Good morning and welcome to the Reagan Library. For those of you ive not yet had the pleasure of is david tre the privilege of serving as president of the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. Thank you for jng would have been president reagans 113th birthday. I would like to begin by recognizing some of the special guests with us today. From the reagan family, president reagans son, michael. President reagans granddaughter ashley and her husband joe. Former congressman Elton Gallegly and his wife, janice. Gi walters. The mayor of simi valley, fred thomas. Members of the simi valley city council, mike judge and alain lister. We also have with us today the following members of the board of trustees of the ronald reaga. We have kathy bush and her daughter charlotte, former labor secretary and transportation secretary elaine chao, former president assistance to Ronald Reagan, peggy noonan, former u. S. Solicitor ted olson and pete wilson and the former first lady of california, mrs. Gai
Good morning and welcome the Reagan Library. For those of you ive not yet had the pleasure of meeting, my name is david trulio and i have the privilege of serving as president of the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. Thank you for joining us today as we celebrate what would have been president reagans i would like to begin by recognizing some of the special guests with us today. From the reagan family, president reagans son, michael. President reagans granddaughter ashley and her husband joe. Former congressman elton and hi. Former congresswoman mimi walters. The mayor of simi valley, fred thomas. Members of the simi valley city council, mike judge and alain lister. Weo g members of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Please hold your applause. We have kathy bush and her daughter charlotte, former labor secretary and transportation secretary elaine chao, former president assistance to Ronald Reagan, peggy noonan, former u. S. Solicit
Good morning and welcome to the Reagan Library. For those of you ive not yet had pleasure of meeting, my name is david trulio and i have the privilege of serving as president of the Ronald Reagan foundation and instute. Thank you for joining us today as we celebrate what would have been president reagans 113th birthday. Begin by recognizing some of the special guests with us today. From the reagan family, president reagans son, michael. President reagans granddaughter ashley and her husband joe. Former congressman Elton Gallegly and his wife, janice. Former congresswoman mimi walters. The mayor of simi valley, fred thomas. Members of the simi valley city council, mike judge and alain lister. We also have with us today the following members of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Please hold your applause. We have kathy bush and her daughter charlotte, former labor secretary and transportation secretary elaine chao, former president assistan
The countrys president , isaac herzog, led the nation in a ceremony injerusalem. Members of the idf were in attendance, as well as some of the families of the hostages taken by hamas. There were empty chairs in the audience, to symbolise those who had been killed or are still missing. Translation this year, we mark a different independence day. We are proud of our independence, of the miracle that is a state of israel but our hearts are full of sorrow and pain. These days we are filled with the pain of bereavement, the pain for the wounded, pain for civilians displaced from their homes, the pain for the hostages. We will not rest or be silent, we will not rust or be we will not rest or be silent. Silent until our daughters and sons return to our borders. Qatars Prime Minister, whos country has mediated between hamas and israel, has given a downbeat assessment on the current state of negotiations. Sheikh mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al thani said, despite some recent momentum, the talks wer
And its and im going to now make clear to everyone. Congratulations, bill becoming the director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story behind it. I grew up in a fdr democratic household, so there was no question about how the family felt about. Franklin roosevelt but what . But my first major work in history, because i trained actually different fields in American History, but my work was on thomas paine and i what i did was, i told the s