To resurrect old friendships and to be historians. Ofan what is the breadth the kind of historians who attend . James it includes college undergraduates, college professors, graduate students, high school teachers, people who are not professional historians but are interested in history. And think it is interesting to time talking and listening to historians. It includes historian to work for the federal government, who work in museums, think tanks. Even people who have advanced degrees in history that are working and doing other things. Susan if we had dropped into this conference 10 years ago, what would be different then versus what is happening now . James first of all, the diversity i just described would be different. The number of undergrads is unprecedented. We worked especially hard this year in trying to bring undergraduates to our conference. They have a special poster competition. We have k12 teachers then we used to have. We definitely have a lot more people with advanced
Men to whom he could look closest and hardest for solutions. Leading the contention was the chairman of the Federal Reserve board, followed by secretary of the treasury fowler, secretary of state, secretary of congress, the budget director charles schultz, chairman of the house ways and means committee, majority whip, who chairs the Economic Policy committee, and finally, senator long of louisiana, a member of many senate and joint committees central to the control of the nations fiscal policy. To an outsider, they look no more than relaxed executives taking a lunch break in the company cafeteria, but in actuality, they were helping the president put the final stamp on a program of action that would in the year ahead bring the elusive balance of payments close to equilibrium. The final decisions agreed upon in the last day of december were put before the public on the following morning in president johnsons 116th news conference. That same day, he also released a major statement on the
Hi everyone, thanks for coming. This session we will break into three parts. In each part we will tackle this question, can democracy survive the internet . We are going to talk about trolls and hackers, leakers, twitter, facebook, filter bubbles. Fundamentally this question is whether a democracy in which media and organization is moved online, whether we can survive or adjust to that new world. A will start with nate, professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is
Our guest serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University where he teaches Program Evaluation and statistical methods to graduate students. Please join me in welcoming david more housing. Clocks good morning and welcome to Heritage Foundation auditorium. For those of you online, we are organizing the federal government that to be done and how to do it. Today we have panelists with extensive experience in the workings of the federal government. Rachel is a Research Fellow in economics. She is leading the Heritage Foundation reorganization project, that is the subject of todays events. She was a senior economist from the staff of the joint economic committee. Donald is the senior scholar at the fund for americans dollars. The served as Ronald Reagans civilservice direct your. During that time, the Washington Post labeled him reagans swift sword. He cut bureaucratic excesses and reduced billions in spending. His new book is a guide to reforming. You can purchase this online. I loo
Director of the center for National Interest. A bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. The traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u. S. Embassy embassyw and the u. S. In cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. George