thank you to the atlantic council for its commitment to the trans-atlantic relationship and for the work that quvee done in greece and i'm very happy that you're broadening the agenda of your interventions. by looking at issues which are also very much at the center of our priorities, issues such as climate change, resilient cities. they're very much related to the new agenda that we want to pursue as the country is coming out of a crisis. i'm here literally six months to the day when we received a very clear mandate by the greek people to change the country. to leave the crisis behind tooned drive a path towards and to drive a path towards growth. we're coming to washington with a broad delegation, at a time when there are already some very clear results in terms of us being able to actually implement our strategy. we're also coming at a time of great geopolitical turbulence, but also at a time when the greek-american relationship is, in my mind, the best it's ever been. it's an opportunity to take stock of what we have been able to achieve, but also to set a new sort of more ambitious

prime minister a warm welcome, thank you to coming to atlantic council. we are delighted you start with our meeting here before you meet president trump at the white house. after you met with our international advisory board in september on the sideline of the u.n. general assembly. the prime minister joins us this morning as part of the future initiatives. in the series, we welcome head of state and ministers to discuss challenges facing the trans atlantic community and opportunities for deep enga engageme engagement. promoting leadership and strategy with shape and secure a strong atlantic alliance. it is sometimes considered an american organization, it is really a transit atlantic, a global organization that brings together friends and allies to shape the global future. mr. prime minister, your first six months in office and what a six month it had been. investors are taking note and i am hoping more and more u.s. investors will take notes. cuts on property taxes and corporate taxes are on the horizon and unemployment has fallen 18% with the influx of

the sun rose over the atlantic cloudless blue sky that morning. in the woods north of fort front line federal troops were in position waiting for orders to assault the great fort. according to general terry's attack plan, the naval ambardment would cease at prearranged time and then the soldiers from the army of the fort.would rush the the troops would make the assault in three brigades. one after another, aiming for western plank of the fort's land face overlooking the cape fear river. time, 2,000 men in a composed ofe sailors and marines drawn from would assaultt fort fisher's northeast bastion. the fort where the land face met the sea face at water's edge. naval brigade force which was admiral porter's idea was of volunteersely and they faced a deadly challenge. the fort overrge approximately one mile of open largely armed with nothing more than handguns and cutlasses. at 3:35 this that afternoon, the ceased fire and the warships blew their steam whistles which was the call for the assault to begin. in charge of the naval brigade officer,year-o

navy, to do important work in the japanese theater of war and the atlantic ocean as well. you can see the camaraderie of the women working on an assembly line operation using actual conveyor belts, and this was an important coming together for women from all over the country. once the waves were created, it was possible for a young enlisted woman who hadn't been to college, if she tested high for aptitude. she would be routed into the top-secret code breaking operation as well. women ended up writing troop train was from oklahoma, california, colorado, to join the code breaking effort. one of my favorite anecdoáes, one of the women i interviewed who actually came from a very affluent family on the upper east side, her parents did not want her to join the waves. it was very scandalous at first for women joining the military. there were rumormongering campaigns that the women were basically prostitutes and that was why they were going into service. so some families were resistant, but this woman, jane topsail, took the subway from the upper east side of manhattan to enable

. -- on the western and atlantic railroad. they had orders to destroy a stockpile of supplies, which hurt the men's feelings quite a bit because they had been living on half rations for quite some time and they get to the station and the result is food. the men got as much food as they could in their haversack's, and the rest of it they burned. an unknown staff officer came with orders to march to graysville. whoops go back. , which is just down the line on the western atlantic railroad down here. cleburne didn't think it was a good idea to leave the supply wagons, and so he rejected that order on his own authority, which shows a little bit of confidence the man had developed since the battle of shiloh. he was willing to ignore general hardy's orders because he thought this would be a better choice. often times, soldiers don't do that. but around midnight, another officer, staff officer from bragg, came with orders to ford the chickamauga creek down below graysville, down here. to bivouac on the other side. cleburne ignored th

