floor at walter reed. this is the u.s. army hospital now closed. it was the preeminent hospital that was separated. the nurse mother decided their shouldn't be mixing of races among the nurses. if you had something like 9981 it didn't mean you actually intergraded completely. >> was there a legal challenge? >> the case of the nurse in 1955 her best friend was a white nurse. the white nurse was the one that wanted to push the fact that this was illegal. the black nurse was like, you know what, i'll just deal with it. what ends up happening is the nurse mother gets transferred and retired. that's when you had an integration of the nurses at walter reed. a lot of times it's individuals that make the difference. one other thing i'm asked about is black male nurses and where they sit-in the conversation. in the 1940s census they indicate there was 144 black male nurses that define themselves as black male nurses. there are black nurses out their but there are so few of them. >> it seems like you can uncover thi

and i went out to walter reed. and here were my two black men, side by side. they looked up at me and said, ma'am, you sure do get around. >> that's a good story. >> so that -- i think that was the most personal story and there were -- they were wonderful. i don't know where they are now. >> but it's interesting, i was thinking about this as we're talking. i don't have any interviews with any of the red cross workers. >> oh, you should. >> now i have one with you. what were your duties like? >> well, you just did what y you -- what you wanted to. i mean, i wanted to be -- i wanted to be with the vietnamese so i worked in there special forces. they had a special forces hospital. and i -- one time i couldn't get over the infection that we have. that was our -- in the philippines they would come in and they would be infected and you could -- it was just a terrible odor. but i went into this special forces vietnamese and there were two in a bed and, you know, it was clean but it wasn't our hospital clean. and there was no infection at all. no smell, no -- and i tu

they sent a car and shipped me over to walter reed. they took a bunch of pictures and said it was a mild heart attack. they put a couple of stints in to open up the arteries. i had a block. they caught it early, which was really good. it could have been worse. i was in the hospital for two nights. they kicked me out and said no work for two weeks. so i took two weeks off. the chief told me to take a month off. steven mnuchin tells me to take several weeks off because we were going to announce new tariffs. he said you don't want to be tv for this. that was a joke. i was called a couple of times. the first time he called, he asked how long i was taking off, that's how long are you taking off? -- how long are you taking off? i said two weeks. he said you will miss a lot. he called a second time and let go of it. he tweeted me. we were both coming from the g7 in northern quebec, which was a very interesting meeting. he went to singapore for the north korea and china meeting. we were going back to washington . and he was in singapore when h

. >> at walter reed army hospital, former president eisenhower suffered his seventh heart attack andent on the critical list in august. but the general had never taken kindly to defeat. and when president and mrs. johnson visited him at walter reed hospital, they found that he had rallied and was in good spirits. as allied commander in world war ii, one of the republics he helped to liberate was czechoslovakia, pushing the nazis from their boundaries but once again, they were ravaged by the forces of aggression. on august 20th, armys of the soviet union, poland, hungary, bu bulgaria seized control of the country in a few hours. soviet embassy lights burned late that hot and muggy evening in washington. even as russian tanks rumbled into prague, soviet ambassador called white house special assistant to present moscow's official reason for the invasion. the memory duandum said it was protect the country against s subversive sounded hollow indeed. >> we look back 1968, america in turmoil. deborah, richmond, virginia, go ahead, please. >> caller: happy mother's day. good morning. it's al

and the museum moved in 1968 from its now former location on the national mall to walter reed army medical center in washington, d.c. where it was housed for about 30 years before moving to its new home here in silver spring where we are today. the museum today is a museum of 25 million objects. most of those are in five major collections. but the genesis of that, that collection the core of the 25 million objects is in civil war medicine. and that's the tour that we're about to senator today. and so, come along. we are inside our civil war medicine exhibit here at the national museum of health and medicine. we're starting our visit in front of the skull here of an individual from a particularly reknowned african american regiment stood up in 1863. we don't even know the name of this person but he was a soldier with the 54th massachusetts. called up in boston and took various actions before arriving at the battle of battery wagner in july of 1863 and this soldier would have been with the 54th when they made their initial assault on the evening of july 18, 1863 but you can see that this sol

