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i hate to be the cause of reduction in buys, but good evening. im herald holzer, director of roosevelt house and on behalf of the hunter college president to his in the room tonight i m delighted to welcome you all to the home of franklin d. roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. one of them is going to be talking about gubernatorial administrative work today, he was the new york state governor before he came president and his wife was the conscience of the empire state just as she later became the conscience of the country and the world, who was never afraid to confront challenging and uncomfortable issues like the one we are going to discuss this evening, even if her own confronting husband, privately of course because this was the 1930 s. i think you all know as well, the history of this amazing space. was originally a wedding gift to franklin and eleanor from his mother sarah, and it came to the newlyweds with only one stipulation. sarah herself moved in and stayed in r ....
going to be hyper brief because you ll get more than you want of me throughout the day but i m going to quickly introduce my partner in crime or maybe better partner in countering crime lenny hanesworth who s a vice president at northrop grumman. northrop has been a wonderful partner of gw and our center in particular. not only today s event but multiple reports we ve done together and i think play a critical role in advancing our national security and our national interest so i ll leave it at that. lenny, please? thank you. thanks for the introduction. good morning everyone. on behalf of northrop grumman, we are pleased and honor to co-host today s event in partner with george washington university. frank and gwu in general have an exceptional reputation in leading rich and deep conversations about policies that will contribute to our collective abilities to enhance the national security of the united states. as we commit cyber security awareness month starting next ....
most cios are appointees and maybe only stay two years. very rarely they stay four years. i think one of the major problems is we don t have continuity of technology management because that position has been made an appointee, not not a permanent position, and this week, all the cios are going to be meeting at national association of governors and cios and the governor across the way is being really strong in terms of bringing the states together and the state cios so could you comment on that? sure, i completely disagree with your premise that i m being tough on cios, because guess what? i m trying to get them more tools. i m the one trying to, i don t just bring them in front of my subcommittee. i bring the cto and the deputy agency headle is because they should be getting all the responsibility and authority. you didn t hold somebody accountable if they don t have the authorities to do their job, and so for me, everything we have been doing is to strengthen their a ....
technology and laws and reforms to give people more information about what the government is and make the government work better. ost: the weather doesn t look like it outside, it is sunshine week, what does that mean? yearlysunshine week is a week dedicated to principles of openness in government. come e number of groups together and have panels and etters and really discuss the importance that openness play necessary our democracy. ost: what importance does it play? guest: the idea behind democracy, government belongs to people. that works through watching media, reading, paying attention what is happening in the government and ultimately through elections and if we ation about nform what the government is doing, what is the election about afterall? host: where is it not working? where do we not have transparent accountability in government? guest: transparent is a long-term goal and constant fight. there is tension between people that have power and everyone else. so ....
the national book award finalist released this past week and four of the nonfiction authors appeared or will appear here on booktv. next heather alabama thompson sits down with national book award-winning author tana if to discuss her book blood in the water. about the attica prison uprisings. good evening i m director of roosevelt house and on behalf of the president jennifer rab in the room tonight i m delighted to welcome all of you here to the home of franklin d. roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt one ever them as you know since we re going to be talking about gubernatorial administrative work, of course, new york state governor bhefer became president and his wife was conscience of the empire state is just as she later became the conscience of the country and the world who was never afraid to confront challenging and uncomfortable issues like the one we re going to discuss this evening. even if it meant confronting her own husband. privately, of course, because this ....