The western political tradition through the study of original texts from 2008 to 2018, he served as director of columbias center for the core curriculum, and hes the author of rescuing how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation. From Princeton University press 2021, a wonderful book i highly recommend to you and that please join me in welcoming roosevelt. Montas and ill get this over to thank you to to. Thank you everyone for being here. Um, i cant tell you what an honor it is for me to be here to meet some people for the first time with whom. I have been circling or who have been circling have been circling me and nice things about each other on twitter etc. And i literally just had like butterflies in my stomach coming to this event tonight because i was going to meet these people that for a long time felt my tribe and whom hadnt met. I want to say a few words to andrew before introducing our panelists today and hearing from them. Um, theres a line i
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voters. the country is in disarray. we see it crime on our streets or border that s irresponsible, reckless or dangerous. we see it with our world on fire. for the first time. 81% of americans don t think their kids are going to live as good of a life as we have. we can t be okay with that we have one job as parents and that s to do right by our kids. every child deserves a good education, regardless of where they are born and raised. we feel it with our mortgage payments. with our insurance payments. everything that we have to pay has all gone up: i analyze the threat and the stronger the threat, the higher the heel i m a problem solver, more than that i. no one is going to outwork me or outsmart me in this race. we do have a country to save. i ll promise you this, if you join with me in this movement, if you join with me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. martha: welcome to des moines, iowa, everybody. good evening from the iowa events c
[applause] [applause] thank you so much, it is going to be here but we haves medical couple of days in New Hampshire and we will be here again tomorrow and everybody could not have been nice and i think the part that i love about New Hampshire is that everybody is just down to earth and or something just special about that and i think dc could probably learn a lot from you, im just saying you little bit about myself and we will go into what we see in our country never going to fix it. So i was born and raised in a small rural town in South Carolina we were the only indian family that all southern town. We are not wide enough to be white, we were not black enough to be black pretty they did not know who we were or what we were or why we were there and remember when i get teased on the playground, my mom would always say, your job is not to show them how you are different. Your job is to show them how you are similar we cannot use use my moms advice for now. And even though the town did
Could not have been nice and i think the part that i love about New Hampshire is that everybody is just down to earth and or something just special about that and i think dc could probably learn a lot from you, im just saying you little bit about myself and we will go into what we see in our country never going to fix it. So i was born and raised in a small rural town in South Carolina we were the only indian family that all southern town. We are not wide enough to be white, we were not black enough to be black pretty they did not know who we were or what we were or why we were there and remember when i get teased on the playground, my mom would always say, your job is not to show them how you are different. Your job is to show them how you are similar we cannot use use my moms advice for now. And even though the town did not know why we were there, my parents knew by we were there, because there was never a day they did not meet my brothers and my sister know how blessed we were to li