Get started let me center best wishes for a speedy recovery to President Trump, the first lady, as well as all the officials who work closely with the president. One month out from november 3 americans across the country have already started voting in the most important president ial election in a generation. President elect joe biden for reelected President Donald Trump will face a double digit unemployment situation and a global pandemic, a reckoning on racial inequality and a divided nation. The one institution that could help address these problems is the federal government. The federal government needs to be effective if it will deliver for the American People. That is why preparation and planning today is critical for effectiveness on january 20. Regardless of your wins a smooth transition this year is not enough in this year we need the best transition ever in american history. Should Vice President biden win the challenges are truly daunting. In normal times a new president fac
worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our web site at press.org can. on behalf of our members worldwide, i d like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending today s event. our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. if you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so it s not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] i d also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclunch. after our guests speeches conclude, we ll have a question-and-answer period, and i will ask as many questions as time permits. now it s time to introduce our head table guests. i d like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced, and from your right, skip cottonhauser, an independent journalist who coincidentally organized ralph nader s luncheon at the pres
this is an hour and five minutes. [applause] [applause] these welcome margaret spellings. [applause] thank you for joining us today. as the announcer said, i am margaret spellings, the president of the bush presidential 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 service at the university o
as he turned to walk away i said you should come too. he said you want both of us? you re both good friends. we ve been friends all these years. and just couple to couple. yeah, that would be great. think about that. he said i will. and they did. and that s just a great honor to have them both out. they ve been just good friends of ours for all these years. bill and hillary have provided i think great leadership for our country in the past and in their respective ways. i served on the can he in the snath under ted kennedy with hillary clinton all the time she was in the senate. we had great working relationships in the snath. i think she just did an outstanding job as our secretary of state. in fact, as we traveled around the world the last two years, the just amazing how stature that hillary clinton globally among women and girls all over this globe. he has kind of let, lit a fire among women and girls around the world. in hey re just holder her high esteem. they re all ex
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