in fact, atlantic city just saw its bond rating improve for the second time in as many months. proof that our collaborative and cooperative approach to turning atlantic city around is the right path to take. we owe a tremendous gratitude to lieutenant governor sheila oliver and her team at the department of community affairs for this progress. expecting chants of, sheila! sheila! [ laughter ] our people want new jersey to stand at the forefront of the national fight for justice. so we've worked together to allow the expungements of records of residents whose futures have been held back because of past convictions. once again, we've given residents on parole or probation their right to vote. and we are giving our proud immigrant community the ability to earn a driver's license. we received the far reaching and transformative recommendations of the criminal sentencing and disposition led by former chief justice and the former president of noble and i also want to thank senator sandra cunningham and nelie po for serving on the commission. let's all of us recommit to enacting its r

carolina basketball is one of those marquee programs both in the atlantic coast conference and across the country. college basketball has changed across the years and certainly the biggest change is with integration. in 1910, it was all white teams. the first black basketball player at north carolina was charlie scott. in 1966. he became an nba hall of famer. we have had tremendous former black players. michael jordan. a lot of the successive carolina basketball has come from black players. it was an all-white team in 1910. when the acc was formed in 1953, that set in motion what is now known as acc basketball. acc, four years into the carolina went 32-0, undefeated national champions, and beat wilt chamberlain in triple overtime in the national championship game. that game changed basketball in the acc. when north carolina won, there were 10,000 people at the airport when they came back. it was the first televised game in the state of north carolina, the national championship game. so for a lot of reasons, it took off in the 1950's with that national championship team including lenny

atlantic sunrise, 2,500. line three relacement in minnesota 3,000. atlanta pipeline which has challenges, there is going to be about 1,200 construction laborers on it. we have i saw one of the representatives here from western pennsylvania, there's a cracker plant that has 7,500 construction workers on that facility. so the potential is incredible. and as i said, we've seen an absolute thriving, the energy sector and our organization, oil, gas, we also support wind, solar, we're doing a big nuclear facility in georgia. what are some of the challenges? i'm at least encouraged on thursday the president is going to propose changes to nepa to expedite the permitting process, the environmental review process. we talk about infrastructure, want as much money for that as we can get. but when infrastructure projects and energy projects take ten years, 12 years, i'm not going to go through the list of them but i have a project in taos, new mexico, an airport project, over 20 years to get the approval for a runway expansion. another project where it's a roadwa

at the atlantic city festival. went to where the woodstock festival was going to be held. , it was twothere weeks before the festival started. we started camping out. started tore people come in. that they were going to be taking applications to work for the festival. and the rest of my group went up and we applied for jobs. i worked for food for love. my friend worked security. the things i remember about aboutock was it was more really gathering the tribes together. people were coming together from all over the world. it wasn't just a group of people from atlanta, people from california or new york. we met people from england, from other countries. we met them from all over the united states. was people coming together. the music was very important. that was the music of our time. meaning to us. it's like they were singing to our souls. one thing that really impressed were people out there who were woodstock was not that. thevalues. post, the bird of peace and the dogs of war in 1970. charles schultz used the nam

part, that atlantic ocean is a cushion that we bank on. making sure that we keep the caribbean lake free of those european presences is another way that we put up those borders, those barriers. we lean on that navy to keep the other ships out of the way. this is why we will have an intensification of immigration law. it is not enough to say we don't want catholics to come. we have to look at catholics really closely, inspect them thoroughly to make sure they are not also concealing other ways of being affected. -- of being defective. people are always surprised at the amount of time that border inspectors will come once we get the new laws, how much they will spend. measuring distance between your peers,he size of your the coverture of a man's penis. the lengths of their legs, etc.. we are always looking for something to take ourselves out from the inside. internationally, what did it look like for the united states? the u.s. spends the first part of the war trying to sell the notion that the americans are peacemakers. they are brokers. on

