Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute im delighted to welcome youut all to this post labor day gathering, a celebration of the publication of this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore is not because you did nothing during your time in office. Or you waited out the term, it is because those were the decisions that affected the fate of the nation often at moments of great crisis often decisions that were unpopular or that risked this would be your last from an office. But decisions that reflected your vision of the vision of the people and if you made it to rushmore or on a coin it is n because decades later your people look back and said thank you. To have the boldness and courage to take those decisions and remarkably a strong selfconfident country for many reasons its too complicated to go into them just for this event but to be blessed with rushmore leadership from the founding of the st
Day gathering and a celebration of this timely important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and your faces chiseled into Mount Rushmore and your picture on a coin its not because you did nothing during your time in office. But because you took Big Decisions affecting the state of the nation at moments of great crisis with decisions that were unpopular or risked that this would be your last term in office. Such reflected the vision and if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin is because decades later people look back and said thank you for making those decisions and israel today remarkably strong for many reasons. And far too complicated to go into all of them that was blessed with leadership all the way over the past 70 years in those moments and that is in a nutshell with this book is all about. Of those leaders who rose to the occasion head on and to remind us and that rushmore like leadership will rise again to help the people with those questions. There
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If youre too cheap to buy a bowl of candy its hide in the house with the lights off. Im dressed as an eagle, american eagle. Since the election is neck week our theme is halloween. Its america. Its not halloween it is halloween. Guillermo what are you tonight . Guillermo the liberty bell. [ laughter ] jimmy the liberty bell . [ cheers and applause ] are you ringing right now . Is that whats going on . Trying to lose weight. Jimmy are you feeling amorous . I see. Theres a big crack in the liberty bell. What happened . Was the liberty bell drinking tequila before work . Guillermo yeah, you got that right. [ laughter ] jimmy yes, all right. A lot of people have been saying our announcer dicky is mt. Rushmore. [ cheers and applause ] dicky thank you very much. Dicky our band leader cleto is uncle sam. Captain america. Jonathan, what are you . American flag. Jimmy youre the american flag, all right. [ cheers and applause ] the white house. What jimmy oh, apple pie, all right. Very american.