Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship we look to now and for the future. He had dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless monster his unwavering dedication earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know that he drove the and countiess city gold is when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts in that senator norman was one of his wife scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william 1960 five, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys director. Ecome he served as president of texas a m university from 2002 through 2006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense, as secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. He a
Future of Representative Democracy. This was part of a recent forum hosted by the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. It is 90 minutes. My great honor to ,elcome our distinguished guest and to our love it caps on arena it caps on arena and i am enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, william and marys 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for states statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. His dedicated he has dedicated his career to public u. S. Ce serving a two president s and leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence. His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know but he drove the City School Bus when he was a student and was a chit assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discov
The virginia plan for example, the compromise presented at the Constitutional Convention thought the balance of large and small states and bicameral legislature. Another critical compromise is the agreement to tolerate slavery even though it would be prohibited in 1808. Without the compromise the Southern States would never have agreed to ratify the constitution and there would have been you know no United States of america. A great wrong was embedded in our find a shuttle document and the seeds of civil war were stone. The founders, even many of the slaveholders among them acknowledged slavery was an abomination antithetical to the declaration of independence many of them signed. Most hoped it would disappear for economic reasons, but for 80 years americans would live with the start contradictions between the existence of slavery within its borders and the first principle of the declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Th
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