in all of this, the trans atlantic relationship is key. not only in security terms, but also beyond the security paradigms, ranging from dealing with the climate crisis to handling the challenges of digitization. all of these are problems no country can solve on its own where we would be infinitely weaker if we dealt with it on our own, where we need collective power for standing our ground and for leveraging. >> let us go straight to you. >> thank you. thank you for what you said. in my life, my career, i was very much involved in europe. first in french-german cooperation. she had very important duties in the german federal internministry. from the outside, i had the chance of being posted in the 1980's a couple of years before the fall of the berlin wall. i had the chance to be introduced to some of the actors of the reconciliation between france and germany. also in the younger generation. those people have inspired me a lot, and i think emily is right to say the context of the european situation completely changed. people who lived th

how the revolution and atlantic world touched arrest left-hand a ireland and many others. what tells us about the british army in which richard saint george soldier at how it respond ed to the challenges of fighting a difficult war than a foreign and hostile environment thousands of miles from home. students of war in military culture. the strenlts and weaknesses of the weapons systems that opposing armies employ determine tactical options. in addition, what soldiers wear reflects the values of the societies they serve both stylistic as well as the norms and traditions of the organizations to which they belong. it's also important to realize that what an army wears and carries, what it goes to war changes in the course of a conflict. the experience teaches officers and men what works and what does not. what should be retained or jet sans. i must acknowledged my fascination with military culture reflects one of my guilty pleasures. i pursued my undergraduate studies in the 1970s and youthful enthuse yampl led to my being seduced. while that confession, i'm unapologetic. i f

why did you cross the atlantic? we're crossing the atlantic because in addition to the problem, we have some solutions. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, rabbi cooper. and i would just say that we have discussed that as a possibility for the commission. i -- i know there are some commissioners that have some questions. i'll just state at the beginning that we have succeeded our time, posted time for our hearing today, which was to end at 3:00, but because of the content here and the opportunity we have with such distinguished panelists, i'm going to allow each of the -- each of the commissioners that would like to ask a question. i'll start with commissioner bauer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. rabbi, i think that phone call that just came in was probably the ambassador of either sweden, france, germany or england who wanted to give some unpit on our vote. input on our vote. i don't have a question because we're running late on time. i'll tell you i'll be the one to promise publicly the next committee hearing we'r

i was 16 at the time and they had stopped initially at the atlantic city pop festival and then afterwards we went straight to where the woodstock festival was going to be held at. and when we got there we were there two weeks before the festival even started. so we started camping out and as we camped out, more and more people started to come in. we had found out that they were going to be taking applications to work for the festival. so me and my friend van wing and the rest of my group went up and we applied for jobs and i worked for food for love and van worked for security. the things that i remember about woodstock was that to me when i went up there, it was more about really gathering the tribes together. you know, because people were coming together from all over the world. it wasn't just a group of people from atlanta, georgia. it wasn't just a group of hippies from california or from new york. but we met people from england. we met people from other countries. we met them from all over the united states and they were like-minded. the emphasis was in the people coming together and

they are building the airplanes for the nazis and building the atlantic wall. men are scarce. women are not. cover when a natural she goes behind enemy lines that men do not have. this is where it is important for our national security today. i got interested in this because i was interested in women in combat. a story that happened recently for armed forces. in 1994.and exquisite it is not until 2016 that we have a integrated forces. four years. i saw this coming and i was interested in women in male spaces. know how they behave and how they act. i realize that war is not a male space. war is a bipolar space. you have a male frontline and an occupied nation that is very female. women taking care -- children. it is not a bunch of men. we had to integrate our forces. we are not just woke. we have been fighting in iraq and afghanistan for so long, we learned you have a unit go into a small village deliberate them and it is only women there and they are terrified when it is a bunch of green berets. long ago, we were sending women behind and we called them combat support. the wome