the marine spent 15 months recovering at walter reed. >> prior to the service i played lacrosse, wrestling, always swam at the beach pool. after i got hurt the first thing i wanted to do was get back to that status again. >> reporter: kevin is active again with the help of various prosthetics, but when it comes to swimming, current waterproof legs have limitations. >> it's just basically attaching a small anchor to your leg and that's not going to be something that is beneficial. >> reporter: the fin is designed to give swimmers a more natural sensation while swimming and they don't have to switch out prosthetics when getting in and out of water. exciting? >> very exciting. >> reporter: what's it like to know that the leg was made with a 3d printer? >> that just blows my mind. i'm mostly excited about being able to swim balanced again, having that feeling of feeling like i have another leg again. >> reporter: kenneth craig, cbs news, east meadow, new york. >> researchers hope to bring the fin to the market in three to five months. ng up all- new at 6:00 ti-million dol >>> right now some of

i got out at walter reed, i was integrated with the dc va hospital. it was really cramped, really busy and a hassle to get to. when i moved to leesburg i got integrated with martinsburg va which was a polar opposite, very nice, clean are, not as crowded and really good staff. i sit in the middle of both of those hospitals and , not as crd and really good staff. i sit in the middle of both of those hospitals and it is an hour away but they haven't helped me much. they are closer to the hospitals but the same distance away from i drive. it has not helped me. i feel you can't just throw money at the problem. it takes a wide range of changes in the cultural shift. >> host: thank you. we have seen this. >> guest: he hit on a lot of points we have been hearing and he described the problem with the choice program. an hour away from each facility but having trouble using it because of these strict rules that govern it. the thing they will try to get at is to look at the veteran situation. they look at distance and other factors like traffic to figure out, he

. >> at walter reed army hospital, former president eisenhower suffered his seventh heart attack and went on the critical list in august. but the general had never taken kindly to defeat. when president and mrs. johnson visited him at walter reed hospital, they found that he had rallied and was in good spirits. as allied commander in world war ii, one of the countries general eisenhower helped liberate was czechoslovakia, pushing nazi tyranny from its boundaries. but just 23 years later, the central european republic was again ravaged by the forces of aggression. on august 20th, armies of the soviet union, poland, hungary, bulgaria and east germany invaded czechoslovakia, seizing control of the country in a few hours. soviet embassy lights burned late that hot and muggy evening in washington, even as russian tanks rumbled into prague. the soviet ambassador called to present moscow's official reason for the invasion. the memoranda which said that soviet-blocked forces had acted at the request of czech leaders to safeguard the country against subversive elements sounded hollow indeed.

so walter reed. >> what was it like discovering that you had this way out? in a way. something was telling me to focus on this and everything will be all right. >> reporter: notice, he doesn't have a state-of-the-art prosthetic arm, just a plain old hook which he finds works best. i'm still struggling with your prosthetic, which seems like a pretty crude device, and what you can produce with it. >> it may be crude, but it's some of the best technology i think there is out there. this just feels like it's more of a part of me. >> reporter: he and his wife, jen, run an art gallery in a small new england town where he showcases the work of local artists. with his disability check from the va he can afford to be a starving artist. >> it had a lot of the elements i like to paint. >> reporter: he is a man doing what he wants with his life. most people who saw you on the street would say boy, that guy got a tough break. >> yeah, i don't see it that th way. suffering an injury like this sort of has a way of making you focus on what's important in life. >> late winte

michael sheahan died at walter reed this past monday.will be remembered most perhaps for what he wrote just before the turn of this century back in 1998, a secret memo urging the u.s. government to the cut off financing to a man named osama bin laden. and to stop giving sanctuary to an organization named al qaeda. after sounding the warning within his own government, sheahan became frustrated at the lack of action. in looking back on his life as a soldier, statesman and scholar, "the new york times" this week quoted him as asking his colleagues at the time, what is it going to take to get them to hit al qaeda? does al qaeda have to attack is the pentagon? of course, that was just one of the targets on 9/11 and sheahan helped secure the other, new york city. he ran the then brand-new nypd counter-terrorism bureau and he turned it into a world class organization in its field rivalling federal agencies. mike was born and raised in new jersey. i always thought the reason we got along so well was we shared an exit in neighboring towns and bot

who lost their lives in the genoa bridge disaster incredibly rare may hit the post three times walter reed or hit the crossbar once coach walter sardi's prostrations got the better of him and he was sent off for arguing with the ref massai had something to smile about though in the eighteenth minute and jacko netted the game's only goal to ensure that one mill when. time is running out for nigeria to sort out problems in their football federation or face a ban from the international game football's governing body pfieffer has given them until monday for the government but leader of the federation to step down and hand back control to the elected president of the football body if that doesn't happen nigeria could be banned from all international competitions including next month's qualifiers for the africa cup of nations. formula one's fernando alonso may be leaving the sport at the end of the season but he's already achieving success in other branches of motor sports the spaniard was part of the winning team on sunday on the latest stop for the world insurance championship along so's toyot

