greg simons, from the united states naval academy, he taught naval history and civil war history for 30 years. he thought he was retired. then he went back. and he is teaching there again. and he is a native of anaheim, california. earned his b.a. at ucla, masters and ph.d.s from the university of florida where he studied under the late john kay mann. in 1970s he was in the navy, navy officer and first ensign ever to lecture at the naval war college in new port, rhode island. after his naval service he remained at the war college as a civilian professor of strategy from '74 to '75. an award winning author of 12 books, maybe by more, by now, but who is counting right. editor of several others. and has written over 100 articles in professional journals and popular magazines. from 2005 to 2007, he lived here too. he was the chief historian for the u.s.s. monitor center here at mariners museum and helped us get everything right. so if something you see is right out there and you love it. thank craig for it. he helped us out with that a lot. and he helped oversee the promotion of it as we

she served as president of united states naval memorial working with senior u.s. navy leadership to facilitate the reorganization of the business programs. she received her business degree at san diego state university and earned two masters degree from the university of san diego. her first in public history, historic preservation and teaching and second in nonprofit management and leadership. in addition to her work at the sewall-belmont house and museum she serves on the board of directors for national women's history sites. would you please welcome paige harrington? [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you tom. thank you so much. we're delighted to be here for the second year in a row to celebrate women's equality day. i want to thank tom definitely, his extra help in making sure that everything runs smoothly is very well appreciated. the sewall-belmont house and museum is committed to preserving the legacy and sharing the untold stories of centuries worth of struggle for equal rights for women. the museum is a national historic landmark and houses an extensive col

to joining the museum, she served as the vice president of the naval heritage center at the united states naval memorial, working with senior u.s. navy leadership to facilitate the reorganization of the business programs. she earned two masters degrees from the university of san diego. her first in public history, historic preservation and teaching and second in nonprofit management and leadership. in addition to her work at the museum, paige serves on the board of directors and is the senior editor of a series of books on women's history entitled finding a voice, women's fight for equality in the united states. would you please welcome paige harrington. [ applau >> thank you, tom. thank you so much. we're delighted to be here for the second year in a row to celebrate women's equality day. i want to thank tom, definitely his extra help in making sure that everything runs smoothly i definitely. the sewell-belmont museum is committed to sharing the story suffrage. thank you. the museum is a national historic langek documenting the continuing effort by women and men of all races, religions and bac

just two weeks ago, we won a contract -- two and a half weeks ago, we won a contract on the united states naval ship alan shepard. that contract will run about $14 million in work. our people will run about 200 or 250 employees on that alone. the ship shows up on wednesday. we will be bringing in diesel generators in order to power the ship up, but in the future, and we just had meetings in norfolk, virginia, and the military sea to command asked what we're doing to get this class of ship. the san francisco drydock is unique in that it is the biggest on this side of the pacific ocean. there are only two united states drydocks on this side of the pacific ocean that could lift this class of ship. it is a great opportunity not only to do good things on the environmental side, but it also generates jobs, and i think that is unique. i think it is great when the jobs and environmental sides come together to make something work like this. we have had a great relationship with the port of san francisco. i was looking at the numbers this morning for projections of manpower this year, and it will continu

he has a bachelor of science degree from the united states naval academy. that's okay. i went to west point. my nephew and his wife went to the naval academy so i'm over that. i'm honored and pleased. he has a masters degree in education from the university of west florida and he has also attended the naval war college and the national defense university. so we couldn't ask for anybody with a better resume to talk about the issue today. so please join with me in welcoming the congressman. >> and and that's okay, bob, not everybody can make it into the naval academy. >> i understand. i'd like to thank everybody for coming here today and i'd especially like to thank ed fuller for all the great work he does here at the heritage foundation and brian darling and, of course, james carafano for all the work they are doing, as well. i'd like to take the time just to thank for the conversation this month of lieutenant colonel aiken and mike carne and captain tracy price who was able to get my great insight how this program actually got started. of course, the advocates that are

