he loved franklin roosevelt. he actually survived franklin roosevelt. i think he, i think he thought of franklin roosevelt as his kind of like a naughty nephew that he indulged. but it's a kind of interesting thing. and, of course, in the 1920 roosevelt was the vice presidential nominee. on the democratic ticket, he was a strong supporter of wilson's, of course, by then wilson had become an internationalist as we now think of him, promoting democracy abroad, the 14-point program for the reinvention of europe as a kind of american-style democratic community. um, fdr was a strong supporter of that after the war, after, i mean, after the election which the democrats lost. america lapsed into a kind of isolationism, but franklin roosevelt was very active in the founding of the council on foreign relations in new york which was a gathering of kind of -- actually, it was a kind of republican organization. it was very much dominated by henry stimson and william howard taft and some of the other republican elder statesmen. probably would have had theodore roose

just as roosevelt did. ranchers would just buy a bunch of cattle and turn them loose along the little missouri river in this case. and the cat wool just roam around like wild animals and there was no fences and a rancher would build a house and there would be some headquarters and some outbuildings and that was the ranch and the ranchers didn't own the land. they were squatters. the land actually belonged to the federal government or to the american people and to the railroads. and, in fact, a rancher to applied for title for his land was kind of seen as suspect. why would he do that. and putting up a fence is absolutely taboo. so this was the wide open west. and twice a year, of course, the ranchers would have to round up all their cattle and brand them so they could tell who -- you know, it's the only way of knowing whose cattle were where. and they would ship off some of the cattle to market. the roundup was a big -- almost a festival, one of the few times these folks got together in any numbers because

roosevelt in an appreciative and admiring light. it's one of the few conservative periodicals that does this. i recently defended finishing dr to a -- fdr to a professor, and my question to you is if by some miracle roosevelt had lived to finish his fourth term, what do you think his take on stalin would have been? what would their relationship have been like? >> well, let me just make a comment on your earlier. the weekly standard likes fdr. and we like the sort of roosevelt/truman/kennedy approach to foreign policy in the democratic party. when i took my present job, um, i was putting my various things in my office. and one of them, they have a few over here in the library, i have a clock which has -- it's franklin roosevelt, it's this little statue of fdr, and he's standing sort of holding the clock as if it's a, um, a ship's wheel. and it says at the wheel of the new deal. and i put it on this table behind my desk, and i remember our editor, bill kristol, come anything and looking at that and saying it's truly a neoconservative

roosevelt ignored that idea, but roosevelt was open to everyone of donovan's ideas. roosevelt was a spy buff himself. he liked his entry. he liked the whole idea of espionage. so for example, one time donovan, i'm stanley lovell talked about the idea of getting bats, but that's the fly, how they were going to tie incendiary devices around the bats, okay? the idea was that you would fly over japan, drop the bats out, the bats would fly in to the paper and wood houses, and said the incendiary devices would set off and it would burn down japanese cities. okay? i'm not making this up. this really happened. terrific idea. eleanor roosevelt had heard about it. someone had written her she passed it onto critical. franco thought it was kind of cool, and gave it to donovan and he had stanley lovell check it out. so they got a plane, loaded up with a bunch of bats with incendiary devices tied around them. flew over somewhere in midwest, some desert area, dropped out the bats, guess what happened to the bats? they all sank like stones. the idea didn't work. but donovan was will

. >> i just gave a course on teddy roosevelt and mckinley. my question has to do with teddy roosevelt's liking of alexander hamilton. can you explain a little bit of how roosevelt would have admired hamilton, being a progressive president, how would he have admired hamilton and writes about him in a positive way. >> yeah. it's interesting that hamilton's historic reputation has waxed and waned. certainly one period with it waxed was during the progressive era. teddy roosevelt, as well as his successor, william howard taft, thought that alexander hamilton was the greatest of all of the founders. i think that what you found in teddy roosevelt is very much the same combination of views that you find in hamilton on the one hand is a belief in energetic and affirmative central government and kind of robust political leadership. there is, i described hamilton before as an ambivalent revolutionary. i think that you find reflected in teddy roosevelt that same kind of ambivalence let's say about business. he is a great booster of business. he also wan

