Experienced and hardworking people but for now, please allow me to briefly introduce all of our distinguished guests. Dulio t guest, john served as the first chairman. A professor of politics, religion, and Civil Society and professor of Political Science at the university of pennsylvania and is involved in multiple organizations aiding our nations communities in his hometown of philadelphia. After he left office, president bush appointed our second guest, jim twqohy as the new director. He served for four years and is now in his third year atave mari a university. Our third guests served at the office of faithbased and Community Initiatives from 2006 2008. Since 2008, he has served as the distinguished senior fellow at Baylor University and is president of the Sagamore Institute and International Public policy research firm. When president obama came into oversaw a2009, he houseing of this white office including renaming it the office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. He ap
That were again setting the really, onn twitter, the web, every day, and they thought that to be a major problem. Absolutely. You also go a little bit about how obama and romney had a different strategy with the press and a different strategy about twitter itself. Compare and contrast those. Well, i think look. I laid out early on in the paper, using the Romney Campaign as a case study of how this is changing and the internet is tough, because romney is sort of a cautious. Dad sort of a cautious guy, a way to build a campaign apparatus, and the Romney Campaign had to play catchup. The Obama Campaign had a bigger staff. They had hundreds and hundreds of people in chicago monitoring every tweet, or whatever. And, again, this is not me speaking alone. Any number of reporters i interviewed for this said they thought the Obama Campaign adapted better to twitter. There are no rules about twitter in newsrooms. This all sort of happened. Like washington, the Political Class discovered twitter
Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Of the tribes that we have here today. Mr. Speaker, leader harry reid, leader nancy pelosi, distinguished guests, honorees, guests and families, we are very proud of you, and im very proud o be included today. Here during native American Heritage month, i have the great privilege of representing the finest military in the world in recognizing the hundreds of native americans who have worn the cloth of our nation in the istinctive way that we celebrate today, and in such a courageous way defending a country that did not always keep its word to their ancestors. [applause] the 33 tribes and 216 individuals we recognize today represent native warriors that leverage their native tongue to defend our nation through an unbreakable code, patriots that possessed a unique capability and willingness to give of their special talent and their lives. As richard west, founding irector of the National Museum of the American Indian so elegantly captured it, language is central to cultural identity. It
It is a Great Partnership with the department of Homeland Security in those with the domestic nexus. It has been our honor and privilege to work with director mueller and Deputy Director joyce. I will turn it over to sean. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. N. S. A. And the f. B. I. Have a unique relationship and one invaluable since 9 11. I want to highlight a couple of the instances. In the fall of 2009, n. S. A. Using 702 authority intercepted an email from a terrorist located in pakistan. That individual was talking with an individual located inside the United States talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives. Through Legal Process, that individual was identified and he was located in denver, colorado. The f. B. I. Followed him to new york city and later executed search warrants with the new York Joint Terrorism Task force and n. Y. P. D. And found bombmaking components and backpacks. He later confessed to a plot to bomb the new york subway system with backpacks.