Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
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In this clip he recounts the aneurysms that mr. Biden suffered in 1988 following his failed run for that years president ial nomination. And how it impacted his life and political career. You have to member joe biden was forced out of the race in september of 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were kind of minor and almost laughable when you look back at them. But by the time they were digested from the great long snake of the press corps, it was biden have been drummed out. And he really did not come out speaking again until 1988 the first part of the year. I was february, the first time hed been out talking on a college campus. It went to the university of rochester as a matter fact. Host were there . Guest no i was not i was in New Hampshire with all the good members of the pack. And joe gave a speech at the university of rochester. And then he asked questions for several hours. When he got back to his motel room all the sudden bang he got hit by a brick hit h
Particular course, but the sea will come, the wind will come, youll lose, ultimately youll move, ultimately, in a differentic direction. More prosaically, it comes from a period in my career when i was a fourstar admiral. I was finishing up down in u. S. Southern command, peter, and i was in charge of all military activity south of the United States. Andi i was very hopeful of going to the pacific next as the end of u. S. Pacific command which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. Gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career . Guest somewhat. So, lets go way back. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father, george stavridis, proud colone