he has a bachelor of science degree from the united states naval academy. even though i went to west. my wife went to the naval academy. from themaster's a university of west florida. he has attended the naval war college in the national defense university. we could not ask anyone with a better resume to talk about the issue. please welcome the enjoining the congressman. [applause] >> that is okay. not everybody can make it into the naval academy. i would like to tee why for coming here today. i would like would likeed fuller for all the work he does at the heritage foundation. i would like to take the time to savor the conversation to thanked mike karn and tracy price. the advocate's currently working for all the work you have been doing as well. how this all started. i had my eight-month old and my arms. the baby sitter came in and said, there is an airplane that hit one of the twin towers. i said, they must've gone a little too close for a little sightseeing trip and hit one of the towers. she said, nope. it was a big airplane. i am thinking, i am thinki

nominated to the united states naval academy are maxwell from the westchester east high school. sean from miles an hourle mountain newtown high school. timothy bell from archbishop john carroll high school. michael. fletcher chris well from spring ford senior high school. michael darnell from monsignor bonner high school. andrew from garnett valley high school. peter from conestoga high school. joseph from william catholic high school. william from episcopal academy, alexandria la bruno from st. joe sf's. brian from the marm newtown high school. luke from westchester. michael from pen crest. eric from monsignor bonner high school. john from malvern preparatory school. joseph cabbage from st. joseph's preparatory school, and eric from strath haven high school has been nominated to both the naval academy and air force academy. nominated to the air force academy are katelyn, rebecca, kevin, megan, and carl. and lastly to the united states merchant marine academy, are kell will i and peter. mr. speaker, it's my privilege to nominate these fine young men and women to our united state

negotiated the 10 bid of warships from three major naval powers from united states, great britain and japan. of great day should great triumph. roosevelt 1921 was paralyzed from the waist down with polio. that would seem to be a promising career. in 1824 that he was this paralyzed. hughes goes up and roosevelt goes down. but then with that spirit, to have that political career again, the then madison and square garden he did with braces up his legs. then madison and square garden he did with braces up his legs. and the 16 year-old son james then made it to whatever less. but then he gave up a great speech and the crowd erupted and deliriously happy. not just of smith but franklin roosevelt as well. 1930 he was reelected by a landslide. then herbert hoover appointed chief justice of the united states to come together than by 1930 there was great talk of roosevelt as the democratic nominee for president. officially campaigning against hoover and beat him badly. franklin roosevelt decided to recite the entire both instead of saying i do. and he remarked it was interesting that one former

things like the military bases being built north of australia as well as the air and naval applied to the united states in that region. our defenses are against china. if you had a chance to speak to these officials, what would you say his response to their concerns? >> well, for one thing, what we would like is we would like engagement with china. we would like to approach these issues together. we'd li transparency on what they're doing, on their military buildup. we want to make sure they're behind the capabilities they're requiring. we want to know how we've ended been in the western papa, do not sell? we're going to insist on freedom of navigation, we're going to make sure goods and services can move freely and openly, not only there but around the world. and we can do that better together the fact that we are in the western pacific is not new. it is not -- it is something that is a part of what we have done for decades and will continue to do for decades to come. we are moving our marines from a concentration in okinawa to guam to manage the rotational force into australia, because we have traine

he has a bachelor of science degree from the united states naval academy. that is ok.al academy. i am over that brigid he has a master's degree in education and from the university of west florida and he has also attended the naval war college and national defense university. you could not ask for anybody with a better resonate. please join me in welcoming the congressman. [applause] >> that is ok, bob. not everyone can make it in to predict into the naval academy. i want to thank everybody for coming here today. i also want to thank brian darling for the work he is doing. i would also like to take the time to thank lieutenant-colonel eakins and also capt. tracy who gave me great insight on how this program actually got started. of course, the advocates currently working with us. special thanks for all the work you have been doing as well. how this all started -- i had my eight-month old in my arms. the babysitter came in and said, "there is an airplane that just hit one of the twin towers." i said it must of gotten a little too close for a sightseeing trip and hit one

