Off with two separate countries. Its not what i want, actually i feel a little bit like the skunk in ofthe garden party, all these people have been talking about great president s and hearing them talk you out of breakup. Ultimately im not arguing for secession its just the opposite im saying its a real threat and we should think about that. Maybe turn down the volume a little bit. A passage from your book we are less united today than we been anytime since the civil war divided by politics, religion, and culture in all the ways that matters for the naked force of the law we are already divided in the two nations just as much as 1861, describe what those two nations look like and where they are. Every morning the Washington Post arrives at my doorstep and seems to me like a fresh argument for secession. It just drips with contempt on the other side, its a lot of that. I think whats missing is a tolerance and understanding of people with very different points of view when you dont have
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Ear kenearly will change in transform tiff ways. It is a prime example to integrating the arts into all aspects of the University Experience and to making it a true arts destination. Tonight, were in for such a treat as wei hear from john meacham and kenneth hume kenerly as dr. Robbins said, david will collaborate and work closely with faculty in aerz arz arts and the college of soech and behavioral, archive as an Invaluable Research for Student Research and for research. I am deeply proud that the center for creative photography will be home to this archive. The leadership and the staff of the center put in countless hours working with david and his team to make this acquisition possible and im really, really grateful for their efforts and hard work. I want to extend my gratitude to director brokenridge, director of the center for all of her work. [ applause ] and her work not only on this project, but making the center in many ways the jewel in the crown of what we mentioned arizona
Center fofof American Progress,d welcome you no civil rights and prayer breakfast. We know that the event is at capacity, so if you want to enjoy breakfast, please gather outside or stand along the wall. First, to open up the program, i want to welcome the fearless and the strong and the brave champion who has been chairing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who represents texas and has been a steadfast champion of the immigrants whether they are dreamers, Asylum Seekers and you can find him in the recess breaks at the border, and today, he is going to be joining Daca Recipients in the court as well, so i want everyone to give a round ap of applause for congressman Joaquin Castro. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I want to thank you all for being here on what is a momentus occasion as we stand in support of the Daca Recipients across the nation. Of course, im Joaquin Castro and i represent the great city of san antonio in the United States congress, and i wanted to thank and recogniz
Preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxiety, uncertainty and fates were manipulated by the iranians. Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel thomas schaefer, the senior ranking military hostage who was performing duty as Defense Attache at the time of the takeover. Col. Schaefer thank you, claude. It is indeed a pleasure to be here today with you, for me to tell you about my experience, to share with you some of the major items that i have gone through to possibly help you in a future situation. Either as a hostage or captive. You probably would ask, how does one cope with this type of experience . First of all, initially after it happened, as we were taken captive, i forgot, purposely, i forgot about how it happened. I got rid of that, accepted the fact that i was a captive and did not dwell on it. One must be disciplined in this type of a situation, in this environment, to establish a schedule purposely to take us up ev