marine corps was 32%. did any of you reach out to protect our defenders to find out more about their study or how they could be helpful to you in dealing with this problem? general petey. >> i can't say today that i know specifically what communications we had with pod during that time. i can get that answer back to you x but i can't say right now. >> do you have any intention of working with them moving forward? >> we've talked with pod. digested their materials. we've used it to inform us, but i think we also spent a fair amount of time extensive amount of time, with gao and its data requests as well. so we have a lot of people asking us for information. so we provide as best we can and certainly in accordance with the rules, what we should provide to not only private organizations, but certainly government organizations. >> thank you. i'm running out of time. admiral hanic, did you reach out to pod to learn more about their process or how they might be helpful? >> i did not. what i don't know is if anyb

all marine corps installations across the globe. in his message to the marine corps, regarding the confederate battle flag removal to comment out stated only as a unified force free of discrimination, racial inequality and prejudice can be fully demonstrate our core values. and serve as the elite war fighting organization america requires and expects us to be. too that end, the commandant is committed to implementing the findings of the gao report. disparities the gao highlighted and our administration of the justice system in the marine corps requires immediate scrutiny and demands action. the implicit trust marines placing one another makes elimination of racial inequality and imperative. as the commandant stated any form of racial inequality, whether it be direct, indirect, intentional or unintentional, threatens the cohesion of marine corps and must be addressed head on. the gao published two recommendations specifically addressed to the department of the navy. first, they recommended the highlighted need for our personnel inves

marine corps. >> my name is james sharp. when i was in korea i was a marine pfc, and i'm very pleased to be doing this interview on may 29th, 2014. it's a long time after the war so you'll have to forgive any memory lapses i make, encounter. >> thank you very much again. would you please share your birthday and birthplace? >> my birthday is may 28, 1933, and that was in new york city. >> yesterday was your birthday. how was it? >> my daughter was here, my grandchildren were here. it was my first time playing golf in over three years because of the injury to my leg, the cancer in the leg so it was a very, very wonderful birthday to spend with them. >> again, happy birthday. >> thank you. >> please tell me about your family background, the school you went through. it must be in new york city, right? >> in new york city, yes. i went to a school now called the fashion institute of technology -- >> what do you mean? you were in fashion? >> i tried but i never worked at it at all. i can't sew a button on now, but yes. and then i w

>> not as a unit or as individuals in the marine corps. they obviously were, every marine is a rifleman. african-americans were involved in some fights when the fights came to them. as, especially in the islands, when they landed during world war ii, the murray landings had to be supported by service units at the beach receiving supplies, sorting out supplies and moving supplies up to the front lines. oftentimes the japanese would attack those supply units. and they had to fight. but they were not assigned fighting. they had to know how, and they did. so, on occasion, they would get shot at. and we had a dory miller, who was a sailor, get a navy cross, for his activities, on december 7, when the japanese bombed pearl harbor. dory miller was a hero, an african american navy person. >> so here, integrate means african-american soldiers integrated into a unit official unit. and they are representing american military units. >> exactly. exactly. >> have you been singled out and being treated badly or? no. marines are a different breed of peopl

the boots the marine corps-- here. the boots the marine corps wore, they came up to here and then you had leggings. are you familiar with leggings? >> oh yes. james: that is what we had. >> and you got the clean uniform? [laughter] james: a brand-new uniform, it was wonderful. >> how was ike? james: i never got to really see him at all. we were just in a truck behind wherever the cowboy was going. > let me ask this question, how did your service during the korean war, affect your life after you returned from korea? james: i stayed in the ring core for 20 years. -- i stayed in the marine corps for 20 years so when i came back i was assigned to cap legend and then to lakehurst new jersey -- camp lejeune, and then to lakehurst, new jersey. the scars of the war were shared with a lot of people who knew or or, we were all in the same profession. those were the people that i was around. vietnam, i was assigned to flint, as a recruiter for the reserves. congressmanis and that was in 1966. stayed in contact with one another. s

