So, mr. President , you have three grandchildren, charlotte, 2014, aden, 2016, jasper, 2019 and one of the few things in life thats better than you ever think it is are grandchildren. Do you get to spend enough time with them . No. And i was spoiled during covid because new york city was hit so hard that chelsea and my soninlaw mark and our grandkids moved uto a guest house next door to our hou for the duration of covid and they would come over in the morning and my then jasper was a sevenmonthold toddler. Charlotte and aden would bust in the house to tells to stop whatever we we doing and we were going to play. They wrote plays that hillary and i role played. And it was a great experience in my life. So i got addicted to spending time with my grandchildren and watching their evolution. So by definition. They are getting busy now and i you havent already niced, at some point, things happen that are more important than spending time with your grandparents and then you have to fit yourself into their schedule, which i am happy to do. It been a great joy. So, mr. President , we have had a lot of interaction over a long period of time. One of the tough things for me in january of 1993 was knowing that i was olderhan the esident of the United States. Its a shock, i was one month older, but i would like to take you back 28 years and this was august 29, 1996. We set forth on a journey to bring our vision tthe coury, to keep the arican dream alive for all who are going to work for it, to make our American Community stronger, to keep america the worldstrongest force for peace,reedom and prosperity. Do you remember that when you said that . President clinton yes. That was at the convention, 1996. And we are so lucky, it was 12 years ago in the exact same room, almost the exact same time that president clinton was here setting a mission and vision for us at this time and the words from that day are probably even more poignant today than they were then. Lets look at a couple of clips from you from 12 years ago. President clinton evebody is younger. Still more diverse and still more open tommigrants and best place for r d. Its a great mistake to write this. We have to get out a denial and back into the future of this business. That optimistic view, do you still share that optimism today . President clinton what i said was, it is more true today. Any time you spend allour time trying to settle past grievancees or trying to instead of figuring out how to make common cause or a shared future we all want, i think you are in trouble. And we have been through a period for any number of reasons, the pitical rewar of grievancebas politics and essentially name calling and being negative have been so immense that nobody could give them up. Knowing all along, including members of the mainstream media, not just the rightwing media, knowing alllong if you didnt give them up, it put our system and our country and o kid and ou grandchildrens future in peril. And i basically i think thats what this shabang has come down to. Its not tribalism. We are all triebles. We cant build identities except with reference to other people to other identities. And like, you know, we are in the basketball playoffs now. One of those teams, you cant be for the other. Its a zerosum game. There is inclusive tribalism and the big political benefits comes from tribalism. But it is a potential, eless disaster because our capacity, if we cooperate to solve every challenge we face including the things we have done so much wonderful work over the years is unlimited. But we cant do it unless we Work Together that requires us to work. We have all these differences, but what we havin common and so much more important that we work on that i think is the key question facing not just the United States but so many countries in the world today. So over the years, you have done so many things to build what i would call the social capital of our country pulling us together. And when we look at it from a financial stapoint, the g. D. P. Of our country, the Gross National product, which is the largest in the world is around 27 trillion. Our debt is around 34 trillion. The total Financial Assets of our country that you measure financially real estate, factories, hornets investments, is around 139 trillion. But all of these pale in comparison to what is the estimated and social capital of a country that you worked most of your life to build health, education, et cetera and the tribalism you are talking about here is the risk to that social capital you spent your life building from that standpoint. And so lets maybe start with the first element tt you spent a lot of time and thats health care. Most of the people in this room, mr. President , i dont remember theyre too young to remember that i 1995, wn we tried to accelerate medical research and said, ok, if theres a treatment that works, we dont need to get it to phase three, get it to cancer patients. There was one leader that signed it into law fast track for cancer patients, and that was yourself. [alause] and many of the people are toooung to remember, but if you want to know whdid we have a vaccine in year, not in 10 years, we had a march in 1998, a half of Million People in washington and around the country came together and they had been trying for decades to increase the n. I. H. Budget. And within two months you signed into law, the doubling of the n. I. H. Budget, something that could not be done for two decades and the incremental benefits for our society now totals 500 billion. I want to thank you. Every Single Person on the planet hasenefited from that decision you made. [alause] so through the Clinton HealthAccess Initiative, through others initiatives, you long focused on improving Public Health globally. What is the most important