mistakes don t have to be admitted. that you don t have to change your ways. i think the really honest person will admit also that they are not their own creator. that everything about their own lives is not of their own making. in politics, i want to show you some video of senator jeff sessions on the floor of the senate. it will be fairly obvious why i played this. when i first came to washington considering running for the senate, i met at a republican luncheon and asked me to say a thing or two. i said i could think of no greater honor than to represent the people of alabama in the greatest deliberative body in the history of the world. this is a great liberator body. deliberative body. that is our heritage and it is being eroded. it is not disputable that it is being eroded. start with the greatest deliberative body in the history of the world. what are you hearing there? i just finished a course for hillsdale college in politics on the liberation. deliberati
my son and i m proud just as proud that i m your father. that was my hero. i tell you a quick story. [laughter] got to be quick. i got my first $100,000,000 contract and i called my father and i said you don t have to work anymore. i make enough for both of us. he said i don t want your damn money. i have my own money. i said you have a terrible job, why don t you give that up? he said, listen, i gave them 35 of the beast years of my life. now, i m going to give them a few of the bad ones. [laughter] [applause] it has been a tremendous honor for me to share this stage with two of the greatest men. i won t say basketball player, football player, those are just things that you happen to be great at doing. the greatest citizens of this country that i ever had the pleasure of being associated with. thank you very much. with live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span and the senate on c-span2, here on c-span 3 we complement that coverage. c-span 3 is the home to american
i served might not think it has a problem or may not think it needs a solution or wants to or does not want to internationalize a solution. we are an organization based on membership. there is a sovereignty reality we have to accept as a member state-based organization. what do you try to do? you try to find mediators intermediaries that have legitimacy on their own. you might send out somebody who you knew was close to certain government leaders from another country who could talk quietly behind closed doors without a big deal. graduatere is a u.n. resident coordinator on the ground that could target an entry point. you always have to be looking at this. one of the reasons i want to make sure we have brought a financial backing for broad financial backing for mediation tools is so people can say if this many countries of this many persuasions are behind using the mediation tools, it must not be a western imperialist agenda, and we have no agenda other than trying to ad
without having forces on the ground to separate the antagonist, what we try to do is use the voice the u.n. has to raise aware ps of this and to have discussions with those countries who have influence inside syria. publicly we talk about this to bring attention to the issue, privately we are talking to the countries in touch with fighters on either side to try to build some humanitarian space. most of these issues you are raising, they are a way solved in the geneva convention. it s a question of having it respected. one of the sad things about being a diplomat in our areas in these times is the inability to have new international norms or obligations. i don t think the geneva convention, i don t think we could have today negotiated the geneva convention. so we are stuck in a situation where we really have to look after the heritage that we have from previous generations. they are not bad at all. and they do a pretty good job of disemanating it. but this should be a job of
everyone. his fingerprints is on every one of the patients. he has written those chapters of american history. ferro.n talia next, a discussion on the many changes in the role of first lady from martha washington to michelle obama. we ll hear from women authors, historians and journalists with an introduction by the former communications director for first lady, laura bush. this is just under two hours. [applause] hi, everyone. thanks, anne, it is so good to be back.i have such fond memories of being care. probably most importantly, learning care. it is great to see all of the teachers. i cannot imagine coming for the position i had a being mrs. bush s our secretary not to say thank you. thank you for all you do. from someone who went all across this country visiting all sorts of schools and all kinds of conditions, we really appreciate all you do for children. when i was preparing for today s lecture, i thought of a lot of different stories i could possibly tell, but t