Welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham, a coowner of a bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting professor, author and journalist Samuel Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t
Half. The subcommittee will come to order and i ask for unanimous consent to share be authorized to declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to briefly review the three commandments of the subcommittee. One is that we shall start on time which we just did so thats good. We will enforce the five minute rule that if time allows we will entertain a second round of questions, and it often does. But i bring this up i want to stress the third which is shall not use acronyms or jargon that is particularly important in this discussion because the discussion about ai can quickly generate were degenerate into jargon laden discussions with three true experts on the topic but dont assume your average member of congress or dont understand i dont assume i understand the nuances when you get into ai. We want to have a discussion with your average american to understand today. We are asking you to demystify a lot of the concepts surrounding aia and the thing about the topic t