Word: hagel
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Senator Chuck Hagel, a second-term Republican from Nebraska whom some consider a likely candidate for president in 2008, spoke about current military challenges yesterday to a large crowd at the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...
...Hagel received attention earlier this year after a final paper written by four KSG students predicted that he would win the presidency in 2008, but the Senator started his speech off by proclaiming, “I am not here to announce my candidacy for president...
...Both parties will have an immense opportunity to frame their parties,” Hagel said...
...speech and the subsequent questions he took from students in the KSG’s Masters of Public Policy program, Hagel addressed the importance and challenges of maintaining an all-volunteer military, while also stressing the need to make “tough choices” to deal with the current problems facing government spending...
Since the military’s switch to relying purely on volunteer soldiers in the decades since Vietnam, it has become the “best led, best trained, best equipped, and best supported” force America has ever had, Vietnam veteran Hagel said...