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First is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum and paul has been directioning the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015 and heel ll be talk about fdr and the Manhattan Project and our second guest is Clifton Daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar where he spent quite a bit of time study being the life and career of his grandfather and currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So today will give a great opportunity for question and answer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit offcamera, about our topic today, and i guarantee you theres going to be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin, and introduce all to join us on the p
We have taken a two track approach. One track is to put in fixes to our Current System knowing that is not the solution. My first trip to phoenix, i sat down at the computer screen and worked the scheduling system myself. It really is a green screen. Like we have to make things simpler for veterans, we have to make things simpler for our employees. Putting fixes into the system is the fastest approach. We are going for an off the shelf system you are going to implement as quickly as possible. We are going to start putting this in place. It will take some time to do it. The third thing we have to do is make sure our people are trained. This is why i am eager to have a simplified system. While there have been things that have gone wrong and we are Holding People accountable for those things, for example, there was a person who manipulated data in georgia who was indicted two weeks ago. As times goes on, these measures of accountability will come out. I believe we have to make things simp
Enforcement of colorado because they believe that will improve public safety. If we know whos driving and make sure we can identify them. Moderator element, we have a brief amount of time and i have a feeling that you are both eager to do that. So let me ask you come a brief answer, incentives, why do you think so many people hate congress and what is the number one thing you can do about it . Mr. Romanoff. Romanoff the main reason so Many Americans are disenchanted with congress is because they see politicians in congress who are fighting for them. Theyre trying to concentrate the benefits at the top and not the middleclass to suffer. When i get to the u. S. House of representatives in january, i will do everything in my power to grow the economy by strengthening the middle class, ensuring equal pay for equal work, advancing transition to a Clean Energy Economy. And they making Higher Education more affordable, which is the real ticket to the vendor class. Not by cutting programs, not
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