Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute im delighted to welcome youut all to this post labor day gathering, a celebration of the publication of this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore is not because you did nothing during your time in office. Or you waited out the term, it is because those were the decisions that affected the fate of the nation often at moments of great crisis often decisions that were unpopular or that risked this would be your last from an office. But decisions that reflected your vision of the vision of the people and if you made it to rushmore or on a coin it is n because decades later your people look back and said thank you. To have the boldness and courage to take those decisions and remarkably a strong selfconfident country for many reasons its too complicated to go into them just for this event but to be blessed with rushmore leadership from the founding of the st
Day gathering and a celebration of this timely important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and your faces chiseled into Mount Rushmore and your picture on a coin its not because you did nothing during your time in office. But because you took Big Decisions affecting the state of the nation at moments of great crisis with decisions that were unpopular or risked that this would be your last term in office. Such reflected the vision and if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin is because decades later people look back and said thank you for making those decisions and israel today remarkably strong for many reasons. And far too complicated to go into all of them that was blessed with leadership all the way over the past 70 years in those moments and that is in a nutshell with this book is all about. Of those leaders who rose to the occasion head on and to remind us and that rushmore like leadership will rise again to help the people with those questions. There
Also alarming. When i to up to my boys to make sure theyre ready for school to get on the bus and in two minutes. Chad pergram on the nonurgency urgency. They have to fund the government by 11 59 59 friday night. They did one in september, two in december, this would be the fourth one. Otherwise the government shuts down on the oneyear ankers versery of President Trumps inauguration. It comes down to math. You have a couple of key issues. Defense spending. Defend hawks want an increase in defense spending. Democrats say if you go for that we have to have increase in nondefend spending. Daca is the big issue here. Republicans dont have the votes to avoid a Government Shutdown. Mac thornberry is the chair of the Armed Services committee. He didnt think there would be the votes to avoid a Government Shutdown on republican side of the aisle unless they had agreement in place. If they turn to democrats, look at the vote breakdown, pat tiberi, the republican congressman from ohio he resigns
By cochair susan tourial and im pleased to welcome me to the book festival awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life. And her second journalist, mike kelly, Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspan booktv to a book festival programming this afternoon. On behalf of the book festival we are truly grateful for the support of barbara, this years presenting sponsors greenberg and wells fargo. In addition to our over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar events for the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are available in three different ways. You can purchase them online, by telephone or in person at our box office or any other Customer Service desks. The format for todays pre
Good afternoon. [laughter] welcome. Im deborah jacobs, cochair of the 24th edition of the book festival of the mjcca. My cochair and i are pleased to welcome you to the book festivals awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life, and our second awardwinning journalist, mike kelly, in conversation with bill [inaudible] Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspans booktv to our book festival programming this amp. This afternoon. On behalf of the book festival, we are truly grateful for the support of barbara exped mining and this years sponsors, wells fargo. In addition, there are over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar of events the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are av