state. he was, he convened a disarmament conference in washington in 1921, and he negotiated the reduction of the tonnage of warships of the three major naval powers being the united states, great britain and japan at that time. it was a great triumph for him. roosevelt, on the other hand, in 1921 was paralyzed from the waist down with polio. and what would seem to be a very promising career -- there was talk in 1920 that roosevelt would be the democratic nominee for president in 1924 or 1928 -- but he was paralyzed, and it looked like his career was over. so you have hughes going up and roosevelt going down. but by 1924 roosevelt with that indomitable spirit began to think of a political career yet again. and he was asked to nominate al smith at the democratic convention at madison square garden in 1924 which he did. he had braces all the way up and down his legs. he went to podium on the arm of his 16-year-old son james and, of course, tried to make it look effortless. it wasn't as he made his way to the podium. but then he gave a great speech talking about the happy warrior taken from a wordsworth poem. and the crowd erupted. they were just deliriously happy, a

secret of it he always said that that was exactly the intent of the united states there is talk about about stationing u.s. ships on a naval base which is being billed by south korea right now there's also you have to remember that more than twenty thousand u.s. military personnel already stationed here in south korea there is also being developed in australia which is to help more than twenty five hundred u.s. troops and basically a lot of people view with yet another chance for her or the current u.s. president to increase us. presence in the region somehow sewing china in fact like a state is still present here and the strong and the chinese presence which is also increasing over the past four years is something that the united states is watching and i think falls outside parties iran dollars cover of courting from solving. the us president has tried to win support from china to increase pressure on north korea that fits in bill author and is a specialist says there's nothing legally wrong in cal's actions the koreans quite correctly distinctness our. satellite. and i mean it's interesting merican got through the sancti

united states navy. and so what an honor on cinco de mayo. >> the u.s. naval department is going to be christianing a ship called the usns cargo ship and it's a supply ship and so in the si cinco de mayo they are celebrating caesar. they are commemorating local heroes that also had a lot of service -- in the armed services. and caesar did that. so it's a real, real honor. we're trying to convince him to let us take a ride on that. we don't know. >> what do you think about that? >> it was something when i heard about it, well, he deserves it, you know. because when he was in the navy, i wrote him a letter. every day i would go by the post office in the morning or come in the afternoon or in the night and mail him a letter every day and promise him that. he got that from me every day when he was in the navy. >> that's beautiful. you brought a picture for the 50th anniversary of the farm workers. >> uh-huh. >> when you go on to the dfw website, there's a petition to sign and an effort to make it a national holiday. any why ds where we are? >> we're moving much cl

united states, our allies and the region as a whole. it was almost two years ago that north korea brazenly sank the rock naval vessel chonan. that event coupled with the unprovoked shelling of the island in 2010 provides reminder that yang is willing to utilize military capabilities with deadly consequences. these demonstrates the united states and iraq need to take further steps to bolster deterants and preserve security. we're working closely with iraq allies and armed forces to ensure the responses to any future north korean profs indication are effective and appropriate and integrated into alliance plans and conducted from an alliance perspective. further more through our extended deterant's policy committee we meet by annually to identify ways in which the full range of alliance capabilities including conventional forces, missile defense, nuclear capabilities, strategy and doctrine can be leveraged to maximize deterants. the potential for a north korean provocation in 2012 remains a major concern. the april 15th sentinel celebration commemoration of kim ill song's birth provides a milestone to show this become a strong

united states is also thinking of putting more than twenty five hundred military personnel in australia it already has twenty eight thousand troops in south korea and is also thinking of putting its military ships. naval base which is being constructed in south korea as well you really look at the united states almost on a on the. on this mission to expand its presence and not just in the asia pacific region but also in the middle east and it of course can worry some countries particularly russia and china who are always concerned with the fact that such missile defense seals could pose a potential threat for their safety. from seoul thank you. barracks a world can call founder of the campaign to end the korean war believes u.s. involvement in military games in the korean peninsula is aimed at spreading its influence and asia pacific region a has its eyes on china it has its eyes on maintaining its military superiority in the region you have to remember that south korea is the largest purchaser of conventional weapons from the united states than any other country in the world there's a lot of money involved in this process and there is an eye on china to kind of flex the muscles and show that the u.s.

