Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
A two Day Conference will its gratifying to see a Record Number of colleagues across the region taking advantage of this. For the first time ever, it over 1200 registrations. Welcome to new attendees and remote viewers tuned in today be a zoom or cspan. Where thrilled to reach so many coeagues wherever you might be. It took whole team to get us here, 17 campuses and expense of a logical conclusion. Time and energy will nmally be recognized but its not possible this year unless you want to do it from home. As we helping various capacities a moment she check this out. Id like to take a moment to recognize the enormous efforts taken by our assistant director and director of instructional design reading this years conference. Look at these amazing women, they are talented and creative. I am overcome with pride and i get to work with them. It is incredible to see them in the conference would like to personally thank the support st. Louis leadership place a high value on teaching and learnin
Continue to will investigate each and every instance of illegal voting. Double voting, phelan voting, people voting outofstate. Outofstate. I want to remind members of a few matters, some of them required by the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965, which established the framework for Remote Committee proceedings. First, members are reminded to on atheir video functions all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they have finished speaking. Staff have been instructed not to mute members except when a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members are further reminded that they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the hearings. Particularly during the questions. If during the hearing
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Thanks, roger, ben, and all the trustees and staff for making this event possible. It is really special to be here today. Im honored you asked me to inaugurate the center for freedom of democracy. [microphone feedback] as my team was helping me get ready, i was reminded of a line from emerson i dont quote poetry often. President reagan quoted in westminster in 1982. Westminster in 1982. An institution is lengthened by the shadow of one man, and there is no man who did more than reagan to restore americas confidence and human freedom in the post world war ii era. There is no better event than continuing that work by launching this new institution 40 years after america sent our 40th president to the white house. People watching online and those in this room are students of president reagan. As a kid growing up in california, i got to see him in action as the governor. It was a very different california then. [laughter] but it was Ronald Reagan as governor who believed in the promise of