Leaders. This is just over an hour. There are so many of you. I just took a class on how to publix week but youre the biggest promise spoken front of so im glad there are a warm welcome here. I want to thank everyone who has been organizing the womens convention. It was amazing yesterday and it will be amazing today. Many have worked tirelessly to make this possible. Mark, i am theie cofounders of the ba rudolph foundation. We work to level the Playing Field for women pursuing careers in Public Service and the finances. Specifically, we find unpaid internships. We provide mentorships and professional Development Workshops and networking, ranging from salary negotiation to speaking with confidence. We believe that all people, regardless of gender, ethnicity, economic status, or any other aspect of your identity, you should be looking work in washington dc or any other city. If you want policy to reflect people in impacts, you need people from all backgrounds of the policymaking table. T
Can actually provide ubiquitous access. Its a great mission. Host what are some of the companies you represent . Guest well, just this month i was able to spend time with alaska communications, flew down from there to western new mexico with western new mexico communications. Both focused on Rural Communities and extending next Generation Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and vision from at t and verizon and centurylink and consolidated, frontier, windstream. Its a consortium of companies that are very different, different Business Models but are bound together by a singular vision to get more broadband out to more americans and do so with smart policies. Host before we Start Talking about some of those policies, give us a sense of your background. Its a little bit eclectic, isnt it . Guest and ill take that as a compliment, thank you. I have been in the business of technology for a good part of my career, leading companies both in Silic
Time for prayer, a time to think about peace. Thats true in america too. At this time of year, americans travel across the country in their cars or by airplane to be together with their families. Many americans of course came to the United States from other countries. And at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. Most of us celebrate christmas or hanukkah and as part of those celebrations, we go to church or synagogue, then gather around the family dinner table. After giving thanks for our blessings, we share a traditional holiday meal of goose, turkey, or roast beef and exchange gifts. On new years eve, we gather again. And like you, we raise our glasses in a toast to the year to come. For the hopes for ourselves, for our families and yes, for our nation and the world. This year, future of the nation and the world is particularly on our minds. We are thinking of our nation because of the year ahead. We americans will choose our next pr
We heard Panel Discussions on the campaign of bill clintons vision of america, his vision for the world. You know how important the jesuit ideal of service is. Others. N and women for this final panel will look at that. I was a sophomore in october of 1991 when governor bill clinton came to georgetown to deliver his series of speeches as part of his president ial campaign. In those are do not vote for governor clinton, thought it was pretty cool to have him at the top of the ticket. Meat ofe get into the the conversation, which is incredibly important, we thought we would give you all a glimpse into the life it life at georgetown during the 1992 campaign. Georgetown was a vibrant place to be because of all of the uncertainty with the new world order. Though wall when does the war had come to an end and they seem the wall the International System team percent seemed to be in a fundamental change. Weatherby jobs for us when we graduated . My freshman year was in the middle of the gulf wa
In the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. And so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. And so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. It began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the United States. Poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. When you come into the National World war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, theres a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this glass bridge is a beautiful field of poppies, red poppies of flanders field. There are 9,000 blooms, each representing 1,000 combatant deaths. Its really an architectural masterpiece, i think, of the museum, very striking for visitors. Whats interesting is to see how Different Countries respond to that. Americans, theyre moved by the poem, theyre moved by the experience. Europeans or people from t