madison serves on something called the board of admiralty this is the committee that ran the naval of the united states during the war. one of the first things they do is to deny a three-month old request for a sea captain for bread and flour. it was not that this request was unreasonable per se. it was simply that they had no bread or flour or means to procure to give to them. they did send him a note, however, to keep up the good work. lau[laughter] >> an 18-gunboat was sitting in the harbor and it was ready to fight or british and waiting for canon and food before it could be deployed. worst of all the board of admiralty had to deal with the issue of several common criminals breaking into a warehouse and stealing all but a few bolts of the entire national supply of canvas. perhaps they were inspired by george washington's daring christmas raid because one christmas night, they broke in, they stole the canvas, congress had already directed them to distribute this canvas to the places where it was needed. the orders weren't heeded and the letters to the board of admiralty were so humorous if it wasn't

united states and south korea. >>trace: war games off the coast of south korea involving 200,000 south korean troops and 13,000 u.s. troops. we are talking 13 navalhips, dozens of helicopters and hundreds of am filibuster out assault vehicles like this. the united states and south korean commanders say the exercises are not meant to be provocative but meant to strengthen readiness. >> partnering with our korean partners allows to us do many things to promote security in the region. and it increases our ability to support other things such as humanitarian assistance which is possible in this region of the world. >>trace: north korean media calls the exercises "infringement on our sovereignty and north korean military commanders," and they are threatening to "launch a merciless sacred war." >>shepard: at home members of a street gang in a wealthy washington, dc, suburb, forced high school girls into prostitution. coming up what official say happened to the girl when they tried to quit. i remember the day my doctor told me i have an irregular heartbeat, and that it put me at 5-times greater risk of a stroke. i was worried. i worried about my wife, a

naval, nuclear and missile capabilities. iran can close the straits of hormuz at least temporarily. and they may launch missiles against united states forces and their allies in the region if it is attacked. iran could also attempt to employ terrorist circuits worldwide however the agency assesses iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict. iranian ballistic missiles and development could range across the region in central europe. iran's new lacks -- space

in 1990 the united states possessed 570 naval war vessels. today we have 285. projected to go even lower. if we cannot protect the sea lanes of commerce, we leave ourselves vulnerable not just militarily but economically to a power in china that continues to seek world communism as its ultimate goal irrefutably so. mr. speaker, i could spend the entire special order speaking about china because i believe in this century china could become the premiere dominant nation in the world. while the relationship between china and the united states is based on mutual needs at this moment, i am concerned for the day when china realizes this relationship is more of a hindrance than a need and we always need to prepare if that day is to come. mr. speaker, as a veteran of operation iraqi freedom who served during initial battles of that conflict, i am proud to be among the more than one million americans who served in iraq. what my fellow comrades in arms achieved in that country is nothing short of historic. together we defeated one of the most -- history's most tyrannical

to safeguard that oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country that job has been given to the military. and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look at the map collectively there is an almost contiguous strain. oh of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called a carta doctrine if the president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is a vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to there and he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with the policy these men west are united in pioneering a new run dear of

naval -- cable networks. is here on a luxury cruise an ocean away from the united states he was candidly nonchalantly admitting to conspicuously misrepresenting the ideology of the presidential candidate. e-mails we obtained at the time written by simon and in a fox producer showed the calculated spear against obama was not an on-air slip the part of recorded a campaign of deception not only as simon appeared on the network and made these charges against barack obama but also journalist to who work for and encouraging them of racial connections to marxism and we have the e-mails in the book if you're interested in reading them so i'm not going to bother reading them now. less than 90 minutes later simon was on "fox news" engaging in mischievous speculation claiming barack obama was quote drawn to marxist as he was drawn to liberals and drawn to social associate member to the next morning simon appeared on the morning show to reiterate his far-fetched theory about obama's marxism. memos from the show's producers revealed the entire third segment was built around the e-mail and you can see those e-mails in the b

