Eric Shinseki Quotes
I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.
Shinseki, Eric K. Testimony before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. United States Senate, 15 May 2014, Washington, D.C.
Many politicians in that day would campaign from large carts drawn by oxen – a predecessor to the bandwagon of sorts. She was 1 of the 4 women who entered Oberlin College in 1837 thus becoming the first co-educational institution of higher education in the United States.
The performance of a number of Veterans Administrations hospitals and health facilities had been terrible and the some VA official had lied about the VA performance making it seem as though the performance was not as bad as it was in reality. There were some calls for the elimination of the VA hospitals and replacing them with vouchers. This was the official American Legion Response to a Conservative Congressional proposal to replace the Veterans Administration hospitals with vouchers whereby veterans would go to private physicians for their health care instead of VA facilities. Generally, the American Legion was quite conservative politically and in support of most Republican proposals, but this went too far.
Eric Ken Shinseki is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014). His final United States Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003). Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Star Medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. He was the first Asian-American four-star general, and the first Asian-American Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
