My friend chuck for their remarks. I will have more to say to them later. On march 9th, 1967, senator howard baker junior, the newly elected senator from tennessee made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the senate. He spoke for too long. The republican leader of the senate who was also bakers father in law, walked to congratulate him and said howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of unexpressed thought. Which is good advice for farewell address as well. Senator bakers legislative assistant, i was also a speechwriter that made an address, or at least i thought i was. He developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech. I asked to see him, do i have a problem with our relationship . Write what you want to write and say what i want to say. I learned a couple other things about saying what i want to say. One came from alex haley, the author of roots, you heard him speak once and said may i make a suggestion . If when you begin a speech you would
Miss collins and mr. Clerk miss lam . Miss lopez . Vicepresident lopez here and miss collins is here as well. Clerk okay, thank you, thank you. Mr. Moliga is going to be late. Miss norton. Commissioner norton here. Clerk mr. Sanchez . President sanchez here. Clerk thank you. Thank you. So i need to have our translators and our interpreters, announcers, at this moment. Good afternoon. The unit foid School District will provide free chinese and spanish simultaneously interpretation throughout the board meeting. If you need chinese interpretation please dial 14848543328, and 721609895, pound. If you need spanish interpretation please dial 13193829676. Pin 665996966, pound. This message will repeat in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language]. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese language] thank you very much. Thank you. If you are not speaking at the moment, please mute yourself. All right, thank you. And, again, just welcome, everybody and thank you for everything that youre doing
Miss collins and mr. Clerk miss lam . Miss lopez . Vicepresident lopez here and miss collins is here as well. Clerk okay, thank you, thank you. Mr. Moliga is going to be late. Miss norton. Commissioner norton here. Clerk mr. Sanchez . President sanchez here. Clerk thank you. Thank you. So i need to have our translators and our interpreters, announcers, at this moment. Good afternoon. The unit foid School District will provide free chinese and spanish simultaneously interpretation throughout the Board Meeting. If you need chinese interpretation please dial 14848543328, and 721609895, pound. If you need spanish interpretation please dial 13193829676. Pin 665996966, pound. This message will repeat in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language]. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese language] thank you very much. Thank you. If you are not speaking at the moment, please mute yourself. All right, thank you. And, again, just welcome, everybody and thank you for everything that youre doing
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the chief executive officer of the george w. Bush president ial center, ken hersch. [ applause ] thank you and welcome to the engage series presented by highland capital. Im the introducer in chief. Our goal is to provide content you cant get anywhere else. Were honored today with this session to launch a wonderful insiders look at president ial retreats and a glimpse of what life looks like for a president outside of the white house. Its a fascination that so many people. Were delighted to take a deep dive into camp david, crawford, kennebunkport and the lbj ranch. Tonight, we have a series of guests who can also give us that special insight. To kick us off, i would like to introduce the 43rd president of the United States. [ applause ] thank you all. [ applause ] thank you very much. [ applause ] so this is a special moment for laura and me because we have such fond memories of the president ial retreats. One of the things about the presidency tha
My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. Just curious, sarah, what do you think, what would you share about that process, how an idea becomes a speech. I think in a weird way as speechwriters, we are not coming up with the ideas. There are much smarter people in the building that are developing those ideas. But in a way i think that these ideas kind of they dont get crystallized until theyre litigated on the page. So a