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Would that make it better or worse in the short term, medium term and long term and how realistic is it to even think policymakers would move in the direction of less restriction . I dont think were really discussing or considering more limitations to free speech. As Floyd Abraham said we already have legislation in place which for historical reason. The holocaust took place on our continent. Nazis was on the european continent. So this was different from leer. This there is consensus on these laws generally. So nobody thinks seriously that in france were going to have laws prohibiting or limiting the way you can draw the mohammed or mock such religion or the other one. I dont think this is being considered at this stage. What may happen and what is already happening i think is that we all will be a bit more cautious. We already saw that in 2006 when those cartoons were First Pub ....
Moved forward since that event. This is 40 minutes. I am going to have two introduce a little bit to make sure that everyone understands the order of the day. Im going to ask, who as you probably already know, is the editorial director and columnist and contributing writer to the New York Times and then im going to ask to follow on all of us i hope everyone in journalism knows, if you have a problem with the First Amendment, you call and there really is no number two. You just call floyd abrams. And then to sort of talk about the elephant in the room and really bring us to the point of understanding what the problem is, what the underlying problem is and where things are going and im hoping theres a lot of cross dialogue. Im going to ask each person to speak for about five minutes to set the stage. Syl, yeah, will tell us what is going on and what the problems are, from her ....
Silvie first, will tell us what is going on and what the problems are, from her perspective. Ill let floyd outline the differences and similarities between our idea and america of Free Expression and perhaps a french notion which may be different in some respects. And then finally bret. With no further ado, sylvie, can you let us know what you think . Sylvie thank you very much and thank you for having me here. Its always a great to come back to new york where i have spent five of probably the most enjoyable years of my life. I will go straight to the point. We have a very serious situation in france at the moment. I would like to remind you of a basic fact to start with, which is that france has the biggest Jewish Community in europe and the biggest Muslim Community in europe. So i used to say we have our own littl ....
Tom standage, writing on the wall social media the first 2,000 years is the book. Thank you for being with us. We will talk about the future of the Republican Party. [applause] i stay in the wings and do not come out too often. This is quite unusual for me. I do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for the planning of this wonderful evening for me. I shall remember it always. And thanks to the young people for this great welcome. Pat nixon, the first republican first lady to address a national convention, miami, 1972. She went from a hardscrabble background to the white house. As first lady, she traveled more widely than anybody before her, volunteering was her issue, and was a chief supporter to the political debts and political a visor to her husband. Good evening. Tonight, we will tell you the story of pat nixon. Although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resign ....