Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Regent anniversary held its annual Ronald Reagan symposium. It is titled a time for choosing. Viceered on behalf of of president ial candidate Barry Goldwater, it is recognized as having set the stage for the white house. We will begin by a portion of the speech, followed by a panel discussion. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have it a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their accommodation and say that if we avoid dry confrontation with the enemy, he will lose his evil ways and say he loves us. All who indict them say are war mongers. There is a simple answer, not easy, but simple. If you are and i have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our National Policy aced on what we know in our hearts is morally right, we cannot abide our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by creating in immora
We begin there are with the latest protests over Commencement Speakers and whether you think they should reflect students values. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. An independents and all others, 202 5853882. College graduates, we want to hear from you, 202 5855883. Join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan, send us a. Weet cspanwj, or email us we will get to your thoughts in a minute but let me begin with iece. Inside higher ed p substitutes speak out. In a season in which numerous Commencement Speakers with drew. Free speech and the crucial place of disagreement and Free Exchange and Higher Education. One of them did so in a way that appeared to hurt the feeling of graduates. Sees its share of controversies, but this year pur intenses debate. Some of those who drew enmity were generally well regarded, not overtly partisan figures. Robert birgeneau withdrew as a speaker at pennsylvanias haverford college. At smith college, christine lagarde, head of the imf, backed
Obviously the Afghan People have produced if we keep saying we want to open the door for people. We cant walk through that door. Theyve risked their lives and i dont know how many Afghan Soldiers have lost their lives, huge numbers have lost their lives in this fight and i think that on our side of the relationship could be the most important thing to happen because there would be a great willingness to be a true partner in afghanistan which is so important. I think we have seen today an example of this sound steady leadership showing. Hes been a supporter of the usaid and when you step down from the responsibilities he will be sorely missed on a range of issues. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] on a related program note we will be covering the discussion with the pakistani ambassador to the u. S. Later on. Look on cspan. Org for coverage on broadcast in
My generation experimented with flomax,lthough between viagra, now we do. [applause] [laughter] i did have some pretty creative classmates back then. E. , of my good friends in j. I will set it right for you guys right now. One of my friends had at least two harebrained ideas. Start up was a little built on the notion that if people had a choice, they would pay more to mail a package and have it arrive the very next day. Crazy, right . Today, that startup is called fedex and by the way, it was thated in j. E which means j. E. Rules. [cheering] the other nutty idea was to restart something called the yale flying club. Admittedly, this was more of a scheme to get us out of class and off campus. I basically spent my senior year majoring in flying, practicing takeoffs and landings at an airport. Responsible . No, but i would not have missed it. One of the best lessons i learned here is that mark twain was absolutely right. Never let school get in the way of an education. , did not know wha
[applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think Winston Churchill said who give aly people standing ovation are the ones who are wanting to their underwear. [laughter] members, parents, siblings who came here under the false impression that there , and someree food dan, wherever you are, probably at a fire hydrant somewhere, members of the 2013 ncaa champion Ice Hockey Team [applause] distinguished guests and graduates of the 2014, i really am privileged to be able to be here and share the celebration of the celebration of this day with you, especially 48 years after standing up right here as a very intimidated senior, wondering what i was going to say. You are graduating today as the most diverse class in yales long history. Or as they call it in the nba, Donald Sterlings worst nightmare. [laughter] [applause] thank you for such a generous introduction. Josh did not mention that he entered for me at the state Department Last su