My name is john and i have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and the institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. I will start with the mayor. [applause] [applause] we have a great evening in the store for you. Before i introduced the special guest who will introduce the speaker tonight, i want to take a moment to think a handful of other people we have in the audience this evening who are representing some of americas finest. For those of you that might have arrived late, you might not have seen that our beautiful landscape and hilltop that we are on looks more like the moon than southern california. Many of the trees that surround us is now gone. You might have even spelled the difference in the air that acts as a reminder of wha what we wet through at the library just ten days ago. Indeed, the scene on october 30 was troubling. Literally surrounded by fire at the front gates and all of the hills that encircle us there were moments when the winds were so strong and flames were so high i thought there was a chance we might lose the national treasure. We were saved by heroes. [applause] we know them as First Responders and i had the chance to watch firsthand these magnificent people trying conditions, 50mile per hour winds. They turned back the flames threatening the library, air force one right next door, the graveside of president and mrs. Reagan and indeed this very auditorium. [applause] these men and women literally saved the day and in the process saved the Reagan Library. The commander joh commander johd speaking of heroes, nnovember r marks one year since the devastating shooting and tonight we have with us the widow of sergeant ron healy. If you all could stand, please stand. [applause] each of them represents the thousandsnt of First Responders, police, rescue workers and families who fought back. If you would now please join me and i want to introduce a special woman who will introduce the special speaker tonight. I have no doubt that shes known to just about everyone in the audience fors her role that involved her service as a prosecutor in San Francisco and la. Its no surprise that shes closely involved with President Trump and if the news stories are remotely correct if you could join me inpl welcoming to the stage mrs. Kimberly guilfoyle. [applause] how are you tonight . So many familiar faces near and inar and an incredible human being that you are going t your from him just moments. The first politician that made me feel so inspired was Ronald Reagan. Great promise and hope of america and the American Dream. Who would haved ever thought a young little girl growing up in california born and raised in the district in San Francisco, the proud daughter of a wonderful mother that hailed him a proud irishman who came from the southern part of the island and they met and fell in love in San Francisco and began living their American Dream. [applause] and i had the benefit of an incredible education and not a quality of opportunity in this wonderful country that we call america. One that i am proud to stand for, a flag that im proud to stand for, First Responders, military, law enforcement, a sense of new hope and beginning. A richness of blessings that we have all had the opportunity to have and be able to hand back on to the next generation and now to be able to be here at the Reagan Library is an incredibly powerful and humbling moment. [applause] [applause] Ronald Reagan and is an incredible president had no race or creed or color but saw human beings capable of intelligence of love and space a tremendous heart of liberty and a desire for freedom and for peace through strength and as her heart swells again with the opportunity to stand as Senior Advisor to the president of the united non of the United States donald j. Trump. [cheers and applause] this is the president i feel most embodies the true spirit that we all felt with Ronald Reagan and they feel alive in joy and hope because like Ronald Reagan donald j. Trump did not need the job the best things we can accomplish it doesnt matter if you dont matter who gets the credit that is the president is in the way the gradable one incredible family is about giving back to this country and fighting for each and every one of us. [applause] i have traveled across this incredible amazing country that we call america the United States of america because more unites us than divides us and President Trump and for the forgotten man and women who fights by my side how beautiful how he was in 2016 to fight for this country and to fight for his father like Ronald Reagan his family and incredibly exceptionalhi human being is on the sidelines and everything is at stake. S [applause] you get involved and put skin in the game and fight for what you believe in it for future generations and my father and my brother and i am reminded every single day for our freedoms and liberties in the First Amendment and the second amendment. [applause] for all the things men and women have five and died to preserve and protect our freedom. End di and for the free market thank god for the free market and capitalism to produce an incredible American Family that understands the value to restore the value of the american dollar because our economy that has lifted everyone up. For asianamericans and veterans and women doing better than ever before under President Trump. [applause] 47 percent of all new businesses in the United States created by hardworking people of color. Thatse why President Trump and this family we thank them for what they have been able to accomplish. And a family that really asks for nothing in return and they take it every single day incoming. Heavy c130 as i call it. Nothing stops them. Nothing slows them down. Because they believe it such privilege to be a free american and fight for this country to fight for each and every one of us. And then to understand the hardworking people across country no better than donald trump junior. Han let me tell you some of the best moments away are