And the nation. In 1943, bill was born in brooklyn to nancy walsh and robert bennett. His lifelong appreciation for the power of knowledge began to take shape while a student in washington, d. C. From there, his educational path will lead him to williams massachusetts. The university of texas austin, where he earned his phd in philosophy. Eventually, harvard university, where he earned his law degree. Bill began to invest in the education of the next generation through teaching positions at the university of southern mississippi and boston university. He then joined the National Humanities center, where he championed philosophy, history, and the arts. He became the executive director of the institution in 1979. It was there he met elaine glover, the woman who would become his best friend and wife. In 1980 five, after he served four years as the National Endowment for the humanities, president Ronald Reagan appointed him secretary of education. This calling to Public Service resonated w
Please welcome our guests to the stage. Please welcome our guests. Ladies and gentlemen, founder of freedom and faith coalition. [applause] have you had a fun conference . [applause] hasnt this been fun . [applause] we arent done yet. We are about to have the Vice President of the United States close out the conference. [applause] before we do that, can i ask everyone to stand and i want to him to lead our invocation. Now listen people pay heed to the call of prayer. Lift up your minds to the most high, your hearts to be lower lord of hosts. Praise the wonders of the lord. Thank him for all he provides. God to you we oh offer our petitions. Like a mustard seed increase our faith that we may stand firm in the truth. Give us strength against our foes and eloquence to persuade them. For license to do wrong but for freedom to do what is right. Tyranny of from the desperates. Release us from the shackles of oppression. You have poured your blessings upon america. May we be a light to the na
Has one. Into this i think will be my last question. I kind of think that she did. And i think that is an incredible tribute to any father but i think that her father was much admired in every father can be a hero to his daughter. So i think that her father was really, really extraordinary. Thank you. [applause] one day i was looking at this library and i asked myself how did all this music get here in the first place . How is this possible and i found the most astonishing thing. Almost all of the files could be traced back to just three people. One of them is they believed german inventor in the properties in the human ear in and how they actually delete frequencies. We now have the mp3 encoder and was lost in the audio quality. He is walked out of the marketplaces and it is downloaded to the website. We have a couple of years and he ended up making hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions from intellectual property licensing. But the irony is that the fortune was built o
California synthetics for drugs like heroin has alr been done. Eady we will be awash in a florida chief and deadly synthetic drug substitutes. It is important that the drugs we are talking about are quite harmful in contrast to drugs like marijuana and heroin. Heroin legally obtained, safely injected does not lead to crime, it does not cause tissue damage, it does not lead to insanity. Nursing is addicted to and have to manage constipation. Heroin users survive and can live Productive Lives with a safe form of harold is heroin. That story found these analog synthetic problems is not a new one, it is an old one that pcp spawned pce and other analogs that were equally dangerous. There was a synthetic heroin available called and it was one of the drugs that is subject to the mandatory minimum penalties that congress enacted in 1986. A drug demerol synthetic, there was an analog of that called mppp. The synthesis is tricky and it was being made improperly with a contaminant , and people ar
Calvin Michael Putney joins us live from the socalled spin room on the um campus. Michael week what can we expect tonight . Michael calvin and laurie, i think we can expect another good oldfashioned freeforall debate like weave seen over the past few months unless, unless donald t tmp comes out and says im going to be president ial or implies he wants to be subdued, less flamboyant. At, of course, is not really his strong suit. Hehe is full of braggadocio. He says that everying in his presidency is going to be great. The wall is going to be built. Mexico is going to pay for it. And he will negotia much better trade deals than the one weve got. Trump will be trump unless he is, as i say, might be a little subdued. Marco rubio tonight needs a really outstanding performance, needs to prove he is still a viable and credible candidate who can win florida on tuesday. Pretty much game over for marco rubio, a poll out today shows rubio has ground to make up if he is going to win. The Suffolk U