Lets enjoy ourselves. This is a tremendous moment for jim and your family and lets just enjoy ourselveses for a little while. Well ask jim to say a few words. I want to hear what he has to say about his great talent, his great running ability. I find athletics to be extraordinary, i love it. Thank you for being here. Today it is my privilege to present our nations highest civilian honor, the president ial medal of freedom, to a legendary athlete and legendary runner, olympian and true american patriot, former congressman jim ryun. Jim, congratulations. Fantastic. [applause] were joined today by jims wife ann, thank you, ann, very much, congratulations. And various family members. But his son, where ned. Ned, thank you very much. Katherine, thank you very much. Im going to ask you to come up and say a few words, both of you, so you better be prepared. Got a lot of news back there. See im being nice today. I dont use the other word in front of the word news. But jims journey started with
Pres. Trump thank you, very much. Thank you. Thank you. [cheering and applause] thank you very much. Please, lets enjoy ourselves. This is a tremendous moment for jim and your family, and lets just enjoy ourselves for a little while. We will ask jim to say a few words. I want to hear what he has to say about his great talent, his great running ability. I find it to be extraordinary. I love it. Today, it is my privilege to present our nations highest civilian honor, the president ial medal of freedom, to a legendary athlete and legendary runner, olympian and true american patriot, former congressman, jim ryun. Jim, congratulations. Fantastic. Jim thank you very much. [cheering and applause] pres. Trump we are joined by jims wife anne. Thank you very much. And various family members. Where is ned . Ned, thank you very much. Catherine, thank you very much. I will ask both of you to come up and say a few words, so you better be prepared. I dont use the other word in front of the word news.
These stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was on and a of years later, she started to really rise up in the office and she said, you know what, i want to give you an award. Its called the gid
Now the good part starts. Lets begin to talk about something before we start the id like to talk about something thats inspiration on and i have these stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was
Garden apartment complex. Police say it was a coordinated attack by the owner. Investigators say he was targeting tenants he wanted to force high of rent to force out of rentcontrolled apartments. To do that to other human beings, there is empathy missing from there. Thats just greed. Reporter the plan backfired after he was captured on the complexs security cameras cameras. Take a look at this video. You can see the back window of this suv shattered after investigators say the owner shot him with a bb gun. Some people dont have any heart toward the people, the low income and this is really a shame. Reporter he has been charged with felony destruction of property and his son is facing a misdemeanor for allegedly attempting to sway a potential witness from operating with police. We need the citizens to call the police. Reporter is palo alto vice mayor larry moody has vowed to protect residents against what they describe as a campaign of fear and intimidation designed to drive them from