Foundations executive Vice President dr. Kim holmes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to all of you here in the auditorium and everyone online as well. Its a great pleasure for us to be back in the building of the Heritage Foundation. We have been away for some time teleworking. This is my first day back for a while, but i am very pleased to be back here today for this very important event of launching the Heritage Foundations 2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh addition of the index and the index has become one of Heritage Foundations flagship publications. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and also premierican public a opensource and authoritative assessment of Americas Armed forces and their ability to protect the nation. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. Its to provide both the leaders of this country, and also the American Public a premier open
Books team for making this possible and joining us live tonight. I have enormous privilege of introducing her guest. Jeb bush was the 43rd governor of florida and the first in state history to be elected. Anders limited government approached he created 1. 3 million net new jobs improving the States Credit rating. Currently hes headquartered in coral gables florida. Tonights guest of honor author of citizen mack politics, an honorable calling senator connie mack 92 senator mack left a successful banking. To serve in the house of representatives. He upon returning to the private sector mack became chairman of the h. Lee Moffitt Center in tampa, florida. With that i will hand it over to governor jeb bush and keep in mind you can submit your questions to the feature. Thank you very much. Its such a joy to have this conversation with the man id hire so muc and ive read the book connie. A greatook. The news york times tod had an artle about independent bookstores that i thi is worth mentioni
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked