and don douglas by -- well, it's a similar story. don douglas started out as a draftsman very early in the history of aviation, and by world war ii he had built what was arguably the largest plane maker in america. and, in fact, another anecdote if you'll let me sort of slip off into ap ec dotes, the two of them were quail hunting the day that they found out about pearl harbor. but that's another, that's just another story of the many that a we have in this great book. but all seriousness aside, hap got in touch with don douglas, and the two of them cooked up this idea for a research and development entity. what are we going to call it? well, let's call it r-a-n-d, research and development. and this was the ranted corporation. it was initially -- rand corporation. and it was initially housed at douglas in santa monica and eventually became the independent rand association which still exists and which i'm sure you've heard. so the first project that rand did, and this was initiated when hap was still chief of the usaaf and completed s

all seriousness aside, so hap got in touch with don douglas. the two of them could it be a shia said we will call it our amd, research and development. this was the rand organization. it was initially caused in santa monica and eventually became the independent rand corporation, which still exists, which ensure you have her. so, the first project that rand did was initiated when hap was so chief of the u.s. aas and completed shortly after his retirement in 1946. the first paper they did was a feasibility study for a world circus geisha. this is more than a decade before sputnik. the organization has hap arnold started was designing a spot to 10 years ahead of sputnik. so this is a little bit about how, you know, how hap looked at the future. a lot of people ask me, what would hap think now? what would he think about cyberwarfare? i usually respond to that, at the time he was around, he had no conception of such an eerie but i can guarantee you and i think robert will agree with me, if you give him a 10 to 15 minute re-theme on what cyberspace s

who, coi understand -- coindently, is robert's other grandfather, and don douglas -- well, it's a similar story. he started out as a graftsman very early in the history 6 aviation, and in world war ii, and built arguably the largest plane maker in the america, and another antedote, the two 6 them were quail hunting the day they found out about peril harbor, but that's another story of the many that we have in this great book. all seriousness aside. so hap get in touch with don douglas, and the two of them cooked up the idea for a research and development entity. what do we call it? well, call it rad, research and development, and that was the rand organization. it was initially housed at douglas in santa monica, and eventually became the independent rand corporation, which still exists and which i'm sure you've heard. the first project they did, and that was initiated when hap was still cheech of the ua ops and retired in 1946, they're first paper they did was a feasibility study for world circling spaceship. this is more than a decade before sputnik, and they are designing sputnik ten ye

don douglas started as a draftsman early in the history of aviation and by world war ii he built what was arguably the largest playmaker in america. another anecdote to feel at me sort of slip off into anecdotes. the two of them were quail hunting the day they found out about pearl harbor. but that's just another's dory of the many that we have in this great book. all seriousness aside, so hap got in touch with don douglas and could this idea for research and development entity. what are we going to call it? will call the grand research and development. this was the rand organization that was initially douglas in santa monica. and eventually became the independent rand corporation, which still exists, which i'm sure you have heard. so the first project that ran dead and this was initiated when hap was the chief of the u.s. aas in his retirement in 1946. the first paper they did was a feasibility study for a world circling spaceship. this is more than a decade before sputnik. the organization that hap arnold started it designing a sputnik 10 years ahead of sputnik. so this is a little

personal command of that but his field commander was curtis, and when it came time to -- when hap and don douglas started rand, one of the guys they brought in as the group to start rand was crore -- curtis, so he had a respect for the ability to cut through the crap and get things done. >> okay. well, thank you again. [applause] for presenting today as well as arian in the and his wife. we have the books available in the gift shop, and sure he'd be happy to sign them and robert also as well. >> weapon. >> grab those. you may have been wondering, you'll be pay mouse because this is c-span filming us today, and so i don't know when it airs, but stay tuned. thank you, again, for coming out. >> thank you, willie. [inaudible conversations] >> he was someone who was growing in the office, badly burned by the bay of pig experience. pee had listened to the experts, you see? the cia. joint chiefs of staff. he went to see france, did the trip in may, june of 61, and he said to him, you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people, listen to them, hear what they have to say, but at the end of

the other hand we're talking about the city of sochi reach is not exactly in the middle of our douglas don it's still quiet removed and i think you would agree with me that the russian state is taking these terror threat it extremely seriously i mean thousands of security forces how to deploy it on the side and it's estimated that more than two. you billion years dollars are spent on providing the security and safety of the game yeah i agree generally speaking that the russians have taken extraordinary extraordinary measures and sochi of course is not in the heart of the north caucasus however it's only several hundred miles away in the and the judges have shown the capacity to strike moscow and more recently striking volgograd and of course attacking the moscow petersburg trained back in november two thousand and nine so i think it's much easier for the caucasus emirate to hit sochi in theory of all these security measures hadn't been taken than it is for global jihad history even native jihadists in england who are very few to attack a london so it's a bit more of a security risk but aga

is still taking a step back and this is a city very much now in the so called pro life don camp very quickly douglas sad and it's a yanukovich in the country's east of drumming up support in times of the country can actually stick to the state you know it's interesting in that because the tetons back east versus west hearing on a covert saying he's going to travel around his baskets of supporting the east meeting with people. he agrees really given me with we didn't even have protested hockey yesterday the eastern city where he fled to incite sanctuary we're calling it political base to get thousands of people showed up there just yesterday to protest in favor of the political changes here in favor of my time. yes you saw some clashes in a few cities between pro and anti night on people. zapatero shipping one city in the east. however the real situation is that it's unclear where his support is going to be in my teeth and crumble in the next few days and weeks will be interesting to see the kids had a recording that kept sinking. and down to buy protest is a sikh riots disneyland thousands headed to

when it came time -- when hap and don douglas started rand, with what they brought in as part of their little group was curtis lemay. so, he did have respect for lemay's ability to cut through and get things done. >> okay. thank you again. [applause] we do have books available. i'm sure he would be happy to sign them. if you want to read those. you may have been wondering. you will all be very famous because c-span is filming us today. i don't know when that will air, the state had. thank you again for coming out. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> when you look at congress in 1901, less than 2% of members came from working-class backgrounds, got into politics and eventually wound up in congress. flash forward to the present day, the average member of congress that less than 2% of their career doing manual labor jobs, service industry jobs. so this is one thing that really hasn't changed, you know, lots of different aspects of the political process of change. broadcast television, cable mayors, big money in politics and promote this is happening, one of the constant stirring ba