Biden Forgets the Name of the Pentagon, and His Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin
‘And I want to thank the Sec — the former general, I keep calling him general, my — my — the guy who runs that outfit over there’
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BIDEN: "It’s my great honor to serve as your commander-in-chief, and I look forward to hearing your active duty and recommendations of how we can work together to keep the American people safe and meet every challenge in the 21st century. So I want to thank you both and I want to thank the former general, I keep calling him general, my — the guy who runs that outfit over there, I want to make sure we thank the Secretary for all he’s done to try to implement what we just talked about and for recommending these two women for promotion. Thank you all. May God bless you all and may God protect our troops. [inaudible] Thank you everybody."
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