will he was born on a farm and roosevelt was -- wendell willkie was born on a farm and roosevelt was born to a grand family, and they never saw the irony of what defended. >> what did he look like? >> he looked like a bear. he was a great big, larger than life, rumpled figure, who nevertheless had an aura, a charisma. one person famously said that his candidacy, which spun out of nowhere, a seemingly -- >> that he had never had a job. >> he was a jeffersonian democrat until the new deal. he said that his candidacy sprung from the grassroots of every country club in america. there has never been anyone like him. it is hard to imagine there ever been anyone like him. he was beyond a dark horse. >> did he ever have a chance of winning? >> oh, no. i suppose of all of the people that took roosevelt on, he and dewey probably had the most difficult issue. although -- >> what was the issue? >> isolationism versus interventionism. as we remember, the united states was not committed, and roosevelt was working hard on all kinds of changing public opinion, but also public policies, and wendell w

or like republican president teddy roosevelt would challenge corporate power by passing the tillman act in one hundred seven which reads simply as she'll be unlawful for any national bank or any corporation to make a monetary contribution in connection with any election to any political office and like franklin roosevelt we called the economic royalists the economic shoals economic royalists at the one hundred thirty six democratic convention roosevelt directed his speech at these economic royalists sane duties economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of america what they really complain about is that we seek to take away their power our allegiance to american institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power in vain they seek to hide behind the flag in the constitution in their blindness they forget what the flag of the constitution stands for thirty years ago right in the coattails of ronald reagan these economic royalists of return to power in america and have been in for protecting this nation with their anti american propaganda ever since tryin

and secretary of war under teddy roosevelt. teddy roosevelt was a progressive president. many of your viewers may remember george h. of the bush in 1988 running as the hand- picked successor -- george h. w. bush in 1988 running as the hand-picked successor to ronald reagan. he was not a charismatic figure, but people felt, i liked reagan, i guess i can vote for bush. people who like roosevelt felt they would be safe with taft, and that is why he won. william jennings bryan tried to use some of the same rhetorical techniques. he talked as he had done before, but it was not very successful. the country was prosperous again after a sharp recession in 1907. times looked really good. taft was popular because he is the handpicked successor to a very popular president, theodore roosevelt. >> his closest race was 1896. for the election results, we're joined by marie in connecticut. welcome to the conversation. >> i wanted to know, how did williams jennings bryan come to live in miami, fla.? >> in fact, coral gables, florida. >> he contracted really bad, crippling arthritis. -- hi

reagan always looked to roosevelt as a model for himself.h of them also had economies growing much faster than barack obama will have next year. no one is projecting the kind of growth in gdp that both reagan and roosevelt had. but you can see in the strategy already in the moves that obama is making right now. next week, he's going to lay out a jobs proposal that he hopes will actually if it gets passed get the ball rolling next spring, get people feeling like there's hope again, that they feel the improvement. and no doubt republicans will try and block some or all of that plan. and it's on that comparison that obama will make the case that republicans are actually not what you want to fix this economy. >> michael, i think the single most important line or principle outlined in your piece is that you say no iron law in politics is ever 100% accurate. and that was beshlosh's piece. because we have been hearing this relentlessly now, as long as i can remember in the discussion of this campaign, that, hey, the unemployment rate is above eight

franklin delano roosevelt. franklin delano roosevelt. >> 1948, he leads the walk out of the dixiecrats. he tells the democrats, it is time to emerge from the shadow of states' rights and march into the sunshine of human rights. it is one of the great moments of history that every democrat should be proud of. that is what i think. he was mayor of minneapolis that time. >> he also transformed the lives presidency and a surprising way because he had such a miserable experience under lyndon johnson from 1965-1969. his fellow minnesotan walter mondale was offered a job by jimmy carter, and as a result of what he learned from hubert humphrey, he became the modern vice president. he had his own office in the white house. he was not in a separate building. he was not fob off on the space program or what ever else presidents give their vice presidents to fill time. >> we could talk about him for 90 minutes. 90 minutes. the happy warrior thing with him was genuine. billy graham told me this story. if you ever hear billy

the man that served longer than any other was a democrat that was franklin roosevelt. and he said to live under the united states constitution, he said it was the most marvelously elastic compilation