lessons you have learned that can make us more effective in creating solutions . Presidt clinton first of all, there are problems that you know with the tools at hand, you can solve. Then there are problems that you know with tools at hand, y can alleviate and not solve. And then there are those that you dont know how to deal with because there arent enough medical breakthroughs. You have to figure out what kind of issue you are dealing with. When i started on working on aids for example, we made a couple of decisions. First that, i wasnt bill gates and didnt have all the moneyn the world and i did know a lot of people and put together pim that could solve problems. The first vision is we would not go into a country unless the government welcomed us but we would not decline to go into a country just because i disagreed with the government. If they were willing to protect the integrity of Public Health work. And were they not willing to ask us to do anything that was corrupt, i would go anywhere. And i cut a deal with the United States government and george bush was president and everybody followed it, i never did anything they didntnow what i was doing and they didnt object to what i was doing as long as it was all transparent. And then we just started working on ways to do things faster, cheaper and better. The first thing we hato do was to realize we had a traditional system which has served america and the western world very well of giving a fairly extended patent for the development of new medicines because it requires a lot of advanced money to develop this medicine and you have to give people a chance to recover their investment. But in the case of aids, it put us in a terrible position because there was so many people who had it around the world and people were dying like flies and we needed to do something to speed it up. In the middle of this there was an argument of poor people can be trusted to take a drug that has to be taken three times a day and pharmaceutical Companies Move out, and all these issues. And Nelson Mandela and i found ourselves working it was a joy. He had more than a decade to live then, we had a great time, but we were trying to put together a system that would address the cases with more aid, but also not allowing the patent laws to be so severe that huge numbers of people would die before we could get any medicine into country a, b or c. And there was an exception in the International Patent arena for such cases so you could save lives. So we just i just kept trying to work with everybody in figuring out ways to do things faster, cheaper, better and we came up with the Clinton HealthAccess Initiative. We would find a way to do things faster, cheaper and better. Even now after all these years, 30 million lives have been saved and half the people on earth getting aids medicine get it from contracts we negotiated and 80 of t children on earth get it. And all we did was to figure out how to maximize production. We helped Generic Drug Companies in india and south africa become more efficient. We worked on supply chains but i never dreamed and all we were doing is give us more money. And one reason Public Health has gotten so much money is that people know that it has dramatically improved the efficiency. And you had a lot to do with that too. And how we make investment decisions. I think its going to be much harder because of the challenge with climate change, the overlap of health and climate problems and after years and years and years Public Health being the adequately funded program, i think there is a lot of competition for money and a question about whether this new sort of divisive nationalism is going to undermine a commitment to Public Health. You keep wdering when we get to quit. And the answer is never. I an, you got to show up. [applause] president clinton any way, thats what i have learned, you cant quit and keep looking for answers and cant do it without cooperation and cooperation between the private sector and Public Sector and Civil Society and cooperation ruers lines that would otherwise divide. If y want to save lives, i has to beme your number e priority. Mr. President for 31 years at the Milken Institute we put up slides reminding everyone that 50 of all Economic Growth can be traced to Public Health and research. And partnership and initiative that you launched in conjunction with president bush, people that had the most incidents of aids and h. I. V. Were subsahara africa. You had countries at one time median age was 15. A wom had 95 chance of passing aids to their child when it was born and the work you have done, today that passage of passing it is down to 2 . [applause] the chiren of the world now have been born without aids and we are about to see for the first time in history the doubling of Life Expectancy in one generation and that partnership, those initiatives youaunched changed the world and we are seeing it today. And todays there is a potential if you have have hivaids, you have to take three pills a ar to bring it under control. And you talked about it. Lets see another clip from 2012 on the future of america. President clint, 2012. Prident clinton a lot of you got he into these chairs because of your exroorld ability, because of your assistance or whatever. Every single one of us had somebody some way that helped us. We had a teach esh, oromebody that gave us a job in the summertime or somebody that helped us get into a university or our first job out of school, something. We all had that. So talked here abo a mentor. And one of the other initiatives u focused on is education. And so i thought i would put up a quote from two people spanning 30 years. One, a person you have just mentioned on the stage, Nelson Mandel lets see what he had to say on the day he was sworn in as the leader of south africa. The importance of education. