An amazing crowd. We had to turn away a good 50 people or more. There is a briefing on u. S. And it is part of a National History center bringing historical perspectives to Current Issues that have confronted congress. It is a political position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers in public about the sorts of finishes theyre dealing with. I want to give a few thanks to the melon foundation. I also want to thank our assistance jeffrey who is outside of this room for helping make the arrangements. I want to thank the off the of gerry connolly. I want to explain why there was index cards on your seats. We will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards. So keep them ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. Everyone out there that supports the National Historic center and thank you for coming to the event. We have to get you information about professional organizations like schaffer. Panel rooms are f
Confronting congress and the nation. The purpose of the program is not to provide or advocate for any particular political positi position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers and the public about the sorts of issues they are dealing with. I want to first give a few thanks first to the Melon Foundation for providing the funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant jeffrey who is outside this room for helping to make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of Jerry Connolly which booked the room. And i want to remind or explain why there were index cards on your seats and why i passed other index cards around. What we will do after the presentations by the speakers we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards rather than ask them in front of the audience. Keep your index cards ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. And so now i will turn this over to m
I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. If there is anything that can depress the turnout, i think we have the answer. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. I wondered if there would be people there and i tip my cap to all of you this evening. And the director of the clement center. The manyike to thank people who helped make this evening possible. Rhonda whoeff and have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of governor bill clemens who died earlier that year. The donor wanted to hear our ideas about how we put those funds to use before they were transmitted. Naturally, i proposed this money be applied to my mortgage. He passed. They liked much more the idea that they use the money to convert one of the junior postdoctoral fellowship lines to one that would support a senior scholar. They cost more and they pry away from institutions. Toh that settled, i turned my associate director for sugg
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