this house has a great heart, and that heart comes from those who serve. was rather sorry they didn't come down. we said goodbye to them upstairs. but they are really great. and i recall after so many times i have made speeches, and some of them pretty tough, yet, i always come back, or after a hard day -- and my days usually have run rather long -- i would always get a lift from them, because i might be a little down but they always smiled. and so it is with you. and so i i look around here, and i see so many on this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaken hands, and i would love to have talked to you and found out how to run the world -- everybody wants to tell the president what to do, and boy, he needs to be told many times -- but i just haven't had the time. but i want you to know that each and every one of you, i know, is indispensable to this government. i am proud of this cabinet. i am proud of all the members who have served in our cabinet. i am proud of our sub-cabinet. i am proud of our white house staff. as i pointed

the three-star general served as u.s. army judge advocate general for four years before retiring this past fall. retirement,e chipman spoke at furman university about some of the legal issues that the military were dealing with at the time. this is about an hour. >> one of the hallmarks of the american democratic experiment and one of the hallmarks of our constitutional tradition is that, for centuries, as a republic, we have debated in our public policy and in our law fundamental questions that go to the core of our values and our american identity. we debate the meaning of freedom of religion and the establishment of religion. we debate the meaning of freedom of speech. we debate what equality means and how it translates to equality on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. we debate the role of different branches of government, the role of the president as the commander in chief, and as the head of the executive branch. and the roles of congress and the roles of the courts. as much as they are contentious and changing

i signed up to serve. i took myself. >> even if it was on a piece of paper, what were the expectations? >> the exclusive contract was that i would have a retired pay if i stayed to 20. it would be 50 percent of what my last pace live said. and i would have medical care pick me up off the battlefield. bring them home. >> i think it is clear from this hearing this morning -- and assure you were here for the first panel, everyone on this committee did not agree with this, once a fixes, wasser fix it now, and as we go forward wants to work off of principle of grandfathering of what is and all. i think that is where this committee is. now, i would like to follow up on one of those points beverage there's been a lot of talk about grandfathering. if everything his grandfather and nothing changes except prospectively what does that mean in terms of budgetary effects? we a predator in your budget window. my simple-minded way, if everything is grandfather that means there will be no savings for 20 years. if somethin

we serve veterans. if we fail to serve veterans, we fail. we have a lot of work to do. those values and leadership experiences are what and for my actions and decisions as a secretary of veterans affairs, just as i promised to be president they would. just as i promised congress and as i am promising all of you this afternoon. the lessons from the army and procter & gamble translate, whether you are an entry-level employee or head of an organization. here are a few of the lessons. first, have a clear purpose. president lincoln charges us 150 years ago to care for those who have borne the battle and their family. that means providing veterans with effective and efficient high-quality health care and the benefits you have earned. this is unconditional. you have earned these benefits. there is nothing more you need to do to earn them. we are obligated and honored to serve you. [applause] the second lesson is people want to succeed. it is my job to make sure employees at va have that opportunity. the biggest barriers to success in any organization are an ineffective culture

now and the ones signing up to serve everyday.lk about them and their ability to secure our nation's future and their sacrifice. a sacrifice that transcends far beyond the soldiers who fight the battle to their family, friends and homes. that's something that actually the commemoration here will recognize here and across the country. in all thousands paid the ultimate cost of that sacrifice on this spot and throughout this entire battlefield while writing this chapter and throughout our history hundreds of thousands have paid that same price. countless more have been wounded and captured. their blood is the ink that most of our history is written in. i'm sure their reasons for being here are just as varied as the soldiers joining today are. to make that sacrifice to stand up for what you believe in. during the battle they may have fought to defend their country, their family, their beliefs or rights or strictly their sense of duty. soldiers in the north could have fought to maintain the union or preservation of the nation or way o

