can t imagine my parents. give me a name like that but backwards is spelled suffer. and and i was the deputy chief counsel of the senate watergate committee under center sam irvin the man i m worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutional government. as then minority leader mike mansfield said no one in the entire senate was better equipped. to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral
[applause] all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of vitriol in the political discourse that exists in government today, and even in the halls of congress. i cannot emphasize enough the importance of the relationship between him and the vice chairman. welcome to tennessee. [laughter] [applause] they made a pact in the beginning that this would be a nonpartisan hearing. the sole purpose of which was to uncover the truth. it is hard to imagine this happening today, because it required level heads and plain old-fashioned civility. they proved a congressional committee devoid of malice and political bias could fulfill its function of informing the public and then propose legislation that would prevent this egregious scandal from ever happening again. they knew only a well-functioning separation of powers could ensure democracy and our great country for generations. today we commemorate the 50th
[ applause ] over the last ten ceo councils right at the top of your priority list, first has been tax reform and right after that, education. What you have meant by that is developing the skills and skills training to make sure that you have the workforce you need for the next decade. Finding people who bring into your companies that can execute the type of work that you need done in a new technological world. So how does the white house plan to address your concerns . Matt murray, the executive editor of the wall street journal is going to interview betsy devos, the u. S. Secretary of education, who is very much focused on this particular aspect of your agenda. So please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] secretary, good to see you. Nice to see you, matt. I think its fair to say, first of all, that education for this audience over the years is probably always the number one concern for many people whenever we poll our executives. So i know theyre keenly interested always in the
Administrations trade policy, including renegotiating nafta. Over the last ten ceo councils, at the top of your priority list, first tax reform, then after that, education and what you meant by that is developing the skills and skills training to make sure you have the work force you need for the next decade, finding people to bring into your company that can execute the type of work that you need done in a new tech know logical world. How does the white house plan to address your concern . Matt murry, the editor of the wall street journal is going to interview betsy devos, the u. S. Secretary of education, who is focused on this aspect of your agenda. Join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] secretary, good to see you. Nice to see you, matt. I think its fair to say, first of all, education for this audience over the years is probably the number one concern for many people when ever we poll our executives. I know they are keenly interested in the state of education. And we have already
Your priority list, first taxi from right after that education and what you meant by that is developing the skills and skills training to make sure that your workforce you need for the next decade, finding people to bring into your companies that can execute the type of work you need that any new technological world. So how does the white house plan to address your concerns . The executive editor of the wall street journal is going to interview betsy devos, the u. S. Secretary of education who is very much focused on this particular aspect of your agenda. So please join me in welcoming them. [applause] secretary, good to see you. Good to see you, matt. I think its fair to say first of all that education for this audience over the years is probably always been one concern for many people whenever we pull our executives. I know there came interested always in the state of education. We both had a lot of talk over the last day and a half on things like ai, things like the digitization of