Radio and online audiences also our cspan audience today. Its my pleasure to introduce David Davenport hes the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. Hes also a Research Fellow at Hoover Institute at Stanford University and president at pepper dime one of our great Educational Institution just not in the bay area. David thank you for coming to share is this with us. [applause] thank you, george and ladies and gentlemen, its pleasure to be with you today. It occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game, and i assume that giants and dodgers game, i dont need to give a talk on rugged individuals you are the rugged individuals for showing up here tonight to thank you for coming. Youre also brave to come and hear an academic talk of many good stories i think about scholars and academics one i heard recently was at a Scholarly Panel that i was attending. And the moderator of the panel was a federal judge. And he said you
After he had shot mike. Reporter sean says he knew, liked and respected benson louie and wayne chan. Cannot speak enough of how awesome they were and theyre good guys. Reporter as for mike lefiti. Est close to me. He was close to me. And i think its hard to lose all of them but mike was hard to deal with me for me personally. Reporter he knew jimmy, too. I spoke to him tuesday night after work. We joked. We laughed and we went home. Reporter he says there were no visible signs which makes it more confusing and painful. You dont understand, like, how that could happen. Or why those people . Reporter we have heard complaints about tough hours and a challenging culture at u. P. S. Over the past few days. Sean echoes that saying, its a good job. But a stressful one. I hope that if work was a mitigating circumstance to jimmy and thats partially what caused this, that its something that we can all see that we need to change. Reporter coach says he is also dealing with a good amount of surviv
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Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin