[no audio] thank you. Throughout the year, we honor president and missions bushes legacy bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with you wendy that she would any une. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate, the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. We will also shine a light on the work left to be done. To introduce the event further and or millie introduce todays guest, il special invite the chairman of the george and Barbara Bush Foundation and a nephew of presi
Part of my message will be to the court as part of the public. Everything i just said suggested the court should then card think hard when it is doing this work. About trying to not politicize and polarize and deeply divide. Inlive in a polarized time the last thing the court should do is look as polarized as every other restitution in america. It would be great to the court to be seen as not that. The only way to be seen as not that is not to be that. I think there is a lesson for the court and how it operates. , theyk there is also should not jump to conclusions so fast on the basis of one decision or another. We are sort of trying our to decide really difficult matters and we are all doing so in good faith. Sometimes it will affect the world is falling in because of one decision. Maybe we will look to other people like the world is falling in because of another decision. You can watch this event tonight at the university of Colorado Law School tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. The i
Good afternoon. It is not often that i get a musical introduction so i appreciate that very much. I think we will have some fun with our panel when they come up but as i think you know, i believe this is the program, we are going to have a special guest first and a little intimate conversation between this special guest and me and i feel very privileged to be able to chat with them. An old and dear friend, senator john warner. Senator warner is approaching old age but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about old times in this race and that race and all kinds of things. I was thinking about his career and that is absolutely incredible because you can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those wars, and he did not have to, he did not have to do the second one if he did the first one, but he was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between, but lets start with secretary of the navy and early 1970s. Th
At the ceremony, we will hear from current House Speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Speaker pelosi good afternoon, everyone. As the speaker of the house, it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends of Speaker John Boehner to the u. S. Capitol on this historic day. The presence of members from both sides of the aisle, from both sides of the capital, is a testament to the respect that all have for john, mr. Speaker. We are pleased to welcome two former speakers. We anticipate speaker gingrich, who is with us, and speaker ryan. Both of them are here. [applause] welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, lindsay, and tricia, and the entire boehner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. It is my privilege to invite the delivery of the invocation. I am surrounded by quadrophonic speakers. [laughter] dear god [applause] [laughter] w
Four centuries what might happen there. While we would never want to accuse either harvard or the university of michigan of theft it is an indisputable fact this upsurge in good fortune was ours before it was theirs. Phil deloria received his bachelors degree from the university of colorado in 1982. Wanting to observe and understand humanity from many different angles, he then taught band at A Denver Metro high school. Having observed High School Music performance to satisfaction he returned to cu for journalism and mass communication. Thats when we remembered what to call the program before it became an acronym that is it different every time i say it. One of the most gracious acts of kindness to me, phil took my western American History course, which i believe then was called the early year, the not so early american frontier as part of his journalism program. In that course students were required to write about an adventure they experienced. It launched me on a western add ven tutur