roosevelt had three stages. i think the american people would understand that.irst of all, relief. people desperately looking for work besides more unemployment. and, two, recovery and then reconstruction. don't get the three layers confused. he's got to do something about the jobs right now. what president obama said this weekend in a speech of what it could include in terms of both republicans and democrats can get behind. he said, the president speak at a labor day rally in detroit teasing about what his strategy will be coming off this speech. let's listen. >> we're going to see if we've got some straight shooters in congress. we're going to see if congressional republicans will put country before party. we'll give them a plan and then we'll say, do you want to create jobs? then put our construction workers back to work rebuilding america. do you want to help our companies succeed? open up new markets for them to sell their products. you said -- you say you're the party of tax cuts? well, then, prove you'll fight just as hard for tax cuts for middle class fa

there are many people in the -- franklin roosevelt. there are many people in this series that many have not heard of, but all of whom people will find fascinating, and certainly surprising. >> history professor gene baker, a real clear politics editor carl cannon, and richard norton smith talked about the 14 men that ran for president and lost tonight, added o'clock p.m. eastern and space the pacific. it is a creed -- 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. it is a preview for "the

by 1936, the year of roosevelt's first reelection came to the midwestern american family farm had pree way joe klein describes at. a human convulsion of epic proportions was in progress. the whole countryside seemed to heave and grown as the farms emptied and the highway is filled. on the country music station jimmy rodgers was up there yodeling and singing the california waters tasteay ust like cherry wine. and woody and half a million migrants from the dust bowl region grow their way westward towards those legendary vineyards and orchards in california. they were chasing a dream. somquiehing that woody later called the stingiest thing i ever ran onto and this was the promise of unscrupulous labor contractors in california who were aware of the dust bobow crisis and decided to exploit it by flooding the dust bowl region with things like this promising work for every idle hand. hundreds of thousands of hand needed to pick the peaches and grapes and a per cots and croons. they d3 min't need hundreds of thousands of hands. they needed a couple thousand in particular periods of time. wor

you know there was enough shaking that the bricks would have come off in the case of roosevelt, which is a brick build, would have probably fallen down. so i appreciated that and love that building. it's an extraordinary building. i want to say that we're so lucky to have these buildings. they are, you know, some of it is really things that you just never think about. but almost every child in california goes to school in a building that has no hallways. there are just classrooms that open outside to the weather and i understand that we're lucky that the weather is mild and we can do that and build cheaper schools in this state because it doesn't snow here or there aren't hurricanes and things like that and we don't need air-conditioning, for the most part, at least we don't here, which we're lucky about that too but these buildings are an extraordinary resource and make the educational experience for the students profoundly different, i think better, because they go to school, you sewallenberg here and downtown, which are elementary schools, built with big common spaces, auditoriums,

roosevelt runs for four terms, tries to back the supreme court, congress is a rubber stamp. for the fundamentalists there was a lot to think it wasn't mussolini they should be afraid of but roosevelt as well. >> in your op-ped piece, you made me reconsider an ad john mccain ran in the 2008 presidential campaign against barack obama. i want to show it now. we'll talk about it after we see it. >> it should be known in 2008 the world will be blessed. they will call him the one. and the world shall receive his blessings. >> this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to fold and our planet began to heal. >> behold his mighty hand. >> barack obama may be the one, but is he ready to lead? >> now, matt, when i saw that ad, i just thought they were playing on the idea that obama is an egomaniac and his followers are just kind of crazy messianic type followers. you saw something else? >> right. i did. in other evangelicals and analysts in 2008 saw it as well. it's exactly as you describe. it's playing to obama as celebrity, obama as superstar and the teenagers who are in lov

roosevelt and the hill. the hill and all of the emerging lives like speaker sam rayburn and lyndon johnson were part of my life, part of my beat. c-span: you mention one thing that comes up so often in books. i want you to talk about it. you say that you were with the press in the house caucus room to observe the confrontation between alger hiss and whittaker chambers. how important an event was that, and why do so many people remember that? >> guest: it was so dramatic, and it was one of the first really high-drama moments of confrontation. to be there -- it was jammed; it was televised. everybody wanted to believe alger hiss and not the "pumpkin papers" and whittaker chambers. alger hiss was a smooth, good-looking servant in the state department, and whittaker chambers kind of looked encumbered by tobacco juice and and bad teeth and he had worked for time magazine but had not for a long time. so there was mystery in it; it had a lot of the elements of watergate later, when the watergate burglars and the pe

roosevelt and he could create this consensus he could get things passed in congress he only had a majority and that's why it's very different right now because obama is very we could we have a very disorganized and i would say you intensely selfish congress i mean. it really is just as much their fault as it is greenspan's or bernanke ngs. well a couple of things i would say first i would agree with what was just said the fed caused the current economic troubles by inflating the housing bubble and i also agree that the european central bank even though theoretically they have a good single mandate of price stability these indirect bailouts they're doing are reprehensible but my main point is that franklin delano roosevelt extended it and they disaster baited and worsened the great depression with all of his spending the higher tax rates more government intervention i mean hoover and roosevelt between them were two terrible presidents that kept the economy in the dumps for a long time now the only good thing i can say about the current political situation is that we will have gridlock becau

so, roosevelt is on the line, and he asks you would you be the next ambassador to germany, america's first ambassador to nazi germany, the post ambassador to germany has been vacant at this point for about six months. here's the kicker he gives you two hours to decide, two hours to decide and what he does not tell you is that one reason he has called you apart from the fact that a confidant of his recommended you apart from the fact that you know german one reason he has called you is because nobody else wanted the job. three weeks later you find yourself on a ship to germany leading new york for homburg, you've got your family with you, your wife, grown son and 24-year-old daughter, martha and more fun is one heck of a daughter. she's smart, sexy, of lurch, and she has of this thing she's got it, she has a way about her that in flames the passion of men both young and not so young. at 24 she's already had an affair with the poet and the author carl sandburg and one of the delights of the research which is why i always do my own research is when i was going through the papers in the

so, roosevelt's on the line and he asks you would you be the next ambassador to germany? america's first ambassador to nazi germany. the post ambassador of germany has been vacant at this point for about six months. here's the kegger. he gives you two hours to decide. gives you two hours to decide. what he does not tell you is that one reason he has called you apart from the fact that a confidante of his recommended you, apart from the fact that you know german, one reason he has called you is because nobody else wanted the job. [laughter] three weeks later you find yourself on a ship to germany, leaving new york for hamburg. you've got your family with you. your wife, a grown son, and your 24-year-old daughter, martha. and martha is one heck of a daughter. she is the one who hooked me. she is smart. she is sexy. she's a flirt and she has this thing. she's got it. she has a way about her that inflames the passions of men both young and not so young. at 24 she already had an affair with poet and author, carl sandberg. one of the delight of research process, why i always do

franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan.d reagan argued the country though in plain was improving and opponents anchored infailures would make things worse. intended to believe their fortunes are improving and plan to persuade the people that republican a republican in the white house would be a step backward. obama hasn't been comfortable, partisan fighter. does he have it in him? we're joined by susan page and msnbc political analyst and huffington post senior political editor howard feinman. does that strategy make sense to you, susan? >> another thing obama needs do, make the economy better. people live the economy every day. you need a sense the economy is picking up, unemployment coming down. it's natural he would choose, say, ronald reagan's re-election in 1984 as his template. you don't want to choose jimmy carter's re-election template in 1980. at that point jimmy carter got the opponent from the republicans. ronald reagan, too old. an actor, too extreme, too right wing. people were so unhappy with the economy and t

well, by 1936 the year of roosevelt's terse reflections of a first family farm had a pretty well blownchieve and grown as the farms emptied and the highways filled. on the country music stations jimmie rodgers was of their yodeling and singing the california waters taste just like cherry wine. and woody and half a million migrants from the dust bowl region called their way westward to those legendary and vineyards and orchards of california and what they're doing is chasing a dream come something that was the leader on called the stoneking thing i've ever run on two and this was the promises of expenditure plan unscrupulous contractors and, for the unaware of the crisis and decided to exploit it by floating the dust bowl region with handbills like this promising work for every idle hand, hundreds of thousands need to pick peaches and the grapes and the select apricots and prunes. they didn't need hundreds of thousands. the need a couple thousand this in particular periods of time so you could work up the implications for wages to could engineer the crisis where you have a couple hundre

