Doctor Robert Redfield as director for the center of Disease Control and prevention he with others give a response before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Members have covered coronavirus spreads and whether china is cooperating with un officials. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second heari
Tonights guest was a fulltime speechwriter for president gerald ford and a consulting writer to george h. W. Bush. He served as founding president of the freedom of Expression Foundation in washington, d. C. He has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. It is with pleasure that i welcome dr. Craig smith. Would you please welcome dr. Craig smith. [applause] yous nice to be back in lawrence. Back in lawrence. You have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. Can you tell us about your early life and how you got to be a president ial speechwriter. Dr. Smith the way i became a president ial speechwriter could only happen in america. I was an undergraduate, i got a lot of training in how to make cases, how to sift evidence and build arguments. I went on for a phd in communication studies, where i focused on aristotle. All of those things are incorporated in the speechwriting craft. I then became a professor of communication st
Ok. I want to welcome everybody to this press conference. Im bob woodson, the president and founder of the woodson center. Were sponsoring the 1776 gathering today. We also want to welcome our new partners, the Washington Examiner. They will be publishing our essays on their website. One a day for the next 12 days. They have a wonderful editorial today. Also, all of our essays are listed on our website 1776united s. Com. You can read the essays. I also want to thank our sponsors. , who couldnt be here, but he has a representative, also, mr. Lawrence, one of our great supporters, who helped us do this. The reason that we are gathered is to address the 1619 project, the good news is that it has stimulated a much needed debate within the black community. The quality of life in the black community has been served over the past two centuries with the quality of the debate within. During the 19th century, there were three areas. One, there were those who believed in recolonization, that we s
Your television provider. Announcer next, correct smith, the author of confessions of a president ial speechwriter. He discusses writing for president s ford and george h. W. Bush. He also evaluates the speaking styles of President Trump and the democratic president ial candidate. The robert dold institute of politics hosted this 50 minute event at the university of kansas. Tonights guest was a fulltime speechwriter for president gerald ford and a consulting writer to george h. W. Bush. Tonight he served as founding president of the freedom of Expression Foundation in washington, d. C. He has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. It is with pleasure that i welcome dr. Craig smith. Would you please welcome dr. Craig smith. [applause] you have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. Can you tell us a little bit about your early life and how you got to be a president ial speechwriter . Dr. Smith the way i became a presiden
Tonights guest was a fulltime speechwriter for president gerald ford and a consulting writer to george h. W. Bush. He served as founding president of the freedom of Expression Foundation in washington, d. C. He has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. It is with pleasure that i welcome dr. Craig smith. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome dr. Craig smith. [applause] dr. Smith, it is a pleasure to see you and thank you for being here tonight. You have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. Can you tell us about your early life and how you got to be a president ial speechwriter. Dr. Smith the way i became a president ial speechwriter could only happen in america. I was an undergraduate debater where i got a lot of training in how to make cases, how to sift evidence and build arguments. I went on for a phd in communication studies, where i focused on the ancients. All of those things are incorporated in the spe