. >> host: walter reed. >> guest: absolutely. it's hard for her because i was always such an emotional wreck but i couldn't have picked a better person to work with and i consider her not only someone i admire greatly but -- . >> when you came out of the process what do you think you took from it? it had the experience. >> guest: i get that question a lot. their a lot of women out there who want to write their story which i think is amazing and it's hard. a lot of people think the bookwriting is hard to case you are getting the story out and away you haven't been able to do elsewhere. i agree to a certain extent but it's also hard work. you are working -- working with someone else the co-author who doesn't necessarily share all of your views. kelly and i don't agree on all the issues. to say i'm going to write about this from your vantage point i'm if i'm going to question it but write about it from your vantage point and i can be a challenge. you have to find the right person and you have to be willing to put yourself out there.

walter reed, chair of the naacp told president truman the story in the oval office and he said i had no idea it was as bad as that. we have got to do something. as when thereafter there was the executive order. heard they were being thrown out of army trucks. your home, bye. i think that had an impact on him as well. >> this notion of this evolution or devolution from world war i to world war ii, i guess in terms of the aftermath, the same kind of response. maybe not as organized as after world war i but the incidence are so happening. to what degree do you both witness and specifically in your military career have you seen 30 years is a long enough time to see change over time, how different were things? you mentioned being from rural mississippi. you mentioned how important that was. how did places like that change over the course of your career? how do people respond to you differently as you were making you with the military ranks? >> some places have not changed. overall whenever uniform i get the proper respect because even if they don't respect me, they respect the uniform or

having been shut down in iraq she met john mccain for the first time while she was recovering at walter reed hospital and he joked, she writes, that he and i both flew in to a missile and that did not take much skill, it's what you do "after words" that matters. that's part of the statement from and a tammy duckworth. >> yeah, that is great. he was always self effacing and had a tremendous sense of humor. i will miss that. the daily joke, and having fun. that is not surprise me and i think it's another thing that people underestimate and i know so many senators, republicans and democrats, whose worldview has been shaped by john mccain. he's taken them under his wings and armed services committee has been a tersely bipartisan and gives everybody their voice. takes him on trips and even the liberal democrat come away from that not necessarily agreeing on politics across the board but john having a better understanding of why it's important for our country to stand up for the cause of freedom around the world. i could give you a list of names of offenders who i know their worldview has been sha

you know, the first journalist -- >> host: walter reed. >> guest: she gets it. it was probably hard for her because she was such an emotional wreck talking about the story but i couldn't have picked a better person to work with and i consider her that only someone i admire greatly but just truly a friend. >> host: coming out of the process, sitting off to the publisher, what do you think you took from it come first-time book author you had some notes for putting together a form you could explain to the world trade do i get the question a lot. there are a lot of women who want to write their stories which i think is amazing. it's hard to a lot of people take look right is cathartic because you're getting the story out in a way that meeting isn't, you have been able to do elsewhere. i would agree with it to certain extent but it's also really hard work because when your week with someone, a co-author who may be doesn't necessarily share all of your youth. kelly and i don't agree on all the issues. it takes a big co-authored six i'm going to write about this from y

walter reed it, thought it was terrific. in those days you had to get in front of the camera, the film had to be processed all that stuff. and then about a quarter to 6:00 in the afternoon he called me and said sorry to tell you this but we just got some footage of a fire in new orleans. we really want to run that footage of a fire and i knew that there was no point in arguing with him. i said how much time are you going to give me? he said can you explain why the russians moved into czechoslovakia in 45 seconds? i said sure. ic -- i can do in it 45 seconds. and it was sort of soliloquy but that was the nature of the news then. if you had footage of a great fire new orleans, you're going to run that footage and that was on the day that the russians moved in. host: were you still the lead? guest: yeah, but it was 45 -- host: robert in missouri. you're nerkt. caller: good morning, gentlemen, how you doing? host: good morning. caller: i'm really enjoying the program this morning. as black american, i remember when president ken

