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Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter delivers his remarks during a renaming ceremony of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2013. The Center was renamed in honor of the 19th Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.

Deputy Secretary Carter delivers his remarks at the William J. Perry Center

Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter delivers his remarks during a renaming ceremony of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2013. The Center was renamed in honor of the 19th Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.

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