She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
Los. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the key school and the Annapolis Book festival 2016. I will be the moderator for todays fantastic Opening Panel entitled American Dream american greed. Im a Foreign Service officer with the u. S. Agency for international development, currently assigned to the faculty at the National Defense industry, National Defense university. I employed not only by two great books but really to stellar authors. To my right bethany mclean. Shes a contributing editor at vanity fair, a columnist at fortune and also contribute to cnbc. She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued and is a transparent . Selections when she says there may be another issue brewing we probably ought to sit up and take a listen. To my left is ben strauss, a very talented contributing writer to the new york times. Hes written extensive
Those of you who have seats, please feel free to sit down so folks can see behind you. If you dont have a seat, dont sit down. And like a lot of you, mari has been worried about what happened here in flint. Shes worried about what it means for children like her. Shes worried about the future of this city and this community. So, in the middle of a tragedy that should have never have happened here in the United States of america, the denial of something as basic as clean, safe, Drinking Water, this eightyearold girl spoke out and marched, and like many of you, protested. And as mari was getting ready to hop on a bus to washington, she wrote to ask if she could meet with me while she was in town. There she is. [applause] pres. Obama now, i wouldve been happy to meet mari in washington, but when Something Like this happens, a young girl should not have to go to washington to be heard. I thought, her president should come to flint to meet with her. [applause] and that is why i am here, to t
It starts back to when the father of wyatt earp, most wellknown, his name is nicholas. He was basically left his family. Emporarily in illinois he heard about the gold rush in northern california. He went back to the midwest. He ventured down to southern california. And he got for the San Bernardino valley. He found that one day he would come back to San Bernardino. We will visit the San Bernardino history and Railroad Museum and talk about the importance of the railroad to San Bernardino with the historian Vice President. Located in the 1918 santa fe depot, the museum contains many objects related to the railroad history. Construction was completed in 1918. It replaced a wooden structure approximately 100 yards east of here that burned in 1960. Why the depot was built a lot larger than needed was because they decided to house the Division Headquarters at this location at that time. Watch the cities tour on cspan 2. Working with the cable affiliates and visiting cities across the count
Responsibility to support a quality of opportunity. Americans very much believe there is a role for government to play in helping everyone move up the economic ladder, especially people who are working hard and playing by the rules and doing all the right things. Europe usewestern the term middleclass . I dont know that it is as critical a part of their discussion as it is for ours. I would like to take something from that wonderful question from the caller. It is true that in these technician, or decline of the american middle class over the last corner century has coincided with a massive rise of poverty for millions of people around the world and that the opening of Global Markets and advancement of technology has absolutely helped, and the liberalization of economies in china, we have far fewer poor people in the world today than we did a quartercentury ago. That is amazing and something everyone should celebrate. It is not true that that is a necessary tradeoff. There is no reason