my orders are to we'd -- weed all who cannot serve in the marine corps. do you magg ma gegots understand that. i remember how the first rifle platoon i commanded as a young second lieutenant was literally about one-third white, one-third

my orders are to we'd -- weed all who cannot serve in the marine corps. do you magg ma gegots understand that. i remember how the first rifle platoon i commanded as a young second lieutenant was literally about one-third white, one-third black, one-third hispanic. my platoon sergeant was an african american marine named willis townes. he was outstanding in every way, sergeant townes. i learned so much from him about leadership. his dream in life was to be the first african american sergeant major of the entire marine corps. he never reached that goal. a few weeks after i attended a martin luther king jr. ceremony with him in which he received an award for his leadership in the community, he was killed in a training accident. that was the worst day of my life. but just a few years later, the marine corps named another outstanding african american marine to be sergeant major of the entire marine corps, and i remember thinking on that day when the announcement came out, congratulations, willis, you did it. you did it. i believe that the military desegregated

his dream in life was to be the first african-american sergeant major of the entire marine corps. he never reached that goal a few weeks after i attended a mlk junior ceremony with him in which he received an award for his leadership in the community, he was killed in a training accident. that was the worst day of my life. for just a few years later they named outstanding african marine to be sergeant major of the entire marine corps i remember thinking that day when the announcement came ou out, congratulations willis, you didu it. you did it. i believe the military desegregated 194820 years before the passage of civil rights legislation by this bodyf one of the most important civil rights organizations in america. and i am passionate about that organization, our us military. can improve in terms of race? are there questions that need to be asked about the record of our military on these important issues? it was an important day of the u.s. senate with unanimous vote to confirm charles q brown junior to be chief of staff of the united states air force. to be more involved in his

eanwhile, overhead air force and marine corps planes support the ground troops.s are ready for inland strike on targets. rockets are of particul interest.r three different types are being used one of the first super five-inch holyhe inch tyne the 11.75 think tim was effective on bridges and similar targets. recent arrival is the 6.5 inch ram. onstant activity on these carriers has not dampened the humor.n's sense of it is noteworthy the ram rocket set a speed record for production. conference room conception to the appearance in took 24 days. erial missions of the navy and they s have strategy and count heavily. some cameras record targets of planes.rier japan a b-26 raid is in preparation during the week of 6 september. he b-26 is armed with 16 50 caliber machine guns that are electrically operate and a guner can bring many to bear on the same target. carry a 5,000 bomb loads. napalm and ombs and it is a epower formidable attacking unit. -- scant een santa use with industrial areas to battle areas along the lines in the south. the b-26 is classified as a the spe

the 15th corps did it this way. you can see if they took the entire corps down an entire road, they would market with a cross. if the first division was going, they would have a straight dash over the cross. second division, under the cross. third, like you see there. fourth, like that. that's the way they would indicate who was supposed to take a particular road. they are beginning to push through as they go communicating with each other and as they are making their way through the swampy section of south carolina. the next thing they are looking for is their military target that has the attention of sherman. sherman is always looking for railroads. the next thing they are getting to above the salkehatchie line and above the bridges will be the railroad here. february 7, they will meet a bummer. one of those folks is always riding along to find the pocket watches and jewelry to be had. we met a bummer on a horse coming to inform us the forgeries had just taken the railroad at midway and are holding it for the army.