you know, we're tauk being theore roosevelt, not franklin roosevelt as well. we're talking about a continuous strand in the american dna that was not always crazy, hostile to the notion of not the heavy-handed of government but that government should actually have some sense of benevolent vigilance, really about. theodore roosevelt was a trust buster because he saw the market was not capable of regulating itself. and it's impeccable reb can view. i would love to see an all-out political debate on television, mod vate-- moderated by you in t's say next spring. next summer. >> rose: i'll make the request right now. we'll do it at this table. >> good. >> rose: and we're about to find out who is as good articulating their poi of view as you are in articulating yours and we'll have have at it. and our question is as simple as what is the role of government in our soety. >> how much governme. nor, the great question i think from the federalist paper, from the profound division that madison and jefferson on one side and hamilton on the other add was not-- a wonderful

even eleanor roosevelt, who had very contentious trade agreements, really defended the roosevelt administration. and the choices made by her husband. host: joining us from los angeles, carl anthony. thank you very much for getting up early on a sunday morning and sharing with our audience your perspective on the jackie kennedy recordings. guest: you're welcome. host: we will continue this conversation tomorrow. among more topics, dean baker joining us, the co-director of the center for economic and policy research. james sherk with a round table on the republican job proposals. you may have heard about a story with regard to a number of items that come from pharmaceutical companies, they come from overseas. up to 80% of chemicals and other ingredients are made outside the united states. what does this mean for your safety? and then a reporter from "the military times" talking about the cost of military pensions. that is tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. on the "washington journal." thank you for being with us on sunday. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by na

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for the public if you -- you should go look at roosevelt and the brickwork is extraordinary there which is why i was told they decided to make a big investment in that. it's a beautiful art deco kind of brick work. if you look, you'll see small metal, looks like rectangles, very expensive, even in those days, steel structure built on the inside with these rods coming out and things that hold the bricks on the facade and in the 1989 earthquake, that brick building, not one brick fell off, yet right along the area, there are houses like many in san francisco, stucco, one story above garage with brick facades around the garage and when you walked down the street you saw houses where the bricks all fell off. you know there was enough shaking that the bricks would have come off in the case of roosevelt, which is a brick build, would have probably fallen down. so i appreciated that and love that building. it's an extraordinary building. i want to say that we're so lucky to have these buildings. they are, you know, some of it is really things that you just never think about. but almost every c

. >> new york state was the place where theodore roosevelt was beginning to make his presence known.e an influence? >> no, he was considered a mugwump, one of the liberals. that is a trend that began his career in that direction at least into the 1890's. >> what is interesting about the 1884 election is that was highly personal. >> highly personal. we usually don't think that they were but they were very personal, especially starting with andrew jackson. this is really a fight about blaine as a corrupt politician and cleveland had a child out of wedlock somewhere in the country. they are slinging nasty mud at each other. >> there are two phrases that most high school students study in their high school books that are from this campaign, the first is rome, romanism, and rebellion. where did this come from? >> that was a minister and about a week before the election, he gave a talk that blaine was party to in which he denounced the democratic party as the party of rum, romanism, and rebellion. rome, -- rum, prohibition, romanism, the catholic church. this is one of the phrases that app

i wrote a book about the roosevelt and have great admiration for theater roosevelt. was the firebrand. the hero, the center of every drama. that is not garfield. garfield was the calmest, wisest man in the room. he was a good, kind, honest man who was trying to do his best. he was a real person not consumed by ego. he was sincerely trying to do good things. even after 17 years in congress and one of the most ruthless, vicious year as of machine politics garfield never changed. his friends used to marvel at his patience and forbearance even in the face of the most brutal personal attacks. garfield was incapable of holding a grudge. he is to shrug and say i am a poor hater. although garfield took his presidency very seriously he never had what he called presidential fever. he never ran for and the office. people would ask him to run and he would but he wouldn't even campaign. he always made it clear he was going to act on his own conscience and conviction and if people didn't agree with him they shouldn't vote for him. when garfield went to the republican convention in

is the bison which has a history dating back to the turn of the last century when president teddy roosevelt launched an initiative to save the bison from extinction. during the summer myself and other members have been concerned about during our visits to the paddock that this seems to be a considerable disappointment by other park visitors in that the bison are not particularly visible. this is due to the fact that the herd has been reduced from 20 animals to only three rather gare yacht trick -- geriatric animals and they generally repose in the back of the exhibit back in the trees. i brought these concerns to the joint zoo committee last month and was happy to receive assurance from the zoo managers that planning is being done to add animals to the exhibit and to improve the handling of the animals in that exhibit. i took that -- those comments back to my meeting last week and we resolved that we commend the zoo's efforts that we really believe that the bison herd deserves better attention and support from the wreck and park department which has ownership of the exhibit. we recommend th