by 2050. [ applause ] >> that's why we're working with our colleagues across the northeast and mid-atlantic states on regional transportation and climate initiative. that encompasses 70 million people and 50 million vehicles. greenhouse gas emissions from transportation have been on the rise for decades and now represent 40% of the state's total emissions. unless we take on transportation, we won't meet our objectives. and i get that this is going to be hard, but together i believe we have a real opportunity and more importantly a responsibility to achieve significant reductions in transportation emissions. [ applause ] >> now, reggie, the regional greenhouse gas initiative that our proposal is based on, has worked for ten years. power plants have adopted clean solutions and funded energy efficiency programs investing $3.3 billion across the region. greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector have also dropped by nearly 50%. applied to the transportation sector, the same market mechanisms can encourage auto makers and fuel suppliers to find efficiencies and deploy cleaner fuels. in additio

overwhelmingly, the audience came from the new york/mid-atlantic area. what the promoters didn't expect is that another 250,000, 300,000 people, showed up. they weren't prepared. because of the last-minute organization of the festival, they didn't have the fencing and ticket booths you'd see at a music festival today. people were coming from all ote directions and they showed up. after a while, the promoters just didn't even try to collect fees. they made it forthrightly, theyn announced it from the stage, this will be a free concert.ertt there have been free concerts before but never at this scale, nothing like it. i think it was that transition from this kind of commercial for-profit concert for this free event where hundreds of thousands of people showed up and had to take care of themselves. that's when woodstock became woodstock. >> let's bring in our viewers and listeners. bob from boston, were you there 50 years ago? >> caller: yes, i was. i was 16 years old. i was up in new hampshire working at a summer camp there. like all the counselors they ha

we have the atlantic coast pipeline or dakota access pipeline. i had over 1,600 laborers on that job, and i'm not talking about for a week or a month, but for a year or more. rover pipeline, 3,000 construction workers, multiple-year project. atlanta sunrise pipeline, 2,500. line 3 replacement in minnesota, 3,000. atlanta coast pipeline which has its challenges which i'll talk about in a second, there is going to be about 1,200 construction laborers on it. we actually have, i saw one of the representatives here for pennsylvania, there's a plant with 7,500 construction workers on that facility. so the potential is incredible. and as i said, we've seen an absolu absolute, you know, thriving in the energy sector. oil, gas, we support wind, solar. we're doing a big nuclear facility in georgia. what are some of the challenges? i'm at least encouraged that on thursday i know the president is going to propose changes to nepa which are desperately needed from our perspective, to expedite the permitting process. when infrastructure projects and energy proj

we are modernizing the port of virginia to make it the deepest on the atlantic coast, so we can welcome the world's largest ships and export our goods to every corner of the globe. i thank you for supporting investments in this important infrastructure because transit systems, bridges, and roads enable virginia to compete in a fast-changing global economy. we have to invest to remain competitive. it's no secret that the current way we fund transportation is simply not sustainable. states across the country are dealing with this. clearly it's good that people are burning less gas and driving cleaner and more efficient cars. but that means revenues are dropping while transportation costs are rising. we need to reform transportation funding this session and start to make new investments in transit to help commuters and low-income people get to work. (applause) we also need to invest in broadband. (applause) because the changing economy is about much more than moving people and goods, it's also about moving information. broadband has become an economic necessity for business, for education,

and celebrated journalist for the atlantic and many other publications. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our panelists [applause] and hannibal, it has been my great honor to invite you to inspire our audience with a selection from your piece. go --."n in the fire --k: hannibal: i guess you could call that a piano. [laughter] and the voice of love, philadelphia's own karen slack. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ what is this rain that falls from the sky? this rain that burns me until i die ♪ [applause] hannibal: i will play better for you tomorrow night. this music is a beautiful struggle which never ends, much like life. it never ends. that is what i like about music. hannibal, it was completely extraordinary and we felt in the music, the pain of the photo. tell us why you decided to write the piece and what you felt when you saw the photo and what were you trying to convey in the music? hannibal: i had first hoped that it was just a movie or something. but it was during the day and of course, they don't show bodies naked during the day. and i st

