it really spoke to applying the tools that we've learned in a socially conscience way and i really appreciated that. >> who is lindsay anderson? >> she is an undergraduate student graduating today as well. >> wham is your degree in today? >> my degree is in foreign language and communication media. >> what will you do with that now that you're graduated? >> well, it's funny you should ask. i actually have a dance minor and am planning to pursue dance professionally in the d.c. area. i'm also interested in pursuing arts administration. so public relations and marketing for arts organizations. so for the dance companies.

>> how about student loans? do you have any that you're responsible for? >> i actually have no student loans. i'm very, very lucky that my parents have supported me so heavily, and so i'm going out into the world a free woman. >> my name is sarah and i'm from new hampshire. >> and sarah what do you think of today's commencement speakers? >> i thought it was amazing. i am actually going to be interning for the associated press this summer. so i was really excited to hear the president speak. i thought his speech was very inspirational and lindsay anderson's, too, moved me to tears. it was great. >> what did you study at au? >> broadcasting, jurmism and french. >> you're going to be interning at ap map would you like to do long-term with your degree? >> hoping to go into digital journalism and i'm actually trechlted in going to morocco and trying to cove how the arab spring played out there and if there's going to be more -- more disruption, i guess.

oklahoma governor mary fallin gave this year the commencement address at oklahoma city university last month. she is the first female governor of the state after being the second woman elected to congress from oklahoma from 2007 top 2011. here are her remarks and advice to the graduates, which run just under 15 minutes. [ applause ] >> oh, thank you. what a wonderful hon dr. henry. thank you so very much. dr. henry, i appreciate and accept this honorary doctorate with great pride and humility. one of our greatest university in the state of oklahoma. [ applause ] absolutely. especially to be here up on the stage with some of oklahoma's

top, brightest business leaders in the state and certainly some of our best leaders in civic leadership in our state with gary, with cliff, and with pat and ray. i ammo honored to be able to receive his honorary docket with outstanding oklahoma roll models and students hope you were em mup late the very things these lead verse done for our city as you continue on. i have to tell you, you've done a great job, president henry, here at this university. this university is one of our shirning examples, one of our shining stars of success in higher education in the state of oklahoma. and it's a great honor to be able to be here today to celebrate and to congratulate our outstanding new oklahoma graduates. you've help immediate meet one of my goals in increasing the number of college graduates that we have in our state. so to all of our graduates who receive this excellent education from oklahoma city university,

we are very proud of you. you have worked very hard to get to this moment. and hopefully you can get a little bit of sleep, take a nice little summer break and get ready for whatever it is that you will continue to do yoir life. i know there are many people in this audience that helped you to get to this point today. and certainly we want to thank the outstanding staff, the outstanding faculty, the board of trustee, certainly your president, and what they have done to help you reach this pinnacle of success in your lives. so let's give our faculty and our staff a round of applause and thank them, graduates. [ applause ] and, of course, you also have your family, your friends who have joined you here today. your parents. we want to recognize and thank the parents in your family for the three they have played also in supporting you along this path. let's give them a hand.

now, parents who are out there, you know when someone typically graduates they have a tassel they move from one side to the next and a lot of times they throw their hats up in the air to celebrate that they finally completed this great milestone when they graduate. so, parents, i have something for you today. i want you to get out your credit cards and your checkbooks and you can throw those up in the air in front of your students, because the tuition is finally over, hopefully! but in the all seriousness, it is truly a great honor to be here with so many talented, impressive men and women who are graduating from this unique school, a school which mission focuses on not only the students intellectualability, but also their moral and spiritual

development, and that's a tremendous accomplishment of this university. this university is actually one of our most unique and diverse universities in our state, and it has a unique, diverse group of students who attend here. ocu actually now counts in its student population students from 41 different states and 56 foreign countries. that's quite remarkable. here the another great fig in fact, about ocu. ocu has the highest number of national merit scholars this year ever. graduating from this university. national merit scholars. congratulations to all of you. and i know that you're all going to do some very exciting things. i've looked at, where some of your graduates are going after they finish today with this degree. some are going to disney paris.

