Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not just in washington. And that she grew up in West Virginia. One day, i found myself in a hard hat, deep underground in West Virginia in a coal mine with sylvia, barbara ven and rich trumka. I was not the only one who noticed that sylvia was competent and levelheaded hearing the president notice to that, president clinton. By the end of the administration, she was the director of shes had a distingu
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