and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive officer and a former senator.n of the senate arms committee. a man of many distinctions and the father of michele nunn. thank you so much for being here. we will start with melody and i'll start with saying, " but you focused on service? " thank you so much for the question of thank you for in fighting me here. it is such a pleasure. there is a tradition, is a sign of friendship and respect. i should say howdy. thank you. i love that question because it allows me to think back to the fact that our household had a culture of service. my father was a president of the pta and my mother was the president of the band boosters. we talked a lot about service. the earliest instances of service i can remember or both baking cup cakes for political campaigns when i was an also tutoring. there were a number of people moving to richmond through churches and other houses of worship from vietnam in the middle-incom to late 197's. i remember that experience of helping someone acclimate to being in a different country and to livi

he was counsel for the legendary senator sam nunn, who is still doing great work, by the way. wonderful public servant, and ran the permanent subcommittee on investigations. i wish you well in your current endeavor, dan. a very, very fine public servant. thank you. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge my friend, representative elaine bloom who is here, and thank you very much, elaine. [applause] >> and i want to acknowledge this fantastic miami-dade college, one of the greatest institutions of our country and the world. and i think president and his staff for all of their hospitality here. [applause] >> i am al gore. i used to be the next president of the united states of america. [laughter] >> i don't think that's funny. you know, i came here to miami on a book tour when i wrote earth in the balance back in 1991, and before joining bill clinton, six, eight months after that. it seems like a long time that i have been speaking and writing about this issue, climate crisis. i was reminded recently of how long it's been when i was with a friend, we worked through lunch and went ba

and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive officer and a former senator.n of the senate arms committee. a man of many distinctions and the father of michele nunn. thank you so much for being here. we will start with melody and i'll start with saying, " but you focused on service? " thank you so much for the question of thank you for in fighting me here. it is such a pleasure. there is a tradition, is a sign of friendship and respect. i should say howdy. thank you. i love that question because it allows me to think back to the fact that our household had a culture of service. my father was a president of the pta and my mother was the president of the band boosters. we talked a lot about service. the earliest instances of service i can remember or both baking cup cakes for political campaigns when i was an also tutoring. there were a number of people moving to richmond through churches and other houses of worship from vietnam in the middle-incom to late 197's. i remember that experience of helping someone acclimate to being in a different country and to livi

the chairmanship and the senateç changedç from john tor to barry goldwater, barry goldwater into sam nunnld legislation that we ended up in congress,ç they're passing e goldwater/nichols act, which was not receive very well among most officers, with a few exceptions. following that, at the behest of march barrett, i chaired a panel working on joint education, and we ended up with a series of yearlong hearings and we came up with these one, phase two, and you know all of that. we found that the various war colleges varied in complexity and difficulty. marines were way behind, and he the air force had a long way to go, and that came around. the army was a good b or b- plus. the best was the navy by far. he did not have to go there to get promoted, but it was for somewhere -- you did not have to go there to get promoted, but it was for someç reason the premir of 1988. well, fast-forward to today as the war colleges -- have they fulfilled their main purpose in life? what is the main purpose? well, cousin and snyder mentioned it. it is to create strategists, strategic thinkers. everybody gra

in new countries, principally in the areas of biological threat reduction. 18 years ago senator sam nunnia and i along with a bipartisan group of legislators in the last hours of that 1991 session determined that our government had to address the proliferation threats posed by dissolution of the soviet union. in the waning days of the 1991 congressional year, we passed legislation establishing the nunn-lugar cooperative threat reduction program which devotes american technical expertise and money for joint efforts to safeguard and destroy materials and weapons of mass destruction. since that time the program has amassed an impressive list of accomplish in the in the form you are soviet union and has been expanded to address weapons of mass destruction contingencies around the globe. i've devoted much time and effort to overseeing and accelerating the nunn-lugar program. i've encountered individuals of great dedication serving on the ground, in the former soviet union and our government have made this program work. we've shared many productive adventures in locations and circumstances tha