John O. Brennan Counterterrorism advisor to President Obama When did his time as a counterterrorism advisor to Obama begin? President Obama then appointed him to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the President's What led to his appointment? In August 2009, Brennan criticized some Bush-administration anti-terror policies,
Did he have a hand in any historically significant counterterrorism?
Did Brennan have a hand in any historically significant counterterrorism?
In late 2008, Brennan was reportedly the top choice to become the next Director of the CIA in the incoming Obama administration. However, Brennan withdrew his name from consideration because of opposition to his CIA service under President George W. Bush and past public statements he had made in support of enhanced interrogation and the transfer of terrorism suspects to countries where they might be tortured (extraordinary rendition). President Obama then appointed him to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the President's chief counterterrorism advisor and a position that did not require Senate confirmation.  In August 2009, Brennan criticized some Bush-administration anti-terror policies, saying that waterboarding had threatened national security by increasing the recruitment of terrorists and decreasing the willingness of other nations to cooperate with the U.S. He also described the Obama administration's focus as being on "extremists" and not "jihadists". He said that using the second term, which means one who is struggling for a holy goal, gives "these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek" and suggests the US is at war with the religion of Islam.  In an early December 2009 interview with the Bergen Record, Brennan remarked, "the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities have to bat 1.000 every day. The terrorists are trying to be successful just once". At a press conference days after the failed Christmas Day bomb attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Brennan said U.S. intelligence agencies did not miss any signs that could have prevented the attempt but later said he had let the President down by underestimating a small group of Yemeni terrorists and not connecting them to the attempted bomber. Within two weeks after the incident, however, he produced a report highly critical of the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies, concluding that their focus on terrorist attempts aimed at U.S. soil was inadequate. In February 2010, he claimed on Meet the Press that he was tired of Republican lawmakers using national security issues as political footballs, and making allegations where they did not know the facts.  Brennan was present in the Situation Room in May 2011 when the United States conducted the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden. He called President Obama's decision to go forward with the mission one of the "gutsiest calls of any president in memory." In the aftermath of the operation, Brennan said that the U.S. troops in the raid had been "met with a great deal of resistance," and bin Laden had used a woman as a human shield. CANNOTANSWER
Brennan was present in the Situation Room in May 2011 when the United States conducted the military operation
"Hold My Hand" is a song and single recorded and written by Dave Davies. The song is Davies' fourth solo single.

Recording

Like the previous three Dave Davies singles, "Hold My Hand" featured Dave Davies' band members from the Kinks providing the backing. It was recorded in 1968 (in and around the Kinks' critically acclaimed LP, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.) It was also one of the last tracks that featured the Kinks' longtime bassist, Pete Quaife.

Release and reception

Dave Davies said in an interview prior to the song's release, "[I]f 'Hold My Hand' does click, I'll be free to do my own cabaret act if I want. I would use all new material, except maybe, a couple of the Kinks' hit records, but given a different treatment so that it suited a solo voice. Probably work with a small group. I'd love to have a go at this sort of act, but you know how things get talked about, then flop off." The single did indeed flop, receiving scant promotion from PYE and only modest airplay, not helped that the off-shore pirate radio stations had been taken off air by then.

After the disappointment of its predecessor, "Lincoln County", the Kinks management still thought a Dave Davies solo career was viable. Therefore "Hold My Hand" was released in 1969 as a standalone single, backed with "Creeping Jean" (which, although it wasn't released on any Kinks albums, it has been a live favourite of Dave Davies' since he started performing solo in the late '90s.) "Hold My Hand" did not chart in any country, even in European countries such as Germany and Holland where Kinks sales had historically held up. "Hold My Hand" would have likely appeared on any Dave Davies solo album had it appeared in the second half of the 1960s, but an album was never released. It however has since appeared on numerous compilations including The Album That Never Was and the reissues of Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) from 1997 onwards. Most notably it appeared on 2011's Hidden Treasures in remastered stereo and demo form, this album finally brought the whole tortured saga of the lost 1960s Dave Davies solo album into full public gaze. Dave Davies put his solo career on hold, not releasing any new material non-related to the Kinks until 1980.

Writer Andy Miller named the "Hold My Hand" single "fabulous."

References

1969 singles
The Kinks songs
Songs written by Dave Davies
Pye Records singles
1969 songs Hand's Cove is a historically significant geographic feature on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in Shoreham, Vermont.  It was from this area that colonial forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold crossed the lake for the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, early in the American Revolutionary War.  It is also home to the only known colonial-era blockhouse in the state.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Description and history
Hand's Cove is an inlet on the east side of Lake Champlain, a short way north of Larrabee's Point in southwestern Shoreham.  Immediately to its north is a shallow rise that projects to the west.  The area's first documented settler was John Earl, who owned the land at the time of the American Revolution.  After the war it was acquired by Rufus Herrick, and was known for a time as Herrick's Cove.  In 1793, Nathan Hand purchased the Herrick property, beginning three generations of ownership by the Hand family, which gave the area its present name.  Hand's descendants include Augustus C. Hand and Augustus Noble Hand, noted lawyers and jurists.

There are two historically significant buildings on the former Hand property.  One is a blockhouse of uncertain construction date, built in part out of heavy beams laid on top of one another, and joined at the corners by dovetail joints.  It is set on a foundation that is of possibly greater age, and is built of stone similar to that found at Fort Ticonderoga.  A building was documented as standing here at the time of the Allen/Arnold expedition in 1775, but it is unclear if it was this structure, because virtually all structures in this area were reported as destroyed by British raids during the war.  A recent property owner suggests that the blockhouse may originally have been located across the lake at Fort Ticonderoga, because its beams are dimensionally similar to those found in the fort.

The second building is a brick Greek Revival house, located a short way inland from the blockhouse.  Now augmented by a number of additions and farm outbuildings, it was probably built by Nathan Hand's son Samuel, who succeeded his father in ownership of the property.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Addison County, Vermont

References

National Register of Historic Places in Addison County, Vermont
Greek Revival architecture in Vermont
Buildings and structures completed in 1775
Buildings and structures in Addison County, Vermont
Geography of Addison County, Vermont
Shoreham, Vermont This list of buildings and structures in the Australian Capital Territory includes historically and architecturally significant buildings and structures in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

The recognition and legal protection of significant buildings and structures in the ACT is performed by numerous bodies:
National Heritage List is a list of places with outstanding heritage value to Australia; 
Commonwealth Heritage List is specifically for buildings owned by the Australian Government which are significant at any threshold including local, state/territory and National levels.
Places on these lists are protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Listed places are protected under the Act which means that no-one can take an action that has, will have or is likely to have, a significant impact on the environment of a listed place, including its heritage values, without the approval of the Minister. It is a criminal offence not to comply with this legislation.
Register of the National Estate, the register is a list of historically significant places, this is a non-statutory list.
The National Trust of Australia administers several properties in the ACT, listing on this register is non-statutory.
Australian Capital Territory Heritage Register, places on the register are of particular importance to the people of the ACT and are thought to enrich the understanding of history and identity. Places on the register are legally protected under the Heritage Act 2004, and changes or development of them requires advice by the ACT Heritage Council on development issues to improve conservation outcomes.

The Royal Australian Institute of Architects also maintains a register of significant 20th-century buildings, which although it has no legal capacity to protect buildings, it provides information on architecturally significant buildings within the territory.

19th century

20th century

Pre World War II

Post World War II

See also
Government housing in Canberra

References
National Trust of Australia - ACT
ACT Heritage Register
RAIA ACT Chapter - Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture 
Australian Heritage Database
Commonwealth heritage places in the Australian Capital Territory

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Landmarks in Canberra