Good evening everyone. I am the Senior Vice President and it is my honor to host james and were doing this in partnership with the center for the study of the presidency and congress. Reword just talking upstairs wonderful things about the presidency and congress that was founded by the late david capture and he was a remarkable man who was well loved and he loved live to see the building which was terrific he started scsi as over 50 years ago and for years and with less opulent surroundings to say the least. We would be doing this in a basement with no windows windows, we never would have gotten here without david so it is an honor to be working with the center and of course, to have my friend James Kitfield here who has written another Remarkable Book you although his biography you dont have to read it one of the of best military reporters to work in this town one of the best authors and the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about one and his readers and fellow jour
Necessarily changes. By the late 18 hundreds illegality essentially, as charles pointed out, mint, meant asian, this nefarious group of people from asia and were coming to take jobs, plan opium in the United States and generally the boschdebauched the morals of the United States through asian prostitution, for example like the 1875. The page act is directed toward this part of chinese prostitution coming into the United States and the blushing them also places like San Francisco and the surrounding areas. But i wonder even has now, we dont necessarily, although you think about the Campaign Rhetoric of jeb bush, when i was thinking about 1st tourism i was not talking about latinos. I was talking about asians. Somehow that made it better in his mind. Obviously as aa general matter we have replaced that group for which we have this animus with regard to immigration and the way in which we now think about the latino population in some sense and immigration question even though it does not
Producer in the world. Another reason why companies are coming back. The cost is a third to a fifth what it is around the world. We are prepared. Were prepared. To help other countries as well. Our oil import are the lowest theyve been in the last twenty years. I believe if my colleagues from abroad will forgive me. I believe remain the most innovative country in the world. But i also think, folks, that the rest of the world understands why this is happening. Its not just the good fortune of having shale gas or having two oceans, et. Cetera, i think its because of the enduring strength of our people and our system. For all of our difficulty in education for our children, they still taught to challenge orthodoxy. No one in america is diminished or punished for challenging orthodoxy. Its the only way there can be a breakthrough. Its a challenge orthodoxy. Where ex competition is fair. People have a right to express their view, practice their religion, and decide their future. These are u