It has been another type of cabinet meeting, mr. President. We appreciate you allowing us to do that and the blessings you give us to participate in that cabinet bible study. If you would, lets bow our heads. Father, we thank you for the stable. Everyone is here because you have ordained it to be so. The importance of what we are about, the issues of which we get the responsibility and privilege to deal with it is your call. Today, we are lifting up a special group of men and women who have really been at the core of why this country has been that is our veterans; people who have sacrificed greatly, who held their hand up me,said, here am i, send when it would have maybe been easier for them, certainly less stressful for them to have not answered that call. We lift them up. You give us the opportunity. Secretary wilkie has the agency that directly deals with that. So many of us have the opportunity to assist and be a part of that. We thank you for that great privilege to serve them aft
That we can make a difference in the fight against aids. But also it will remind us there is still much, much to be done. And partly, we will need to double down on our efforts if we need to set out in the bold tenure federal initiative championed by the nh and cdc and by our special guest doctor anthony and doctor john brooks. Here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health we have talked about the power of public heal health, the power that comes from doing the fundamental research and translating the research into programs and policies that make a difference. The power that comes from strong partnerships across disciplines, public and private sectors and across communities. In the power that comes from advocating solutions of the state, local and national levels. The fight against hivaids exemplifies how sustained commitment to these powers can make a true difference. Todays conversation will be facilitated by our own chris buyer, the professor of Public Health and human rights. Docto
The post on facebook or twitter. If you want to send a text include your name and city 202 7488003 is the text number and we will be reading those later in our live coverage from miami. Joining us now the author of unfollow an mri leaving the westborough active Baptist Church burka where did you grow up and how quex. I grew up in kansas at the westborough Baptist Church started by my grandfather and almost my entire extended family at westborough we had a normal life in some ways. Public school, video games, made cookies with my parents with all wonderful memories but then our lives were organized around a picketing ministry from the age of five i would protest gay people originally and then from there to everyone outside of the church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go with them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around the ministry. Host how does that begin if you talk about this loving family that you have and a normal childhood when did th
For women. What weding in front of call our title treatment. It is a large blowup of a german born actress. The allegorical figure that represents the United States during the conclusion of the parade in washington, d. C. Thats just one event of the long Suffrage Movement this exhibition highlights. Objects of this long history bringing it right up to 1920. Amendment. E 19th i took the exhibition up to the Voting Rights act of 1965. To explore the 1913 parade more in depth. We are standing in front of the photo postcards of the 19th 13 parade. Completely different tactic than what had been done before with other suffragists. After spending some time in britain she basically got sat got radicalized by the suffragists. Back to the united organized withn the Congressional Union this parade. 8000 suffragists marked marched down the capital, down pennsylvania avenue. The Treasury Building had this pageant. Suffragists had to make their way through 500 thousand spectators. One of the problem
Hearings by the to house Intelligence Committee. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Jamie, thank you very much for that kind introduction and for your terrific leadership the town of dorian. Thank you. I also want to quickly recognize. State senator. Thank you for being here. Most importantly, i want to thank all of you for taking time out of a saturday to have this conversation. This is your hour and a half and i will leave the bulk of your time for your questions, comments, suggestions. I want to open with a couple of minutes of context and things i see happening in washington, and then i will turn it over entirely to you. The way we will do that is that there are microphones on either side of the room and rather than having the picking and choosing within the audience, please line up behind the microphones if you in fact have a question or a comment. I will ask you to be brief in your questions or observations and i will be brief and my responses because we probably will have lots of