The mission of the place is to enhance the understanding of the appreciation of the executive mansion. One time, in 1961, during the kennedy administration, the first lady, Jackie Kennedy founded the administration to help the white house collect and exhibit the absolute best of American History and culture. Underscoring all of that, to inform and incite the public about the history of the mansion. Today, we are still doing this or it, reservation, Research Continues through the sale of our books, our products. The official white house ornament, which some of you may know as well. In recent years, from private and corporate donations. To strengthen our goal, the over arching goal, which is to widely share white house history with the public, last year we created this lecture service to bring wellknown authors and historians to the association to share their knowledge and insight with the public. And to humanize the white house, its inhabitants and things that happen. We are delighted t
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Good morning. Welcome to had 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for the annual dinner . I know we were all blown away by the fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our e
The fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our economy right now. The good news of course is that growth as been very strong. While productivity was flat through most of the year. Its rebounded recently and unemployment is low. In enact lowest since 2000. We kno