johnson visited -- at walter reed hospital they found that he had rallied and was in good spirits. as allied commander in world war ii, one of the countries general eisenhower held liberate was czechoslovakia, pushing [null] germany from its boundaries. but just 23 years later, they were again ravaged by the forces of aggression. on august 20, armies of the soviet union, poland, hungary, bulgaria, and east germany invaded czechoslovakia. seizing control of the country in a few hours. so the embassy lights burned late. even as russian tanks rumbled, soviet ambassador -- called specialist system -- to present moscow's official reason for the invasion. the memorandum, which vets the soviet bloc forces and acted at the request of czech leaders, to safeguard the country against suppressive elements, sounded hollow, indeed. >> from the summer of 1968, and the courtesy of the johnson library in the johnson lighthouse, back to your phone calls as we look back 50 years, 1968, american turmoil, deborah, richmond, virginia, go ahead, please put >> good morning, it is on -- and has always been

trial, which is a prime boost strategy, originally pioneered by debbie burke when she was at the walter reed program, still our only successful vaccine trial, the rv 144. this is the next generation of rv 144 and is in a field in southern africa and enrolling very well. in the area of cure, the focus is still on the reservoirs. we've moved somewhat away from trying to get a sterilizing cure and more into areas where he might have something like functional remission. hacking you get the reservoir sophia sent that people might be able to get off drugs for some time? like a remission in a malignancy? if you think about that as an analogy. brad jones, if you want to learn about this, he was here at the dcc farm, unfortunately we lost him. he moved to new york. he's an extra ordinarily young researcher. there was a lot of enthusiasm in this area for finding people acutely infected and getting them treated might reduce the reservoir enough to have a real impact on cure. we had a number of studies. unfortunately it turns out the reservoir is established very early in infection, and that may not be

trial, 702, a prime booster strategy originally pioneered by [indiscernible] when she was at the walter reed program. still are only successful vaccine trial. this is a next generation and it is in the field in southern africa and it has been enrolling very well. in the area of qr, the focus is still on the reservoirs. we have moved i think somewhat away from trying to get a sterilizing fewer and more into areas where we might have something like functional remission. how could you get the reservoir so quiets and that people might be able to be off the drug for some time? like a remission in her malignancy. if you think about that as an analogy. brad jones, if you want to learn about this, was a terrific plenary here at the d.c. farm. him, hetunately lost moved to new york, but he's an extraordinaire young researcher and there was a lot of for finding people that were acutely infected and getting them effectively treated as reducing the reservoir enough to have a real impact on the qr. we had a number of studies and unfortunately, turns out the reservoir is established very early in infectio

i got out at walter reed in 2013 and was integrated with the d.c. v.a. hospital. you felt like a number. it was very busy. it was a hassle to get to from all of the traffic. when i moved to leesburg, i was integrated with the martinsburg v.a., which was the polar opposite. very nice, cleaner, not as crowded, really good stuff. ff.good sta the hospital is about an hour a way. the choice program would be more effective, but they haven't helped much with it. they have referred me to locations where they are closer to the hospitals, but the same distance away from my drive. it hasn't been effective for me. that yoully feel can't just throw money at the problem. ranges take a wide of changes and a cultural shift to adopt these policies. guest: he hit on a lot of points we have been hearing. he describes the problem with the choice program. he is an hour away from each facility, but is having trouble using it because of strict rules that govern it. they are going to try to get at looking at a veteran's situation. they would look distance and other factors like traffic t

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wear fortunate to have -- we're fortunate to have a partnership with the walter reed medical center,cientists at that facility who developed the vaccine. we're working in conjunction to take it into the clinic. maria: characterize where we are in the opioid crisis. this is coming as the use of prescription opioids is still very high, right? >> it's extremely high. maria: we need to make sure people are aware of this. >> indeed. the crisis is continuing to get worse. the most recent data show that 53,000 americans died from opioid overdose deaths in 2016. almost half of those deaths contained fentanyl. that's a more powerful version than heroin in many ways, 5 # o0 times stronger. we as a company are working on a longer acting opioid overdose product that we think we can file for approval in 2020. maria: there's new research that shows that doctors are still prescribing as many opioid pain killers as they were 10 years ago. you're still seeing the kind of prescriptions that are coming out of doctors offices, even with this crisis. why hasn't education and awareness helped that? >> it'