That is the reason when the ship was put in mothballs in beaumont and it looked like it was not going to go anywhere at all. Just kind of sink and rest in the bottom of the harbor. The Texas Department of transportation claimed it to make an artificial reef. I had the idea of writing a book about it. My book is called the ship that would not die. It is about that history from when itthrough the time was sunk as a reef in 2007. Now it is home to florida and fun under the sea and home to fauna under the sea. We continue on monday with a trip to topeka, kansas, and hear about the confrontations over kansas being a free or slave state. We will tour the state capital and have a conversation with sam brownback. Monday at 6 00 p. M. On cspan. Sunday night on q a, senior talks about state building efforts in afghanistan. The u. S. Did achieve improvements, but it depends on how it ends. I hesitate and i interrogate myself and question myself. We dont know how it will end. It is possible to see
Ms. Mirrer i would also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience and thank them for their generosity and all they do on our institutions behalf, and of course, my great and talented colleague, Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [applause] ms. Mirrer tonights program is presented in collaboration with our brandnew center for womens history, and we are grateful to our partners at hogan lovells, who are the corporate sponsor for our womens history programming at New York Historical. Tonights program last about an hour, and it will include a question and answer session. You should have a note card when you entered, but colleagues are still going up and down the aisles if you have not received one. You will have an opportunity to write a question on the note card. They will be collected later on and used for the q a session. Following the program, there will be a formal book signing, and copies of our speakers books are available in our ny
President bush laura and i are honored you all came. Thank you for opening your door to the concerns about our vets. I want to thank david for being here, secretary of President Trump will sign the bill. This will give you some tools to reform the v. A. If anybody can reform the v. A. , you can. You are a strong leader and were happy to have your service for our country. [applause] a lot of times, you hear people gripe about the v. A. Its important for our citizens to care deeply about our vets transition. This today, three educators from three parts of the country. It spends a lot of time on Veterans Issues. My predecessor at the bush center is now head of the from they of north i university of texas system. A meaningful higher education. They felt a little out of place. Primarily because of age and partly because of experience. I want to thank you for being here. We have a lot of thats here today. I wish you would stand out so we could recognize you. Vets and families. [applause] may
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[applause] pretty strong, tough to follow that act. I would like to think mrs. Bush. Bush. Nk mr. S mrs. I was supposed to do that. How are your parents doing . Former president bush i hate these tough questions. I told dad today that i was going to be on stage with bill and you were the moderator. What did he say . Former president bush he was surprised. Surprised you cannot do anybody better. Former president bush they are doing well. I am fortunate to be the only president with both parents alive after the presidency. Every day it is a blessing to have your mom and dad alive. They are doing well. 93 and 92 years old. Thank you for asking. I will tell them you asked. How is hillary doing . Former president clinton good, she has grandkids. You know she is good. They are working on a book and we spent every available hour with our grandchildren. My grandson just turned one year old on saturday. Fathers day. Every seven years his fathers will celebrate fathers day on his sons birthday.