Good evening. My name is tom. Im a member of the Clements Department of history. I cannot tell you what a delight it is for me to welcome you tonight on the special location. Before we get underway want to express our appreciation for the george w. Bush library. Theyre cosponsoring this event with us in cspan which is taping the lecture. Were happy to have general patrick, director of the bush library. I want to direct your attention to a major event on december 7 peter baker will be the guest to talk about his book, obama the call of history. The dj trip for june 2018 is fully subscribed were taken names and you may know that weve established a dedicated Scholarship Fund for this program so no student should miss the chance to take this journey because of financial need. You like to make a contribution we would be thrilled. Its a personal pleasure to present the speaker. Hard to believe it was five years i must say, it was almost as if he had been waiting for our call. We really lucke