he was utterly unpretentious, he didn't talk in pompous cliches. he knew how to laugh and make our people laugh and on top of all of that, he was the greatest jazz musician who ever lived. armstrong was one of the cultural giants of the 20t 20th century. america has never produced a more significant artist. i rank him right alongside aaron copeland and robert frost and frank lloyd wright, but unlike those men, he was also a great entertainer, whose music is and was loved by ordinary people all over the world. in 1964, he actually knocked the beatles off the top of the pop charts with his recording of "hello dolly." aaron copeland never did that. you can see why i was drawn to the idea writing a biography of writing "pops." needless to say i'm not the person who have done so, but i am the first biographer to have had access to 650 reel to real tapes that armstrong made during the last quarter century of his life. many of which contain astonishly candid recordings of his private, o after hours conversations. armstrong switched on hess tape recorder,

to his bosses, the combined chiefs of staff was utterly devoid of self congratulations, and as unpretentious as the man himself. it was only a single sentence long and it read: this force was fulfilled at 02:41 hours 1945 sign eisenhower. i would submit that only dwight eisenhower would have taken such a humble approach to one of the history's greatest moments. and indeed, world war ii took its toll on eisenhower, a soldier who was as hard boiled in his own way as george patton. for all of his military experience, ike detested war and everything that is before. he once said i hate war is only a soldier who has lived it can. only one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity that ike understood that sometimes war is inevitable is beyond question. yet so profound was his experience that as the president of the united states he was moved to state in 1953 the following. every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final cents theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not closed. whether in the war war peace eisenh

fair, unpretentious, solidarity, just, in harmony with its environment, its culture, modern, rule offreedom of expression and association, building the land, all of this together with the modern economy strong, robust, competitive, open, and territorial as much as possible where basic needs of the people are met and with a unitary state, one that is strong, yet decentralized and regional. we need to take these 18 months to plan the programs and concrete actions to do what we need to do. and santo domingo we talked about 34 billion in ten years. it is an amount that calls for a lot of investment, investment that would be necessary, public assistance, but also private and from foreign sources. remind you that the plan presented today has to do with just the next 18 months. we had a lot of discussion the last few weeks about management mechanisms. establishing temporary commission for haitian reconstruction