I think that we are going to cast off here shortly, but were going to go ahead and start. A brief history on the canal. It definitely doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river. We wanted to connect the Eastern Shore which with what was considered the west, ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connected to the bay, so we did was we stern building the canal. We started earlier with a George Washington dream to use the river, back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do so we went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using left to get around the great falls and river. Although it wasnt very reliable usage. It didnt have long time use. It was kind of broken. That were very well. We went to head and took his, dream built a canal right next to the river so we could use that water source but have something that is more controlled and reliable, compared to the potomac river, because you took a boat over the falls, he probably wouldnt last very long. So we took this c
The white house is still there. I think about the wonderful times we had. And 40 miles a week which is a lot. Thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. Is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with . Howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal democrats with a moderate and conservative democrats and republicans. What about sam nunn . That is very important. He was a young senator then and was my floor leader on some of the key issues applied to nuclear power. He was very knowledgeable about it and working his way up to be chairman later on of the Defense Committee
Good morning everybody and welcome to ai. My name is robert gore and im so pleased to have you here this morning for this important discussion of education policy in the united states. We are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of Education Betsy Devos with us, her husband, Council President Kellyanne Conway. Its an honor to have them here for this discussion on a topic that is particularly important to ai and our Education Policy Team led by rick s area and were also pleased to have , i like to say that ai is a washington based think tank but we are not a washington focused think tank so we have three distinguished leaders around the country from tennessee to arizona and pennsylvania and they will talk about how some of these issues were talking about in washington to parents and schools in those parts of the country. Really thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better read a little bit about just to get a sense of how i come to this is
Of the u. S. Naval war college. Also an author seven brooks and 100 articles about procedures and leadership. Even his wife laura since retiring as us at prima allied commander in europe from the school of law and diplomacy in boston the very same place he got his doctorate. Has 113 civilian awards from around the world and in within the last 11 months he has been considered for a Vice President ial pick and as secretary of state by another. [laughter] when jim speaks people listen. They listen very carefully. I am glad to see so many people here tonight that have come to listen. So to have insight with the global state of affairs we are very fortunate to have them here tonight i cannot wait to read. [applause] normally when people hear that introduction, thank thank you. That was very kind. They have one overwhelming reaction when they meet me in person which is i thought you would be taller. [laughter] we will take just a couple of minutes to talk about the oceans of the world today.
Of the u. S. Naval war college. Also an author seven brooks and 100 articles about procedures and leadership. Even his wife laura since retiring as us at prima allied commander in europe from the school of law and diplomacy in boston the very same place he got his doctorate. Has 113 civilian awards from around the world and in within the last 11 months he has been considered for a Vice President ial pick and as secretary of state by another. [laughter] when jim speaks people listen. They listen very carefully. I am glad to see so many people here tonight that have come to listen. So to have insight with the global state of affairs we are very fortunate to have them here tonight i cannot wait to read. [applause] normally when people hear that introduction, thank thank you. That was very kind. They have one overwhelming reaction when they meet me in person which is i thought you would be taller. [laughter] we will take just a couple of minutes to talk about the oceans of the world today.