to serve you as well as you have served us. an obligation that doesn't end with your tour of duty. every day, hundreds of thousands of dedicated public servants at the v.a. help us honor that commitment. at v.a. hospitals across america you have got doctors, nurses who are delivering world class care to america's veterans. you have got millions of veterans and their families who are profoundly grateful for the good work that is done at the v.a. and as commander in chief i'm grateful too. but, over the last few months we have discovered some inexcusable misconduct at some v.a. healthcare facilities. stories of veterans denied the care they needed, long wait times being covered up, cooking the books. this is wrong. this is outrageous. and working together we set out to fix it and do right by our veterans across the board no matter how long it took. now we have already taken the first steps to change the way the v.a. does business have held people accountable for misconduct, some have been relieved of their duties. investigations are ongoing. we have reached out to more than 215,000 v

we serve veterans. if we fail to serve veterans, we fail. we have a lot of work to do. those values and leadership experiences are what and for my ations and decisions as secretary of veterans affairs, just as i promised to be president they would. and as i am promising all of you this afternoon. the lessons from the army and procter & gamble translate, whether you are an entry-level employee or head of an organization. here are a few of the lessons. first, have a clear purpose. us 150nt lincoln charges years ago to care for those who have borne the battle and their family. providing veterans with effective and efficient high-quality health care and the benefits you have earned. this is unconditional. you have earned these benefits. there is nothing more you need to do to earn them. we are obligated and honored to serve you. [applause] the second lesson is people want to succeed. it is my job to make sure employees at bea --va have that opportunity. the biggest barriers to success nn any organization are a ineffective culture, strategies and systems. va has strong insti

with the federal reimbursement rate for serving the free lunch over $3, schools are required to serveealthy school meals for less than most people pay for their morning coffee. they leave a little more than a dollar on each lunch train. over the last year the reimbursement rate adjustment for the coming school year was actually smaller than the previous school year. in my district each would cost me a nickel more this school year exceeding the increase for breakfast. although we appreciate every penny received this adjustment comes nowhere close to covering the cost of the schools face now that they must double the amount of breakfast up to a full cup. students must take a fruit or vegetable whether they intend to keep it or not. we watched the despair as much as it is costly produce ends up in the trash $684 million per year according to cornell university researchers. as the schools struggle to manage the cost and waste once was a problem for the meal programs is rapidly becoming a problem for school districts. we cannot carry over the annual losses so they have to pick up the tab.

inclosing, i am honored to serve again and today i ask for your support. i'm firmly committed to bringing what i can to previous and enhance a stronger planning in san francisco and i would like to take this moment to thank those many supporters who have written or spoken on my behalf and those who might be speaking towards this for me today. thank you. >> thank you very much. any questions from the committee? no? all right. well, i have had a great opportunity to speak with you and also observe your work on the phalanges # -- planning commission. i want to thank you for that. at this time i would like to open up public comment for item no. 1 and first of all i will call up commissioner cindy wu, rodney fong and since they are here and i know they have other matters to attend to. as well as jim nick o and marlene morgan and jimey crawley. >> thank you supervisors. it's my pleasure to be here today. commissioner moore is a dedicated planning commissioner and she brings much experience need. i would like to thank her for agreeing to a third term a. it's a to

he said, you know, i think i can serve. after reading about the tuskegee airmen, a peculiar thing happened to me when i was a boy. i saw john wayne and i loved him. i saw the black sheep and i loved them. i think what changed was best described by something that chappy said and was written later in a book by benjamin davis jr., the commanding officer. he titled the book simply "an american." and he said when a reporter asked him about his title and why he titled it so simply, he said that i fought too hard for this country and i lived here and i've given. and he said i've done too much and i'm not a hyphenated american. he said i'm not a black american. i'm not an african-american. i'm not an afro-american. he said simply, i'm an american. and you know something happened to me when i went back to school. i stood a little stronger. i crossed my heart and i said those words with pride. and now when i look and i see the american flag blowing in the wind and waving in the breeze, i come to realize that that flag waves for me. t

