We would like to present our junior group performance. How the tragedy of polio and the triumph of public accountability. Changed how america reacts to Infectious Disease. Infectious disease has caused death and suffering. Changing the course of human history. These casualties were real people. With real dreesms real families. And real lives. According to a historian, the death toll was 10 million. The roman leader calmly responded to the second century outbreak. Using his personal resources to keep panic from the streets. When you arrive in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive. To breathe. To think. To enjoy. To love. The bubonic plague. Unlike the romans, the sufferers of the bubonic plague lacked a strong leader to regulate panic. It has been reappropriated into a symbol of pop culture, including the plague doctor. A highly recognizable symbol of fear. And even references such as montsy python. Bring out the dead im not dead yet smallpox. Dating back to the third
Events are strictly nonpartisan, they are not intended to offer any kind of policy recommendations or agendas. They are simply meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. So a few thanks, and then i will turn it over to alan. First of all, the Mellon Foundation funds this program. We are very grateful to them. Secondly, the room has been booked for us by congressman jerry connollys office, and we are grateful to them. Finally, i want to thank my reiger,t director, jeff who is at the table outside but will be coming in shortly. Now i will turn it over to professor alan kraut from the american university, who will moderate the event. Before i do, let me say, most of you will find these index cards on your seat. The intent of these is that as the discussion proceeds, if you have questions, write them on these cards. We will collect them after formal remarks and use them to initiate the discussion. Think
Already a problem before we ever thought about donald trump in a political context whereas i think that of biden is the candidate i think it will end up being a tighter race i still think that he can win but i think that it will be playing on that obama in a stall judge in a stall just for things to go back to some semblance of sanity while also making sure at the same time that youre not doing too much to turn off more leftist or progressive voters i think its often said that the the next president is a reaction to the previous president right so if you just looking at the state of the country looking at who we have in the white house right now who among the current Democratic Candidates would be the reaction to trump. Well i think you look at someone like people to judge as an example of a very different kind of candidate different kind of political figure in terms of tone and rhetoric from donald trump whats not clear to me there is whether booted speaks to a constituency beyond the
Guess a barbs or attacks against trump so far have been fired and i think that you have to tread a very careful line at this point the primary where you have to be seen to be able to defend yourself against donald trump when he does go after you while also recognizing that attacking trump is never going to be the thing that helps you to win the election at least in my view so lets jump to that what its whats the thing thats going to win the election one here thoughts. Well you know the general election its tough to tell because were still very far away and the primary factor in my mind is going to be the state of the economy i think if the economy continues to trend positively or at least if were not in a negative trend i think the president is going to be very difficult to beat that having been said for the primary election i do think there are a couple things i mean to johns point i do think that the democratic primary electorate is looking for ideas i think thats why you see so many
said today. the admission of a string of police failures including driving right by the gunman, ever how one girl cowering inside the cool called 911 five times. 20 officers stood in the hallway outside of the classrooms but it wasn t until 12:50 that the classroom was breached using keys from a janitor. mcgraw said the on-seen commander believed that this was a barricaded subject situation and did not think that there were more children at risk. he was then overwhelmed with reporters demanding an explanation into the time delay leading him to make this stunning admission. stand by. hey, stand by. from the benefit of hindsight where i m sitting now of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision period. there s no excuse for that. the press conference also failed to translate questions and answers into spanish despite earlier promises that they would. again, a lot of the folks in this town speak spanish as a primary language. in espanol. no spanis