[ cheers ] some are going to become officers in the u.s. military. where's mire miy military folks? [ applause ] some are going on to attend prestigious graduate programs. one is going to the eastman school of music. [ cheers ] maybe several. and some of your graduates are also going to some of our top theological programs with full scholarships as they move on. and, of course, yes, going to medical school, certainly law school, pharmacy schools and many other programs. even one going to study at the london school of economics. there they are. [ cheers ] so you are truly a remarkable class. you're also our future leaders in our state. not only in business but certainly in civic leadership, too, and we are very, very proud

of you. i'm sure i don't have to tell you by virtue of you just being here today, that you have completed one of the most important milestones in your lifetime. that you will ever achieve. whether it is achieving the financial success or personal self-fulfillment of obtaining a college degree it is actually going to be one of the greatest tools that you'll ever have in your toolbox. you're ability to be able to better yourself and to reach success. adults with college degrees, graduate degree, typically earn roughly twice as much as those with only high school degrees. and over a course of your lifetime, by having a college degree, you also have been talking about the potential to earn not just hundreds of thousands of dollar, but millions of dollars with this higher level of education. of course, as you continue to continue your studies, some of you who may go on to masters or

doctorate degrees, that also increases your potential in the business world, and that's a compelling reason to earn a degree, a college education, but it's just one of many reasons, because in doing so, in earning this degree, we are doing everything that we can to help you be able to enter into a workforce that will provide you great opportunities to be successful in life, and that is one of the reasons why we've made such a great emphasis this year in being able to increase the number of college-degreed people in our great state. and we're also working on increasing our academic standards in oklahoma so we can continue to make sure that you get the very best education possible. so no one can doubt the economic value of obtaining a degree that you're receiving today, but a college degree is more than just a piece of paper that you're going to receive. it's also, as i mentioned, about higher wages and better jobs.

but graduating from ocu makes you part of a rich tradition in oklahoma. a rich tradition of service. a rich tradition of success that will follow you for the rest of your lives. i am very proud of what you are doing here today, and very proud of the tools that you have been given, and i'm confident that as you move forward from this day forward, that oklahoma is going to be a much better place. now, i want to say that not only are you very fortunate to be graduating from a wonderful university, but you're also graduating at a very great time for the state of oklahoma. and i hope you'll notice this. today oklahoma actually ranks second in the nation in job creation. and i know you're all going to be out there looking for jobs. we're second in the nation in job creation. that's a pretty good marketplace to be enters into.

if you look at oklahoma city, it's number one in the nation in job creation based upon large metropolitan cities. so it's a great time for you to be graduating and hopefully most of you will be able to stay right here in oklahoma. but before i end i just want to give you some words of advice of life lessons i have learned throughout my career. one is that it's very important that you get back to your community. that you are part of your community, part of that service to others. service above self. it is a very rewarding experience in life that when you give to others and when you help make your state a better place to live. and second, there is no limit to what you can accomplish, no matter where you come from, who you are, what background you might have or what your circumstances might be. i actually came from some very humble beginnings. i've had some great opportunities to do some wonderful things and to have some wonderful jobs and be able

to serve oklahoma, but, you see, my grandmother came to oklahoma in a covered wagon. i know that's sounds kind of funny, because we don't think about covered wagons these day, but she actually came to oklahoma five years after we had become a state, and she came here in 1912. she was 7 years old, and she came here with her family. there were eight in her family. i asked my grandmother, why did you come to oklahoma? they came from tennessee? i said, did you come here's with your family to buy a house, rent a home? what caused you to come to oklahoma? my grandmother laughed and said, no. we came to oklahoma to find a better opportunity. to be able to support our family. and they actually didn't bay houbuy a house, rent a home. they didn't have a job, per se. they actually came to oklahoma

to pick cotton and were going from farm to farm in oklahoma picking cotton living in this covered wagon. she told me many times they would sleep out on a pallet on the grass under the stars. her mom would cook outside, and it's just a remarkable thing ton think about how people used to live just 100 years ago in the state of oklahoma. i asked her if her parents -- and she were able to go to high school and go on to college and get a better education, and she sold me, she said, you know, with so many people in our family, we only had two horse, and my family moved a lot, because they were always searching for work and trying to find better opportunities. so she said when i could go to school, i did. but it was a long walk, and we only had the two horses. so she only completed the eighth grade, in her education. now, i want you to know something about her. she was one sharp lady.

i mean, she was a first-class lady. one that was always putting others above herself. and she always took care of herself. and she died when she he is was 98 years old. lived on her own all those many, many years. was a great cook, by the way. i always highly respected her, and she was a great role model for me. and in this day when we think about all that we have with text messaging and e-mail and facebook and twitter and cell phones and certainly travel, can you do business globally around the world, and i think about just 100 years ago where my grandmother was to the opportunities that i have today. her granddaughter. to be the first woman governor of the state of oklahoma. it really does tell you how great oklahoma is. and so i hope that when you

think about your future, that you know that no matter what your circumstances are, no matter where you come from, that you can be anything want to be, if you work hard. if you never give up. if you take risks. if you believe in service to others. and i'll also tell you that life won't always go exact lip the way you hope it will. sometimes they'll be setbacks and disappointments, but i hope you'll remember this,s that setbacks are actually opportunities for comebacks. and when you do come back, when you have a setback, come back even stronger. just do it even better. don't let those things hold you back, and never stop learning. even in nigh job as a governor, i learn every single day something else. than is important. that helps me to do my job even better in our state. so receiving your degree is not only a milestone in your own

career, but your degree also marks the end of a journey in your life, but also a beginning of another journey in your life. and now it's up to you as graduates to use the knowledge that you've received from oklahoma city university. a great university. to put that knowledge to work. to see whatever doors are opportunity might open up for you, and i know that through this graduating class today, that oklahoma will be a greater state with even more hope and opportunity ahead. god bless you and congratulations to all of our graduates. [ applause ] the head of the top veterans

website vetjobs says it's a bure ir bure-of-bureaucracy. looking into government contractors in the effort to find jobs for military veterans. here's a quick look. >> having more than familiar what goes on, i'm a little outspoken. i'm not politically correct, but, madam, you've got a lot of people in the deal well who are the classic bureaucrats. they have a wonderful job, learned from all the people coming in wanting help, and they don't take the initiative. a real good example. we had a veteran down there in georgia who need add job. he's in his 50s. been sitting over at the office for three days. trying to get help to get a job. and each day he'd go in we have you in the system now. welcome back. you're in our system now. you're in the system now. he didn't give a damn about being in the system.

he want add job. someone gave us a call and we found out where he was living. didn't have car. dp a google search of his apartment and found a public supermarket a target and a walmart all within walking distance of his apartment kples. we called the managers of those three stores, and all three of them said, send him over. interviewered him. two made him a job offer and he took one of them. went hi target with they paid more than the others, but we did all that inside of 20 minutes. why can't you have this $50,000 bureaucrat sitting on their butt in a nice air conditioned office do the same thing? because there's no penalty and no incentive to go out and do it. and i know that's not politically correct, but that is the brute reality, and we deal with that day in and day out down in our office. but having them better educate us as to what the real resources are for their local area,

because all employment is on a local level. >> right. >> and being able to direct somebody, to what are the good siting. we put out a listing of all the legitimate job boards on the internet because there are so many rip-off site es spescial especially targeting veterans and their families. over the past four years pulitzer prize winning author david mariness has been researching and writing his tenth book "barack obama: the story," the research included traveling the globe and speaking with the president's relatives in kenya and sdov discovering his answer saystry, and touring sites in kansas to find the origins of his mother's family. "barack obama: the story" out in

bookstores june 19th. book tv traveling with the author in january of 2010. join us th, at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. and later at 7:30 that same night, your phone calls, e-mails and tweets for david maraniss on cspa 2's book tv. a former white house negotiator for the stormer s.t.a.r.t. treaty. john wolfsthal was an advisor to vice president biden and a member of the national security council. he spoke at an event hosted by the arms control association for about an hour. >> good morning, everyone. if you could find your seats, we're about to get started.

