 I'm Professor John Hattener for the Emeritus Professor of Maritime History here at the War College. I was here during the presidency of Admiral James Stockdale and we're here today to dedicate this conference room, as the President's conference room, in memory of Admiral Stockdale. Admiral Stockdale, of course, had worked, had been in prisoner of war camp and he had suffered great deprivation and injury in that and won the Medal of Honor. So he was a great figure of his own when he was here and a great example of leadership and a moral approach to studying here. One of the characteristic things that Admiral Stockdale did was every time we had an issue of the Naval War College review, he wrote the President's Forward to it, which he called Taking Stock, which was a great title. Every time you called your eye, it was Stockdale taking stock and it always had an interesting thing to say in it, it was very useful. This book here, Epictetus in Korean, is a very important book. This was a book that he had studied when he was a student during his master's degree. This is a historic philosopher from ancient times and he remembered these writings and this is what carried him through his prisoner of war experience. And this was also a key book in the course that he taught here. This book here is an important one, Foundations of Moral Obligation. This is Professor Joe Brannon, his colleague and partner in this teaching, this course. And these are Brannon's lectures and the best really source about the course of the, what was going on in the course and the details of it and the different philosophical works and writings that the students studied here. This letter from the Naval War College Archives is the letter that Admiral Stockdale gave to the first students and the first time and first iteration of his course here and telling them what to expect as they approached the course. And it's a really wonderful letter talking about what they should depend on, don't memorize the dates, get to the concepts was his idea, so a very important approach. So this is a bus by Felix de Weldon from our museum collection here, which is the Naval History and Heritage Command. This is the original plaster copy. There's a bronze one elsewhere in the Navy, but I think it's one at the Naval Academy. Captain Stockdale, you know, at that time I think when he was on board Oriskini just before, in the ready room there before he went off and before he was shot down, that's the ship. Oriskini, the carrier Oriskini was the ship that Stockdale flew off of when he was shot down in Vietnam, 1965. Here in this furthest picture, here is Vice Admiral and his President of the Naval War College. He was a wonderful man to work with and he always had something important to say to you. He always took away some great idea, really a philosophical idea from him. But he always went back and when he talked to him, he was always talking about his prisoner of war experience and how that had formed his personality, almost everything he said, either from the stage and speaking to the faculty and the student body or in private conversation. And you'd walk into the quarters of the President's house here and the first thing you'd see was the Medal of Honor Citation signed by the President. Admiral Stockdale's legacy is certainly in the moral foundations and ethical foundations of what an officer does. And so having the President's conference room named for him is something we'll keep that alive and show how important it is, I think, to everyone at the college and then for continuing decades.