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Topics include artificial intelligence, the Digital Economy and u. S. And european aid to ukraine. This is two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you, everybody. Good morning. So great to be together for third annual Aspen Security Forum d. C. Beginning this evening, seasons greetings to all. Please join me in thanking the Aspen Strategy Group and are cochairs joan i and condeleezza rice and her speakers and sponsors. Thank you all. [applause] also, a huge thanks to our remarkable Aspen Strategy Group Team Including our executive director and so many others. Thank yall for the time you put preparing this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees of the Aspen Institute who are so supportive of this work and in particular jane harman, gilded born at a board chair margot who since a greetings, so thank you to our trustees here. [applause] eightytwo years ago today, japan attacked the u. S. Naval base in pearl harbor. Drawing the United
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The stage author of the definitive study on soviet russian famine of 1921 to 23, the big show on the American Relief expedition to soviet the big show on bola land, the American Relief expedition to soviet russia in the family of 1921. He also curated two exhibitions dealing with the famine. The 1922 show here entitled deliverance, america and the famine in soviet russia 192123, and at the Hoover Institution that just closed this year, brad plus medicine, american famine relief and soviet russia, 192123. The informative exhibit catalog for the later exhibition is available through the Hoover Institution press. And i would encourage all of you to go online and get a copy. Youll never think of cobbler oil the same way. [laughing] is also a lecturer in history and International Relations at stanford university, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and your moderator. Please welcome bert patenaude. [applause] so, thank you, tom, for a very generous introduction. Thanks for putting
Charm. Tonight, i think we will see definitive proof of that assertion when he presents his third Kansas City Public Library talk and barely more than 18 months. This time, he is offering an original treatise on economist Milton Friedman, the nobel prizewinning intellectual architect of the free market reforms of the postworld war ii era. Today, as it happens, would have been dr. Friedmans 102nd birthday. I have no doubt it will be marks best presentation yet. So you might ask, why am i willing to go out on a limb this way . As an economist might put it, on the one hand, according to the website, superscholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economists in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as the no longer living economist John Maynard Keynes famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echoed by a columnist for scientific american, who recently wrote that he has emerged as one of the clearest write