senator kaine has a con who is serving, i -- son who is serving, i have two. we know friends and so forth. i wonder how well you think those surveys, the scientific effort are doing in measuring the kinds of incentives and so forth that are at play here. >> that's a good question. you always have to take any kind of survey or data with a grain of salt, and if you're not listening to the drum beat that you're hearing from people anecdotally, what they're saying to you, what your senior leaders who are terribly important to this process are saying to you, then you don't get it. so we have to temper anything we hear in the surveys. i don't have a crisp answer on whether there's a dichotomy there, but i think in general it's what we're hearing. they're both reflecting the same thing. >> and i do think we're very aware surveys can lag. and i do think that's why our service chiefs and our secretaries spend so much time out talking to the force, to the men and women in uniform. >> thank you. thank you for your excellent testimony this morning. thank you, mr. chairman

we do serve ethnic foods, but you can't serve them healthy. just give you an example. black people really love greens and a lot of that. but now we've changed it since we know how much it impacts our health, things like diabetes and avoid so now we can enjoy -- my kids on the sole day, we have black eyed peas, collard greens, cornbread, but they're all within the guidelines of usda. it's not like moms, but it is an awareness that that food can be beaten. >> thank you. madam chair, i guess we have a vote on, so thank you and thanks to all of you for being here. >> thank you very much. i appreciate senator gillibrand chairing the meeting what i did, in fact, go speak and vote. and i know what senator klobuchar coming back 1000 questions and senator gillibrand wants to ask a second round as well. so let me proceed. there are so many different pieces and we need all of your input to help as we move forward on resolving challenges in supporting schools and making sure the children get what they need. i mentioned in the first round but didn't have a chance to get into it, ms

we're part of, if we really want to serve our communities, if we really want to serve our families,if we really want to serve our political structure. we've got to go against the grain of this stuff. it matters, and it changes the world. the last thing is this: $5 and a spring front yard. so i will be dead at least within -- i'm 45. if i live to be 95, it'd be a miracle. in fact, they ought to write a newspaper article about that, and i will take a back slapping for it. [laughter] sometime between now and 50 years, my body will lay in a wood box, and the dirt won't even be splattering the top of that box before everybody starts arguing over who gets what. it's true. it's fact of life. that's the way it's going to work. so leading up to that because it is a universal truth, i will spend a lot of time with an attorney drawing out a will, making sure everybody gets my legacy, everything i have to leave behind, all this stuff i've worked real hard to accumplait. accumulate. i'll work hard on it. and here's what's going to happen. so i'm going to die, and everybody's going to cry, and th

now and the ones we have serving and signing up to serve every day.ould like to talk about them, their ability to secure our nation's future, the sense of duty and the sacrifice. it is a sacrifice that transcends far beyond just the soldiers who actually fight a battle, to their families, their friends and their home. is something the commemoration will recognize over the course of this year and a different locations across the country. in all, thousands pay the ultimate cost of that sacrifice throughout this entire battlefield while writing this chapter. hundreds of thousands throughout history have the same price. countless more have been wounded or captured, their blood as ink that much of our history is written in. ir reasons are just as varied as soldiers to our in our ranks today. we stand up for what they believe and at all costs. during this battle, the mayor fought to defend the country, their family, their beliefs or their rights, or strictly due to their sense of duty. dakotas from the north far to maintain the union for the preservation of

i have also served on a couple of other boards. castro cbd, natives since inception and worked for the neighborhood development for a few years. i have been incredibly business for the last 15 years. that's my community resume. philosophically i was at a meeting where i saw jim chapel and he spoke. he said something that resonated with me. he said when you ask somebody about their best day in san francisco was and they will say the day i landed here. sometimes it's frozen back in time. we'll always experience change and i'm concerned at the level of change we are experiencing quite frankly. the effects we are putting in place should mitigate those changes are good but i don't think they are proportional in keeping up with the rate. i was at the octavia cac on monday and the clerk from the planning department and she said nobody from the planning department ever imagined that this level of change would happen. i think there is a good and bad side to that. we haven't even had some of the community benefits that we were planning to sp

