Good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for being here. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the library at mountvernon its my pleasure to invite you , to welcome you, not to welcome you because youve already come, welcome you to our first michelle lecture. Within days of leaving the presidency of the United States toward washington was entertained at gatsbys tavern in alexandria. Posted by the mayor, and as large a company to partake as we have ever seenin this town on any occasion , someone n reported. Its a remarkable moment in march 1797 for many reasons to not least of which was the group offered a toast of the constitution to the president , to the Vice President , to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service. His words and response are ones that i think about often. No wish in my retirement of seeing our country happy and i can entertain no doubt of it being show all of us as citizens. The included equation to. It was as
Ms. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. We wanted to be on the steps of the capitol and we will do this again soon and we will do it constantly until we have the dream act. Its an honor to be here with the senate leader, Chuck Schumer, with the champion on this issue, with the chair of the hispanic caucus in the house, congresswoman Michelle Lujan grisham. Of new mexico. Senator dick durbin, who for at least 15, 16 years has been a champion of the dreamers. The he first introduced this bill in 2001. Even before 9 11. Congresswoman roybalallard who has been a champion on this issue and now serves as the ranking democrat on the Homeland Security committee where she, again, continues her work to be vigilant. Protecting our dreamers. We have newcombers to the of ress, senator harris california. Representative castro of texas. Slightly newcomber. Of nevada. Cortes we all agree that President Trumps decision to end daca is a despicable act of
European royals have been marking World AIDS day with several events today. Prince Albert and his sister attended an event in Monaco, while Mette-Marit lit a candle at a vigil in Oslo.
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