About their efforts to broker ae peace guillen highlighted challenges in the lead up to the agreement. [applause] thank you. Established guests, lady, for being here to witness this historic and of thank you for your warm reception, it is a great honor and pleasure for me and my wife, heather to be here with you today. Im especially grateful to the chancellor and vice chancellor and hisis staff here at queens university. They worked long and hard to organize this weeks events. Theyve welcomed all of us, citizens of Northern Ireland, teachers, school children, media, politicians, all of us extraordinary hospitality. Thank you hillary and ian for what youve gone and done in this conference. Twentyfive years ago the people of Northern Ireland and their leaders changed the course of history. It was a day when his three opened itself to hope. The people of Northern Ireland supported, worked for and established democratic peaceful process as their preferred form of governance. They overwhelm
Kennedy Center Tomorrow to open the ireland 100 festival which centerpiece of our sentration abroad our 1916 narrow. Sent we felt it had to be in the ennedy center this living memorial to president kennedy. But there are reasons why i here tely wanted to be this evening and just let me first it are with you is our tremendous sense of and respect for senator edward kennedy. The s of course as we know lion of the senate but he was a u. S. Irish s of relationships, i think we all know that. There with the role to understand and explain and interests andrish to work for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. I was very proud to be there in arch of last year at the opening of the institute. T was such a moving moment and i loved seeing the recreation of the study. T has an irish flag and signpost and many other signs of his affection for ireland. Reason is that we are remendous supporters of and believers in the mission of the institute. In addition to the emphasis on the senate ther
Centinary. We felt it had to be in the Kennedy Center this living memorial to president kennedy. But there are reasons why i absolutely wanted to be here this evening and just let me quickly share with you first it a few of them. First, it is our tremendous sense of gratitude to and respect for senator edward kennedy. He was, of course, as we know, the lion of the senate but he was a lion in terms of u. S. Irish relationships, i think we all know that. He was there always to understand and explain and advocate the irish interests and to work for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. I was very proud to be there in march of last year at the opening of the institute. It was such a moving moment and i loved seeing the recreation of the study. It has an irish flag and signpost and many other signs of his affection for ireland. The second reason is that we are tremendous supporters of and believers in the mission of the institute. In addition to the emphasis on the senate there is t
Foundation. My name is matt denhart. You will hear more about politics the entire evening when we start our second debate, but first, i want to tell you a little bit about the Coolidge Foundation. The Coolidge Foundation is dedicated to promoting the legacy and values of americas 30th president , Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 until 1929. We are based in plymouth, vermont, the president s place, and resting preserved by the state of vermont, where we hope many of you will come and visit. Our charge at the foundation is thereatly increase understanding and awareness of president coolidge and his values and his legacy and times. We do that through a number of different programs. This week, in particular, we are especially proud to announce our scholarship, a full ride to any undergraduate university that a student desires to attend. The application opens this fall, and we will award our first scholars in the early spring of next year. Check itll of you will out, and m
Versus reagan. Debate, participants discussed the legacies and personalities of birth both personalities. This is an hourlong event. We thank you for joining us this evening. You will hear more about the institute of politics and the entire evening in just a bit when we start our second debate. First i want to tell you about the Coolidge Foundation. Promotingicated to Calvin Coolidge, who served as fromdent who served 19231929. We help many of you will come and visit. Our charge is to greatly increase the understanding and awareness of president coolidge and his bow use and his legacy and times. Programs andber of we are proud to announce our coolidge scholarship, a full ride to any undergraduate university the student desires to attend. The application opens this fall, and we will award our first scholars in the early spring of next year. We hope all of you will check it out, and maybe if you are a high school junior, consider applying. Another Major Program is the debate program. Thr