The project going forward. But thats today and i want to go back 20 years because prior to 20 years there was a map with a vision Pete Rodriguez which well hear more about later and he started the Mexican Museum in the district of San Francisco. But 20 years ago it was an elected official who i have had the pleasure of working with on many occasions on doing many things in our community who at the time was the supervisor jim gonzales who was here today who at that time, made sure we got this piece of land to build the Mexican Museum and thank you, mr. Gonzales and at the time there was unfortunately, he couldnt be here the bells are ringing but we had manual gonzales and he was the president of the commission so i want to honor him bike like i honored mr. Gonzales two years ago to make sure we got this land and you know what you talk about a Mexican Museum. Well, let me tell you there has been speaking spanish . People from coz restrict and people from venezuela and all of latin americ
The ability to resuscitator rehabilitate i always give the president the benefit of the doubt. The president deserves his team. General David Petraeus is a good choice. Got remember something about the army or the service. The Foreign Service like many of you, the war is not general David Petraeuss war, it is the president s war and the military, all the people who work in the government follow the policy of the elected civilian government. They can give their opinions and they need to end military leaders would have more forcefully given their opinions over the last five years, might be a lot better. I have not made any secret that i am very disappointed in some of these people. I have said publicly some of these guys in my opinion wouldnt be corporals in miami and some are four star generals. Nevertheless i am not the president. On the face of that they deserve their commanders. General David Petraeus is qualified. We will take yours and be real quick. I hope this is not too philosop
Im delighted to see you here to talk about my new book dinner with churchill policymaking at the dinner table. Since my book is all about the importance and dinners be assuredly not make you late for your own dinners. I will be brief. I want to whet your appetite so youll buy my book. You want to i have lived with wrurnlg Winston Churchill for four years. It was wonderful. Even though it took place in churchill college. Im asked where i got the idea to add to the thousand already written. I have read many books about the man and notice many of the important accomplishments were achieved at dinners. Sometimes at luncheons. So i began to wonder why that was so. Why most of the deals that were struck at the Famous International conferences held during world war ii were made at or facilitated by dinners at which the leaders were more relaxed in a formal session. So i began digging in to the churchill archives. Not do i find more famous dinners with president roosevelt and truman and stalin
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We are going to get started if you dont mind. Thanks to all of you for coming here today. Im a senior fellow at the manhattan Institutes Center for mathematical progress and we are delighted to have david joining us this afternoon to talk about his new book catastrophic care how American Healthcare killed my father and how to fix it. I think that there is when i think about health care i think of to challenges i think the conservatives have had on health care. The first is it tends to be little to criticize and critique the Health Care System because of the march and injured population and the response is than to say while the Health Care System is just fine. Its the best Health Care System the world. Dont mess with it. Dont change it. I think the second blind spot of conservatives in general the certainly in health care is the we tend to talk about policy, Public Policy philosophically or with charts and data and they are important, but a lot of times the way the liberals have one arg