those weather in iowa on a pull out bad or anywhere across this country and it is inspirational to see the connectivity and how people are transformed together fighting for one passion and one person. This book is incredible to share all of these moments the highs and lows in the incredible journey through political history. That is the tip of the Sphere Program so happy to be here tonight one of the family and the president and this incredible country because this is everything we all have together to fight for and thank you for honoring them and for supporting them and buying his book and being in the fight with us every step of the way. It gives me great pleasure and great pride to introduce to you someone that i have known dearly for 14 years. My best friend and champion , and a Great American thanks to the trump family america will never be a socialist country. [cheers and applause] donald trump junior. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] wow. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Wow. That is such a better welcome then we got on the view the other day. Ch [laughter] [cheers and applause] i had a little fun with the guys doing the book signing the men come early big ruggede men i saw you on the view. [laughter]r] what the hell were you doing watching the view . It was just the highlights. And wasnt actually watching the view. [laughter] but it is great to be here. Kimberly thank you so much for the incredible introduction. I always get in trouble for saying this but everyone make note she kissed me and not the other way around. We have to have a little fun. Right . [applause] if the left had their way we could never have fun again. I cannot allow that. Kimberly thank you for the incredible introduction is always difficult to follow kimberly paraguay dont like to do it f t because she is so good and wants and much more beautiful than i am. Its always tough to follow that because she can do it all. She can also go for the kill. But she does it so well you come back for more. [laughter] im a one trick pony if you need a sledgehammer im your guy. So thank you so much for having us here it is truly an honor. Ronald reagan was one of the true inspirations of my life. One of the real people that push me toward conservative is and what he did and was able to accomplish in his presidency is a legacy that few would ever live up to. Thank you for having me here its an honor to be back the last time i was here it was during the second president ial debate and by then my father was in the middle. [laughter] and jeb. [laughter] and kimberly the princess voice of reason said this is going to go big. She says no. She said already . I remember seeing that. Was my father. He took a pretty aggressive position in the opening debate you saw immediately the next day jeb was running a commercial. Ow[laughter] i said its over. Head. So jeb came to that debate and through barb and my father had a different response and said jeb thats great. You brought some energy thisic time. Thats good brick i thought oh my god its like a man talking to a little child it was over and we all saw it. I remember when you were here. It was a g different form of president ial debate. [laughter] it is great to be back here and as kimberlyim said the last two years have been such an incredible roller coaster of emotions of experiences that one could only hope to go through. Maybe not the bad side i got to go all over the country and watch political history unfold probably the greatest upset in political history. Im not just saying that. [cheers and applause] not because it should have been but because the deck was stacke stacked. So i got to go around Middle America the places that had been forgotten for so long. It was interesting for me i have this william and mary thing in 2019 i recognized him a son of a billionaire from new york city and unlikely conservative. Im not supposed to be too conservative i went to an ivy leagueed school i spent a lot of time with charlie kirk. Sp[applause] truly the leader of the Young Conservative Movement goes around college and High School Campuses getting children before they are totally indoctrinated of the left these days. [applause] i met charlie on the trail early 2016 and a friend said youve got to meet this guy. I said give me a little about him he knows more than youll ever know he knows everything. Hes 22 years old. I said get out of my office. [laughter] seriously. We have no idea what we are doing here. The last thing i need is more people have no idea. We have a goodd message we have a good messenger my friend was rather convincing. Give him five minutes forgot the end of the five minutes they said congratulations you are on my team is good travel the country. Hes the reason i was speaking at College Campuses in michigan, wisconsin. [applause] the other side together didnt even go to and took for granted. The last month of 2016 we probably spent 14 out of 30 days in michigan and wisconsin against all odds and against all the experts. [laughter] you know where im going with this. Experts in name only experts that call themselves experts for decades they have been right in the same amount of time that we did that. When the results came in it was incredible. But for me i actually traveled the middle of the country. You didnt think that would resonate my hobby is hunting and fishing in the great outdoors. Going into the heartland of america. The iowa caucuses. There in their brandnew hunting gear and they talk about the iowa when they met seven minutes earlier. [laughter] Everybody Knows what im talking about. The most beautiful hunting gear of ever seeing like its never been worn. But that was a photo op and i bet so it was a different experience but the one thing that we have noticed in my father noticed people understand and they get genuine. Because i actually did those things it wasnt just a photo o op, they got it. It was interesting we did this hunt in iowa during the primaries and i was giving a speech about the outdoors how