Im kelly mccutchen, president of the foundation and i would like to welcome everyone to our february breakfast. Most importantly i would like to welcome our elected officials here today. We appreciate your service. We have a great event lined up today on issues that are near and dear to our hearts and its a key part of something we feel strongly about as Economic Opportunity and to introduce our speaker i will bring about Vice President , anita dodd. [applause]. Good morning. Im a little shorter and closer to the microphone, so i hope you can hear me a little better. I would like to welcome dick carpenter today, but i want to tell you first have much we have worked over the years with the institute for justice. I think about it with we sue government that sounds pretty good to me, but dick is a coauthor of bottleneckers. Dont miss your opportunity to get a copy. Its excellent and shocking. Bottleneckers gaming the government for power and private profit hes also director of Strategic R
Remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university, and and his areas of expertise are 20th and 21st century american political history. He particularly is interested in the new deal, in the fair deal, the great society, the clinton and obama presidencies and the intersection of race, class and gender. Hes been appointed to the world war i War Commission in tennessee and is a member of the board of directors of the tennessee humanities. Dr. Carter . Its yours. Thank you, judge. I wish to thank everyon
And growing community, that is where we are gathering around not only professional writers but folks who write for their own enjoyment and creative purposes and anyone who loves to read anything. We have ongoing collaboration in vanderbilt university, helping us program a special track every year. This year among a couple tracks we have going on we have one, all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prize is celebrating the 100th anniversary so the pulitzers at remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university
So if youre on that side of the street you look over and say, hey what is that . Positioning the sculptures where visibilityws greater. As you enter from the west side you come inrth end, on axis with that brothers in arms sculpture. You can see it all the way down the street. From the elevation perspective having the raised park will allow people, especially in the winter, to see down pennsylvania avenue. They will make that connection with the rest of the street where they cant now. If we can get people into the , they will see it and see out, they will have a greater connection with the urban area. Elevated space with greenery. The idea is we are doing figures to create a sense of elevated humanity. Going on from that. Now we have to get this done. What is coming next is we have to meet with the centennial agencies we need to meet with. Address their concerns. So we can create something that answers not only how we would come to the table but also elevates to a higher level artistic
Drugsment not to tolerate. Wont you join us in this great new National Crusade . President reagan god bless you and good night. A 25yearold architect in training was named a finalist in an International Competition to design the world war i memorial in washington. , heully realize his vision invited bedroom he invited veteran classical sculpture to join him. The Centennial Commission announced in january. They talked with American History tv about the ideas behind the memorial which commemorates the wars centennial and the 5 million americans who served. It will be built entirely with private donations. It is a short walk from the white house. The way it is set up is to relate to the context. On the eastern side having the plaza. On the western side having the sherman memorial. How do you get people from this part into that part . How do they see the park from each of those places . As you walk along the sidewalk from Freedom Plaza over there, that becomes the line that draws you into