you here? sec. rice: a few years. rep. shalala: most of our questions today were submitted by students. one of our students asked how do i get to be secretary of state? sec. rice: good question. let me start by thanking you very much. i have known president shalala as secretary shalala and also as my friend donna. thank you for having me here. [applause] i want to thank my good friends, the ambassadors for their service to the country and for their extra neri friendship. and thanks to you, university of miami students for having me here. how do you become secretary of state? you start as a failed piano major. [laughter] i actually went to college to be a concert pianist. i studied piano from the age of three. there was never any doubt that s what i was going to do. in the summer of my sophomore year, i went to something called the aspen music festival school which, a lot of prodigies were there and there were 12-year-olds who could play from site what i could play after only
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the federalist society for law and public policy studies at montgomery, alabama posted this event. good morning. is federalist society founded on the freedoms that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to tell you what the law is, not what it should be. the society seeks to promote both an awareness of these principles and to further their application. an, you may notice i have adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. he was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. and marcus witcher, you have seen throughout the day, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. i first met marcus several years you mayn institute, or say a conference, i spoke, and then he followed me. he later told me, and i mean years later, that he was so reli
dr. mendenhall: good morning. good morning and welcome to the montgomery lawyers chapter of the federalist society. the federalist society is founded on the freedoms that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to tell say what the law is, not what it should be. the society seeks to promote both an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. now, you may notice i have an adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. he was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. and marcus witcher, you is speaking to us today, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. i first met marcus several years ago at an institute study conference, i spoke, and then he followed me. he later told me, and i mean years