Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the rose garden. Live coverage on cspan. The syrian envoy to the u. S. Will speak in washington at 11 00 eastern, we will have live coverage. For guys like us who have been in the game for a long time, we know that there are landmines and that you have to be careful about the way you manage these things. Issues to do with abortion in race, care of, israeli relations. In other countries, i have lived in other countries, they have their own bread lines to be aware of. What a cartoonist ca
Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what america is all about. The irrational and the ideals. Those two opposites have defined my life totally because i grew up as a child imprisoned him barb wire american prison camps. Pearl harbor was bombed and overnight, american citizens of japanese answers straight ancestry were looked at with suspicion and fear and outright hatred. But despite that, young japaneseamericans, like all americans, rushed to
Europe and asked several questions. Affirmativeaction means a lot more than just the use of race or sexbased preferences in university of michigan. Section 26 only focuses on this one aspect of university of missions. Another point to understand is that section 26 is not all about university of missions. This is a much broader law that applies not just your race and ethnicity but also sex and other this is a broadbased law that was primarily motivated by the people of michigans decision to move past the day when we always focus on race and exactly as greater invited the states to do you can you can see how that discussion gets mired when you look at some of these statistics that we have been talking about. Is someone who has multiple racial boxes checked more or less diverse than someone who only has one box checked . Is someone who comes from outside the country say from mexico youve done something much more. You are basically saying, because fisher and grutter weve always applied str
And from that, by working long, hard hours, they gave their three children fine educations in outstanding, Great American universities. The university of california at berkeley, the university of california at los angeles. The university of Southern California and the university of wisconsin. They were our change agents and yes, those drag queens at the Stonewall Inn also are much age agents. Just are my change agents. This nation has been defined by change agents. When this nation was founded, women had no rights, they could not vote, they could not own land, they could not even have rights over their own children. Because determined women and fairminded man challenged and debated and marched for equal rights for women, today we have three women sitting on the Supreme Court of this country. We have had three women serve as u. S. Secretaries of state. And weve had a woman astronaut lead a team of astronauts and go soaring out into space. They were all change agents. The first change ag