Fair 2017. If you are here this morning and you know the Miami Book Fair very well you know that it is presented by Miami Dade College and thousands of volunteers among whom the students, faculty, staff, administrators and many individuals from the community and corporate sectors as well. In fact our corporate sponsor is overweighohl. We are grateful to the circle of the Miami Book Fair. By 1984 when our book fair beg began. I would like to call up joe to the podium please help me welcome him from the endowment foundation. Thank you. [applause] i have the double pleasure of introducing debate for introducing the endowment. Professor lillian was my grandmother. The intent of the endowment is to offer a presentation on the work of literary quality. Its the goal to enhance the love of book and calling as a teacher. My grandmother treasured books and came to the Miami Book Fair every year since its founding and often volunteered to work here. Some of her background briefly in the 1930s she
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith gooas i call this the Jimmy Stewart washington scenario and that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. The hightech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20 years ago the
Iinsky is one of the biggest opera houses in the world. Its the central hub of all things mariinsky. Valery gergiev gave me a tour of. This is a new home and an old home because we are sitting in the new mariinsky theater. When you first came as a man in his 20s, what was the attraction and what was the history of the place. Valery so great to have you here, first of all. Welcome to st. Petersburg. Welcome to one of the mariinsky theaters. Long ago, i was a student in the leningrad conservatory of music. Tchaikovsky studied here and was one of the most famous and now overall the most famous musician. Charlie in the famous tchaikovsky competition. Valery ima chairman of that committee and im responsible of inviting the International Jury organizing the orchestral performance and participation. Its a big register goal issue. It is expensive but very important since we started. It is now watched in 144 countries. He was an honorary chairman, an honorary leader, a Great American legend. Th
World. Its the central hub of all things mariinsky. Valery gergiev gave me a tour. Here is my conversation with him at the new opera house. This is a new home and an old home because we are sitting in the new mariinsky theater. When you first came as a man in your 20s, what was the attraction and what was the history of the place . Valery so great to have you here, first of all. Welcome to st. Petersburg. Welcome to one of the mariinsky theaters. Long ago, i was a student in the leningrad conservatory of music. Tchaikovsky studied here and was one of the most famous and now overall the most famous musician. Charlie and the famous tchaikovsky competition. Valery im chairman of that committee and im responsible of inviting the international jury, organizing the orchestral performance and participation. Its a big register goal issue. It is expensive but very important since we started. It is now watched in 144 countries. He was an honorary chairman, an honorary leader, a Great American le
Rights amendment. She was the first incumbent first lady to disclose purposely her prochoice view. Court ev and she publicly called for the appointment of a woman on the. Even before she started lobbying her husband too do so. Break in conclusion, first ladies thr continue to break barriers. They continue to forth new notg roles. They do it in their own way. Get and there is nothing wrong with that. They can use their special voice to get messages out to draw attention to causes. Rose lynn carter once said that she felt that she was in a special position and that it was her duty to use that role to promote causes. Thank you. [ applause ] with the senate in the august break, well feature become tv programming weeknights in prime time on cspan 2 starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. And for the weekends here are a few book tv special programs. On saturday, were live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival beginning at 11 30 with decisions on harper lee and the civil war. O