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And now heres cohen on growth and influence of Silicon Valley. Hello. Were going to get started here tonight my name is seth im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over there put your name and email and only send news about our six events a year. We have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. These three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so the question part of the tore rum, if you would go to one of the microphones and a also hopefully state your name and your question another reason we ask you to sate your name is because we then do a writeup of all of the forum afterwards, which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event. On our website, which is come forum. Edu and the last announcement is tha
Good evening. My name is tom. Im a member of the Clements Department of history. I cannot tell you what a delight it is for me to welcome you tonight on the special location. Before we get underway want to express our appreciation for the george w. Bush library. Theyre cosponsoring this event with us in cspan which is taping the lecture. Were happy to have general patrick, director of the bush library. I want to direct your attention to a major event on december 7 peter baker will be the guest to talk about his book, obama the call of history. The dj trip for june 2018 is fully subscribed were taken names and you may know that weve established a dedicated Scholarship Fund for this program so no student should miss the chance to take this journey because of financial need. You like to make a contribution we would be thrilled. Its a personal pleasure to present the speaker. Hard to believe it was five years i must say, it was almost as if he had been waiting for our call. We really lucke
Pretty good ones. We had sarah battle earlier this year, john hodgman, last semester, these three great stuff planned for next semester already. Also, tonights forum is being filled by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also, hopefully state your name in your question another reason we ask you to state your name is because we then do a write up of all the forum afterward which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on a website which is [inaudible] in the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three it is a different three than we initially thought would be here because just called me up a little past five because his daughter was puking as the father of gms kids myself i said stay home and fortunately chris couch who writes a lot about technology is a brilliant journalist in their own right and ha
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible] there are events that the council, we do out of duty. There are events that we do interest and there are events that the Atlantic Council, we do out of friendship and long years of bonding. This is all three of those. That is where the duty also grows. I have been stealing harlans ideas for years. Thats right always upsets me when he writes about because then i cannot say it was my idea it was his idea. But this is one of those harlan esque brilliant ideas. When you hear him talk about some of the most interesting ideas, and assertive, why didnt i think about that . Why did i not say it that way . And so, the first paragraph, it gives you a sense of while many of us sometimes engage a little too much this does not happen to be one of his weaknesses. President s, politicians and public have failed to grasp this simple truth. For more than a halfcentury, america has lost every war it has started. And you find yourself saying, that is right likewise,