Edwin lee, california governor jerry brown, and House Minority leader nancy pelosi to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. This event is about 45 minutes. Ambassadors, a left, and distinguished guest and that includes everyone, we welcome you to the anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter here and wonderful San Francisco. [applause] we think the pacific boys chorus for a wonderful start. [applause] and secretarygeneral, we welcome you to california and we hope you remember when you were a teenager and that was not so long ago, right, that you were a n Exchange Student in the nearby del gotto. That was not subject long time ago. We are happy to have you back. [applause] we like to recognize the ambassadors from around the world better ambassadors to the United Nations. May i ask you to stand please . [applause] we in San Francisco would like to acknowledge our partnership with the United Nations for the celebration of the 70 and 70th anniversary and w
Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco in 1945. Representing more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war, a curse which in 30 years had killed 40 million human beings. Maimed countless millions more both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who helped weld together the United Nations together as a team and worked to keep them united had died before he could see his dream come true. But his words were in every mind and heart. President roosevelt 25 years ago, the American Fighting men look to the statesman of the world to furnish the work for peace for which they fought and suffered. We failed them. We failed them then. We cannot fail them again and expect the world to survive again. President truman, roosevelt s friend and successor, opened the conference by radio from washington. President truman dele
[inaudible] by a prominent of men, the federation of the world. On this date 1945 the satey on the golden gate the word went forward, we the people of the United Nation come together in a new union to promote freedom and advance Human Dignity to confront the plague ofz disease, hunger and poverty and reap the world in the olive branches of peace. How proud they would be secretary general ban kimoon. Im going to depart for a momt of personal privilege because i lurd the secretary general reference a meeting he had with preddant kennedy and i want to tell you my connection tothe un. When i was a teenager in the 50s my father was the mayor of baltimore, i was in high school and a member of something called United Nations youth and president not president , center kennedy who was hoping to be president came to baltimore to speak to a dinner, the United Nations association of maryland honoring jacob [inaudible] my mother said she was sick, but he said you can take my place at the dinner kno
You can watch the remainder of this program on the Fourth Estate by going to our website, cspan. Org. We leave here for live coverage of the morning house. The house will be in order. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 24, 2017. Appoint the honorable james comber to act as speaker pro tempore on this comer, to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speak of the appoint the honorable james comber to act as speaker pro tempore on this comer, to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speak of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other than the majority and mi
Im recently elected president of the ewan aitken United Nations Association National capital area chapter and im just pleased and tickled frankly to see on an august day maybe because its a cool august 8 what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august 8. And naturally due to the extruder line up of people who are going to be presenting a talking to you today im sure and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe even before five years ago United Nations with the cooperation and certainly of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries duchesses will equally and universally to the critical states of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily, and portly volu