Okay, the rules committee will come to order. Before i give my opening statement, i just want to read a guidance from the attending physician. And we asked him specifically about the use of face coverings during proceedings like these. And while he is not mandated their use, he did share that, and i quote, my preference is that members retain their face covers when speaking as speaking is an activity which can release virus particles, especially if the speaking is of high spirited nature. And ive never had a meeting in the rules committee that hasnt been of a high spirited nature. So were going to leave it up to individual members to decide. But i think i will to be cautious here, im going to keep mine on. Others will be mindful of the reason why there is guidance on this issue. It has been roughly three months since the First Community transmission of covid19 was discovered in the United States. Since that time, our world has changed dramatically. There are now more than 1. 3 million
[church bells gong] i am the recollection and the life, say the lord. And whosoever shall believe in me shall never die. I know that my redeemer live et and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though this body be destroyed, yet shall i see god whom i shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not as a stranger. For none of us lives to himself and no man dies to himself. For if we live we live onto the lord and if we die we die onto the lord. Whether we live or die, we are the lords. Blessed are the dead, who die in the lord. Even so, says is the spirit, for they rest from their labors. [music] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] the lord be with you. Oh god, whose mercies cannot be numbered accept our prayers on behalf of thy servant benjamin. And grant him an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship. Through jesus christ, thy son our lord, who live with thee and the holy spirit, one god now and forever. Amen. Most merciful
Country. Ben matter my mother tony. By 1960 there was a huge pileup of seven kids in the georgetown house and ben was at the center of this vortex with his ruthless teasing and his amazing told ends for helping out with homework. At 6 00 p. M. Sharp hed whistle through the front door and the whole household would rush to meet him like filings to a magnet. The poem im going to read is bens favorite. We think he may have first heard this laying flat on his back at age 14, paralyzed by polio. The people is by william earnest henley and his last line was on spoken to us in the family. Either as an exhortation or as an, about sun he admired like the plumber fixing the sink. Ben was stopped in his tracks by anyone who had authentic dignity, who was the captain of his soul. Out night that covers me, black is the pit from pole to pole. I thank whatever god may be, for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance
Good afternoon. Thank you for coming i am ben teeeighteen, jr. His first child from his first wife and i am proud to be his namesake. Might first memory of my fathers of the dramatic side due 1951 was not quite three years old he threw me in the Swimming Pool at of the blue thinking you to give real wakeup of learning how to swim there were no foodies in those days and of course, i was thrashing around gasping for air after watching me he hopped into the pool and casualty scooped be up and abused by the entire scene. It was an act of tough love. I think. [laughter] it happened aboard the ocean liner as resale from york to paris review was embarking on a new career as the press attache at the American Embassy as correspondent for newsweek. Four years later by parents were divorced and my mother and i returned to u. S. Settling in boston. Decade back to washington as bureau chief for newsweek to join the post in 1965. He remarried and i began a routine of coming down to d. C. For visits
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