Good evening, everybody. Please find your seats. Good evening. Thanks for setting up this wonderful event. Mr. Robinson, members of the board, alumni in attendance, students, and ladies and gentlemen. For me, it is a pleasure and an honor to be able to open this event today. I am pleased to see so many faces. Some fairly young faces. And i am particularly pleased knowing the students today do not necessarily cherish things that happened 30 years ago. Be it jon bon jovi or George Michael or dirty dancing, there have been cooler periods in history than the 1980s. That is what my children keep reminding me. This is, however, different. With president reagans speech [speaking german] from president kennedys visit, might be better known in germany and the u. S. Foreign policy nerds know that there is nothing like president reagans addressing withtarygeneral gorbachev his call to tear down this wall. Interestingly, the speech received very little coverage at the time. However, the chancellor
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Man nwe have a good show for you tonight. Last night eye dont know if you knew this we had an election and tonight on this program, the winner of that election, the president of the u. S. A. , the United States of arithmetic, nate silver will be joining us cheers and applause it was a big night last night. The big news, of course, president barack obama not just reelected but seemingly given fresh batteries. We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. Ry are and forever will be the United States of america. And together, with your help, and gods grace, we will continue our journey forward. laughter . Jon so thats all it took for to you get back in the groove was the fact that you never have to run for president again . laughter thats all it took . cheers and applause of course, on the other side, governor mitt romney broke the bad news to his supporters before reluctantly b
Fresh batteries. We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. Ry are and forever will be the United States of america. And together, with your help, and gods grace, we will continue our journey forward. laughter . Jon so thats all it took for to you get back in the groove was the fact that you never have to run for president again . laughter thats all it took . cheers and applause of course, on the other side, governor mitt romney broke the bad news to his supporters before reluctantly being asked to pose for his familys yearly christmas card. laughter . That is a goodlooking bunch. Its like they the people that came in the frames. Across the nation, the people spoke, legalizing gay marriage in maine and maryland. Legalizing marijuana in washington state, and colorado cheers and applause gay marriage. Nothing. laughter . Marijuana. Bat bleep crazy. They also legal ides dancing in that town in footloose. I probably should have looked that up. Wisconsin elected Tammy B
And gods grace, we will continue our journey forward. laughter . Jon so thats all it took for to you get back in the groove was the fact that you never have to run for president again . laughter thats all it took . cheers and applause of course, on the other side, governor mitt romney broke the bad news to his supporters before reluctantly being asked to pose for his familys yearly christmas card. laughter . That is a goodlooking bunch. Its like they the people that came in the frames. Across the nation, the people spoke, legalizing gay marriage in maine and maryland. Legalizing marijuana in washington state, and colorado cheers and applause gay marriage. Nothing. laughter . Marijuana. Bat bleep crazy. They also legal ides dancing in that town in footloose. I probably should have looked that up. Wisconsin elected Tammy Baldwin the first openly lesbian senator. Sorry, Lindsay Graham. Yeah. You missed the Lindsay Graham joke. It was a pretty good one. laughter . Perhaps the best news was
cheers and applause it was a big night last night. The big news, of course, president barack obama not just reelected but seemingly given fresh batteries. We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. Ry are and forever will be the United States of america. And together, with your help, and gods grace, we will continue our journey forward. laughter . Jon so thats all it took for to you get back in the groove was the fact that you never have to run for president again . laughter thats all it took . cheers and applause of course, on the other side, governor mitt romney broke the bad news to his supporters before reluctantly being asked to pose for his familys yearly christmas card. laughter . That is a goodlooking bunch. Its like they the people that came in the frames. Across the nation, the people spoke, legalizing gay marriage in maine and maryland. Legalizing marijuana in washington state, and colorado cheers and applause gay marriage. Nothing. laughter . Marijuana.