Lettie for organizing this event. I want to thank my agent, gail for being here, you have probably already seen one of the 10,500,000 Mike Bloomberg ads, the tagline is mike gets it done, no, gail gets a ton. So, thank you for being here. What an admission also, another great book that you have to re, my friend, Melissa Rogers who is a visiting scholar here we Work Together for 20 years. Her book, religion in public life and faith with the American Public life which has a nice double meaning is a great book to read. And i cannot resist honoring my entire doctor Mark Sheppard who came here today. I honor him because he is an awesome dr. Because he is a great sports fan, kids play sports together but he was actually the dr. To about half of the people in my part of bookings and there is enormous morning in this building that you decided to retire but also so many other friends here come i want to thank you all for coming. But, this is one of the coolest events brookings has ever had. And
There a few days in the World History we are very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program and new book that just came out. Look at that. Thats great. Your support makes these programs possible. Last year cliff lobby who is our Program Manager we put on 58 programs here at the library which was very impressive because of your support we can have these programs for free. We feel so strongly that fdr loved this area. We are honoring his wishes. Our speaker today lew paper is a journalist and he taught at harvard and was involved in george georgetown. As written a number of very numerous books. He wrote a book called promise in performance about john f. Kennedy and interestingly he then wrote a novel about john f. Kennedy. About his assassination. Both the nonfiction in the fiction book. I bet they are good combination. His rise to power parallels the time of relevant vince with radio to television. Another book on louis brandeis. He has a deep grounding and 27th histo
Ultimately i went up and down the border 2000 miles this way in 2000 miles that way. Then i went deep into mexico. They were very hospitable and wellconnected. It was really such fun and so illuminating and so anti trump. The prejudice against immigrants is so severe its a joke. Immigrants pissing on other immigrants. Two of them are immigrants. He is sort of say they are rubbish. All of those motivating factors. The anticipation of destroyed a stereotype. The spirit of americans. The first time it happened was in mexico city. I have to pay bribes. He said follow me i said whats the problem. Your license plate. Is there some way that we can solve this. I said no, how. He said dollars. 300, whats your name. Antonio know. Do you know what i can do to you. He have taken me into islam and the people going by and he was just screaming at me. That seems like a lot of money. He just took everything out of the wallet which was about 200. My total and bribes was probably 11 or 1,200 altogether.
Timely information. As students here, our education to prepare for students to be engaged citizens in the community and to recognize and direct the university of culture, identity and opinion. Both of these are on display this evening. This last idea, the respect for diversity of culture, identity and opinion needed more than ever in our society today. The response to books and the amazing turnout here by all of you for this important conversation show why. Available to personalize copies of her book at the back of the stage after discussion. If you dont have a copy yet, the bookshop will be selling them at that time. Thank you for visiting our campus this evening. Please welcome to the stage the president of the university to say a few remarks. [applause] good evening, everybody. Thank you for that introduction. As some of you may recall, just over a year ago today that we were gathered together in this chapter for a very similar purpose. A holocaust survivor came to pittsburgh from c