But then once he decided he would do it, that was when he could hardly say, i am going to be president. It was not something we never, ever dreamed would happen. But i was excited about it. I had campaigned the whole last year before the governors race for him. It was hard. Amy was a baby. I didnt like to leave her all the time. But i enjoyed it. I learned so much about our state. We have 159 counties. I knew the capital of every county. I knew and issues. That is how i got involved in Mental Health issues, running the campaign for jimmy. Our big Mental Health facility hospital. There had been a big expose and the Mental Health systems act had been passed, and this was in 1963. This was 1966 when jimmy first ran for governor. He got beat that time. We got in late because our leading democratic candidate had a heart attack. But they were moving people out of the hospital because there were like 12,000 people and had room for 3000. It was awful. It was happening all over the country. The
Lets get started again. We will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. She is a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. Monica. Thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act came to be and then take a step back to
Gary not from adults. [laughter] peter we dont want to speak only about your scholarship. You said you didnt want to make it all about you. Im interviewing you, so that is going to be hard to avoid. He says no. Its going to be ok. Gary i said ill do whatever you want to do. Thats what i said. Peter i can assure you he did not say that. Case any of you are wondering, this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary because there you are. Youre going to write about tonight. You have two diametrically different comments. You need to pick one and pretend thats correct. Peter so this evening, we did agree upon this. Again, were going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesserknown gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. We wont divulge all your secrets. Is that ok . We didnt agree upon that either. We did . Ok. Were having trouble getting out of the gate, arent we . Gary im just listening, peter. Youre the one controlling the gate. [laughter] peter
who is joining us in conversation for her brand-new book the tramp of nancy reagan in addition to working at the washington post she has worked at time magazine of the los angeles times in the recipient of many awards including the prize for excellence and recording as four years ago by simon & schuster to write the prior gravy it is being published tomorrow on april 13, 2021. they call nancy reagan a luminous and exhausted biography which chronicles the private life of influence of nancy reagan, the book draws on interviews with cabinet members, friends and family members and she became one of the most influential first ladies of the century. we invite you to join our virtual program joined in conversation by reagan foundation institute board of trustees kathy busch. good afternoon i am so pleased to welcome you today for the very special sneak peek at a much-anticipated biography on former first lady nancy reagan, the book, the tramp of nancy reagan written by washingto
Hill ceremony honoring former senator bob dole. He is about to receive the congressional gold medal, the top honor congress can bestow. He was the only president ial candidate to endorse President Trump. And the president will be there when the president speaks live. We came within five points of seeing a 300point gain for the dow. Up 287. The climb today has been since the opening bell, steady but steep as the dow is about to make another mt. Everest peak in the final hour. We stand at 26,082 points, taking another step. The second one closing above 26,000 following yesterdays crushing 383point swing. Remember yesterday it crossed the milestone level, jumped up when the bell opened and fizzled out. If it happens today, it will be only eight days since the last time we saw a thousand point gain. That makes it the shortest stretch ever between the milestones. The previous record between thousand point moves was 23 trading days. While the dow is propelled higher on stronger than expected