My name is Toby Dershowitz and im the Senior Vice President for Government Relations and strategy. As many of you know, fdd is a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for are research and analysis and policy options for congress, for the administration, and for the media and certainly for the wider National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or foreign Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online live stream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which will be live tweeting fdd. Todays event is hosted by fdd center on economic and financial power. Cefp provised recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives. In a moment well hear from our features speaker, david peyman for counter threat finance and sanctions. He
Immediately. Is that the case can you comment on that . Didnt quite characterize the conversation correctly, but to the larger more important point, we are happy to continue the conversation with the iraq is about what the right structure is weve been there to perform a Training Mission to help the Iraqi Security forces be successful and to continue the campaign against isis. Were going to continue that mission, but as times change and we get to a place where we can deliver what i believe and the president believes is a right structure with fewer resources dedicated to that mission, we will do so we also have today a nato team thats here at the state Department Working to develop a plan which will get burden sharing right in region as well so we can continue the Important Missions to protect and defend and keep the American People safe while reducing our cost, our resources and burden and the risk to our soldiers and sailors in the region. Here today at the podium you said the imminent
Caretaker of both the covarrbias murals and the pacific fountains. Five of the six murals have been lovingly preserved. One has been missing since the 60s, which is sad, but the rest are preserved, while the fountain languishes with a certain amount of pathos on the island. San francisco should be proud that this fountain recognizes the citys recognition of the pacific as a united a unity of economic and cultural partners. San francisco recognizes that community and gave it breathtaking vision in the world fair, especially in the art of that fair. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for your great presentation and who else is coming . [inaudible] okay. Yes maam. Just say who you are. Good morning. My name is claire isaacs. I was director from the San Francisco Art Commission from 1983 to 1990. I also ran an art center for the city of los angeles and did Education Programs for San Francisco museum of modern art, and im here to speak about the artistic quality of this gr
Whether any of our documents have space. It sounds like we have flexibility, but just to take it a step further and start thinking around things like siting, funding and resources. Im not sure where we are with our tida budget, but we woumay have to look at 134 creative ways creative at some creative ways to fund it. Commissioner shen. Yes. Thank you, commissioner john bitoff. I know you played a role in making sure the pieces of the fountain were parked up and preserved. But certainly, the fact that this was a focus on the pacific was certainly at that time when everybody was looking to europe and the atlantic, certainly a way of marking our difference being on the coast of the pacific looking towards that part of the world. So i think that that was a wonderful thing to have done. And the fact that these were artists, sotomayor and covarrubias showed the diversity of artists that were working on the island, as well, and that whole theme of peace which was working with the fair, and wa
Whether any of our documents have space. It sounds like we have flexibility, but just to take it a step further and start thinking around things like siting, funding and resources. Im not sure where we are with our tida budget, but we woumay have to look at 134 creative ways creative at some creative ways to fund it. Commissioner shen. Yes. Thank you, commissioner john bitoff. I know you played a role in making sure the pieces of the fountain were parked up and preserved. But certainly, the fact that this was a focus on the pacific was certainly at that time when everybody was looking to europe and the atlantic, certainly a way of marking our difference being on the coast of the pacific looking towards that part of the world. So i think that that was a wonderful thing to have done. And the fact that these were artists, sotomayor and covarrubias showed the diversity of artists that were working on the island, as well, and that whole theme of peace which was working with the fair, and wa