is a huge link in that chain of events that leads from the ohio river all the way to savannah, the atlantic coast. if you consider the chattanooga, tennessee, it's the dagger thrust against the invitelvitale confederacy, they won with hard marching in july of 1863. it's not written in letters of blood, but the tullahoma does not deserve the obscurity that it's been placed to. thank you for your attention. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> we don't have time for questions. just to keep us on schedule. i will ask my brother to comment on one thing as we wrap up. why has this then been forgotten and how much of that is a factor of rosecrans being his own worst enemy in some ways? >> i think that's a part of it, rosecrans being his own worst enemy. everybody views the battles between bragg and rosecrans through the prism of in september of 1863. and it tends to overshadow everything that's gone before. here's the real fight in north georgia. when in reality, the two rounds before that, stone's river and tullahoma really deserve far more attention. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >>> all

i write for the "new york times" and "the atlantic" and do commentary on television and so forth. when i got involved in politics, i wasn't cynical about it. i'm still not. i don't think i'm naive about politics. i understand there's -- there are down side to it. and there are people who are involved in politics who are not embodiment of virtue and high mindedness. but that's true in every profession in life. i think that politics matters. i think politics is finally and fund mentally about justice. and human flush flourishing and the human good. it matters. most of the people i come across in politics, including the people i disagree with philosophically and in terms of party politics are generally good people. and most people get involved in my experience politics for the right reasons. some of it's mixed. motivations are mixed. personal ambitions are there. again, that's true in every profession. it's the nature of human condition. but most people that i know want to get in politics because they have some ideas that they care about, some causes they want to pursue. and my attit

and the rest of europe at the atlantic council in washington, d.c. he also talked about nato and the u.s. drone strike on the iranian general.

in the meantime, great britain canada, as our mini me on that side of the atlantic, get down there and defend our property, show some muscle. the canadians send military footprint in bermuda, jamaica. as aalso say to be there defensive line so the yes -- the u.s. does not use world war i as a excuse to scoop up the entire caribbean. one of the arguments the canadians will make her being in the region is they will say as a modern state, we also need our own deep south. the way we prove we are a modern state and should have a little more autonomy in the british empire is to have our own people of color that we can control and civilized. jamaica will do that work. we get to show our ability to control ourselves by showing how we can control others, ideally when those others are of color and considered effective in all the ways we have been talking about this semester. the caribbean's -- the caribbean becomes this alternative a tug-of-war, not only for the united states and the people but inhabit the caribbean the empires fighting on the other side. we will either be friends or foes with t

tullahoma is a huge link in that chain of events that leads from the ohio river all the way to savannah, atlantic coast. if you consider the chattanooga, tennessee, the federal presence in chattanooga is the dagger thrust against the vitals of the confederacy, well, before that, the dagger thrust directly into the vitals of chattanooga is the federal army at tullahoma which they won over 11 days of hard marching and fighting in the rain and the heat in june and july of 1863. it is not written in letters of blood, rosecrans was right. but the tullahoma campaign does not deserve the obscurity it has been placed into. ladies and gentlemen, i liked to thank you for your attention. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. thank you very much. we actually don't have time for questions but i will ask my polish brother to comment on one thing as we wrap up. why has this, then, been forgotten? and how much of that is a factor of rosecrans being his own worst enemy? chris: i think everybody views the battles between bragg and rosecrans through the prism of chickamauga and focus on that and

