[inaudible] [applause] president of the society and im delighted to welcome you to the Barbara Olson memorial lecture. This memorial lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11. This lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11, can you hear better mark ted olsons inaugural lecture remind you of what it means to be an american and how ourlegal tradition is a criticalpart of our identity as americans. That reminder is perhaps even more crucial today. Both ted was here today and barbara understood this connection. We want the lecture series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles advanced individual liberty, personal responsibility and the rule of law and other lecturers have included justice scalia, Vice President cheney, ray randolph, edith jones, doug ginsberg, dennis jenkins, jeff sutton and justice neil gorsuch. Don mcgann, peter seals, john allison senators tom cotten and ben sasse. That brings us to todays lecture. It is my privilege to introdu
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