Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around. And probably among the folks who are being honored tonight. What were going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremony since zoom is not a capacious place to exchange awards and the like so we will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then walk us through that, when we are done we will take your questions in chat and we will try to wrap up in an hour using the
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Really need to adopt watch the rest of this event in the cspan Video Library at cspan. Org. Type center for American Progress in the search box. Going to leave and go live to remark some House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair ted poe, some john mccain, james mattis and the mr. Secretary David Shulkin. All living at the American Legion conference here in washington. In deuteronomy it is written, a strong and courageous do not fear or be in dread of them. For it is the lord our god who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. And in romans, what then shall we say to these things . If god is for us, who can be against us . With those passages in mind let us go to the lord in prayer. Almighty god, for whom nothing is too difficult, we call upon you to call our spirit calm focus our attention and energy on the tasks at hand, knowing that what we do is a part of your divine plan. Grant us the courage and faith needed for the assignments we are about to undertake, centered upon wh
Is making to better serve veterans. This is two hours two 20 minutes. Good among. Good morning. My name is bill, as chairman i call this call to order. With our colors in place, hand salute, 1, 2. Please remain standing and ill call on harvey clay from the Department Texas to lead us in prayer. In duty rot me its written be strong and courageous. Do not fear. For it is the lord our god who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. In romans what then shall we say to these things if god is for us, who can be against us. With those scripttural passage, go to prayer. We call upon you to calm our spirit. Focus our attention and energy on the task at hand knowing that what we do is part of your divine plan. Grant us the courage and faith needed for the assignments we are going to under take. Centered upon what you would have us do all to your grater glory. Shower us with forthright, hones honesty and sincerity. My our preparations be fruitful and touch the hearts of those who hea