Hosted by the American Academy of political and social science. She is the recipient of the academies 2019 Daniel Patrick moynihan prize. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay, everybody . Im tom kecskemethy, executive director the American Academy of political and social science. It my pleasure to welcome all of you to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick moynihan lecture on social science and Public Policy. Very briefly before you move into todays proceedings, i know we all want to hear from ambassador power, were pleased to such if the last as always, happy to be joined by folks who work with senator moynihan and to be joined by members of the family who have been so supportive of this enterprise from the start. I havent seen morena yet but she may be. She will be with us at some point today. Maura is his daughter and shes been a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I also would like to thank Sage Publications your sage in the publishing world
At about this time in septembe september 1974, i reported as a Second Lieutenant to the armor school at fort knox, kentucky. In preparing my remarks today i was struck by how much my emotions today remind me of my emotions have been. In september 1974, just like today, i was a little nervous, i was humbled to wear the uniform as an army officer i was eager to get started on a new career, and i was in love pardon me and i was in love with a girl named deanie. [applause] i fell in love with deanie when she was 15. It took her a few years to come around to the idea. By i was sure that whatever life brought my way, i wanted to experience it with her. Heres the thing about deanie. Shes only one more passion than me about the military and their families. Shes a better view than i am. She has for more energy than einstein predicted could be packed into a fivefoot twoinch body come and she has shown an amazing patience during the trials that the company a military wife. In every way she has ma
To its community. As a result of course of the u. S. Announcement that they plan to end their stewardship of icann which was envisioned since the beginning of icann, we have been meeting with Community Members and having them on their own build conc etchin consensus we can do to strengthe icann and strengthen its accountability. That effort is ongoing and involved hundreds of people from all over the world and Great Results are starting to come out that frankly gives me a good sense that we will soon have a new set of mechanisms and proposals that will further icanns accountability and insure that when the United States government ends its historic rule as our steward that icann as an institution is stable and independent of any other institution. Host do you support the delay in turning over the governance of the oversight of icann . Guest we are and have been clear that it is more important to get this right than do it quickly or rush a certain timeline. Therefore the delay that was
Linked into current events. If reagan, by the way something we havent gotten into his detail on how to think about the future of ukraine brewery have different points of view. In terms of thinking how we handle you cant ukraine crisis and what kind of Security Strategy we think about to the extent we can steer the russians towards a reagan model i think theres utility for that. Thats a different conversation for a different day. My last comment however is on afghanistan and i dont think that we are trying to encourage our enemy to move northward and ultimately put pressure on the russian or parts of the soviet union. What we saw in kunduz and by the way quite the tragedy and there have been a lot of them in last week including most recently the hospital bombing. Thats something ive criticized and the tragic loss of 10 americans and jalalabad of the c130 crash. Despite that we are seeing the afghan start to take back a good chunk of kunduz so dont give up yet. Theres room to be at least
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