it was part of my life and got me out of the city. I wasnt always an angel but it couldve been worse. The outdoors was such a big part of my life im giving a speech in iowa than the New York Times asks how are you different than the other people here . I said thats a good question. How many birds did you see go up today . She said nine. How many shots did i take . She said nine is at how many birds are in my bag . Nine. No further questions. La[laughter] but again it wasnt just on that basis but i wrote the book because after that experience with the great and the not so great, i had an interesting life i am in the unlikely conservative. I had a mother who escaped communist czechoslovakia. And perhaps this is why for me is such an honor to be here at the Reagan Library. That guy that actually took down the soviet union. [applause] because for me, unlike those on the left today that espouses the incredible virtue it is no longer a fringe element. They are out there mainstream pop culture today. I have actually experienced it myself brick i have beeneni there. I had a grandfather who was a bluecollar electrician from czechoslovakia. And he saw the incredible blessings we had in this country and the freedoms that we had all the things we should be so proud of. He told my parents your kids are incredibly blessed but they have to see the other side. They were very involved in my life from the age of b five i went over there with him every summer between four and six weeks. I waited in the bread lines per i can show you its not so glamorous when youre actually doing it. Have a 93 old grandmother who is still alive. And she is still over there and spend time with us here every year and i get the call every few weeks. She only has cnn and leftist Propaganda Networks there is no alternative programming. So again this is a woman tougher than most of us. Maybe not as much as our First Responders by the way thank you for being here to protect this. [applause] but a woman who spent her early twenties in the basement of her farmhouse hiding from the nazis they lived through communist occupation for approximately 40 years i found it ironic to say he speak check f fluently. Yous the connection have read your history . [laughter] they will try anything. But this lady has been through a lot calls me every few weeks in tears because she sees these virtues espoused is so wonderful. We are speaking check but i will do the best grandma imitation you dont understand it always sounds so good everything is free it never works that way. I hear her voice break this person who was such a big part of raising me who i love so much and went through so much then to watch her daughter live the American Dream and she is in tears for fear of her greatgrandchildren. Doesnt that tell us all we need to know . So when i see these virtues brought up in the mainstream political conversations, its the other side. Its interesting there are no people who have actually lived under those systems who are willing to come here to say we have to bring that its wonderful and great. How many people are there from soviet bloc Eastern Europe cracks the former soviet union . Bring it closer to home. Venezuela . Cuba . Millions and millions of people and not one. The democrats will say anything stupid. Just look at their base. [laughter] [applause] they say some really dumb stuff and they cannot find one person who has lived under thoseon systems . Doesnt that tell us all we need to know . That was the genesis of the book triggered. For those of you who watched the view you can understand why we named it that. [laughter] [applause] because today it is just the view. The only one and if you dont share that one view, its over. You are canceled. I use that example in the book Martina Navratilova an incredible tennis player. We knew her growing up same story is a mother from julissa macchia and a lesbian lgbt activist for 35 years before it was cool. She came out a few weeks ago i dont believe the notion that trans men turning into women and then competing this was her opinion. [applause] i applauded that i dont care what you do identify as you want it makes no difference to me but when youi start going against her i saw on and enough fighter who was a male professional fire fighter transition to female then proceeded to fight and broke the orbital bone and the skull lid weightlifting records being destroyed in Bicycle World records decimated and i say where are the feminist . Where are the reasonable people that fought for title and womens rights . One is already an incredible athlete where do we ever draw the line . So martina came out and said i am against this notion. We have to separate at least the elite sports and within minutes it was over she was attacked by though she advocated for over 40 years. It was as though anything she had done prior for her entire life and her lifes work was meaningless. Because she didnt take it as far as it needed to be taken. Again those goalpost are never ending. They are always moving. Remember wouk this is the new ridiculous phrase what is wouk today altered right in one week. [laughter] it never ends. So the woman who has done all this comes out and gets destroyed three weeks later she has to come back and walks it back in and goes after trump because thats only way to get her penance to be accepted back. But i see these stories that i have the blessings to go around on the campaign trail to fight for conservative values for those who are doing the things and fighting for the virtues they espouse on theoi trail people say you have to put this down. For years they say you should write a business book and a say i think my father may have cover that with the art of the deal i dont know. [laughter] i dont expect him to beat him in sales. [laughter] i still have that ego. We will let that go. [laughter] but this was a unique experience and when you hear that over and over it was. We were the tip of the sphere and now about to be the number two target of the greatest witchhunt in modern