You are still figuring out what needs to be done and you are needing an assistant. Men have to be lead parents or fully equal coparents. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. We have more on the u. S. Chamber of commerces summit on Job Opportunities for veterans. Up next, former first lady laura bush. She specifically focuses on Military Spouses and the challenges they face. Attendees also hear from congressional medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, labor secretary tom perez and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral james winfield. This is just under two hours. Good morning, im the executive director of the institute for military families and i would like to welcome my friend mark here from deloitte and ill i guess ill say first its humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush but is to spend just ten minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action. A recap of where weve been relative to vets em ploimt and also what may lie ahead. Challenge chal
We talked to her recently. She talked about that day. I like to have you talk about how she responded to that and how it redefine what is her years of first lady would be. Watch. I was on my way to capitol hill to brief the Senate Education committee on Early Childhood education. I hosted a summit on Early Childhood education that summer. I was going to brief that committee on Early Childhood education when i was getting in the car. My secret Service Agent said a plane flown into the world trade center. We assumed that it was just some strange accident. We knew the second plane had hit. How did you leave . The secret service came to get me and said its time to at first they were thinking that would take me back to the white house. They had to regroup and figure out where i should go. Womenner concluding off their high hills running from the white house. I know they were expected to have interesting jobs at the white house but in one thought they would have to run from the white house.
We benefit, our country benefits by whatever our first lady champions for. Laura bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband to the white house. Less than nine months later was the 9 11 attacks and she helped cover the nation while pursuing interests important to her including education, literacy, and womens health. Good evening and welcome to first ladies image and influence. We will tell the story of the life of our 43rd president , laura bush. Here to do that are two people who know her well. This is a laura bush biographer. Her book the perfect wife, tells the story of laura bush. She has covered the former force first lady since 2001. Welcome to the program. He is a president ial historian and is currently working on a book, the relationship between president bushes 41 and 43. Nice to see you this evening. In your biography, you refer to the role of first lady as the most bizarre, volunteer job in the world. We heard laura bush talk about having her m
Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you know, terrible levels of violence. So some the jobs that mexican immigrants used to do are now being done by the the lowest jobs are being done by Central Americans. And the interesting thing about the Child Migrants is that, you know, first they had to endure this, you know, very dangerous journey from Central America through mexico and then get over the border. But the interesting thing is that they get kind of dumped into this system of where they have the possibility of asking for asylum eve
Colleagues, i think it is important to learn from what we have seen in the past. The conundrum is north korea is not easy and it will require partnership with the countries in that region and in many cases we have all landed in the same place, china really does have to take a leadership role. It is the one country that does north korea, with but it will take a partnership between the Chinese Government and the russians, japan, are korean allies, along with u. S. Leadership in order to adjust this. It is in all of our interests to deescalate tensions, to try to bring north korea into the 21st century, and the other goal i think many koreans have is the reunification. It will not be easy. It will take world leadership, it will take nations along with the u. S. In that region working together. But it can be done if we put our minds to it. We have to. There is an urgency as indicated by their recent, north Korean Nuclear test. It is compensated and the president complicated and the preside