good morning, everywomen, i'm darryl kimball. i'm the director of the nongovernmental arms control and i want to welcome everyone to our annual 2012 meeting. i want to thank those of you watching online and cspan. and before we get started, i'd like to remind everybody to turn off your cellular devices. as the arms control association enters its fifth decade, we remain committed to providing information and ideas to address those security challenges posed by the world's most dangerous weapons, nuclear, biological, chemical, and certain conventional weapons. as our many members here today know, a monthly journal arms control today is the key resource for ideas and analysis and interviews with key policymakers on a range of

issues and our staff turnouts on regular basis issue opinion pieces, background papers and reports on a range of topics and they're all available at arms control.org. our ability to do this depends on our individual members and our subscribers to "arms control today." and if you're not a member or a subscriber, i would encourage you to do so. but today's event on meeting the next challenges on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament is one of the many events we host each year on arms control and nonproliferation issues with support and a sish tans from the hein rick gold foundation, we've brought together today a very distinguished set of speakers from all around the world. our panel this morning will address two of the most pressing arms control challenges we face today. first, dancing for the progress

to reduce the role, the number of the world's global stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and second, perhaps more urgently, advancing effective diplomatic solutions to prevent the spread of weapons to additional states, such as iraq. to close out the conference, we're honored to have secretary of state over security. she was lead negotiator for the 2010 new strategic arms security reduction treaty and will give us the obama administration's view on the recent progress and the next steps ahead. you'll see in your program, members of the arms association are welcome to join us at 3:45 in the afternoon for an informal discussion on organizational and program priorities and then at 5

clk p.m. we invite friends and colleagues of the late stanley rezor and former aca board chairman who passed away this past april. so, to our first panel today, which will focus on the next phase of u.s.-russian nuclear reductions after you start the summit in chicago. we're at a very important juncture on this issue. you'll recall back in 2009 president obama pledged to, and i quote, put an end to outdated cold war thinking by reducing the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy, under quote, and then in 2010 the u.s. and russia completed the discussions on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and then we completed a congressly mandated postural view that determined that, and i quote, the fundamental role of u.s. nuclear forces is to defer nuclear attacks against the u.s. and our allies and our partners, end quote. the president implemented a

study on that strategy. that's due soon. back in march in south korea president obama said, quote, that study is still underway, but even as we have more to do we can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need, unquote. so the nuclear policy review implementation study will have far reaching implications for u.s. policy and the future path for u.s.-russian nuclear reductions and how we can reduce the enormous cost of the u.s. nuclear arsenal which according to a study published in this month's issue of "arms control today," is at least $31 billion a year. to explore these and other issues we're very pleased to have three distinguished speakers. we have lieutenant general burke jamison. he retired in 1996 after more than three decades of acting

service. he's currently an active member of the consensus for american security of the american security project. and he will give us his thoughts on these issues that i've just introduced. our second speaker will be jon wolfsthal who served from 2009 to 2010 on the national security staff and with the office of vice president biden. he's deputy director at the james martin center. jon will give us his thoughts and his views on the path and options for pursuing further reductions and the challenges we must overcome in doing so. we're also very pleased to have with us trina flockhart who's a senior researcher in cope pen hag again. she'll talk about the defense posture review that was issued at the recent nato summit and also her thoughts on possible steps for dealing with the

leftover tactical nuclear arsenals of the united states and europe as well as russia. after each of their opening remarks, we'll take your questions and we'll have discussion and so i welcome general jamison to the meeting and to open us up. the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. it's a real pleasure to be here. i note from the smattering of gray hair and talk of some reunions that most of you have lived through a good portion of the cold war and some of you probably are saying what was the cold war. it's also very reassuring to me to know that among all of you i'm probably the least expert of what goes on inside the belt way. i call myself an operator. by some strange occurrence of

events, i ended up going through the cold war in positions that gave me i think a unique window on to the operational side of things and in that sense the urgency of finding a new way in this 21st century. i know it's not lost on any of us here that we're -- we're in spite of what i saw on occasion up close and personal, close calls during the cold war. we are this morning and have somehow escaped as a human race a nuclear exchange, and there were close calls. and so i think something that the citizenry needs to keep in mind is that these things are an ongoing -- these issues are an

ongoing struggle to control the dangers of nuclear weapons. as a young lieutenant sitting nuclear alert, i stared at ten green lights each one of those lights representing an enormous amount of destruction and practiced hundreds and hundreds of times the execution and release of those nuclear weapons. we did that all the time. and my neighbors were flying nuclear airborne alert in b-52s on occasion. i mean, that wasn't a constant thing in those days, but it was -- it was frequent. and the nuclear subs were at sea. we had an enormous destructive capability. and i think