history. Being the number two target of the mueller hoax that this is whats going on. You see what happened and what transpired brick i went through it to a half years millions of legal fees and now they will try him for treason . Not hyperbole. Punishable by death. Minor detail. You have no problem with Hillary Clinton paying millions of dollars to go into countries so foreign agents are going intous other countries getting phony dirt to the fbi then leak it to the press also known as the marketing wing of the dnc. [laughter] the press writes a story which is used as the basis for a hoax fbi investigation and if they fail they fail and everyone forgets it then i dedicate the book. [applause] you saw it and you saw the desperation every time they try to do Something Else and im still waiting for adam schiff one dash adam ship i know im still waiting for the evidenceng he keeps telling people that he has seen that it didnt work out so well but no accountability from that side there is a double standard. But this 30 hours of testimony in front of the house and senate this is good material. But then after flailing away 119 Hillary Clinton donors because they have no bias obviously. The celebration that never happened they were going to break the glass ceiling. [laughter] i dont know. [applause] minor detail but im sure they are being very objective in the prosecution. They went with thehe trump card. We will put Robert Mueller on the stand. Within 30 seconds somebody said somebody please ask him if he is actually read the report that bears his name. Th [laughter] i have a little bit of the trump to rent of the thumbs. It was a sham. He was they are not because he was a great prosecutor or a great investigator or unbiase unbiased, he was there because of his past as a decorated marine and former head of the fbi so he was above reproach. He wasnt there because he was good at his job but because trump could not fight back at him without the media have a day. Thats exactly what we see today version number two with the impeachment part of it. The outrage of this because if i see something wrong i will see it. Donald trump tour outs the whistleblower. [laughter] i did . Know. I wish i did. But they make it seem like i hired a team of spies to figure out. A cia operative. I reach we did an article that had his name in the title of the article. [laughter] if this is some sort of secret then you dont know what secret means. It was literally on the drudge report. Many people dont know that. It was on there for four days. And realized it is Robert Mueller all over again. They werent mad that i outed him but now that the name is outt there people can do research. Like has been done over the last few days. They could realize this was joe bidens special guest at a state dinner and figure outpl he worked with the breading guys who was in version number one lied to congress because hes on the team. And to see the photograph of this man crying the day after the election was susan rice crying like a little child. [applause] and they realize then when the lawyer comes to his defense other than the weird allegations of security clearance, you see his speed january 2017 and then you realize here we go again is just another set up. So thats what we have been dealing with. Notice how thats not spoken about an alltime low unemployment. [applause] for everyone. Africanamericans and hispanics and women. [applause] an alltime high, startup businesses. Even his haters say i dont like him but hes doing all the things he said he was going to do. [cheers and applause]s trevor now what is not exactly a fan but he says this. Isnt that what supposed to be what politicians do . When did we get to a place that is no longernt the norm . How sad that it isnt. So they dont talk about that the last debate we saw how can you take Donald Trumps twitter account away. Do you know what wasnt mentioned . China. Since were at the Reagan Library china is the year 2000 version and they didnt even talk about it but they tried to limit the president of the United States free speech if that doesnt tell you all you need tosp know i dont know what does. Again i had to get this down and put it on paper and have some fun with it because people are used to me doing the short form bomb on social media i have learned from the best. Laptop but to take my experiences to spell it out so people can see it is actually much less of a political book than a book on ourur culture there is never been a greater divide from the ideologies of both parties with oppression of free speech we get into that with social media so it was time to do that. To continuously fight for what we had for the america that Ronald Reagan wanted i want to make sure that extends to our children andwa grandchildren for generations to come it is worth fighting for. Thank you so much for having me here today thank you kimberly. [applause] four more years. Four more years. [chanting] four more years. I not allowed to tell you who to vote for. Rules for i think i know the answer but again its a true honor to be here that i have seen walking down the corridors its a little unconventional so u i apologize but i think we will take some questions. We have staff please wait until the microphone is put into your hand so we can hear you. On the environment while colleges and universities faculty and staff and administrators and it comes out the current budget. [applause] i think thats more a statement than a question but i do believe we have to protect our environment im not willing to destroy the entire middleclass while im getting lectured while they fly over individually. You are right america has been leading the charge we dont have to penalize ourselves while china and india the biggest leader say will talk about this in ten years because then what happens . Everybody walks the walk because were doing it as a rycountry but not taking the heater cells while destroying the middle class of america as weve been doing for far too long. Can you please ask your father to come to