i'm pleased to introduce general kip ward. [applause] >> but we follow by saying good morning and extending gratitude of thanks to professor alexander for the invitation for me to be here this morning to address this group. but the general needs no introduction because general gray is one of the iconic heroes. thank you for your service and all that you've done not just for the marines but all in the nation. thanks very much. [applause] when the professor alexander contacted me about coming this morning i said i'm not an academician. i don't publish great volumes for those to read and in fact knowing what you do, why is why contributes to this austere occasion. that's why we want you there. the general talked about my career and i will briefly highlight a couple of things that might be instructive as i go through the remainder of my comments. over 40 years as an infantryman, my first 20 years as a soldier, i spent ensuring our nation that show the greatest nemesis of the cold war impact our security we were going to defeat it.

general kip ward has been a distinguished army officer for over 40 years. he's held all the command billets from lieutenant all the way up through division commander and the like and later of course he was the first commander of the africa command you talk to us about today. now he's the president and coo of a very interesting company in the corporate world and we were chatting a little bit earlier before this thing started and i said you know, some of the leadership things that you picked up in the military are apropos in the commercial world as well because still, it's all done by people and we need to learn to take care of them and he agreed to that. we were also chatting before, he was born, i graduated from high school in 1945 and at 17 and i play football and the light and my best friend was from manasquan high school across the river and they were our traditional rivals and he and i had grown up, known each other a long time and later he went to the same school, morgan state only he was a freshman there in 1946 and that's back when we had back good a

it amounts to very obvious content come and general kip ward just mentioned good governance. actually if you want to sum up the origin of all that, it's bad governance, or the lack or absence of good governance. tunisia has gone through a spell of authoritarian regim of authoritarian regime,3 of authoritarian regime, authoritarianism like political freedoms, diverse types of liberties which were not accessible to the population. a growing social divide, and didn't even regional development scheme, and equal soci3 didn't even regional development scheme, and equal social economic growth, series of government mistakes. all these have ended up in a certain situation that fled afterwards to the appearance of extremism, and that we will see later on. so that totalitarian drift until the collateral damage is have inevitably led to unrest and eventually revolt. in a situation of despair, obviously religion offers soothing attractive refuge, and the more desperate young people, talking especially about the young people, these young people were the more prone to sink into extremists o

general kip ward has been a distinguished army officer for over 40 years.

gray kipped off his campaign for the ward seven council seat. derek ward talks to gray and the woman he's challenging. >> reporter: former d.c. mayor vincent gray made it official and stepped back into the crucible of city politics. >> i've always been a public servant and i love doing things for and with people. obviously i wanted to continue doing it previously. >> reporter: after losing to current d.c. mayor muriel bowser, he could have sought a city wide seat. >> when you run at large you don't have a constituency. here you have a real constituency. >> reporter: kicking off his campaign at the ward's eastern border, he touched on the allegations of a so-called shadow campaign and the investigation into financial malfeasance during his mayoral bid. he acknowledged it was not the kind of campaign he intended to several campaign operatives were. >> i have moved forward. and while i'm moving forward i won't forget what happened because i don't want that to happen to somebody else. >> reporter: yvette alexander is a current representative running

with no further ado i'm pleased to introduce general kip ward. [applause] >> let me start off by saying good morning and extending a huge gratitude of thanks to professor alexander, michael swetnam, for me to be this morning to address this group. and always, that general there is absolutely zero introduction, no endorsement by chip or because general al gray is one of our nation's iconic heroes and jenna, let me thank you for your service leaders and content do, all to have do not just for brief but all of a sudden worn across of our nation. thanks very much. [applause] when professor alexander contacted me about coming here, i said i'm not an acting addition. i have not published greater volumes, edifact doing what you do, why would i contribute to this austere occasion and offer something to this group. he said, that's exactly why we want you there. general gray talked about my career, and i will bring to highlight a couple of things that might be constructed as i go through the remainder of my comments. over 40 years as an infantryman, my fir