we had some great marine corps pilot making that happen. unfortunately, like a lot of operations, it did not go without a mishap. evacuation, just before they started with the helicopter extraction, we lost one.arines at guard post they were both killed instantly when a rocket hit their guard post. we also lost a ch 46 during the evening. . will talk more about that two men were aboard that aircraft and they were lost at sea. we got the crew rescued. a littleike to start bit about the history of that time. we had an election not long before. president nixon had vowed to end the war in vietnam. he was true to his word. he and dr. kissinger worked hard at doing that. peace3, they signed a with honor treaty. similar with what we had in korea. the northwood space -- the north would stay north, the south would stay south. prisoners of war would come home. everything was supposed to stay like that. anytime a violation by the north vietnamese would mean a complete reversal. nixon said he would send the bombers back in and attack again. i think tha

she joined the women's army corps, and in the women's army corps, in a gay purge, which they frequencyn the women's army corps, she got booted. it was one of the greatest things that ever happened to her because she was able to shed all the pretense and be who she was as an openly gay pioneer activist. growing up in a german family, there was a word kicked around her house a lot when she was growing up, she used to say. it was " lieben..." someone who looks at their life as a work of art. someone who masters the art of living and i believe she became one. that was part of her german heritage. >> about? >> and proud" is an amazing film she decided to make on the first anniversary of the stonewall riots documenting the first parade, and it was called the christopher street liberation day parade, greenwich village, central park. >> stonewall was what? >> stonewall was in 1969, and it was a gay bar that was raided, as bars were in those days, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back with the gay, lesbian, and trans patrons of this bar. they refused to get in the paddy wagons. the

and here are the german labor corps boys who were building fortifications and here are the new advanced mechanized equipment that the germans were using and he would drive around and because he spoke native german along with spanish and french, he would just pick up hitchhiking g.i.s, german soldiers, or the labor corps guys and he would offer them cigarettes, say, oh, by the way, i'm an american and tell me what you guys are up to. and he got remarkable reports on fortifications and airfields, various kind of military facilities that they were building. this was also a period with austria and the occupation of the sudatan land of czechoslovakia. when there were repeated war scares in western europe. not actual war but repeated panics and the picture on the right there, or the left, picture on the left there, is of people fleeing from paris not during the actual war but because they got panicked in the late '30s. finally, he served under the former chief of naval operations and future military chief of staff to the commander in chief, william leahy. and the picture over on the far side

she joined the women's army corps.n the women's army corps in a gay purge which they frequently had in the women's army corps she got booted. and it was one of the greatest things that ever happened to her because she was able to shed all the pretense and be who she was as an openly gay pioneer activist. growing up in a german family there was a word kicked around in her house a lot when she was growing up. she felt like she wanted to be that german word, which means a life artist. someone who looks at their life as a work of art. someone who masters the art of living. and she became, i believe, just that. and that was part of her german heritage. >> the 1970 film titled "gay and proud" how did this come about? >> this is an amazing film she decided to make on the first anniversary of the stonewall riots documenting the first parade. it was called the christopher street liberation day parade. it was from greenwich village to central park. stonewall was in 1969 and it was a gay bar that was raided as bars were in those

my wife's famous for her entertainment while i was in the marine corps. she's corp. i mean she really is famous for that. and i make a salad every night and have ten vegetables in the salad. and i try to rotate them, and i try to have as many colorful vegetables, red and yellow and green and purple, any of those. and we do that. i got started on that in 2008 because my wife was in the hospital. she had colon cancer. and i was at the hospital reading the books and it said you need to eat at least five vegetables a day to be healthy, and i said gee whiz, i don't think we are. so i started coming back and started eating five vegetables, said what's wrong with ten, and so i began to take ten vegetables a day and that's what we've been doing now for a long time. we've tried to stay healthy, and we tried to walk and keep our exercise, keep our body in the right shape. well, thanks for the tip. >> just like the marines. you got to be ready. we've got to be ready for what we're going through. i'm not doing it now, but i have done a lot of work for the church. with helping he

corps general, defended the former -- tonight trump responded saying kelly, quote, didn't know i was going to fire james mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. he went on to say his former chief of staff was not in my

marine kor corps. >> my name is alan b. clark. my age is 92. >> yes. >> my birthday is 10 september '23. >> okay. and where were you born? >> where was i born? i was born in virginia. >> okay. will you tell me brief information about your family? where did your family come from? >> well, they're primarily from the english continent. my mother felt it from the welsh. but my wife primarily did an analysis of where we are and we have a book up to a certain point, but we can't go back much further. we're back to about 1760. >> wow. >> and we have all that in a genealogy book and i can show that to you before you leave here. >> sure. >> and but i was born on the farm. my dad raised tobacco. and corn. and horses and cows. and i was born there. there were seven children. three girls that were older than i. two boys that were older than i and one daughter that was younger than i. and they all had deceased now. >> okay. and so you're part of the chosen few association, which means you were at the reservoir during the korean war. is that co

