Stanford university libraries. As bruce was describing, the bill lane center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and Public Education on the past, present and future of Western North america. So this is a very appropriate program for them, and the Stanford University libraries offers access to a comprehensive range of Scholarly Resources both print and digital format in support of research and nstruction here at stanford. Today we inaugurate a new lane Center Initiative called arts west. It is designed to place a spotlight on the rich contributions of the arts and humilities in the american west. Arts west offers the Stanford Community innovative public programming, on the writers, artists and cultural leaders that make the west a Fertile Ground for global creativity and artistic vision. It offers two distinctive series , the great writers of the west focuses on our western literary heritage and the great artists of the west elevates the western visual arts. We begin today with the c
And john heilemann. They are the hosts of with all due respect, and more. What does the report say, and how damaging is it for Hillary Clinton . Anne the report says she violated state Department Email practices in a couple of regards. It says she failed to get approval for this system, private email system ahead of time. And that that approval would not have in granted had the state Department Officials known all of its ramifications, because of security concerns. It also said the state departments sloppy handling of email dated back to previous secretaries of state. That is something the Clinton Campaign is relying on in its defense. It makes clear, throughout an 83 page report, and i think scathing is not too harsh a that hillary here, clinton was by far the worst offender almost sloppy practices. On those sloppy practices. It also says she refused to sit for an interview. Charlie with the inspector general. And so did her aides . Anne exactly. Other secretaries of state either sat
Post. Mark halperin. Let me again with you. And hows the report say damaging is it for Hillary Clinton . the report says she violated state Department Email practices in a couple of regards. She failed to get approval for this system, private email system ahead of time. Int approval would not have granted had the state Department Officials known all of the ramifications because of security concerns. It also said state department dated handling of email back to previous secretaries of state. That is something the Clinton Campaign is relying on in its defense. It makes clear, throughout and 83 page report, and i think athing is not too harsh a term, Hillary Clinton was by far the worst offender. It also says she refused to sit for an interview. Charlie with the Inspector General. So did her aides . Nne exactly. Other secretaries of state either set for an interview or cooperated. She did not. You also ask how damaging this is. It is quite damaging in that one of her chief defenses on thi
International community to do the things they are doing. In our meeting earlier with us afghan womens council, one thing is so many nonprofits have gone in, lets get some for profits in afghanistan. [applause] figure out ways to help develop the country so the Afghan Government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. I want to add something to all of this. I am really honored as always to be around you. They have done an incredible job. When i saw the book it reminded me, took me to 14 years ago. I want to read something to you. The honorable mrs. Bush, i would like to thank you on behalf of afghan men and women for all the help you have supported and the care you have given the afghan women and children. I do remember those days. I gave my first lobbying speech in chicago in 2004. And American Progress men and women. In afghan women capacity to fund for the projects. And ended with the following sentence with a lot of hope. After her pain, i feel like the
Dramatically changed. It destroyed everything people believed about america and the american government. Once the wars over and this is an important day to talk about it, the anniversary of firing at fort sumter everybody has different ideas of what the nation is supposed to become. There were ideas about what africanamerican people should be. The northerners had ideas of what america should be. The indians and chinese out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern man who had won the war had thoughts on what america should be. But the critical question on was what it would be was who was going to have a say in it. He will go through that as well. Who was going to have a say on what that nation would be would have a dramatic effect on what that nation became. Today, i want to talk about lives in theens 19th century, and their role in what was the reconstruction and the rebuilding of the north, south, and west. The story of women is way more crucial to that