Better get started right away. [laughter] well, good evening, again. For those of you that i have not met, my name is joanne drake, and i serve as chief Administrative Officer for the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. I want to welcome you all here. It is our tradition here that in honor of our men and women who wear the uniform of this country around the world, we ask that you stand and join us in the pledge to the flag, and i will ask that you remain standing in a moment of silence in honor of our former first lady barbara bush. All i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Drake thank you. Be seated. I want to thank all of you for coming out tonight and bearing with us. You all live in southern california, too. You know what we were up against there. In addition to our honored guest this evening, sheila tate, we have a few special guests. Fir
I was so late, i figured i better get started first. [laughter] well, good evening again. For those of you i have not met, my name is joanne drake and i serve as chief Administrative Officer for the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. I want to welcome you all here. It is our tradition here that in honor of our men and women who wear the uniform of this country around the world, we ask that you stand and join us in the pledge to the flag and i ask that you remain standing in a moment of silence in honor of our former first lady barbara bush. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Drake thank you. Be seated. I want to thank all of you for coming out tonight and bearing with us. All live in southern california, too. You know what we were up against. In addition to our honored guest this evening, sheila tate, we have a few special guests. First, of cou
Seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files. She gives talks about space night all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] bring it down to short level. Good morning and thank you for coming out to listen to me talk first thing in the morning for some, including myself. Something weird about hearing your bioread like that. Ill try to live up to everything that was just intention l said about me. Intensely said. I want to start with the brief who here has heard of the story of the socalled mercury 13 . Oh, look at the number of hands, maybe 15 or 20 or sometimes called the first lady astronaut trainees. I dont no way to print my talk so ill read this off my phone. If you dont know the story over the mercury 13 ill explain it later. Basically its the story of everything in 13 women trained for space flight in the 1960s and can do on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism, analysis
Good afternoon, everyone. If i could have your attention. I know youre all enjoyingour lunch. How is everyone doing . Good . Good. Really, really great day so far and a great morning. A lot of great speakers and we are so, soape and its been prey much a a filled room all day. We are very grateful. My name is lindsay, im an attorney and policy manager here at incompas. Im here to introduce the next panel. So our next panel will be reforming the universal service fund, which is everyones favorite topic. So its entitled reform of the universal service fund, how tied stable fund. So i would first like to introduce economist who is a principal at the bridal group who will explore a recent study on the best step for to stabilize the usf. And then followi presentation we are thrilled to have john hendel out politico here will moderate a discussion as as incoming president angie to further discuss with four. With that i will give the stage to you. ■j hello . Everyone. I know how will feel to
As many of you know, david boaz, ive been here a long time. I want to remind you that well be taking question both from people here in the audience and from people watching online. And the online audience may the conversation and submit questions directly on the event page or on facebook or youtube web or on twitter using hashtag tag keto events and hopefully all of those questions will come directly to me on this ipad. And if you are asking question in here, please speak directly and clearly into the microphone so everybody can hear you here and online. A lot of my colleagues these days prefer to events in interview but im Old Fashioned and i think when an author has spent years becoming the worlds leading expert on a topic id rather give him a few minutes to tell us what he thinks is important about what hes discovered. So thats what going to do before we take questions and we two outstanding scholars to hear from. It would be presumptive of me to say much about a hike in the presenc