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[gunfire] meanwhile, overhead, air force and marine corps plane support s support the ground troops.e ready for another strike on inland targets. rockets are of particular interest at this time. three different types are being used. one of the first super explosive types to see service in korea was the five inch holy moses. 11.75 inch tiny tim grew highly effective on bridges and similar large targets. the most recent arrival is the navy's 6.5 inch ram. constant activity on these carriers has not dampened their the crewmen's sense of humor. ♪ it is noteworthy that the ram rocket set a speed record for production. from its conference room conception to its appearance in combat it took only 24 days. ,aerial missions of the navy and marines often include strategic and tactical action in the same strike. in the relatively small area of korea, targets of opportunity count heavily. cameras record targets of the carrier planes. [explosions] ♪ japan. a b26 raid is in preparation during the week of six september . the b26 is armed with 1650 caliber machine guns. a single gunner can bring many

we had some great marine corps pilot making that happen. unfortunately, like a lot of operations, it did not go without a mishap. evacuation, just before they started with the helicopter extraction, we lost one.arines at guard post they were both killed instantly when a rocket hit their guard post. we also lost a ch 46 during the evening. . will talk more about that two men were aboard that aircraft and they were lost at sea. we got the crew rescued. a littleike to start

. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioningnstitute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> somewhere beyond this ridge is the enemy. his strength has been sapped by steady aerial strikes. and heavy arterial barages. but he is still a long way from being defeated. he still has his will to fight. how can we weaken that will? how can we defeat him? by physical force? yes, that's the most effective way. but there is still another force applied in combat that we do not generally do not think of as a weapon of war. that weapon is words. yes, in a situation like this, words are weapons. now that the enemy's had a strong dose of our military power, the impact of words may provide the final persuasion. words that go something like this. soldiers of north korea, you are surrounded. your comrades are dying. you will die next. there is just one hope. leave your positions tonight. this is psychological warfare. least it is one phase. as a weapon of war, psychological warfare is no novelty. it is a

marine corps historical company, which is a semiofficial part of the marine corps, going to manassas around the anniversary, if not on the anniversary of the battle, and re-creating a route that the marines took. there was a regiment of marines that fought at manassas, famously. and we wanted to get soldiers in both civil war, uniform, gear, water, all things they would have been carrying in battle, and then we wanted to get modern soldiers in modern combat load and have them re-create the route together, running when they were running, firing when they were firing, or at least mocking that. i'm not sure. and then afterward, checking that out, seeing what is there their hydration level, which we already know is going to be vastly different between the modern and civil war. how many calories did they burn? heart rate, that kind of thing, and then drawing conclusions about what effects combat load has between the civil war and today. there are some snags we hit, obviously the pandemic being the main one. it is not going to happen this year. it might happen next year. there are legal an

when for some reports from our combat veterans and film taken by combat cameramen of the army signal corpse are the men that are daily caught on film, the big picture brings into focus the first 40 days of korea. every ridge was a heartbreak ridge. june, 1950,k to when the troops felt the first thrust across the 38th parallel. the story is best told in the language of the soldiers there. >> this story is hard to tell. painful. our outfit was in training a few weeks ago. some of the boys who were with us aren't around anymore. they were good men. good soldiers. they had learned to fight and they had the guts for fighting. sockit came, it was like a on the back of the head. korea started rough. the first 40 days were a battle for time with a handful of men against an army. yes, they were good men. good soldiers. and no story of the korean war mentioning without how bravely they fought against great odds. there were only a couple of companies from the 24th division in the beginning. no brass bands at the airport. a few days before, some of us had been in cities -- civvies. we weren't scared.

the army counter intelligence corps in japan and the army counter intelligence corps in germany wereically what was left. what they were doing in germany was basically removing nazis. they were going around trying to capture the ex nazis. especially the war criminals. the same thing happened to a certain extent in japan, although mccarthy was not as aggressive, in sort of the removable -- removal fascists in japan as they were in germany. it was the counter intelligence corps that got gehlen organization, the ex nazi intelligence organization in 1945. they ran it until 1947 basically. until the cia took over and there was considerable questions about whether or not the cia was going to take the german intel group because they had all been nazi army officers. that two-year period was one where there were a lot of people scrambling around, basically military intelligence people, trying to do what they could. cloth in the far east and in europe. but the military was also shrinking. they went from 16 million to half 1 million in basically a year. so, they were outnumbered, outgunned, out

if the army corps finds interest, they would pay two-third of the project costs. in the study we're looking at five major city neighborhoods and we have broken the area down into what we're calling four reaches separated by high ground where there could be independent flood risk management systems and we're drilling deeper into 15 subareas because we have such a varied shoreline with so many maritime activities and varying from the downtown area where we have a city right up against the shoreline with major infrastructure to the industrial maritimes on the waterfront. next slide, please. and this is a high level timeline for the study and we're at this first phase of over the next several months developing initial alternatives to mitigate the flood risk area and we hope to present to the port commission later on this summer along with the public after pub. after incorporating that feedback, we would have a follow-up by summer of 2021, including a federal plan that is the most efficient means of addressing flood risk and a local plan will other benefits that would

we recruited many from the peace corps and other groups.ined them up within core and were able to observe those sites for the city of los angeles. out of those experiences we got a grant from jack dorsey's start small fund, along with a grant from the rockefeller foundation. we were able to expand the model across the country. so we've been expanding, expanding. we've got sites in -- i've got a cheat sheet here because i've been running around so much. >> jimmy: it looks like you've been to kinko's, too. you've got some charts behind you and everything. like governor cuomo there with the charts. >> yeah. well, you need charts at my age. it's not going to stay without them. so yeah, we're in chicago. north carolina. navajo nation, detroit, new orleans. >> jimmy: it's just such a great idea. you take people who were working with the peace corps, and you really are -- enable emergency workers to be there in case there is an emergency. it's very simple. and you would think that this would be the sort of thing we had a mechanism for, and turns o

>> he went to the marine corps, he was stationed overseas, he was a marine security guard in paris and shanghai. from there i got the international affairs bud and went to george washington. george washington is probably the most political organization or political university in the country. i got the law bud and one thing led to another to lead myself back to the air force and history. but i am very fortunate to be serving with them and very lucky to have served with a lot of these people. >> you mentioned at the top of our conversation, the title is armed in america. the history of gun rights from colonial missions -- militias to concealed carry. if you could select one talking point, one take away from your book, what is it? >> one thing i hope you will take away is the right to arms as we know what discussed today is not the same as it was discussed 200 years ago, 100 years ago or even 50 years ago. it has evolved and it has changed. i hope the other takeaway is that the laws have changed at times to adapt to the environment, to gun violence, to changes in technology and whatnot. w

this was the last class for the cadet corps. i was very fortunate to be in it. it was in the western pennsylvania hospital school of nursing. and i graduated in 1948. interviewer: what did you learn their? what -- what did you learn there? what was the tuition, and what did you learn? mary: we had no expenses at all. the government paid everything. not only the school and the residences, living in the nurses quarters, all our food was provided. provided.niforms were for theop of that, first six months in the cadet corps, we were given a stipend of $10 a month. capped, afterere month, we were then student nurses and we were given $20 a month. six months before our graduation, we were given $30 a month. now, this means $30 a month, in those days was a lot of money. interviewer: what were you able to do with the $30? mary: i saved most of it. i am a saber anyhow, but i saved most of it because i planned on going to alaska to see my sister and mother and family up there. that.as saving for interviewer: you volunteered. your name was not on the list, but you voluntee

