senate pentagon is facing a new mental health crisis and is at a loss as to what's causing it. >> and who will and won't get a disease. bay area researchers take a big step toward predicting alzheimer's. . >>> a car pulled from a canal near patterson is not related to the kidnapping yesterday of this 4-year-old boy. sheriff's investigators remain here on the scene. ken pritchett there right now talking to investigators about what it means, how long they will continue the search and where else they plan to search for the missing 4-year-old boy. all of the very latest developments coming up on the news at six. >> the pentagon is faced with a troubling problem. the number of army reservists committing suicide is going up. 143 committed suicide last year, compared to 65 in 2009. rough half of those were never deployed. >> we have to figure out how to maintain contact and awareness of what's going on in their life the other 28 day wes don't see them. >> military officials say many of those who took their own live was in rocky relationships but it's unclear how their time in the military ma

that your book highlights some stories that i am aware of, the fitzgerald story in the pentagon, william proxmire, senator from wisconsin on remember well and so forth and other clashes between the military industrial complex and the pull of local branches of government. to give you a little background of the speech, my own book picks up about 65 hours after it was given coming and i would stress a somewhat different aspect of it by way of background and this has to do with a lurch citizenry "going home to glory" opens shortly after the speech is given when the eisenhowers are driving back in the winter chill the david john kennedy was a moderate president of the united states. these are remarkable times. in the year 2000, martin medhurst, texas a&m, a rhetoric professor, told teachers of rhetoric in the united states on the bills standing speeches delivered by americans in the 20th century. what were the? and on that list, dwight eisenhower's inaugural address stands 18 out of 100, but thousands and thousands of speeches given so, one of the top 20 speeches to be on that list, the john kennedy inaugural

senate office building when the anthrax envelope was opened up by tom daschle's secretary. i went through the entire testing procedure, etc., it was easier in retrospect to write both about the pentagon and what happened in the senate office building from a firsthand standpoint, having witnessed it and experienced it, and it terrified me, it really did. obviously it was a very deadly pair of incidents in the nation's capitol, as well as new york city. for once, i experienced them firsthand, as i said. >> this is three years later. how has it changed your job? >> i think probably 75% of what i write today is somehow 9/11 or its wake related, and what we are doing with everything from the 9/11 commission and how we can make this country safer, immigration is now playing a much bigger role. it's on the minds of more americans, so i write a lot about the immigration problems, both legal and illegal immigration, and as we try to shore up our borders, it's a tremendous task, daunting, still frightening. we have a long way to go. i think many americans, especially in washington, new york, where alert levels are higher, are waiting consequence stantly for the other shoe to drop. i pray it ne

senate. >>> delaware detectives baffled by the murder of a former pentagon official now say he was last seen a day before his body turned up in a landfill. but they still don't know who exactly killed john wheeler. a former aide to president reagan and both president bushes. here now is pierre thomas. >> reporter: by all accounts, john p. wheeler iii was a man of stature. west point grad. military man. vietnam veteran who helped spearhead efforts to build the memorial wall in washington. the nature of his recent untimely death feels completely at odds with his life. wheeler was murdered, his body discovered dumped at a landfill. not far from his newcastle, delaware, home. >> very prominent gentleman. and why anyone would kill him would be beyond me. >> reporter: monday, police were back at the landfill desperately hunting for leads. >> there are no suspects. again, we are still looking to determine where the crime scene actually occurred. >> reporter: wheeler has homes in delaware, washington, and new york city. he was believed to have been in washington prior to being found dead on new year

on senator feinstein's staff and i was foreign policy adviser to senator chuck hagel, his a petition on the hill as it is in the pentagon was distinguished by his good humor, bipartisan collegiality and extensive knowledge of asia and national security affairs. deputy assistant secretary shifrin is a graduate of georgetown university, the london school of economics and new york university, and i say with some pride a member of the international institute for strategic studies. he will speak on building cooperation in the u.s.-china military to military relationship and we will have questions to follow. welcome. it is a pleasure to have you speak on this important subject. [applause] >> thank you. let me thank you all for joining us here this afternoon and offered a special thanks to aa double less and to andrew for all their hard work in pulling this together. i would note on the side that the dirty little secret of this event has nothing to do with security its upcoming trip but a desire to spend time with andrew because i haven't a chance to catch up with him in a couple of years since we've been off the hill. with th

action might meet inaction in the democratic senate where the effort to repeal the new health care reform law is destined to die. rob and vinita? >>> the pentagonlf-imposed budget cuts today. defense secretary robert gates is unveiling a five-year plan. last summer he hoped to cut $102 billion from the military's budget. now it's predicted the plan will only slash about $80 billion. new military vehicle and weapons programs are at risk. congress must approve those cuts. >>> now to australia where government leaders admit this morning it will take at least a year to recover from historic floods in the northeast part of that country. more rainstorms are expected tody anre mthe situati theven e. the bbc's nick bryant is there. peaking in rockmpto, a coastal city at the mouth of the raging fitzroy river. the latest of over 20 communities across queensland to be hit by this epic flood. many of its low-lying suburbs like depot hill are sitting in muddy brown water. it's estimated 400 homes will have water seeping through their floorboards. and that 4,000 will have water covering their gardens and yards. the locals are calling it the big wet. here in

pentagon. let me make a final point about the three minutes versus 20 minutes vs 15 seconds. that information has now been shared with both companies. is that correct, general? >> yes, senator, that is correct. >> so it would not matter if the employee had looked at the data for three hours or first three days. each company now has that one little bit of information from the other company, and they have had it, and they can analyze it until the wee hours of the morning. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> i appreciate what the air force has done. clearly, human error is unfortunately going to happen. any time an organization is shot through with people, you are going to have human error occur, and i appreciate what the air force has done. they are my branch, too. i love them all, but i'm an air force veteran and an air force reserve veteran, and i think that the air force acted very professionally and has corrected this inadvertent mistake. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator. let me for the record put in a chronology here. this committee has been following the modernization program closely for a number of years. in 2002-2003, we directed a series o

pentagon, in national security analyst looks at the longest work. he is interviewed by an author and columnist, max booth. and edward mcclellan on barack obama's first campaign on the illinois senate. a sign up to get our schedules emailed to your inbox. >> we will tour the home of a statesman frederick douglass. jerry jones tells of the policies of woodrow wilson. then, daniel patrick moynihan. experience american history tv on c-span3, all weekend, every weekend. see the complete schedule online at c-span.org/history. >> 9/11 defined the presidency because it made it abundantly clear that my most important job was to protect the country. i made a lot of controversial decisions to do that. if i had to do them over again, i would have done them again. >> former president george bush talks about his memoir with students from southern methodist university sunday at 8:00 on c-span. >> next, a discussion on federal spending and job creation. this is 45 minutes. ington journal" continues. host: i want to welcome back matt kibbe, freedomworks president and ceo. let's begin with "the washington times." guest: it's a shocking number, $1.5 trillion. longer-term, it is $14 trillion in natio

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