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4:45 pm Registration | 5:30 pm Lecture with Wine Reception
Marines' Memorial Theater, 2nd Floor, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco

$10 Marines Memorial & World Affairs Members | $25 Non-Members

This special event is co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California._
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General Eric Shinseki is President Barack Obama's Secretary of Veterans Affairs. General Shinseki is a former Army Chief of Staff and 38-year Army veteran who served two combat tours in Vietnam where he was seriously wounded. He is the first Asian American to lead the department and only the third Asian American ever appointed to a Cabinet post.

Upon being sworn in at the Nation’s seventh Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary Shinseki said: “The overriding challenge I am addressing from my first day in office is to make the Department of Veterans Affairs a 21st century organization focused on the Nation’s Veterans as its clients.”

The VA is second only to the Department of Defense in size within the Executive Branch. The VA currently provides health care for 5.5 million veterans, processes disability compensation payments for 3.4 million veterans, and must process the educational and training benefits for those covered by the G.I. bill.

As the speaker for the George P. Shultz Lecture Series, General Shinseki will outline how he is going to streamline the VA and its operations.