Became a multimillionaire. He eventually moved to london and lived there for the remainder of his life. Gave hisll of 1867, he millions away to establish educational organizations. This was a generation before andrew card engaged at the same thing with his money. To the community of georgetown 15,000 to establish a library. Honor of was named in him and serves as a repository for georgetown neighborhood history. For sound being the oldest neighborhood in washington, d. C. Years beforel 49 the Nations Capital was founded in 1800. M. Days speaker is jamie stieh we welcome her back. This is her second top this year. The second saturday of each month she is giving a talk about personagesamerican who really impacted American History. Columnist syndicated and contributor to u. S. News. Com. Today, she is going to give a talk about Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Anddouglas worked by day how. Tubman worked by night under the stars. Her talk next month will be about rachel carson. Satur
I now have a scheduler and her parents are here. Thank you for the millers. Also, i can tell her one more time that kansas city has the most complete Baseball Team i have seen in the last 30 or 40 years. [applause] so, i want to thank also the chancellor for welcoming me here. 11 years ago, i came here to launch a lecture series. I was honored to do with then because i always like bob dole and i always admired him. And because even when we were, we knew we were going to be running against each other for president , we found a way to Work Together. So, i think we need to be serious about this topic today. We can all say we are here at the university, we have comfortable lives, we will be nice to each other. This is a much more serious subject. For the polarization of americas politics, as present not just in washington but american life. You just look at how many of our collective bigotries we have overcome in america in the last 100 years. We are less racist than we used to be, less se
Front. There are two of those. Looks like those are being switched on. Feel free to come on down if you have a question. Hi. Im ryan. I was wondering from your perspective what the public reaction to the governments kind of crackdown on mqm in karachi, if that is seen as an overreach or if it is generally welcomed . Why can they garner so much support in karachi if theyre not a Popular Group there . Thank you. Thank you. Nice question. Mqm is one of the Political Parties which is very strong in karachi. They have had virtual monopoly. They are a political entity with legitimate constituency, but theyve also been a party that have engaged in a lot of criminal activities. They had run karachi and islamabad as a political machine on steroids. And so the military going after them and cleaning up some of that because there was a lot of kind of target killing that the mqm supported, et cetera. There is general support of that and even in mqms own constituency has been very muted in coming ou
Skilled workers, there is an opportunity in terms of Immigration Reform to do with that but also there is an Economic Opportunity and a moral obligation when it comes to skilled workforce. I mean immigration. Second is we have to invest in not just roads and bridges and we have read the data about we are not investing enough but we have to invest in high speed broadband. With 20 of households do not have access, how can we compete . More business is being done on the internet. Betsy etsy, a company that allow someone to start a business at home, it is a Public Company. A fast Public Company here in the United States and it basically is a marketplace for craft workers to sell these things. We have to have broadband for those folks to have access, 90 of which are women, most of whom are staying at home, these are microbusinesses. There is a new definition of what business and productivity is that we are not connecting. And generally 2010 the president set the goal of doubling u. S. Expor
Are going to be. So just to clarify on the issue of the net new tralt. Youre advocating for a open sbrelt which would then have structure to ensure that the platform itself isnt abused. There two issues. Net newt tralt in the United States one of the issues around net new tralt is whether or not you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. Thats the big controversy here. So you have big wealthy Media Companies who might be willing to pay more but then also charge more for more spectrum, more band width on the internet so they can stream movies faster or what have you. I personally, the position my administration as well as i think a lot of companies, is you dont want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the internet is to various users. You want to leave it open so that the next google or the next facebook can succeed. Theres another problem though. There are other countries and i think this is what you were alluding to that feel comforta