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leaving cuba. my dad, he owned the lumber mill which he worked hard at. that is where i learned my work ethic from. get up at 5:00 in the morning and work until 5:00 in the evening. but it was a good, comfortable life. then all of a sudden, things changed. it was kind of topsy-turvy. all of a sudden you thought was yours is no longer yours. it has been deemed to be taken over and shared with others, and that happens in all industries, all private property disappears. then as i was even the schools, the schools that i was going to, they got shut down because they were changing the curriculum from the curriculum that we had to one that was more communist-oriented. for a two year. a two year period, i did not have much to do except intentionally get in trouble. potentially get in trouble. that is when my parents decided i needed to get out of cuba. walter: what age? mike: the process started when i was 15. it took about a year to get everything going. i brother and s ....
average, children are hard-working, and women are strong. as a humorist, garrison keillor is often compared with mark twain and will rogers. like mr. rogers, garrison keillor has made multiple visits the national press club. he spoke in 1986, and 1987 and spoke again in 1994 after 21 years we are so glad he is back again and clearly he was waiting until minnesota was in charge of the place before he was going to come back. garrison keillor is in the nation s capital for performances today and tomorrow and this summer he hits the road for up prairie home companion s america the beautiful. this is a tour of 30 cities in 36 days. his latest book, the keillor reader just came out in softcover, and on july 4th, a prairie home companion will celebrate its forty-onest anniversary with a live album broadcast in st. paul and mcallister college. that was the location of the first broadcast of a prairie home companion on july 6th, 1974. garrison keillor is active in democratic ....
welcome to the national press club. my name is john hughes. i am an editor for our breaking news desk in washington, and i am the president of the national press club. our guest today is actor -humanitarian given sunnis gary sinise. he will discuss challenges facing america s servicemen and women and what can be done to improve their lives and support their loved ones. but first, i want to introduce our distinguished head table. this group includes press club members and guests of our speaker. from the audience s wright, president of d.c. media connections publisher of stars and stripes, defense reporter for politico and cochair of the national press club s young members committee. amy fickling, editor with one communications news, the staff writer for marine corps times. jim livingston, a medal of honor recipient and guest of the speaker. [applause] john hughes: the chairman of the press club speakers committee the washington bureau chief for the buffalo news, ....
the political life. i can remember the convention in 1960. all of the grandparents and parents were listening to the convention night after night. i remember john kennedy s race in 1962. it was the biggest thing in the family life. the fantasy all my life was that , grow up and find a career and fight away to get into public service. your dad started a full vote dealership. mr. beyer: by the end of the summer i had fallen in love with the business and gotten cold feet about med school and i asked if i could stand at the weeks and it turned into 41 years. interviewer: where did you go to college? mr. beyer: a small liberal arts college that dates from 1793. and at dartmouth, majoring in economics which was formative for me because i had one graduate program in development economics. how do you raise poor countries out of pollard poverty and that has been relevant for the u.s. and relevant for leadership. interviewer: what makes a successful car dealership? mr. beyer: ....
endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights including the rights to life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. a couple of centuries later, we have made ourselves into a big bold, dynamic, and diverse country. we are of all races, we come from all places, we practice all faiths, and believe in all sorts of different ideas. but our allegiance to this declaration this idea is the creed that binds us together. it s what, out of many, makes us one. and it s been the work of each successive generation to keep this founding creed safe by making sure its words apply to every single american. folks have fought, marched protested, even died for that endeavor, proving that as americans, our destiny is not written for us, but by us. we honor those heroes today. we honor everyone who continually strives to make this country a better, stronger, more inclusive, and more hopeful place. and we, the people, pledge to make their task our own to secure the promise of our ....