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disappointment. i ve learned that humor helps. who knows the difference between the dietrich clients and a dollar bill? it turns out that from a dollar bill you can still get four quarters. [laughter] thank you. i will be performing all week at aei. let s talk about football and theodore roosevelt. i would like to start with a statistic. in 190518 people died playing football. it 1905, 18 people died playing football. so we hear a lot today about the problem, concussions and head injuries and the long-term health effects. this is a controversy in football today, but it s got nothing on the challenges football faced a little more than a century ago. so let s go back in time. in 1876, theodore roosevelt attended its first football game. he was an 18-year-old freshman at harvard university. he got on a train with a bunch of friends and they went to new haven connecticut where they watched the second ever football game played between harvard and yale. so in the history of colle