california. [cheers and applause] with that kind of response and dont think i have a choice. [applause] we have no representation here in california and we need it. It is important and worth fighting for i dont make any illusion you win the presidency here but there are a lot of house seats that are in districts that are conservative and theres a lot of people in this state that have come to me that are sick of the nonsense and sick of the policy and the reasonable decisionmakers to maybe get rid of that tim will the timber that makes you catch on fire every few weeks. What i have seen from so many people they are sick of chasing that goalpost they actually want to see some action there is no question for the states that can be one back. We need people to be active but we say you are doing a great job. I need you to step up and let your friends know u it. And the valentines day story because it resonates even though this is new york the peoples republic. [laughter] so is california. So she goes me into taking her to a valentines day dinner on upper side new york but she saw a teddy bears outside of thought it was romance. Thats not my forte. So we are looking around and they say whos the guy . Lose the guy thats going to create a scene or start a ce fight or whatever it may be and i miserable the whole meal. So we are waiting for a. So we get through with dinner so in my mind so we are walking out this older lady from the Upper East Side with a new york accent and says to my facee you. Now i have to punch an old lady. Just kidding. [laughter] one trick pony. Just getting. This is the scene because i cant punch an old lady. She says you guys have the biggest. [laughter] in the world and i love it. [laughter] [applause] so john is having a heart attack he cannot be leon believe this is going on at the Reagan Library. I apologize. But it was amazing because at that moment everyone in the restaurant, all of those people that i thought were giving me the site i they stood up and started clapping and taking cell fees one sophie pictures. So everybody was they were not against me they just didnt know how to respond but they were afraid of what others would n think. Just like people on election day at the exit poll. We were supposed to be winning by 12 weere losing are up by three thats a term voter but the second somebody has the guts to Say Something they were all fine with me. But they were willing to take the next step. But well need you to take the next step. [applause] tell your friends to donate and be active and volunteer. [inaudible] i dont know i havent spoken to one but again we have to put up good candidates that one of your congressmen in the state Kevin Mccarthy is doing amazing. [applause] he is actually doing an amazing job with candidate recruitment republicans all over the paul ryan school of thought wherever it is here 785 pounds but we will let them run i will focus on the, on page 7743 on the poly piece that no onene has read for go kevins doing the opposite finding people who can win who have compassion and need a push is as call this person they want to do it they just want to know that you will be there. I will do it because thats how to win. We just know that democrats do a good job. A great track record but then they turn into communist and you wonder what happened. That. E of so they are in your backyard. We have time for one last question. Excuse me. Ladies you cannot all fight over me. Kimberly will be very upset. , patriarch jewish and proud. I have a question for you. Why is it during the democratic debates they dont have the american flags in the background . What are your thoughts on that quex. I said this in my speeches its so great to come here to see thees pledge. [applause] they will do the invocation and the pledge in the starspangled banner and you did that. Its important. Its not just something they take all that seriously. But thats the reality. You saw with the dnc they literally had forgotten flags on the stage and were scrambling to get them and what is going on . But it is great to see jewish republicans. [applause] when you see flagrant anti semitism in congress and i know after 40 years move the embassy in israel to its rightful home in jerusalem. This is something that is de facto us policy for decades. Bush and clinton but no one did they all campaigned to me that promise and my father did it. Remember the media . It was going to be the start of world war iii. The United States senate was 99 nothing. But could pass the senate resoundingly . Major failure of checks and balances. Thats a big number. Billions of people were going to dieil in what happened . To people through boxth for about seven seconds. [laughter] but that is the difference between a politician and someone who knows how to get things don done. [applause] and thats why we get this response its no longer the norm. We cannot thank you enough for coming. [applause] usa. [chanting] usa. [chanting] it is truly an honor to be here thank you for your support. [applause] to see itself as the only true church on the landscape we were so confident in her own understanding not only are right but our duty to judge others we protested a funeral song near death or mourners passed by a short distance away this i was told is what god meant when he instructed us to love our neighbor. To warned fellow man through gods curses in this life and eternal torment in the world to come we saw the preaching is the very embodiment of compassion. Our mass on message was the only hope. I took that message to twitter to reach more people but i eventually found those people reached me instead with that day lucia hostility a group of individuals began to ask questions to pour over the nuances of those beliefs and overtime they found internal inconsistencies in our theology and gently and respectfully challenged me. I was absolutely baffled when i recognize the first contradiction. How could this be quicksilver message was the unquestionable word of god. The fact we could be wrong that we have