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Member of congress from connecticut. This evening we pay tribute to ly Linmanuel Miranda, an extraordinarily talented composer, ly cyricist and actor. Last year we honored david mu mccull low. This year we honor hip hop score, catchy lyrics and contemporary corography, americans are learning all about Alexander Hamilton and aaron beurre and how their conviction shaped our young country. Thank you, linmanuel for making history come alive through the performing arts. Now, this evening were honored to have the democratic leader with us, and former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Madam speaker, i invite you to the podium to say a few words. [ applause ] good afternoon, everyone. Its an honor to be here once again. With all of you. It seems like yesterday we were honoring David Mccullough. Now a whole other generation. Thank you, senator, and ron, thank you, ron sarasin for your great leadership for this organization for so many years. And welcome to don carlson, the new board chair, th
It was hardly a brief. If i used all the info he provided me, i would be speaking longer than the minutes assigned to bill himself. So i wont do that. I cut it down considerably. Bill has a 56page cv and its not packed with anything trivial. Ill come back to his scholarly contributions. Let me start with his titles, some, a few of his titles and honors. Sociologist William Julius wilson is the professor at Harvard University and at the time of his appointment in mean 95 National Media covered his addition to harvards dream team of africanamerican intellectuals including henry lewis gates jr. , a 20007 fellow. I met bill when he was at the university of chicago and a major force there as hes been everywhere. And i was a slightly younger scholar then and he was incredibly supportive as he is. Hes a mentor. He started his teaching and Research Career in 1965 at the university of massachusetts amherst. Shortly before completing his ph. D. In Sociology Graduate Program at Washington State u
In their time. Because everybody knew there was a Northwest Passage to the pacific ocean. There was a water way to get across this country. And because they failed to find that, they were considered failure. Later on in 1742, two of his sons. Louis and francois traveled further south and further west than they had previously. And on the return trip, they stopped at the con fluns of in missouri river. In this vicinity. And on a bluff over looking what is the present city of fort peer buried a led plate claiming the region for france. That does more than anything set the french control of this particular area. The beauty as it was saved, it could have been melted away and never found it. Here people can actually look at the plate and understand this is the first time in 1743 that we know there were nonindians in the area. And it caused a great deal of kpa excitement in the city at the time. And History Community and people doing further research on what the veredrye brothers were up to.