visionary as patton, who as a young man in 1917, became the first soldier assigned to the army tank corps. one month into the job, he saw the future writing. if resistance is broken and the line is pierced, the tank must and will assume the role of pursuit cavalry and ride the enemy to death. under patton's leadership, that is exactly what they did. we need you to be as bold and determined as the immortal general douglas macarthur, who knew that the american soldier never, ever quits. after leaving the philippines for australia at a low point of the pacific war in 1942, macarthur famously vowed, "i shall return." for two years, he then took great strategic risks, and placed himself often in personal danger. on october 20, 1944, macarthur stepped off a landing boat, strode through knee-high water, water, and proclaimed, "people of the philippines, i have returned. by the grace of god, our great forces stand again on philippine soil." he then called on the island's great people to rise up and join the fight. america's momentum was unstoppable. these great leaders were not afraid of what oth

the army counter intelligence corps in japan and the army counter intelligence corps in germany were what was left. what they were doing and germany, was basically denounce -ification. they were going around trying to capture all of the ex nazis. especially the war criminals. the same thing happened to a certain extent in japan, even though they mcarthur was not -- and sort of the fascist of japan as they were in germany. it was the counter intelligence corps that got galen's organization, the ex nazi intelligence organization of 1945, and they ran it until 1947, basically. until the cia took over. there was considerable question about whether or not the cia was going to take the german intel group, because they had all been nazi army officers. that two-year period was one where there are a lot of people scrambling around, basically military intelligence people trying to do what they could. both in the far east and europe, but the military was also shrinking. 16 million to half a billion -- so they were outnumbered. outgunned, out band. that's when a lot of things happened in western

from first and reports of our combat veterans and film taken by cameramen of the army signal corps. are the men who daily record on film the big picture as it happens where it happens. today are big picture brings into focus "the turning of the tide." you will see our fight to hold perimeter.san you you will see in her support from our carriers and the march on soul. and you will hear a first-hand report from a lieutenant, the bows to of the 24th infantry division. go back to august, 1950. ♪ >> on 10 august after 47 days of fighting in korea, the tide of battle as ebbing and slowing for both sides. united nations force it forces are dug in on the printer. communist troops are numbering hours more than two to one have thus far failed in their offensive to drive u.n. forces into the sea or destroy them before we can take the offensive. at the southern end of our neachhead, task force kea consisting of units of the 25th infantry, the fifth infantry and marine are driving toward chinj u, to throw back the reds were about to launch a major attack 35 miles from pusan, a key port for the e

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but it's not just mattis an elite corps of retired four star military officers have recently criticizedresident trump's leadership tonight republican senators mitt romney and lisa murkowski praising mattis for speaking out. >> general mattis' letter was stunning and powerful. general mattis is a man of extraordinary sacrifice. >> i thought general mattis' words were true and honest and necessary and overdue. >> reporter: murkowski saying she's struggling with whether to support president trump's re-election with most of her republican colleagues still sticking by the president. geoff bennett, nbc news, the white house. >>> there is fresh concern tonight about covid-19 still spreading even as other events seize the headlines. nearly 2 million more americans added to the staggering toll of unemployment nbc's jo ling kent reports from seattle. >> reporter: tonight fears are rising about more spread of the coronavirus. an associated press report finds demonstrations have taken place in the 25 u.s. communities with the highest concentration of new cases. >> we're not really going to know abo