seen things that are military bases built north of australia as well as the air and naval applied in the united states in that region as an offensive containment against china. i was a good a chance to speak to the military officials, what would you say is a response to their can turn? >> for one thing, but we would like us who think engagement with china. would like to approach these issues together. we would like some more transparency in what they are doing, on their military buildup, the things they are buying the capabilities they are acquiring. we would like some more transparency and why they are doing that. we've been very transparent about the fact that we've been in the pacific and we've been in the western pacific now for decades. at least since world war ii we had any continuing a persistent presence there. we are going to insist in freedom of navigation and insist on making sure that goods and ideas can move freely and openly. not only there, but around the world. we can do that better together. the fact that we are in the western pacific is not new. it is something that is a part of what

united states and try to associate some sort of theme with them. the execution was pretty bad for most of it, including an event in annapolis where he spoke at the naval academy at the football stadium, an incredibly windy day. i won't go into the details. it wasn't the best executed event i've ever seen. we parked, i was doing something with v-span that day. we parked in front of c-span. your loyal viewers will be delighted to hear the game change was born right there on north capital street. right, it's north capital street. >> it is. >> in front of c-span as we sat and talked. what we said to ourselves initially was not about a book. it was, in fact, about a movie. if you look at the characters here and how cinematic, in the spring well before sarah palin, well before the financial crisis, there's just so much here. someone should make a movie about it. we talked about various ways of trying to do the story of the campaign. every political reporter who covers these presidential campaigns, whether a great one or less good one says to themselves maybe i can get a book contract out of this. it's very hard, though, to publish political books. we talked

naval base. cubans capable of making it to guantÁnamo could expect to end up in the united states.out to sign an immigration accord, the window of opportunity appears to be closing. for the crew, the bay had begun early. they had hoped to leave the beach just north of santiago by 7 a.m., but first they had to get their little motor boat to water which involved a truck making independent on the function of not one but two internal combustion engines, unreliable in cuba, and their truck broken. after convincing a passing motorist to ferry them to the beach, they departed about an hour late, bidding goodbye to stricken friends and family. after seeing the exiles off, the families dispersed to the small town just north of sanity i go up the road. the site of an epic battle in the cuban spanish-american war. what were the odds of them making it 40 miles down the coast? better than those of fellow exiles who attended 90 miles across the florida straits, where the prevailing winds and currents threaten to drive them into the atlantic. it's an overstatement to call many of the vessels that

the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan,. . no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the theiran people anin absolute might well win. host: this is again from inside "the washington post." it was mr. swanson was their four years later when the house announced peace. he read the message of the japanese surrender. he was 99 years old and he passed away last month. his obituary is found this morning inside "the washington post." will take a short break. when we come back, we converts with -- we are joined with david corn. every senate, we take the morning programs and allow you to listen to them on c-span radio. nancy calo is keeping track of that. >> good morning. every sunday afternoon, beginning at noon, season. your readers 5 network tv talk shows. -- c-span 3 faris 5 network tv talk shows. david appears on four of the five. also appearing on the "meet the press the," ryan's wide search -- brian switzer. "this week." abc's michele bachmann is on there. cox new centerior said to pm.

