Left by the passing of these iconic americans and how lucky we were to have befriended them. [no audio] thank you. Throughout the year, we honor president and missions bushes legacy bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with you wendy that she would any une. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate, the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. We will also shine a light on the work left to be done. To introduce the event further and or millie introduce todays in speci
Patrick,ernor deval the question everyone is asking is, why are you running . Ive had a range of professional and Life Experiences solving problems in business, government, in this country and overseas, and the opportunity to have big ideas on the agenda and bring people together in order to address those big ideas is just endlessly appealing to me, and we are at a time i think in this country, where the anxiety, economically, socially, that you see a broad is something that is very familiar to me having grown up on the southside of chicago, where we saw the steel mills u. P and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We
Run for president . Sen. Bennet thank you for having me. What led to it was the fears that our democracy is in peril. If we continue to engage in politics the way we have the last 10 years in this country, i think my generation is going to be the first generation to leave less opportunity and not more to the people after us. Unamerican ans idea we could be facing. You talked to your family you were thinking about this, what was your what was their reaction . Sen. Bennet my wife has had a checkered career in business and in the Denver Public schools, which is its own challenge. My daughters all had very different reactions. We have three daughters. Then 14 said,as you absolutely should run. That made me glad that she was so proud of my public service. The longer we talked, the more i realized she just saw as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. She could be burning the place down for all i know. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run an
Having me. Acy is in real peril. If we what led to it was the fear that our democracy is in peril. If we continue to engage in politics the way we have the last 10 years in this country, i think my generation is going to be the first generation to leave less opportunity and not more to the people coming after us. That is about as unamerican an idea we could be facing. Familyr reaction . My wife was for it. We had a checkered career in business. Running the democratic rePublic Schools, its own challenge. She was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said, you should absolutely run. Reaction right out of the shoe. It made me glad that she was so proud of my Public Service. The longer we talked, she sought as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. Be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose,
Tv and a commentator for outlets such as cnn and politico. Patrick griffin is also a cnn commentator, longtime New Hampshire political strategist, a visiting fellow at the center for political future, and a fabulous teacher. A visiting fellow at the center for political future and a fabulous teacher. He advised george w. Bush and recently served as a Senior Advisor to New Hampshire governor chris sununu. Codirector of the center, veteran of five president ial campaigns, and numerous campaigns for senators and governors including Arnold Schwarzenegger and mitt romney. Patrick, im going to begin with a question and at least we are going to start with you. A lot of critics think that New Hampshire, with a lack of diversity, should never be the first primary state. What is your response to that and will this ever change . It willsponse is that probably never change and we could talk about that for a second. There is a great amount of hostagetaking, malfeasance holdups, everything but cash