Department of Veterans Affairs - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Veterans Affairs Index / Organizations Transcripts Josh Earnest ...was under fire for questions about the VA 's [Veterans Affairs] ability to manag... ...up around the scandal about why the VA had not effectively managed all of thi... Tommy Vietor ...that he might be the Secretary of the VA [Department of Veteran... ...he might be the Secretary of the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ]. That's amazing. Let me ask yo... Danielle Gray ...McDonough and others, Denis now the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs... ...and others, Denis now the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ] secretary. It's so bizarre we'r... ...than when you're the secretary of the VA , or the secretary of education, or th... Vivek Kundra ...we were doing within agencies, like the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs], t... ...doing within agencies, like the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ], to the broader economy on healt... Maya Shankar ...the first projects we ran was with the Department of Veterans Affairs [VA]. We offered this program to vet... ...the Department of Veterans Affairs [ VA ]. We offered this program to vets t... ...etc. And we ended up working with the VA to try to improve outreach. They said... ...and energized people. I remember the Department of Veterans Affairs threw a pizza party after that firs... Michèle Flournoy ...He was the deputy secretary at the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs]. I... ...He was the deputy secretary at the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ]. It was clear that one of us neede... Chuck Hagel ...of the Veterans Administration [ VA ] until 1982. Earlier in his career h... ...in the Defense Department and in the VA —to make them interchangeable, to mak... ...just seamlessly moved right to the VA where they have rights, and so on an... ...have rights, and so on and so on. The VA and the Pentagon had been working o... ...since I was deputy administrator of the VA in 1981 and 1982, and they had neve... ...upset, very upset about this. So the VA wanted to have its system, the Defens... ...of those, they didn't work because the VA wanted some of this and the Pentago... ...Eric Shinseki was the secretary of VA , good guy, and the VA entir... ...the secretary of VA, good guy, and the VA entire Appropriations Committee both i... ...is a business decision. This is not a VA medical decision or a Pentagon medica... Show more... Michael Mullen ...duty, you don't know much about the VA [Department of Veteran Affairs]. An... ...and then turning them over to the VA . And I was trying to, myself... Mark Lippert ...but at least work closely with the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs]. W... ...but at least work closely with the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ]. We were involved in the Arlingto... John Kerry ...for tuition. Terrible situation in the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs... ...tuition. Terrible situation in the VA [ Department of Veterans Affairs ] hospitals. So we became the mos... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism