c-span s coverage of college commencement speeches continues saturday with susan webber wright at the university of arkansas and dream works chair melody hobson at usc. former massachusetts governor and 2012 presidential candidate mitt romney speaking in manchester manchester new hampshire. president bush addressing southern methodist university. you know, when i mention this had speech to some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. see, i haven t given a commencement speech since leaving office. my decision is quite practical, so i got a phone call from my landlord. gerald turner. rather than raising the rent or threatening to hold our security deposit, i was relieved to hear president turner ask if i believed in free speech. [ laughter ] i said, yeah. he said, perfect, here s your chance to give one. as a proud member of the smu community, i am honored to be here truly honored to deliver the commencement address the. we ll have the entire speech by forme
george w. bush at southern methodist university. commencement addresses begin at noon eastern here on c-span. george bush: when i mention the speech through some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. i have not given a commencement speech since leaving office. my decision is quite practical. i got a phone call from my landlord. [laughter] gerald turner. rather than reasoning raising the rent or holding the security deposit, i was surprised to hear him ask if i believe in free speech. [laughter] i said, yes. he said, perfect, this is your chance to get one. i am truly honored to be here. you can see all of george w. bush plus commencement speech bush s commencement speech tomorrow noon. sunday night at midnight some provisions of the patriot act require. mitch mcconnell wants to extend all of the act, but ran call rand paul opposes. to try to come up with a legislative compromise, mitch mcconnell has called senate back in one day early on sunday at 4:0
when i mentioned this speech to some of my pals, they were surprised i was going to give it or it i have not given a pronouncement commencement speech since leaving office. my decision is practical. i got a phone call from my landlord. gerald turner. rather than raising the rent or threatening to hold the security deposit i was relieved to hear him ask if i believed in free speech. it[applause] i said it yes. he said perfect, here is your chance to give one a. i am honored to be here. it truly honored. i will be delivering the 100th spring it commencement address. i admire president turner s persuasiveness in his leadership. he runs a fantastic university. [applause] it is dynamic diverse, destined for continued excellence. he has a strong administrative team and has engaged alumni and has an outstanding board of trustees. i am fortunate to know many of the trustees. for example i am good friends with the chairman. there is one trustee i know really well a. it she is a prou
all right, let s get started. let me remind you to turn off the sound on your cell phones. this is our number 3263, denial in the face of fact. i asked for a science panel, i got an anti-science panel. [laughter] tom: so i m tom blumen that ll. i m the former chair of molecular and development biology here in boulder. i am the director of the institute for down s syndrome at the medical school. let me briefly introduce the subject. i want you to imagine a world where they were accepted. where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these facts just because they stood to gain financially or because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. huge numbers of americans simply don t believe facts, people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. this isn t a scientific issue. it s a political one. today s panelists will address the thorny question of how to get p
have famous german philosopher that you have weeder is i cannot find their. maybe i just have to paraphrase. it is europe s duty to prepare a the way for when the good european comes into possession with that destiny but to supervise that universal culture of the world. to talk about the r&d musec but muslims have to understand here in america cultural production has to include the intellectual effort them rearranges aspect of their broader culture of america because only in that way can we get americans to see themselves and us differently to understand all of this is a part of cultural production. i will stop there. [applause] up next we have the of founder of the of college and several mosques truck unit of states as a longtime advocate of backyard organic gardening is a suitable living such as banning the use of plastic bottle water it has written extensively in active with the number of organizations with islamic relief of the united kingdom. our question tonight is