burke and mr. make a serious blunder if he left unprotected the invasion fleet in order to chase what turned out to be a japanese decoy fleet burke argued that halsey had a chance to defeat the japanese decoy fleet and still tired south in time to deal with the japanese second task force, courageously to be played it smart. he didn't. the third smaller japanese fleet already had been destroyed. halsey neglected the tactical importance of the japanese carrier force and focused on the northern japanese fleet as the biggest threat. he was suckered. burke begged him to relay these doubts to halsey, but mr. grant, i think you are right but i don't know you're right. i don't think we ought to bother halsey. he is busy enough. he's got a lot of things on his mind. burke was despond end. during the night, report reached the u.s. fleet that the japanese senate force was heading for late today, senator task force was any delay takeoff to the unprotected streets vacated by halsey. their brilliant move was taki

to which burke responded, hell, mr. president, we are involved. well, anyway, he was not allowed to fire. and he never wanted to talk about that after that except privately. a revered admiral burke finally retired in 1961. in his biography of burke, professor potter describes in 1962 how he first attempted to persuade arlie to join me as a strategic group as part of the georgetown university. i told burke it might be called the center for strategic studies. i received my doctorate from georgetown. i got the blessing from father edward bunn who thought i was a catholic but i was episcopalian. i could cross myself. [laughter] >> i came to know admiral burke when my stepfather and george w. anderson who replaced burke as cno -- burke turned me down the first two times. that didn't bother me. i had the experience of dating a navy junior who loved those white mitts and not those west point with those gold buttons. there were four members of her family and john knows all this in naval aviation. so my wife turned me down the first two times. i got her on

mr. burke's statement? does comcast treat its own programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i'm not familiar with the context of that remark, so if i may, mr. burke is -- >> but his statement aside, do you treat your programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i think that what he may have been referring to is as employees of the company and just how as chief operating officer he's concerned with with both parts of the company and the welfare of the assets and the people. but specifically to -- we have six out of every seven channels that comcast carries, we do not have any financial interest in. the competitiveness of directv, wow, dish network, verizon fios, at&t uverse compels us to have a product as fairly exciting, presented to the consumer as possible -- >> and you're going to treat your content and other content not produced by your organization -- >> we have to get the best content, otherwise people are going to not want our produ

mr. burke's statement?es comcast treat its own programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i'm not familiar with the context of that remark, so if i may, mr. burke is -- >> but his statement aside, do you treat your programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i think that what he may have been referring to is as employees of the company and just how as chief operating officer he's concerned with with both parts of the company and the welfare of the assets and the people. but specifically to -- we have six out of every seven channels that comcast carries, we do not have any financial interest in. the competitiveness of directv, wow, dish network, verizon fios, at&t uverse compels us to have a product as fairly exciting, presented to the consumer as possible -- >> and you're going to treat your content and other content not produced by your organization -- >> we have to get the best content, otherwise people are going to not want our product.

mr. burke's statement?s comcast treat its own programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i'm not familiar with the context of that remark, so if i may, mr. burke is -- >> but his statement aside, do you treat your programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i think that what he may have been referring to is as employees of the company and just how as chief operating officer he's concerned with with both parts of the company and the welfare of the assets and the people. but specifically to -- we have six out of every seven channels that comcast carries, we do not have any financial interest in. the competitiveness of directv, wow, dish network, verizon fios, at&t uverse compels us to have a product as fairly exciting, presented to the consumer as possible -- >> and you're going to treat your content and other content not produced by your organization -- >> we have to get the best content, otherwise people are going to not want our product.