President clinton the bombing in Oklahoma City was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. It was an act of cowardice and it was evil. The United States will not tolerate it. And i will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. I have met with our team which we assembled to deal with this bombing, and i have determined to take the following steps to assure the strongest response to this situation. First, i have deployed a Crisis Management team, under the leadership of the fbi, working with the department of justice, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, military and local authorities. We are sending the worlds finest investigators to solve these murders. Second, i have declared an emergency in Oklahoma City, and at my direction, james lee witt, the director of the federal Emergency Management agency, is now on his way there to make sure we do everything we can to help the people of oklahoma deal with the tragedy. Third, we are taki
Colleagues in discussing the important ways this funding will help our Public Health experts, frontline healthcare professionals, and state and local officials combat the spread of this virus and mitigate its effects. Its a serious agreement to meet a serious challenge. And today we will send it to President Trumps desk. Said today will be an important day for the country. B and it was going to be a proud day for the senate. But instead, the nations eyes are on this body for an entirely different reason. A few weeks ago, i spoke on this floor about a dangerous trend that threatens our selfgovernment. I explained how some of the Democratic Party appear more interested in attacking the institution of our government, than in working within them. How democrats increasingly respond to political disappointments with extreme claims that our system of government itself, must be broken. The failure cannot be their own, it cant be the left needs better arguments or ideas, no. No. The fault must
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back if your with us earlier or you just joining us welcome to the Annapolis Book festival into the key school read my name is john beat i am a Foreign Service officer for International Development but much more importantly, am a proud father of three including a son who is a junior here at key school. I am very delighted to be able to join this conversation with our next author. Kenneth starr. Lets graciously come back to the festival this year to talke about his latest book. A memoir of his time leaving the 1990s investigations into whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky matter during the tenure president bill clinton. When youve been in the White House Center of theil public ey, as can certainly t has, judge starr probably needs no introduction but ill just give you a quick snapshot of his distinguished career and law and public service. Heis hamza graduate of George Washington university coming brown university, duke law school, he was the us solicit
Graciously come back to the festival this year to talk about his latest book, a memoir of time leading the 1990s investigation into whitewater and the matter during the 10 years of bill clinton. When you have been in the whitehot center of the public eye has he has judges probably needs no introduction but i will give you a quick snapshot of some of his distinguished career in law and public service. Is a graduate of George Washington university, Brown University law school. He was the us solicitor general. He was dean of the pepperdine law school. He was chancellor and president of baylor university. Hes been a very distinguished private attorney with firms in california, texas and washington dc. He also is something called [inaudible] even though we have a very bright crowd and this is the annapolis area, i bet if i asked you or if i said the three names you are not allowed answer, can i bet no one know soon they are, but if i said the names Archibald Cox, ken starr and bob mueller y
courage, imagination and perseverance. those qualities brought an imperfect but enduring peace to a place taught to believe no such peace was possible. to all those who lead us to that piece, including those in this hole and there was no longer with us, let us take this moment to say to all of you thank you. including those in this hall. for those of us like me who inherited this extraordinary even intimidating legacy, our challenge today is to fulfil the promise of the work you ve began. to honour your legacy we need to create a more stable devolved government in northern ireland and that means getting the institutions up and running. applause i believe there are two tasks, first to remove the biggest block to the institution returning, and that is why when i came into the office i made it a priority to fix the northern ireland protocol, and we were deeply conscious of the lessons of history as we did so, that is why our aims were of history as we did so, that is why oura