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. And on the stage a few days ago was elon musk and lets say what he said about education. You can learn anything for free. M. I. T. Almost has all of its lessons online. Starlink improves the peoples standard of living around the world. Can you think of a mentor, a teacher that had to put you and gave you the energy as a young boy . President clinton yeah. First of all, my sixth grade teacher he died at 90 and i was governor then. And once a year, she listed to me speak and was frail and in a body brace. But on the last day of my career in Elementary School, she said i can cant tell whether you are going to become governor or a permanent prisoner. [laughter] president clinton and i said why . She said it ientirely dependent on whether you learn when to listen and when to talk. But you keep getting them mixed up. So she had a big impact on me. And i loved her very much. I had an eighth grade Science Teacher who taught me the most important lesson i have ever known. Arkansas teachers were the second poorest in the country. So he was an excoach and they got a reputation for being dumb. Thm guy was really smart. And hsaid, this is the last day of school, you know, five years from now u arent going to remember anything you learned in eighth grade science. If you dont remember anything else, remember this, i guess i should say, he wasnt a convention neal handsome man and cokebottle glasses and had a beak nose and he chewed cheap cigars in a plastic cigar holder and he kept getting heavier and couldnt afford to buy new clothes. And he knew this and his wife was beautiful and sisterinlaw who was our history teacher. [laughter] president clinton he said this has been 63 years. You remember anything anybody told you 63 years ago. He said you wont remember what you learned in eighth grade science. Remember this. Every single morning, i got up and go into mill bathroom and throw water in my face and shairveg cream on and i shaved myself and i looked in that. Vernon, youre beautiful. [laughter] president clinton every Single Person wants to believe they are beautiful. That they matter. If you remember that one thing, it will take you a long way, veer bait im, wordforword, thats what he told me 63 years ago. So i think you could say he had an influence on me. Its pretty good advice. How far did you get telling people how ugly they are . [laughter] president clinton we should mrf children around the world, this is an area we should be focused, the Clinton Foundationn. For people, you can gglet. We spoke about chai, the clinton heal Access Initiative which Alan Schwartz chairs today. But the Clinton Foundation really had three airyas of focus and if you go to the website youll see them. One of them is really education. When you step back and look at these areas, of education and health equity. Today as you know, the country has changed dramatically in demographics. And only 9. 5 or less of americans today that were not born here were born in europe, compared to 75 60 years ago. So getting our diverse population into Clinical Trials is important. But how have you looked over the years at education and the challenges weve had in education over the years, and lets talk, youve had so my initiatives in this area, getting books to kid so they could read, etc. You think back, whawere the most effective in terms of education anmaybe what were thleast effective things you worked on . President clinton first i should say, before i became president , i was governor for 12 years. Thats the longest i ever had a job in my lif until i went to work for my foundation. And i spent an enormous am of time in the classroom and when i took office, a National Expert said we had the worst schools in the country. We had 370 School Districts in a little state with only 2. 5 Million People. When i left office, same guy said that the most proved schools in america were in arkansas and south carolina. So i cared about this a lot. My daughter just gave an award to her Elementary School principal who she stayed in touch with all this time. She loves thisoman. So what did i learn . I think first of all, its a mistake to assume that any people cant learn. That well over 90 of the people can learn, well over 90 of what they need to know to triumph in the world. Secondly, theyll learn more if its interesting. So you have to really devote a serious amount of time to make that learning enterprise interesting and worth the time. And i think thats important. And thirdly, i think that there have to be an enormous effort made to keep people in school through high school and then to make ierchangeable thevenues after high school, wther they e fouyear uversities or Community Colleges or various vocational effts. Sohat we can establish a flowing system of lifetime learning that all of us will be able to access. Thats what i think is most important. But the most important thing is, not to give up on kids before they get staed. And then the second most important thing pplause] is not to let people use economic and social and other disadvantages as an excuse not to learn. You know. The last thing ill say, there was more than 20 years ago, way more than 20 years ago now, when i was a governor and reading all this material, there was a fascinating study done by the Woodrow Wilson school at princeton. And they studied all these kids, and this is back when the first drug gangs were prominent, all the violence was going on in the 1980s, people were feel degree spare. And they studied all these kids. Who had done well in spite of everhing. And ill never forg, the thing that the profile that made the greest impression on me was a young black man who was one of four brothers, both of his parents