44 states. Ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. Good evening. Im here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the United States. Im sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where weve lived and what weve done. For me, its been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa, trying to get a start in the years of the Great Depression and later in california for most of my adult life. Ive seen america from the Stadium Press Box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, Office Holder and as both democrat and republican. Ive lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered others. Ive seen financial ruin in the Great Depression and also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself up from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world. To me, our country is a living breathing presence, unimpressed by wh
So, we are glad that youre here and were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt with. Hes a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a piece chief and has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Put your arms together for harvey pratt applause what caused you to submit a proposal or proposed design for the memorial . Our veterans director just kept after me. I had no, really had no hope that they would come closer. He just kept after me and kept doing it for the tribe and i said let me dream on it and i said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done in the morning and so thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i got my big chief tablet out and got some sketches and it just came to me all of a sudden that morning. In order to touch the 576 recognized tribes and how difficult that was and try to tie them altogether. And i thought, the way to do tha
Good evening, im here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the United States. Im sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints depending on where weve lived and what weve done. For me, its been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa trying to get a start in the years of the Great Depression and later in california for most of my adult life. Ive seen america from the Stadium Press Box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, officer holder, and as both democrat and republican. Ive lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered those who had enough. There have been four wars in my lifetime and ive seen our country face financial ruin in the depression. Ive also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world. To me, our country is a living, breathing presen
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
Business of building the memorial next week. So, were glad that youre here and were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Hes a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a peace chief and has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Put your arms together for harvey pratt applause what caused you to submit a proposal a proposed designed for the memorial . Our veterans director just kept after me. I had no one really had no hope that they would come closer. He just kept after me and kept doing it for the tribe and i said let me dream on it and i said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done in the morning and so thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i got my big chief way out and got some sketches and it just came to me all of a sudden that morning. In order to touch they 576 recognized tribes and how difficult that was and try to tie them alto