Be together, as you mentioned, this is my 11th president ial campaign i have covered it i have never embarked on one like we have now. That will make it a rich panel. We have two of the most highly respected former governors, the former twoterm governor of ohio, nine term member of the house of representatives. When i met him, he was chairing the House Budget Committee and had a big role in welfare reform, in balancing the budget. He ran for president , twice, in 2016, and the last time around, he was the last man standing against donald trump for the republican nomination. We are also so glad to be joined by Terry Mcauliffe the former , governor of virginia. He was chair of the Democratic National committee. He was cochair of bill clintons president ial campaign in 1996. He was chair of Hillary Clintons president ial campaign in 2008, and last year, he considered a president ial bid of his own for the democratic nomination. He started his First Business at the age of 14, called mcauli
You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl
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