Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible they are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public S
Will apply during and after the program. They will also learn from leaders and other sectors as well as in the stat distinguished faculty from universities affiliated with each center. Participants will visit and learn to give them a firsthand look at the resources of the libraries and the stories to tell. The president ial Leadership Scholars Program is at the stage iv the participants to expand the scope of what they believe is possible, to build upon their already proven track record of success to achieve significant and measurable good in their community and in their future work. They will also bond together and learn from each other as mentors, resources and partners to advance their own personal leadership projects and help each other over their challenges they face and importantly this program is at no cost to the participants thanks to the generous support of our founding its been terrific too clever with my colleagues and now its my pleasure to introduce bethany streett the ex
The skills necessary to do so. I dont think you can disaggregate em. Let me ask you about the two presidencies involved in this, in this initiative that arent represented on the stage, and president clinton, im going to begin by asking you about 41. Even though you havent written a book that will be out on november 11th. [laughter] about 41. No, i think i could put one together, and itd be ready by yeah. [laughter] be ready for the christmas season. [laughter] but you have worked a lot with 41 in your postpresidency i have. And youre known to be very close with him. What leadership attributes of 41 do you think have impressed you most and are the ones that you want to inculcate through this Leadership Program . When youre dealing with president bush 41, there are a couple of things that are never in doubt, and i think this is really important. His goodwill is never in doubt. And this was true before he was 90. Weve been working together for a long time now. Weve been out of office a lo
He is known for his work in peace and conflict studies. Hes director of the duke program, an american grant strategy. From june 2005 to july 2007, feaver was on leave to be the strategic adviser for planning at the white house where his responsibilities included National Security strategy, regional strategy review, and other political military issues. Hes written widely on such matters as National Security, military civil relations, and the military cost of war. It will focus on the larger politically and public dynamics and how these dynamics impinge on policymakers decisions. Each panelist will present we said five minutes, but they may bleed over their particular matters, and then well have an exchange where they apply to one another. Then well have a qa open to the audience. Without further delay, lets start with laura donohue. First, id like to thank don its a wonderful opportunity to come together to discuss these issues and id like to thank my fellow panelists in advance. There
Another, but its about creating culture production that offers something thats both excellent in its quality, but also demanding and transformative. I want to give a short example and im going to close with this. So there is an american muslim woman, shes a Grammy Nominated artist, and shes from baltimore, maryland. And she did a cover of a song that came out, i dont know, a year or two ago, by a young White British woman named lorde. And the song that lorde released was called royals. Its like were not royals. And the song many people read of a critique of hip hop culture, in particular in black culture right . And the idea of that all its about is money and bling and theres no substance or meaning to it, right . So she covers the song and is a dope mc and shes an amazing singer. So the song is excellent, right . But she also makes a point, and so i wanted to sort of share the point, one of the points that she makes, right . So she says, we dont know that old true blue blood slave mon