thank you good afternoon everyone for joining us for this book talk brick by brick building hopes and opportunity what a powerful title. each word of the title has power within its own self and you will see that illuminated during the conversation today that karen will have with barbara. i am the managing director at the aspen institute it s my pleasure to step in for my boss for the executive director and also vice president at the aspen institute. and fortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to make it. but she was heavily involved in the planning of which we are honored to host this book talk because she knows karen has a very close friend for many many years. and if you know and you know their commitments are important to her. only an emergency would have kept her from this. so thank you for being here i will not spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bio in front of you it s important to get you into the conversation but i am honore
appears to have bogged down into a protracted conflict. fighting intensified in the country s east. russian missile strikes and shells continuing to fall on ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. where the first u.s. congressional delegation to visit ukraine, met secretly with president zelenskyy in kyiv. this weekend. the group s leader our speaker nancy pelosi, with strong words for russia and its president putin. do not be bullied by bullies. if they are making threats, you can not back down. that is my view of it. we are there for the fight. and we cannot fold to a bully. the democrats will comes as congress considers president biden s request for 33 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. and russia suggests that shipments of western weapons streaming into ukraine are fair game for its military. the latest on russia s more that s coming up. and later, the emotional true story of our nation s first black secret service agent pardoned last week by president biden
what a powerful title, right? each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. i m marjorie sims, i m managing director at ascend at the aspen institute, and it s my pleasure to step in for my boss, anne mosley, who is the executive director of ascend and also vice president at the aspen institute. unfortunately, he had a family emergency today and if is not able to make it. but she was heavily involved in the planning, it was her honor to be able to host this book talk because she s known karen as a very close friend for many, many years. and if you know anne, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. so only an emergency would have kept her from, you know, opening this up. so again, thank you for being here. and i m not going to spend a lot of time, because on introductions, because you have the bios
you see future games being held? the smart-ass answer would be somewhere between we throw darts and it depends who was harassing me the most. the latter is closest to the truth. actually, we look for to be opportunistic. we started in buffalo with the notion that maybe it would work. once it did, we started looking for what would be the next place we could go to that can build upon it, and continue the growth of the winter classic and all outdoor games as an institution. as we got more and more comfortable building it as an event, as it got a bigger and bigger following, we decided we could try things that some people thought would be crazy. last year, we did an outdoor game in los angeles and it was great. for us to come to the nation s capital, there is a fan base here that ted has built through his organization and through his use of social media and his commitment to the community that made us comfortable that selling out the venue would be no problem. secondly, we woul
and the johnson library in austin. since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. christina is the registrar. we have our new archivist and our registrar. what we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we are the only state in the country that has three presidential libraries. they will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. if they go too long, they have to leave the stage. hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. the ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. we release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. i will pick you out. there are microphones. tonight is being taped by c-span. there will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question