not in fact have a monopoly on the truth was the beginning of the end of my wholehearted belief and our doctrine. Then i made the agonizing decision to leave the church knowing i would be cut off from the only family and community ever belong to what i would lose my lifelong home on that treelined street along with nearly everyone to have been important in my life and i would be left with the world that i had spent demonizing and antagonizing. And this is the. Right before i left i made the decision to leave and had discussed it with my younger sister grace who also felt the need to leave for at this point were trying to figure out what to do next. Making the decision to leave was another possible question. When . We didnt have an answer just a growing list of reasons it couldnt be now. We can leave before moms birthday. What about their anniversary . How cruel that would be to ruin everything at this moment. Then the things we couldnt bear to leave without. Everything we would lose or lose access to once we left. Family recipes. Home movies. Photos. Just wait a little while longer. Partly a stalling tactic based on the dwindling hope drastic change would occur saving us from our plans. The first prospect of losing everyone grace and i had become painfully aware there is so much we didnt know about her parents lives her grandmothers. What did we know about grandmas life before westborough . We began interviewing her almost immediately after i broke my trees into grace i looked past the pool and into the church with my grandma upstairs in her bedroom where grandpa held the bible study each morning. It was so quiet and gentle smaller than i had ever seen her because of the deep curve in her spine steeped with age she would lie on her bed and grace with light next to her for i would switch on my iphone recorder we would take turns asking questions and i would try not to choke at the thought of losing her a tsunami of guilt for even thinking of betraying her. I started to record everything. Practices, and monthly birthday parties, even bible study. Stories of me and my siblings when we were young. Prayer she said for me. My Little Brothers apartheid. Even if i would come back later even if they eventually left all the years of their little boy voices would be gone. The animist stream of photos pergola family kickball game. Mom getting ready to walk to school in the morning my parents Holding Hands walking to the store. Our Favorite Art Museum in kansas city. Milkshake parties. Walks to the parks in the front porch where we ate breakfast each morning. Snow cones with luke. In those months every joyful experience left us in tears and gasping for breath. We huddled together in my bed remembering what it was like before all of this what it was like to be happy with that since we were watching the slow excruciating death of everybody we loved. And taking notes to chronicle every moment i filled notebooks with routine interactions terrified of losing a single to cling to these memories as if recording at all can keep them from slipping from my grasp. I made a list funny thing said during hugs and how grandma can always count on me to smell good or gramps how my curls in the space make it difficult to breathe and mom doesnt like to be smothered by them. Dad how he loved it when i finish his sentences. Mimi was the name luke had given as a child there when he cannot pronounce mine correctly he said we are proud to have you as a daughter voted down before he could forget it or take down the photo of me that hung on the walls or repurpose my bedroom or spend the rest of his life erasing me from his memory is much as possible. We began packing her things in boxes my sister made labels shoes or books i numbered mine meticulously cataloging every single item that went into each one each piece of jewelry went to a tiny white envelope on the date and occasion if i received it if i forgot a detailed nobody would be around to tell me. I copied 63 home movies dvds and that i knew what would happen when we left and the heartbreak they would feel and betrayal. I felt it when my brother josh left eight years earlier a devastating postmortem that went on for weeks. We racked our brains looking for every sign of his duplicity and we transformed into outreach all of us who remained were disgusted. How could he . How could he pretend to be one of us knowing he was going to abandon us forever prickly did not occur to us of his devastation his terror or despair was so much easier to rewrite history to cast him as a villain to say he didnt care about us and a selfish jerk. We could not imagine his 19 yearold boy could have a legitimate reason to leave the only church of the world of jesus christ in the world today or consider anything was truly wrong with us my parents or gramps it would look back just as i had interviewing grandma or sitting in my bedroom searching through all the Text Messages i had sent remember my tears and refusal to tweet and how i ever couldve looked them in the eye and understand they wanted to tell them everything. I tried so hard to keep them. That i had been begging for change. This is not a journalistic decision. We were told to cancel interviews with rape victims. We were told to stand down. And that i would be exposed as being let go from the company if i ever disclosed i had anything to do with the story. Sam houston talks about courage and felt he was impervious. That when it was time to get a commission he goes to washington pretty close to here and i can tell. But the country is fragile and how to be calculated. The number of black elected officials in this country has grown from fewer than 1500 in 1972 more than 10000 today. Including a twice elected black president that is the Voting Rights act. Smoking at the turn of the early 19 hundreds was considered almost an american and it was a vice of the foreignborn. The anti smoke in Smoking Movement rode the wave of the nativism to think about what type of behavior is appropriate for the native born healthy american