are veterans themselves, veterans serving veterans. and we can never thank them enough for their good work. but what we have come to learn is that the misconduct we have seen at too many facilities, with long wait times, folks cooking the books, is outrageous and inexcusable. [applause] as soon as it was disclosed, i got before the american people and i said we would not tolerate it, and we will not. i know the legion has been on the front lines across the country helping veterans who have been affected. i know bob is going to give you an update on the actions that we are taking. but what i want you to know directly from me is that we are focused on this at the highest levels. we are going to get to the bottom of these problems, we are going to fix what is wrong, we are going to do right by you, we are going to do right by your families. that is a solemn pledge and commitment i'm making to you here. [applause] already we are making sure that those responsible for manipulating or falsifying records are held accountable. we are reaching

i have two sons who served and a daughter -- in the military, and a daughter who serves in a civilian capacity. there seems to be a divide between them and the other people of their generation who stayed here and attended college for the most part. they're, let's say, elite generation and who think they know something about the war and about what we were doing. there's a pretty profound divide, actually. my kids talk about leadership going forward and the fact that their generation, you guys, your generation will be, the leadership will be composed of those people who served. what do you think of that? >> i would hope so. for the very reasons we were just talking about. i think that's essential. we have to get those tokes involved in the lit -- those folks involved in the political process. that type of selflessness, that type of leadership is sorely lacking, i think. so, yes, absolutely, i -- and i would agree, i think there's a chasm, a massive chasm between, you know, the folks that serve and don't. and i think there's some not just a divide, but that divide leads to the a lack of

where he served and who he served with.trying to figure out his own personal history, to contrast that with his own memory. he is a very interesting guy. but impart it is because he is so young when he goes off to war. within most of your age brackets. his character becomes formed in the western trenches. so when the soldiers who are so young have this transformational experience, and they come home, they are talking in a different way. they are cynical and a bit rough around the edges. they are swearing a lot. they are a bit different. and society around the misinterpreting that as being disillusioned. that war has done something to the souls of these men. carrington is saying, hang on, that is the wrong interpretation. carrington is creating his own alternative generational narrative, which has its own problems. you can be in -- you can't be an absolutist and an anti-absolutist. but he is giving us an alternative, a different way of looking at the war through generations, a different way of looking at people who are comin

the other presenter said to protect and serve. that's the style that presidential commission said was used in suburbs. and suburban communities. but in the inner city it's to-to-enforce the law and enforce it with all the power that the police have what it's doing is putting a train on the police and public, and they cannot be effective without public support. this is a bad move for the police to start acting like military. >> we're going stop there. when we come back we'll get a response to just that point. this is not a single variable question. the police are not standing out on the streets by themselves in all that gear. there are other people out there. does it change the way that they respond to the situation and how they perceive the nature of the encounter. stay with us. this is inside story. >> maybe you saw a news coverage of the unrest in ferguson, missouri, in recent days and wondered why a small suburban city had a police force equipmented with armored vehicles, army-style weaponry. we're talking about the different a

and are serving. thank you mr. chairman for anticipating the fact that this issue has to be addressed. and i hope that we will be able to convince all of the american people of the need to base what we do based on the recommendations of the most high because i'd people that we can find. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you senator mccain. senator donnelly? >> as we look at this challenge, in light of our belief that these should be grandfathered and we look at the 6 billion-dollar amount that we are looking at, are there things that you can sit with other folks at the pentagon and the joint chiefs and such and say are there areas where over at year end this budget we can try to find $500 million? in the judgment as opposed to imposing something from the top down in regards to the retirees? >> we have already accepted the need to do that with a piece of this that's already inside the dod budget where we pay into the funding. that is a $500 bill. >> when the legislation was passed the accounts were cred

, serve the arena for events, as well as serve the larger mission bay area, and all of its employees, and preliminary through the discussions is teams that it is possible that you can construct a facility that would accommodate the water taxi. and then, even further beyond sort of a long term opportunity as we again, see mainly going, well, one further south, at, and either, the basin, or in the hunter's point shipyard, and then, actually, in and the candle stick point even further south, treasure island. and again, as these projects you know, build out, and which is why i would, take a longer period of time, these are the opportunities for water taxi. and then, on the north, going again, beyond the port jurisdiction, serving something perhaps something in the yacht club, serving the club, and so that is really, that shows you there, sort of the kind of the fully, built out at least potentially built out water taxi network in san francisco. and obviously not shown here are the landings that the tide line marine uses in the east bay. this is really just san francisco. so just to wrap u

we serve veterans. and despite how well we -- and it is how well we serve those veterans that ultimately defines the organization. the truth of the matter is, we have to do better, much better. right now, it's up to the department to reaffirm and regain veteran trust. over the past few months, we have been forced to take a hard look at ourselves through the eyes of a veteran, and through their experiences, good, bad, and indifferent. i think one of the lessons i learned is that we have to be truly veteran focused. we need to continuously measure our performance not just when things go wrong, but also when things go right. it is a 24-7, 365-day a year each job and that is what we intend to do. from here on out, we want veterans to know that when they walk through v.a. doors, employees are all in money comes to meeting our mission, living our values, and keeping veterans first and foremost in all that we do. with all that -- without that, there can be no trust. right now, we are listening hard to what vet

the other presenter said to protect and serve. that's the style that presidential commission said was used in suburbs and suburban communities. in the inner city it is to enforce the law. and to enforce it with all the power that the police has. and what it's doing is putting a strain, significant strain on relationships between the police and public, undermining the capability of police to provide law enforcement services because they cannot be effective without public support. this is a bad move to have the police perceived of as military and the police to stop acting like military. it's a bad move. because the relationship between the police and the public is the essence of what the enforcement of the law consistent with the constitution, and our democratic values is all about. >> hubert williams, i'll stop you there and we'll go to a break. when we come back i want a response from matthew to that point. this is not a single variable question. the police are not standing out on the streets by themselves. others are out there. d

he said, you know, i think i can serve. after reading about the tuskegee airmen, a peculiar thing happened to me when i was a boy. i saw john wayne and i loved him. i saw the black sheep and i loved them. i think what changed was best described by something that chappy said and was written later in a book by benjamin davis jr., the commanding officer. he titled the book simply "an american." and he said when a reporter asked him about his title and why he titled it so simply, he said that i fought too hard for this country and i lived here and i've given. and he said i've done too much and i'm not a hyphenated american. he said i'm not a black american. i'm not an african-american. i'm not an afro-american. he said simply, i'm an american. and you know something happened to me when i went back to school. i stood a little stronger. i crossed my heart and i said those words with pride. and now when i look and i see the american flag blowing in the wind and waving in the breeze, i come to realize that that flag waves for me. t

we serve veterans.nd despite how well we -- and it is how well we serve those veterans that ultimately defines the organization. the truth of the matter is, we have to do better, much better. right now, it's up to the department to reaffirm and regain veteran trust. over the past few months, we have been forced to take a hard look at ourselves through the eyes of a veteran, and through their experiences, good, bad, and indifferent. i think one of the lessons i learned is that we have to be truly veteran focused. we need to continuously measure our performance not just when things go wrong, but also when things go right. it is a 24-7, 365-day a year each job and that is what we intend to do. right now, we are listening hard to what veterans, employees, congress, vso's, and other stakeholders are telling us. a somewhat i've heard, we are in the process of rapidly developing and instituting an array of changing -- changes aimed at fixing this problem in the areas of initiatives, leadership, and resources.

