Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
It is a Great Partnership with the department of Homeland Security in those with the domestic nexus. It has been our honor and privilege to work with director mueller and Deputy Director joyce. I will turn it over to sean. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. N. S. A. And the f. B. I. Have a unique relationship and one invaluable since 9 11. I want to highlight a couple of the instances. In the fall of 2009, n. S. A. Using 702 authority intercepted an email from a terrorist located in pakistan. That individual was talking with an individual located inside the United States talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives. Through Legal Process, that individual was identified and he was located in denver, colorado. The f. B. I. Followed him to new york city and later executed search warrants with the new York Joint Terrorism Task force and n. Y. P. D. And found bombmaking components and backpacks. He later confessed to a plot to bomb the new york subway system with backpacks.
Mohawk tribe. Ogala sioux tribe. Osage nation. Pueblo tribe. Rosebud sioux tribe. [reading tribe names] mountain apache tribe. [applause] if you could all remained standing, will have the benediction. Ladies and gentlemen, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, and if our wonderful native americans who have received their medals, would like to retire to their seats, i will not make you stand while i talk. [laughter] i will say good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and while you might be taking your seats again, allow me to say [speaking native american language] and i beg your forgiveness if i did not decode my greetings and i cannot produce greetings for all of the tribes that we have here today. Mr. Speaker, leader harry reid, leader nancy pelosi, distinguished guests, honorees, guests and families, we are very proud of you, and im very proud to be included today. Here during native American Heritage month, i have the great privi
Woohoo and as the father of a daughter who has broken not one, but two arms on monkey bars, im extremely fired up about that. applause but this park is more than just the playground. For those of you who are here with your kids and youre here for the playground opening, make sure you take a stroll up the hill. The view corridor that has been created as a result of this incredible park design, lindsay, and this incredible work, mary, its stunning. You can see all the way today you can see all the way into marin. You can see the entire bay. The Tennis Courts, the area, the amphitheater where the mime troop historically performed, the offleash dog area, the benches on our hillside. We have created together a park that is truly extraordinary. It is a piece of art. And we are just also proud that weve been able to do this together. So, give yourselves a big, big round of applause. applause so, id like im going to get back up and introduce some other speakers and we have some gifts were goin