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Concept of the festival. Its my first [inaudible] pardon . [inaudible] okay. My First Experience here and a pleasure to be here. The book is george f. Kennan an American Life, and as dan mentioned, it took 30 years to write. You might wonder why thats the case. I can point out in my defense that i have actually taken a shorter period of time to write my life of George Kennan than robert caro took to write his life on Lyndon Johnson. [applause] but, of course, hes written four volumes at this poi...

Have been picked by the industry to be here and share information. You are all very intelligent people. We would invite you to send us any information you have when it comes to how we do this better and best and make america safe. Please read the bios. They are all impressive people. I want to thank them for being here. Lets take a 15minute break. Hank you [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] lookmorrow we wil...

Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this ...

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Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak ...

Disagree with the treaty. We have a very very lengthy treaty and a complex 1994 agreement and then we have the behavior of the Member States themselves. Theres the argument based on the reagan. I have been looking for an opportunity to drive the stake through for some time. That will trump his statement from the secretary of state and fatly to the opposite. They came out with an official view of the reagan administration. I refer here Ronald Reagan may be because i had four president ial appoint...

There are places Montgomery County there are actually places where through thick and thin, when people have real respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than win arguments, you see real collaboration and you see real working through a bunch of issues because teaching children is complicated. So arne duncan, i give him a lot of credit. He wanted to do this Labor Management collaborative, but you actually have to change the culture to m...

Group. She got an early look at the joys of helping children learn to turn mother was a teacher. She earned degrees from Cornell University and a law degree from Cardozo School of law. She worked at a wall street law form law firm for several years. She taught in brooklyn while serving as counsel for the president of the United Federation of teachers. She served as president for 12 years before her election as a ft president in 2008. That ends the biographical portion of the program. As always, ...

We have to come together, federal partners, state and local partners. Public, private partners. Schools and communities across sectors, across states. Look around. Look around you in this room. This is what change looks like. This is what leadership is all about. So, lot me say, we are all in on this partnership. You all have a partner you can count on and we will be working sidebyside with you doing everything we can to help you move the needle for the nations youth, children and families. Than...

Approve the funding for that position through private grants. Just since the beginning of june, 150 minors from Central America have signed up for classes in oakland, with about a week and a half left before the school year starts, officials expect more to enroll. These are kids who fled the violence in their homeland, and crossed the border into the United States alone, having traveled somehow for weeks. As you can imagine, they are scared. If approved tonight, the 75,000 will pay for a person ...