their view of how to serve the downtown is rail. if the objective is serving downtown, that might be true. there's a lot of destinations, jobs scattered that will not be served by the line, and resources can't be spent here, but else are. >> when you talk about the issue of gentrification, we thing of it has a good thing. it raises represent. if you are a property owner you gain from it. so many are renters, and along the green line there has been a hike in property taxes which can be expect. there has been a 25% increase in median rental rates along the corridor. that is the stuff where geptry fibbingation works -- gentrification works, pushing them into worse neighbourhoods. >> it's a comely kated story, a -- complicated story. there's new developments going up, charging more money, the new developments are, by and large, built on vacant locks. the university avenue used to be lined with auto dealerships, and they disappeared in the vacant lots, parking lots, things like that, which are now developed at a higher density, and not d

this was a consequence of him having served west point trained officers and serving the lordly cattle barons who were so wealthy, and horn never amassed wealth himself. feel that his did services were underappreciated, and he went out of his way to try to impress people. he would even quote shakespeare just to impress people. some have concluded that tom horn's primary problem was that he outlived his time, that he was in his element in the 1880's and 1890's when the institutions of frontier law enforcement were very weak and frontiersman were forced to result to vigilante justice. it was horn's misfortune to live into the 20th century, according to the scenario, when public opinion no longer condone his whichtor methods, included assassinations for money. if one subscribes to this interpretation, we are forced to conclude that tom horn was merely a tragic character in the mold of ancient greek mythological characters who were ponds in the hands of fickle and arbitrary gods. however, while american frontiersman might resort to vigilante justice in emergencies, they never condoned assa

now and the ones we have serving and signing up to serve every day. like to talk about them, their ability to secure our nation's future, their sense of duty, and their sack ri fition. it's a sacrifice that transcends far beyond just the soldiers who actually fight the battle, to their families, their friends, and their homes. that's something that the commemoration here will also recognize over the course of this year here and at different times in different locations across the country. in all, thousands paid the ultimate cost of that sacrifice on this spot and throughout this entire battlefield while writing this chapter and throughout our history hundreds of thousands have paid that same price. and countless more have been wounded or captured. their blood is the ink that much of our history is written in. and i'm sure there are reasons for being here were just as varied as those of the sold whose join our ranks today and there are different reasons. then and now the reason to join is many. to make that sacrifice, to stand up for what you believe i

suppose your mayor tripled his wealth while serving as mayor in your city. suppose he paid practically no income tax for several years. suppose your mayor certiused up fun funds. suppose your mayor selected and supervised distrusted top officials of his administration. 10 men and women who pled guilty. should we have a lower standard of action for the president. the founding fathers wisely made impeachment a constitutional remedy. they did not want to make it easy to get rid of presidents but they were determined to make it possible. if we wish to restore the accountability of presidents, the means and nixons are at home accept once every four years we usher in a imperial policy, we transform the balance and character of constitutional order. impeachment may have grievance consequences, refusal to impeach will have disastrous consequences. the transcripts have diminished him imtooth that of an amoral man who withheld the shocking truth about the mess he and his administration were in. he shows a lack of concern for reality and principal which make the white

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. >> john is serving a six-year sentence for sexual assault. his adversary, joel brooks, is doing 12 years for assault. both prisoners are classified as mentally ill. after being cleaned up, they're questioned separately by officers. >> what was this all about? >> he's a rapist and i was talking with an inmate in the meal line about it with him. >> you were talking about his crime with another prison? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> i was talking with another prison about him being a rapist. he came up to me and said, you ain't [ muted ] and i said, you're not. >> i repeated it and said what are you going to do? i repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face and said, now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later he bum rushed me. >> don't come at me. >> slammed me against the wall. >> i don't know what i did after that. >> he started scratching my face and i grabbed him around the waist and threw him on the floor. i hit him twice in self-defense to get him to let go of my neck. >> i won't deny it. >> lower

