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together by integrity and those who are here from a lot of great schools and universities, you understand that because you live by a code, a code of honor which is basically a coat of integrity. we have to count on each other we depend on each other. not only to publish the mission but to live or die. my son is an air force pj which is the air force version of the seals. i don't know how they do it but i am sure glad they do. particularly as someone who flew fighter airplanes, we knew that if and when we went down, that they would make every effort take every risk, to come and get us.
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it is a matter of our code, a matter of our honor, our teamwork discipline, and it is all tied together by trust and integrity. and of course, it is what makes our nation, as mariana said, the greatest on earth. churchill said, america is great because she is good, she is good . which means integrity and trust. he said when she ceases to be good, you will cease to be great to jim, it's amazing we finished on time. i think time is about up, isn't it? >> one more question. >> all right, thank you. [applause] >> q&a is 10 years old and to
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mark a decade of conversations, we are featuring one interview from each year of the series. today, but former congressman bob and eight. the ohio republican resign from congress in 2006 and pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for trading political favors with lobbyist jack abramoff in exchange for guests. after serving 17 months in prison mr. ney wrote a book about his experience. also tonight, conversations with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. the program begins with walter cunningham, the lunar module pilot in 1968. nasa's third civilian astronaut talked about the early apollo missions, the space race with the russians, and the future of nasa during a conversation with the explorers club in october. here is a preview. >> apollo seven is to this day
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the most ambitious, successful engineering test flight of any new machine ever. the reason it was so loaded, a planned 11 day first mission was because we lost 21 months after the apollo one fire. we would have had another flight in their, to go to the moon. and we had to do it by the end of the decade. so we were trying to make up for all of that. when we went up for an 11 day mission, none of us thought we were going to go 11 days. you could not do that on a first mission. so we worse apprised and little bit irritated. we still had to go to more days. >> what a shower when you got back. >> it was critical because it was so successful, apollo eight went out and went around the
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moon. >> you can see that entire conversation with walter cunningham tonight. he was the lunar module pilot on apollo seven in 1968. he's part of the conversation with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. >> the 114th congress gavels in this tuesday. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2 and track the gop led congress. c-span radio c-span.org. new congress, best access on c-span. >> in november, more than 300 members of the u.k. use parliament, -- use parliament gathered in a british house of commons for their annual policy debate. they began with a tribute to the 100 year anniversary of world war i. the speaker of the house resided over the morning and afternoon sessions with a few remarks by other members of parliament.
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this is almost 50 minutes. >> please take your seats. first of all welcome. i hope you have a great day. this is the sixth annual sitting of the u.k. youth parliament here in the house of commons will stop i have had the pleasure and clear of which -- pleasure and privilege of cheering your proceedings each time and i look forward to doing so today. i think i can say with confidence that you will have fun and find the whole experience very, very rewarding indeed. certainly, we are grateful to you for taking an interest for treating this place with respect, and for wanting to be here. we want you to be here.
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the us used to be debated today were, of course, as you know, chosen by the annual make your mark ballot. last year, i remember reporting with some pride on your behalf that the number of votes cast had almost doubled from the previous year. the british youth council reports that the number has almost doubled again with 875,000 young people casting a vote. we say the words thank you and the word congratulations to rarely, so i want to be the first in the chamber to say "thank you and congratulations for everything you have done not only showing your own interest but engendering
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interest among other young people." it is in or mislead to your credit and you want a big round of applause -- it is enormously to your credit and you ought to give yourself a big round of applause. [applause] i'm glad you are getting into the spirit of the thing at a very early stage will stop i said you would choose and have chosen the topics to debate. in doing so, you are choosing what are to be your priority campaigns for 2015. there is another element to the proceedings today. this year's youth parliament marks the introduction of the paul on ski -- paul us get memorial reward.
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