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Title: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: 8manpick on October 01, 2012, 09:45:24 AM: Gen. Martin Dempsey Landon Lecture today at 11:30 in McCain. First I heard of it was this morning, but it sure is good that we promoted the crap out of an SNL writer coming to do a comedy show last weekend :flush:

Live stream: http://t.co/FrhZCDLR (http://t.co/FrhZCDLR)
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: ben ji on October 01, 2012, 12:36:24 PM: Man, KSU really knows how to pull in the studs for lectures.

During my 4 years we had something ridiuclous like Bill Clinton, Bush W, Rumsfield, Robert Gates and prob a couple others I am forgetting
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: p1k3 on October 01, 2012, 12:42:39 PM: Quote from: ben ji on October 01, 2012, 12:36:24 PM
Man, KSU really knows how to pull in the studs for lectures.

During my 4 years we had something ridiuclous like Bill Clinton, Bush W, Rumsfield, Robert Gates and prob a couple others I am forgetting

I saw Clinton and Rumsfied
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: 8manpick on October 01, 2012, 12:42:53 PM: I've been here since fall '06, and there are some unbelievable names on here

http://www.k-state.edu/lectures/landon/past.html

In addition to the ones that ben ji named: CIA director, ex-president of Mexico, another Chairman of JCoS, Supreme Court Justice, Director of US Intelligence.
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: DOOM_Catz on October 01, 2012, 01:22:04 PM: I've seen Sec. of Ag, TWO Joint Chiefs Chairman, Justice of Supreme Court, Director of Nat'l Intel, ex- Mexico President, Director of CIA, Chinese Ambassador, Defense Sec. Gates, Clinton, Rumsfield (the day or so after he resigned!), Bush, that guy who runs Shell Oil, Ted Turner, Gorbachev (which, was awesome), Brian Williams, Director of the FBI, and reaching way back... McCain in 2000... and even father back to Janet Reno in 95.

Hell of a deal, K-State... Hell of a deal.
Title: Landon Lectures
Post by: ednksu on October 02, 2012, 02:04:54 AM: Anyone go to the CJCS speech on 1 Oct?
replay
http://ome.ksu.edu/lectures/landon/bio/dempsey12.html
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: jmlynch1 on October 02, 2012, 09:25:29 AM: Do you think those Washington big wigs ever run into each other at a DC grocery store both wearing the KSU jersey? At first they're a little embarassed but then a sly smug smile sets in. Maybe even a small whisper of EMAW is heard.
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2012, 09:34:29 AM: One time I was testifying in front of the supreme court and Ginsburg threw me a combo fan
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: 0.42 on October 02, 2012, 12:11:35 PM: Quote from: steve dave on October 02, 2012, 09:34:29 AM
One time I was testifying in front of the supreme court and Ginsburg threw me a combo fan

:D
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: theKSU on October 02, 2012, 08:06:36 PM: That speech Rumsfeld gave was probably the most-covered one of his career. I don't know anything about this Joint Chiefs guy--was it any good?
Title: Re: Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Campus
Post by: 8manpick on October 02, 2012, 08:44:11 PM: Yeah Rummy was like a day or two after he was removed from his job. Pretty incredible. CJCoS this time was fairly uneventful, but a pretty high ranking official nonetheless.