And that is like my favorite thing about a campaign, whether i was on a Campaign Staff or a candidate. So im really excited to talk about this today. Im going to give you a little bit of history here, so president ial and Vice President ial, general election debates have become really the highlight of the Campaign Season and something we just expect to happen. That has not always been the case. Its also common in other races, particularly highprofile races, so when was the first president ial debate . Heres a trivia question, historical trivia. Anyone know . Give you a hint . No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats lincoln and douglas. A lot of time people think, you hear the famous Lincoln Douglas debates and they ran against each other for president in 1860. Actually, their debates is when they were both running for the u. S. Senate in illinois in 1858 and had numerous debates around the state of illinois. And so quite an odd situation, they ran against each othe
Case. Its also common in other races, particularly highprofile races, so when was the first president ial debate . Heres a trivia question, historical trivia. Anyone know . Ill give you a hint. No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats lincoln and douglas. A lot of times people think its the famous Lincoln Douglass debates and they ran against each other for president in 1860. Actually, their debates is when they were both running for the u. S. Senate in illinois in 1858 and had numerous debates around the state of illinois. And so quite an odd situation, they ran against each other for u. S. Senate. Douglas was elected by the legislature at that time, the legislatures appointed the senators and two years later on are on major party tickets. But their debates were published and circulated a lot in 1816. The issues have not really changed a whole lot. The real first president ial debate was between john kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. And now at this point Richard
Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and were expecting snow tomorrow and ill thrilled about that and the people that can organize the state of the union can deal with that, but today, we have good weather and were thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. Just really quickly, i want to thank our sponsors. You can see some of them on the screens around you. They include comcast nbc universal, we also have facebook, we have verizon and th
Not an economic logic. He has to give to receive, you have to surrender something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You have to conquer your desire to get praise, success leads to the greatest better which is bright. Failure leads to greater success which is humility and learning. And so do nurture your adam one grid you want to maximize your strength. Work on your adam two interval side of life, you want to confront your weakness. So theres a confrontation between these two beliefs and these two ways of operating. I wanted to talk more about that adam two side which get so underplayed in public life and, frankly, in venues like this one. Adam two starts with a different negotiated different way of belief. It starts with the belief that we are not special, that we are broken, divided creatures that the central theme of our weakness is that were selfcentered, that pride is a central vice, that pride blinds us to the reality of our own divided nature. Humility is a centr
Average afghan was 42 years. Today, its 62 years. And rising. In 2001, 9 of afghans had access to basic health care. Today, 60 of afghans live within an hour of basic health services. In 2001, there was only one television station and it was owned by the government. Today there are 75 stations. And only two and all of those but two are privately owned. And in 2001, there were virtually no cell phones in the country. Today, there are 18 million covering about 90 of residential areas. 80 of afghan women. Now have access to a cell phone meaning they are connected to their families, their friends, and most importantly, theyre connected to the world and the future. Thanks to entrepreneurs like roya, afghan women will now also be connected to the internet too. Ten years ago, it just would have been unfathomable to imagine this. But because so many individual acts of courage this is the future we are now watching afghan women build. Secretary clinton, laura bush, ambassadors rivera and russel