even the great franklin roosevelt didn't make it to 65.e days if you made it to 65 you were lucky. today lots of people fortunately make it past 65 and live into their 80s and 90s and still getting checks. the system doesn't work that way anymore. how do they deal it is a ponzi scheme in the sense that the money paid out every day is coming from people who have paid in. it's not being made -- >> absolutely right. you will never get back the amount of money that you paid into it under current structures. >> certainly poor people did pretty well. >> that's the idea. >> much more than they paid. one of the problem. the other problem is that for a long period of time. you know this, chris. you worked on the hill. people paid into the social security trust fund and it was set aside. politicians decided to get the money and use it for other things and will make it up later. borrowed against it. it's become a ponzi scheme, if that's what it is, it's a criminal enterprise, because the people in washington haven't done what they were supposed to do

>> well, i think roosevelt said it best. of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and there are reasonable colleagues under there, as you pointed out, in polling data, they understand not only all americans. but republicans understand the fairness behind this. but we have a few, as roosevelt said, that are frozen in the ice of their own indifference towards working america. as you rightfully point out, that's the war that's taking place on labor. that's the war that's squeezing americans and all for what? over a political fight for power. listen, put america back to work. give this president what every president should be entitled to, an up-or-down vote on his agenda, on his plan. put it before the select committee so it can't be subject to the cloture vote in the senate which could hold it up for eternity or to poison amendments in the house. an up-or-down vote on the economy and putting 14 million americans back to work lowering our deficit and creating fairness, that's what the country is trying for, reverend al.

you think great depression, franklin delauro of duff roosevelt. >> host: in the new deal? >> guest: in the new deal. so what about obama? how does he -- so, i try to use analogies. i try to compare and contrast. with fdr and came across one interesting thing. people talk about fdr. he was president 1930's-1940's. i point out much of franklin delano roosevelt's presidency, there was for much of his presidency he was never questioned by a black journalist. because for most of the time that franklin delano roosevelt was president, there was a rule that allowed only journalists from daily newspapers to question him. now, the white house made exceptions for certain journalists, but not for black journalists. and i talk about it in the book, it was that black journalists finally got to question the president. what happened is that the present -- fdr was seeking reelection, and he went on -- he was campaigning in harlem and wasn't fdr's chief lieutenants dhaka in a scuffle with a black policeman and actually kneed the policeman in the groin. this caused a major scandal, and the p

taft proved not to be a progressive successor to teddy roosevelt. roosevelt tried to wrestle the nomination away from taft, and then becomes the nominee of the new progressive party. if republicans had stayed united, we will not know what happened but it was possible that woodrow wilson would not have won the election. >> joe joins us from phoenix. good evening and welcome to the program. >> a great show and think you. i want to ask something different. i wondered if that people could speak to his foreign-policy and what he thought about the spanish-american war or the european colonialism. what would the gentleman think how he would handle, for example, afghanistan and iraq and the invasions? what was his mindset back then in terms of how the major colonial powers were going into other countries and controlling them and such? what is your theory about all that? and in general, his foreign policy. >> thank you for the call. he was our 43rd secretary of state. >> he served in the spanish- american war, but once the war ended, he opposed the occupatio

>> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt.it was complicated. he had his girlfriend living in a better and next to him. she h h

president teddy roosevelt was fond of observing that life's greatest gift is hard work worth doing.enjoyed that gift many times over since raising my right hand on the first of july 1970 and as a brand-new west point cadet reciting the oath of office for the first time. i can remember that day as if it were yesterday, waking early that morning, packing the one bag we got to bring with us, getting into the car with my mother and father and driving the seven curvey miles around storm king mountain. i had as was noted earlier grown up in the shadow of west point and spent countless hours of my childhood on the hudson river sailing with my dad. even so we all felt anxious as we entered the gate as my parents entrusted their only son to the u.s. military academy. and so i joined the long gray lines that is one of our country's greatest institutions. there i commenced the study of our profession of arms, internalized the values, traditions and standards that have acted as guide posts throughout my career and began forging the prendships that have sustained me ever since. in fact, as i not