the village and commune the french expeditionary corps landed in with the. law when they arrived they sought the spoils of war. one of which was raping the women cheat a lot. he still pretty. historian gabriele agree biology is the author of a book titled. or total war it describes the on i'd air attacks on it only the violence perpetrated by the nazis and the impact of the war on the civilian population. wasted so many she's almost as a mass rapes took place in the area. the village we're going to was one of the hardest hit the reason was that he thought the rapes were carried out by gangs on many women and young girls but also young boys teenagers. sometimes even men were raped by 78 or 10 soldiers. that. all these villages. people they were all victims of this violence. the gustaf fortification had cut italy into. was liberated from the nazis in may 944 by the expeditionary corps of general. the heroes of the terrible battle of monte cassino. that is annoying yaml. that we're going to meet a local historian he's done research on the violence that was comm

i was also part of the iran hostage situation 1978-80. >> sergeant in the marine corps. i was an m-1-d-1 tank mechanic, and proud to serve. >> i served six years in the u.s. navy, the majority of which was on board the u.s.s. bunker hill. went onto deployment to the gulf. >> joined the united states air force right out of high school. went in as a generator mechanic, and then through that i've gotten placed in a civil engineering squadron. >> got drafted in february 1971. i was assigned to batallion in hamburg, germany, and i was in the u.s. army. >> veterans day today means a lot to me, especially since i served. >> it's not just a three-day weekend. >> we celebrate the participation and the historic role that the military plays in the security of this country. >> it's really great to take time out to recognize those who have served, those of us that like serving. >> it's a day to celebrate and remember what people have accomplished and sacrificed for this country. >> actually, i recognize veterans each and every day of the year, but i'm proud that we as a country come

understandably, the marine corps has concerns about that. hopefully this will go forward. if we don't do it with the marine corps next july, i think we're going to do something next july. we could re-create the route around south mountain or maybe a winter skirmish or something. but i think it is a project that is worth looking into and i think caffeine is going to be something to take into account because some of these guys are heavily dosing with coffee. saw a figure i that it was on the average 36 pounds ofmes coffee a year. kyle: today. jake: that's a great question. i'm not sure what average americans can use the google machine to see if we can find the answer here. but i know this is something -- there's a lot of great articles about this progression of coffee usage from the civil war in the army and military through the present day. coffee, since the civil war, has always had this place of love with the u.s. military, just because ever since andrew whiskeybanned the -- kyle: go even further back to the revolution. jake: yes. take us there, kyle. take esther. -- take

marine corps. >> my name is alan b clerk. my age is 92. my birthday is tens of september, 23. >> where were you born? >> where was i born? i was born in virginia. well you >> will you tell me brief information about your family? where did your family come from? >> well, they are primarily from the english continent. my mother is welsh. but my wife primarily didn't analysis of where we are we have a book of to a certain point. we can't go much much further. we're about to about 1760. i can show it to you before you leave. >> sure. >> i was born on the farm my dad raised tobacco corn and cows. i was born there there were seven children. three girls that were older than i, two boys that were older than i and one daughter that was younger than i. they are now all deceased now. >> okay. and you are part of the chosen few association. which means you are at the chosen reservoir in the korean war is that right? >> that's correct. >> were you part of the marine corps? >> yes i was. >> that means you enlisted yourself. you are not drafted. >> that

on c-span3. ♪ drum corps] ♪ [upbeat patriotic music] ♪ [fife and drum corps] ♪ sunday care about richardf native american government policy that led to the restoration of indian lands and inaugurated a new era of self-government. here is a preview. >> some commentators say president nixon was influenced by an earlier 1968 message from president johnson that started to review indian policy. some think he had read a comprise -- read a comprehensive memorandum to jim kehoe, one of his trusted advisors and director of speechwriting in the white house. but i think, and this was just alluded to, that there is a simpler and more accurate answer , which is that president nixon, personally held a very strong moral belief, that federal native american policy was destructive, it was discriminatory, it was debilitating, and it's a play was not right forced assimilation and termination ran against everything in his moral core. as a young fellow i did not know the present well but i got glimpses into his thought processes and would say he did personalize his beliefs. in this case as was noted that per