track. we have a fairly large campus, full security and maintenance apartment. we have when we have training going on we are open 365 busy year for training. we recently did our dirt surface here in keeneland. we have highly engineered dirt. we are fortunate that we have a great surface and the trainers that are in our service love it. you have a lot of traders that treat this as their home base. and they ship to those other racetracks to run in those other races and then come back here. trainers love to come back here. every morning, you see some of the best horses in the world working out. you see those famous trainers. there are so many people because of the horse farms who can live anywhere in the world which used to live here because of what they are able to do here locally. keeneland is a fun and social atmosphere, much like an sec football game. you have tailgating early in the morning. our races do not start until 1:00. people start piling in around noon. on our l
folks that came in overnight. i never knew what time i was going to go home. depending on the schedule, what activities were going on certainly if there is a world situation that occurs, i have spent five days there at a time. i really cannot say there was a typical day. they were all memorable. i cannot say they were all enjoyable. the staff was the same way. i knew that i could count on them. they had regular hours. they were there from such time to such time. i said, look, something just happened in the middle east. the president is going to have a news conference. i need you seven people to stay here. you cannot go home at 3:30. you need to stay here and be prepared. they knew that was their responsibility. there was never any question. that is what they were there for. we serve the president. i hope that answers your question. i have a daughter. my wife could tell you many stories about birth meals burnt meals and not getting there in time. the we have a wonderful co
government with iranian officials here she s nice to hear professor lecture at american university in washington. the writing has appeared in the new york times, politico, foreign policy and washington monthly among others. they came to us last night from virginia, took a late night train and what i d like to do is turn it over to you for your thoughts and comments to start off. thank you very much. i m going to start for us today. let me thank you much for hosting us to thank you for coming. it s an honor pleasure and we look forward to nature scene discussion today. i m going to start with two provocative themes from our new book, going to tehran: why the united states must come to terms with the islamic republic of iran . the first of these means, and these two get at the heart of our book. the united states is today enhanced and for the past two years a power and relative decline in the middle east. the second core team as the biggest beneficiary of american ongoin
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