if i could read this in this light, i will try, when we left, i was asked by the team to put together the final remarks that we made. i never shared these with many people -- i never shared them with mr people. let me share it with you. these are the remarks that i . de et me say if if i can get you. these are the remarks i made. first, i would like to respond toll general mill delem stein's concern yesterday that i provided little if any rationale to support my statement that

d.d.i. was a stabilizing factor, ot a destabilizing factor as venegr arch r. noff. i would be remiss if i didn't provide it. a well-known misskerpgs that marines are shy and retiring. i hope to correct this mis conception today. our president, who is going on our constitution, our commander in chief, has correctly felt that any conch nation has the right and responsibility to protect its people from the threats to their survival. while the u.s. and the soviet ion have indeed military

allies during a common enemy during world war ii, they have not been allies for the last 72 years. in fact, by words and deeds, the soviet union has threatened peace and stability in the world for over seven decades. i remind you. i'm talking to the hierarchy of the soviet military. it's sort of like, shove it. >> it is my strong view that president reagan has been totally sincere in his desire to rid the world of nuclear weapons. in fact, far more sincere than any other chief of state since

the first atom particular bomb was detonated in 1945. one of the greatest concerns was that the arms race was rapidly getting out of control. you are building bigger and more accurate offensive weapons and at the same time attempting to reduce the effectiveness of ours by hardening our silos and putting your command and control acilities underground. where we would have a problem -- president reagan's view that providing the technology that we could render to the level of strategic weapons, we could

demonstrate the fawley which we zroip ent -- folly mankind. i sincerely hope as a minimum you would give this subject serious consideration. i believe that s.d.i. has played a major role in bringing our talks to where they are today. unless i'm totally in error, our perception of s.d.i. is a shared bying force -- general secretary gorp chef -- gorbachev. be that as it may.

the nature and the subject is of enormous importance to the participants of this conference and will not be decided at this table. it has become a part of u.s. strategic partners, personally, i'm convinced to the contrary that sometime in the future, we will do everything in our power to remain so but never use it as a negotiating chip. , let me saymy words with strong emotion, i will repeat my comments to all levels of government in the hope that you would do the same. signed p.x. kelley. you got the gift of what i said. s.d.i. for the most people hop don't understand it, we had a

huge threat of nuclear weapons to this country. nuclear weapons that could destroy how manity as we know it. and young people today don't understand it. we understand the big standoff when we thought the russians were moving nuclear weapons to cuba. one of the funny sidebars as i was involved in the intelligence and for those who might remember, we were going to put together an invasion force in cuba. i was the intelligence officer in quantico and i was looking at the weapons system and i looked at something called the froogmism. and i was the one who discovered that the frog missile would have been disaster because it had a

nuclear warhead which nobody had known, certainly in our city. those things were trying days. to get back to where i started. any contest questions? no? are we over? >> i'm over here. >> i do have a question regarding themon youments. -- the monuments. the korean monument is absolutely breathtaking and a lot of photographers have taken pictures of our monuments, the world war ii memorial and korean memorial and they are found in violation if they actually try sell a photograph of an

american monument. can you explain what is going on ith that as to why people, those who would photograph american monuments, be told that they cannot sell that photograph or do anything with that photograph? > you have me me cold. i have never heard that or never seen that. somebody stop you from taking a photo? >> i can give you more information about that what took place. >> there are a lot of cameras taking photos. i'm shocked. sort of funny one story, of course you are all moving now. one more story.

how many statues there at the veterans' memorial? nine? nine. and you know why. each one has a different gun, different weapons or face because of all the countries participating in the korean war, we wanted to capture that. i happened to be involved in this whole issue. we developed the statues. and the national capital anning meeting, we had a contentious meeting. and i had a speaker who was not very polite with some of the people in the commission and i took the microphone away from him and i said tore the person,

if you don't like nine, what do you like? he said i don't like any. i said, mr. mayor, i'm trying to negotiate here. what do you want? i said, i'll take off three right now. he said, ok, the day's getting late. we'll approve it. so six statues were approved. ok? the next morning i called the chairman of the national capital planning commission, who happened to be from here, i said, glen, would you be upset if you found nine statues? he said of course not. i can tell any audience there are three statues that were never approved by anybody. but that's what you do.

you push the system as far as it can go. and a lot of that was the same. one of the things -- and maybe i'm stepping does on this one. when the heat started and the young kids from the young families who visited world war ii, i got all sorts of crap. they can't do that. i finally said to them, that monument belongs to the people of america. and if gives them some thrill out of it, let it go. from then on, they can put their feet in it. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> i got to go. >> thank you very much, general kelley for the speech.

general kelley is one of those individuals around washington they call legendary. he is a living legend but has had enough experiences to put in 10 different lives and bring him back and would have different material to tell you every day without repeating what he said the previous day. i hope you young future leaders got something out of this. we are going to set up for our final panel on the coast guard. let's have a hand for general p.x. kelley. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> we mark this veterans day with special events about vet raps. vice president joe biden is at unknowns and

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