just as significant are the interconnections and immersions with the atlantic world, the western hemisphere, the nation, and global markets ideology and human experiences. one thing is clear -- it is no longer viable to reflectively portray the south, at any time, as separate from the nation or the world. the literature on the histories of the south is far richer for the questions asked in recent decades about the parameters, the essence, and existence of southern history. the narrative of social history race, gender, class remain but are energized by postmodern scholars interrogating the premises of this narratives, voices, expanded archives, and enlarged geographical context. so we gathered 40 scholars in teams of two to cowrite temporal and thematic essays on the scholarship of the south over the past two decades. the result is reinterpreting southern history. the table of contents for which you may find on the nearby seat. we invited five of the authors to join us today to offer thoughts on the process and conclusions and engage your questions about what they learned about southern his

the sun rose over the atlantic horizon and a cloudless blue sky that morning. in the woods north of fort fisher the federal frontline troops were in position waiting for orders to assault the great fort. according to general carry's attack plan, the naval bombardment would cease and then the soldiers from the army of the james would rush the fort. the troops would make the assault and three brigades. one after another. aiming for the extreme western flank of the fort's plan face looking over the cape fear river. men insame time, 2000 a naval brigade composed of sailors and marines drawn from the naval fleet would assault fort fisher's northeast bastion. met thee of the fort land face in the sea face at water's edge. the naval brigade force, admiral porter's idea, was composed entirely of volunteers. they face a daily challenge. overwould charge the fort approximately one mile of open beach, largely armed with nothing more than handguns and compasses. -- cutlasses. the fleet ceased fire and the warships blew steam muscles, the call for the assault to begin. >> l

petersburg railroad better known as the weld and railroad running south to the confederate only atlantic support. the railroad running west to lynch brig the fed the south, and the richmond and then ten railroad running southwest towards greensboro north carolina. by breaking these vital railroad arteries, and focusing his forces around peterborough. the enemy would be deprived of the material necessary to sustain a military campaign, and force them to retreat. james wilson's division of cavalry, and the smaller me from the army of the james would conduct the raid. need warned to grant that moving sheridan to petersburg would allow the confederate mounted arm underweight hampton to ride south and menace wilson. in part to neutralize that threat to the union raiders, and to expand the concept of isolating the northern army of virginia grant decided to send the second and six quarters westward to capture and hold petersburg and south stored railroads. extending the union perimeter all the way to the apple mattocks river above petersburg. in hindsight, sending just to course to completely e

americans would give information about the weather all over the united states, the atlantic, and europe, and the soviets would share the weather from the soviet union. equipment, setting them up before overlord was a mammoth task. the soviets were going to provide local supplies like food. the roots were very dangerous. -- the routes were very dangerous. were flown in, came in through the middle east. crump,oned ralph involved in the lend lease, transporting equipment and material from the middle east and, in this case, material was flown in from the airport, other shipping across the caspian sea, cu. everything had to come in, from the steel mesh used in runways to the high-octane fuel. if russians did not produce this high-octane fuel, it had to be brought in. we were absolutely shocked. it was top-secret. they were not sure where they were going, what to expect. they arrived at these godforsaken places. the guys whoound, set this base up were horrified because everything was in ruins because the germans had gone through ukraine and just done scorched-earth. wells were poisoned, anima

we learn more about it in the atlantic campaign and all of that. pemberton, yeah, i probably kid about him a little too much. he is an absolutely untenable position. a no-win situation. not sure someone like ulysses s. grant could have done much better in the situation, where he is getting orders from both sides. he does make some very terrible blunders throughout the process here. one, the emphasis on benjamin pemberton is absolutely fixated on these 900 calderon -- calgary men moving through mississippi. grant takes his attention and his head is swiveled towards the northeast, towards greer and what he has going on. the while, grant is doing the dirty work behind him and crossing the river before pemberton knows it. then we get into the larger campaign here, and pemberton meeting grant each time east of baker's creek or big black river ridge is just incalculable. why on earth he would do that, except he gets caught in a bad situation. can rectify it. so i feel a little bit for pemberton, but a lot of it was his own making. there is no doubt about