and are serving. so thank you mr. chairman for actually anticipating the fact that this issue has to be addressed and i hope that we will be able to convince all of the american people that have the need to select as we do based on the most highly qualified people that we can find. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you so much senator mccain. excuse me. >> senator donnelly? as we look at the challenge in light of our belief that peace e should be grandfathered and we look at the 6 billion-dollar amount that we are looking at are there things that you can sit with other folks at the pentagon with the joint chiefs and such and say are there areas where they could try to type $500 million? putting it in your best judgment as opposed to imposing something from the top down here in regards to our retirees? >> with a piece of this but is already inside of the dod budget where we pay into the cool front that is a 500-dollar bill. when the legislation was passed via counts were basically credited that $500 mil

. >> these are the inmates who serve hard time. >> these are not the good guys. >> what's my role here? i'm an [ bleep ]. >> it's fun to break the law and dance with the devil, but when you got to pay the fiddler, there ain't nothing nice. >> in prison, the term "hard time" can mean many different things. it could be an inmate who will never see freedom again. or an inmate who is doing solitary confinement for years at a time. our crews have seen numerous examples of what it's like to do hard time. but there's one story in particular that seems like it came straight out of a movie. >> every weekday morning, just after sunrise, a group of inmates at the elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana, prepares for a grueling day of farming the fields adjacent to the prison. >> we have 63 acres of vegetable gardens that we grow vegetables on, anything from squash, tomatoes, mustard greens, collard greens. >> supervised by armed officers on horseback and earning 2 cents an hour for their labor, the inmates harvest more than a million pounds of crop per year, all of it used at the prison. but

shields are required to protect officers while serving meals.ignate certain inmates as spitters or slimers, those who throw urine or feces at officers. >> we had an incident not too long ago, where the inmate reached out through the cuff port, stabbed one of our staff, one of our officers. so now whenever the cuff port comes down, the staff will always put the shield in front of the cuff port to make sure no foreign object comes out of the cell to hurt our staff. >> should an assault occur, officers are armed with an arsenal of pepper spray, a pepper ball gun, and, if necessary, lethal power. >> these officers come here every day. and they put their life on the line, or they put up with not only verbal abuse, but physical abuse and mental abuse. >> in the name of jesus, you need to come and check it out. >> with all of the different personalities and crimes, couple that with having nothing to do, it is a pressure cooker. >> paul payne is serving up to 15 years on 11 different counts, including aggravated assault, kidnapping, and escape. he was t

served on the home front. we will never forget the 400,000 americans who never returned home. and in those numbers, include the great losses we suffered on that cold, wet and windy day. on june 6th, 1944 in normandy. many of the friends have been involved with this memorial from inception to construction to dedication. and we're privileged to continue to work to ensure the legacy the lessons learn and the great unity in this nation around the world and the sacrifices of all who served are never forgotten. to accomplish this mission, we we work very proudly with the department of defense and the national park service who take such good care of the mag nif sint memorial. this is truly a sacred place to come, to visit, to remember and to reflect and to kmem rate the defining moments of world war ii, as we're doing today. would all of our world war ii vet rare rans please stand or raise your hand so that we can thank you for your memorial. would you please stand and raise your hand? our nation owes you a debt that

buchanan served the country more or less capably. john tyler opened up the trade with china for the first time, pretty important issue today,, important part of the economy. so they all have things the hadd right and wrong and they didn't stand the test of time. .. questions? >> can you discuss briefly, you mentioned tyler. his role was in the confederate government, how that may have differentiated from franklin pierce's role outside advising david and being supportive. >> franklin pierce and john tyler both approved abraham lincoln during his presidency. pierce politically so. everyone says war is a continuation of politics by other means that politics is a continuation of war by other means. think about the objectives of the war, the length of the war, determined by politics. is it a political question? can they appropriate money for the war? pierce worked hard to elect george mcclellan, lincoln's opponent in 1864. tyler as lincoln is struggling to compromise in virginia, even offers to give for sumter back to south carolina in or