Public service by americas Cable Television companies. Its brought you today your cable or satellite provider. Over the next few hours here and cspan, a commencement addresses from around the country, with intent jersey senator cory booker, Vice President mike pence, bill clinton, kelly ayotte, and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, joseph number. We start with senator booker, who export to graduates of the Commitment Ceremony at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. [applause] thank you very much. It is incredible to be here and i want to thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this day of history in your lives, i want to thank you for allowing me to be a small part of this extraordinary community. I want to congratulate the graduates, and i want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible and when i say everyone, it took so many people to make this day possible. I want to thank the parents and the grandparents, and the family members. I want to thank every
And so i confess to you, when i was graduating from college, i felt like i knew a lot, and now that im about twice your age, im not as confident in what i know. In fact, i am a person that believes i am in struggle, as we all are. The beautiful thing that ive realized is that were all in this struggle together. We perceive that there are differences between us, gaps and gulfs, but we are far more united, far more indivisible, far more involved in a larger common struggle than we know. And so what id like to do very briefly today, is confess to you two things i struggle with, and its really two stories, one from someone from history who ive come to admire and the other one is perhaps one of my greatest mentors ever. The person from history, its a short story, i dont even know if its apocryphal or not, but its made a point that i struggle with and its a story about Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was said to be rushing on busy days, running from point to point but now he was said to be running fo
And so i confess to you, when i was graduating from college, i felt like i knew a lot, and now that im about twice your age, im not as confident in what i know. In fact, i am a person that believes i am in struggle, as we all are. The beautiful thing that ive realized is that were all in this struggle together. We perceive that there are differences between us, gaps and gulfs, but we are far more united, far more indivisible, far more involved in a larger common struggle than we know. And so what id like to do very briefly today, is confess to you two things i struggle with, and its really two stories, one from someone from history who ive come to admire and the other one is perhaps one of my greatest mentors ever. The person from history, its a short story, i dont even know if its apocryphal or not, but its made a point that i struggle with and its a story about Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was said to be rushing on busy days, running from point to point but now he was said to be running fo
To thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this day of history in your lives, i want to thank you for allowing me to be a small part of this extraordinary community. I want to congratulate the graduates, and i want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible and when i say everyone, it took so many people to make this day possible. I want to thank the parents and the grandparents, and the family members. I want to thank everyone from the incredible president and astounding provost, all the way up to those people who cleaned floors and manicured lawns and served food to contribute to this community. And so i confessed to you, when i was graduating from college, i felt like i knew a lot and now that im about twice your age, im not as confident in what i know. In fact, i am a person who believes i am in struggle, as we all are. The beautiful thing that ive realized is that were all in this struggle together. We perceive that there are differences between us, gaps and gulfs, b
Representative Michael Curcio, District 69 – Dickson, received the Rod Bragg Recovery Hero Award at the Tennessee Association of Recovery Court Professionals Conference, held Dec. 8-10 in Murfreesboro.The award is named after Rod Bragg, who was an Assistant Commissioner with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Bragg was instrumental in moving the recovery courts from the Department of Finance and Administration to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abus .