History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clinic but went somewhere because she showed them it was not wrong. For a good person and a strong person to be imperfect and ask for help. You gave us a gift and we thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tomorrow night, our first dys encore continues with rosalynn carter. She traveled to latin american as his official envoy. She supported the equal rights amendment and she supported a bill in congress th
In. Everybodys got something. If you are having a bad day, it is really easy to have that spiral in your mind. Of,ng the dialogue everybodys thought about it, but nobody talks about it, and very few people admit having thought about it, making it more of a Community Thing and everybody empathizing with each other is really important, and giving veterans that sense of acceptance and engagement at think is really good. Me, when itfor comes to the subject of suicide, it is a really personal one. I attempted twice after i got back. What really has ensured my survival is the fact of definitely my work through art and my work for writing, starting on that path. I couldnt say everything i wanted to say, but at least i had it down. I got it out. Encouraging different outlets. It may be too uncomfortably to vocally talk, but to keep a diary, a journal, and to be able to put it away and come back to it later, the encouragement of those alternatives really does some ofr me, because these topics a
The push for privatization of social security. That is the blueprint. That is not an agenda i can support. Nor the code7 Many Americans have ever been to. How would you describe yourself . It is stunningly beautiful. People who believe there is not anything they cannot accomplish. I say that is the biggest difference that i see. Here, if you tell somebody an idea and you think you can work, they will say, that is a good idea but that cannot happen. I do not think that will happen. In north dakota, if you have a good idea and a lot of enthusiasm behind it, it seems manageable. We can get it done. You are sitting at the coffee table with democrats and republicans, Green Bay Packers fans, lutherans and catholics, they may not agree on the issues of the day, but they figure out how to get the Christmas Lights up at christmas and the roof on the fire hall, and how to solve problems that people at the very heart of it depend on everyday. That is north dakota. A couple of pictures in this roo
Involved in efforts to demonstrate are we replacing u. S. Jobs here . We are just not paying enough or something is wrong and therefore, we are turning to foreign workers. It has been proven time and time again, study after study, that is not the case. They will not do this work. Without this workforce, again, Food Production will go off seas and crops will be left unharvested in the u. S. Why are we tying the pathway to citizenship to a Guest Worker Program . I am not going to give 11 million Illegal Immigrants a path way until i get something i want. I want a new immigration system. I would not trust them to give it to me. Our democratic friends are not going to trust us to hold everything up until we are satisfied with Border Security. You live on the border. I know you are as sincere a this as possible. We have to talk about the elephant in the room. Every time we have this debate, theres always a reason the border is not quite secure enough. We spend billions of dollars and we got
Independent groups which we hired to figure out what would be the most vulnerable places and where the attacks would come from without us knowing about them. There was a basically, a process of replicating what might happen in an attack. We learned a great deal from this. The quantum dawn exercise occurred last july. We expect to do it again. The systems held up fairly well. We were reasonably accountable with the fact that the industry is doing a good job at trying to get ready for this type of a threat which we consider to be extraordinary. Is there anything you think regulators should do on the cybersecurity front . I think congress should do something. Congress has a responsibility to come up with decent cyber language which creates a proper sharing of information across agencies. This was a problem when i was there. We spent a fair amount of time on this. Those were the good old days. That is the way it should be today. Just kidding. [laughter] i didnt say that, barbara. Breaking