American history. Today she will talk to us about a theme coming up in her book. Jacque marquette and Louis Jolliet and their explorations and what they found in their expectations in explorations. At the end we will take questions. Thank you for coming back. [applause] thank you david for having me here again. I have always so happy when im here. My family affectionately knows the talk as my annual. It is my annual everyone looks forward to. I appreciate the opportunity. I should explain. Usually they contact me and say can you give a talk on x and i say, not in the detail you would be happy with but i can connect it to a be and see, and we have negotiation and something comes out and that is the talk for the year. This year i was grateful to david because he gave me the opportunity to talk about something ive spoken about before. Borderland, frontiers, the colonial empire and interesting things that came out of that relationship. He gave me the opportunity to talk about a book projec
With us a professor who is professor of history in suny. She is been here six times. It is a pleasure to have her here. She has had terrific talks exploring early american , history. Today she will talk to us about in a book. Oming up Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet and their explorations and what they found in their expectations in explorations. How did or did not correspond with their expectations. I am sure it will be interesting. At the end, we will take questions. Thank you for coming back again. Come on over. [applause] thank you,lewski david for having me here again. , i have always so happy when im here. My family affectionately knows the talk as my annual. It is an annual everyone looks forward to. I appreciate the opportunity. I should explain how this came about. He contacts me about speaking here, it goes Something Like this, can you give a talk on x and i say, not in the detail you would be happy with, but i can connect it to a, b, and c. We have a negotiation and some
Georgia for his comments. We will begin. Thank you to the committee for the opportunity to make these statements as we go into this important process here in the budget committee. First, i have to make these comments, calling this a budget is really a sham. It is not a real budget. That is because it is not really a law, it is a resolution. Everything can be ignored. There are no consequences. The only reason this process is necessary is to get tax reform. The entire budget process is broken. It is a fraud being perpetrated on the American People. I dont think anybody disagrees. It has only worked four times in 43 years. I am encouraged people on both sides of the aisle, some members of this committee, working behind the scenes to try to find a politically neutral platform in which to do our Financial Planning for the federal government. The budget today, under current law, is a political document. Rather than a serious tool to make important fiscal decisions. Make no mistake, this bro
The cia and George Washington university cohost of this intelligence and National Security conference. This is an hour and 10 minutes [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the Fourth Annual ethos and professional intelligence conference presented by the Central Intelligence agency and the George Washington university. I am Frank Cilluffo andia i dirt their center for cyber and National Security and will serve as you emcee for the day. Im truly excited that gw is once again partnering with cih opposes most important event. Before we get started i ask that you please silence your mobile devices and cell phones. Please note that the conference is open to the press and is being webcastei live and being recorded through the comments from this stage of all the speakers, panelists and moderators are all on the record record. Our theme for the conference this years achieving strategic advantage and today we will attempt to provide insight on how america continues to achieve str
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the protection of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, things like that. So, whenever you want to touch base with reality i like to go online to the china leadership monitor and do precisely there. Today well give you a sample of writings in form of presentations working ahead in the 19th