naval involvement. i think if iran responded with terrorist attacks on american interests or american troops or something to that effect, again, i think the united statesld respond. so i think it will depend on how a scenario unfolds, but i think we should keep in mind that most of these scenarios very quickly deteriorate into a really substantial regional military confrontation that nobody, as you said, would like to see. >> that's right. michael, jamie, thank you very much, both of you. of course, this weekend will be a big one. on monday when president obama meets with mr. netanyahu. >>> the man who had a sexual encounter with tyler clementi took the stand today. in the case against dharun ravi. now known only as m.b. to protect his identity, the 32-year-old told the jury that he met clementi in his dorm room three times in september 2010. he testified that he felt uncomfortable after one encounter when he noticed a web cam pointed at the bed. clementi committed suicide just days after learning that others had been watching these encounters. ravi is accused of spying on him and intimidating him because he's gay. you can see ravi right there. he's fo

he lived in the united states and try to research it some sort of theme. the execution was pretty bad. he spoke to the navalcademy on an incredibly when the day. it was not the best executed event. when we got back, we were doing something with c-span that day. we parked in front of c-span and you're loyal viewers will be delighted today -- to hear that "game change" was born on at north capitol street in front of c-span as we sat and talked. what we said to ourselves was not about a book, it was about a movie. you look at the characters here, and how cinematic this whole thing has been, and again, this is in the spring. well before sarah palin and the financial crisis. we talk about the various ways of trying to do the story of the campaign. whether it is a great one for a last one. i thought, maybe i can get a book contract out of this. how we published a political book in a climate where there is some of news. we were covering it every day and there was some we did not know. we did not know the answers to some basic questions. what role did bill clinton play in hillary clinton's campaign? how did barack

naval battle. after all, the carrier is now the centerpiece of a military theme park extoling the powers of china's navy. the answer was b, around 1% of the united statesudget is dedicated to foreign aid. one cent of your dollar. the average americans of our pollsters thinks that 25% goes to foreign aid. that's for beingrt

naval academy in annapolis and of the cadets that are here from the united states military academy at west point. thank you. [applause] >> finally, i want to express what an honor it is to share this podium with our next speaker you will hear later this morning senator joe lieberman. senator lieberman has been truly one of the giants on behalf of the relationship in the last 24 years on every single issue affecting the relationship i just want to see what an honor is to be here with you this morning. i am here today to talk about the danger to america and to the world. i'm here today to talk about a nation that shouldn't become a nuclear power or possess a threat to other oil-producing nations in the persian gulf, dominate opec and drive up the price of oil commission the what proliferate across the middle east. imagine, if you can, syria, saudi arabia, tomorrow's egypt armed with nuclear weapons. i'm talking about a nation that should have become a nuclear power, could provide the know-how and the devices to international to reservists, to hezbollah, hamas and other radical islamist

guest: i have not seen that movie but i have seen the united states navy's public affairs release on the film. since the navy helped make the film and naval special warfare command was directly involved in it, i would think they only portrayed what they felt could be on classified. american special operations forces have a great many capabilities and a number of them are still classified and will stay that way. host: anyone for my family of army and navy veterans often have a debate over the two divisions in the military. you are a veteran of the army but there is also the navy seals. what are the differences between special operations and navy seals? guest: the journalist max boot hit on the commonalities recently that they share the green berets and the navy seals share courage and extraordinary professionalism. the difference between them is to their parents services, the army and navy. the green berets are focused principally on land warfare. the seals originally, the intent was they supported maritime operations. what has changed over time is because of the focus on two essentially landlocked countries, iraq which has a small port an

the military basins being built in the north of australia as well the air and naval while being applied in the united stateschina. and i would say if you had a chance to speak to these leading military officials like mr. so, what would you say their response to their concerns? >> well, for one thing, what we would like is we would like engagement with china. we would like to approach these issues together. we'd like some more transparency on what they're doing. on their military buildup. the things they're buying, the capabilities that they are -- they are acquiring. we'd like some more transparency why they're doing that. we've been very transparent about the fact we've been in the pacific and we've been in the western pacific now for decades, at least since world war ii we have been a continuing and persistent presence there. we're going to insist on freedom of navigation. we're going to insist on making sure that goods and ideas can move freely and openly. not only there but around the world. and we can do that better together. the fact that we are in the western pacific is not new. it is not it is somet