And we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. I took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. I will never forget this. It was very corny but a experience for me. I gave you the speech and you didnt say anything for a moment moment of any set i just want to push the envelope as far as i can on human rights and womens rights. [applause] i was so struck by that. This is the corny part. I was so glad to be in america and to have a first lady who is going to go into what was kind of the diplomatic minefield at that time and make this assertion. You went on to say after that that womens issues and womens rights are the Unfinished Business of the world. Im just wondering where do you think things stand now . Listen that speech which you worked so hard on an Madeline Albright was with us and she provided great feedback as we were going to the drafts, was so important to me personally because i thought the United States needed to leave on womens rights and this was the opportunity to do so at this international conference. And it was very important to set forth an agenda. Out of the conference despite all of the difficulties 189 countries agreed on what was called the platform for action, the full participation of women and girls. I use that oath as first lady and then a senator and certainly secretary of state to refer to and to engage with leaders and groups, Civil Societies all over the world to say your nations signed up for this. How far have you come . Then when i left the state department i went to work with my husband and my daughter at the Clinton Foundation and there were a lot of the important programs that my husband had established and chelsea was instrumental in. I wanted to add three more. One of them was what we called the no ceilings full participation project. What we are doing in partnership with the Gates Foundation and many other partners, the u. N. , is gathering all the data that we can find. I was just at the world bank two weeks ago with some important announcements that the bank was making with president jim kim and try to put it all together in one place where we can measure the progress we have made but also makes make clear that gap that still remain. Its been already a very meaningful experience for me because we still have lots of countries with laws that are women from many professions. We still have countries where they dont even record all the girls births because its just not that important. We have made progress under the Millennial Development goals on primary education and then we just drop off dramatically with secondary higher education. We are doing a better job of combating Maternal Mortality but we still have hundreds of thousands of women die every year and on and on. What we want to be a is a centerpiece for a robust discussion in the next year as we approach the 20th anniversary in 2015 about what we have achieved, what has worked in other countries and how much more we have to do. There is a divide. There are countries where law still need to be changed. Laws in the books need to be implemented. Cultural and religious barriers to womens participation need to be questioned from within, on and on. In the developed world we also want to look at the disparities that still exist between the opportunities for women and girls versus men and boys. A lot of those are what we call internal barriers. My friend Cheryl Sandberg in her book lean and writes about a lot of the research, the famous research of two resumes exactly the same one is labeled by henry brown and one is by heidi brown and people are much more favorable toward henry and raising questions about heidi. The same information. The same profile. These deep cultural psychological internal barriers that people have about women and girls and the women and girls have about themselves. Thats a more difficult area to explore and to measure but you look at political participation in our country and you certainly know we are near half. We dont have half of the appropriations for Corporate Officers held by women on and on. So i think its going to be real food for thought for both countries where there is so much work to be done to just in the oppression and the abuse and the dehumanizing of women and other countries like our own where we made so much progress but that we still have so much more we can do, no question. Just to go back for second you were talking about melekian what a frustrating leader he was. You have traveled almost a million miles a secretary not to mention as senator and first lady and probably the only foreign leader has been kim jongun speaking of bad pronunciation. The question i want to ask what im going to put it out there and we are going to go to another question because we are almost out of time is when you look into Vladimir Putins eyes. [laughter] do you see the soul of a man who cares deeply about his country or the soul of a kgb agent . Just asking. [laughter] do you want me to come back to that . Fascinating. [laughter] [applause] he and i have exchanged a few verbal volleys going back to the last several years. His most recent was to call me weak but then quickly adding weaknesses probably not so bad and a woman. [laughter] yeah me too. At. [laughter] [applause] when i wrote about him what i tried to do is demonstrate obviously that he is a very tough person who embodies a lot of hard choices. But the real sadness and i do say that deliberately is that his view of russias greatness is rooted in the past, not the future. Think about how welleducated and how successful so many russian immigrants are in europe and the United States and elsewhere. One of the cofounders of google. Think of what could be happening in russia today if you had leadership that wasnt trying to extend a sphere of influence, dominate central asia, intimidate central and eastern europe, prevent countries like ukraine from making their own decisions, impose a few of greatness that is rooted in the past instead of working to create a modern economy, diversified beyond oil and gas, create more opportunities for people but thats not his goal. His goal is to as much as possible recreate the past. That to me is yet another chapter in the missed opportunities that we have seen time and again suffered by the russian people. I have a couple of stories in my chapter about him. I do talk about why we really did push to get the socalled reset done when medvedev was president and we were successful in the Security Council sanctions on iran getting a new s. T. A. R. T. Treaty to limit Nuclear Weapons between us and restart inspections and transport important material and troops into afghanistan across russia. But when putin made his announcement he would be president and odd sort of president ial campaign if you stop and think about it. They were both standing there and i think they both had on like black leather jackets. Poured medvedev who really did try to expand russias horizon and went to Silicon Valley and saw what was possible and putin says i will be president you will be Prime Minister and then they had parliamentary elections for the president ial election and they were filled with irregularities and i criticized the elections but it wasnt my opinion that counted as much as the tens of thousands of russians who filled the streets. Putin attacked me for having caused the protests. When i next saw him i said you know mr. President thats not the way it works. He is a determined, relentless pursuer of his vision of a russia from the past and it is as i said unfortunate. The United States and the west has to make very clear that whatever his vision is a cannot upset the stability and order that was established in europe first after the Second World War and then after the collapse of the soviet union and its going to again take patients but firmness to send that message unequivocally to him so its a complicated situation and one that we have to watch very closely. There are a lot of stories about leaders and semireally connected in the book and is one of the most fun parts of the book to learn what these people are like as real people and not just as figureheads. We are actually i hate to say it just about out of time so we are going to have one last question and im going to take it as an audience question but i just want to sort of ask a little set up to it. That is that you acquired a new title during four years as secretary which was mother of the bride. You are about to acquire another new title, grandmother. [applause] you suffered through some difficult losses including especially if your mother too many of us knew that she worked with you at the end of her life. She was adored by her staff. I was struck by the memorial that you held of the number of chelseas friends who spoke about her and her staff who spoke about her. Everyone she came in contact with and now of course a grandmother to your daughter in chelsea was so close to your mother, to her grandmother. You have a lot to play looking ahead which gets to the last question and it comes from tyler smith via twitter who says what do you want your legacy to be . For the state department or my life . He just says what you want your legacy to be. Well i guess one way to think about it might be as we look ahead as a grandmother and you know better than most people the world that this child will be born into. You have to think about your life and caring for your grandchild and you probably have given a little thought caring for our collective. [laughter] so how do you balance all of that. [applause] well i dont think about a legacy. I think about my life because i have had quite an unpredictable life and i thought a lot about that when i was writing the book i could never when i was growing up in cambridge illinois have imagined what i have had the great pleasure of experiencing, the challenges and difficulties along with the extraordinary experiences and opportunities and i think that really is at the core of what i care the most about both for my own family my future grandchild but also for our country i want young people particularly to feel as though the future may not be totally clear to you but it looks like its full of promise for you, that you have the opportunity because you are acquiring an education, because you are willing to work hard, to be given your definition of the american dream. That is how i was raised. My mother who did live with us during the last 10 years of her life was the product of a very abusive neglectful home but all along her much more difficult life of her childhood she would encounter people who showed kindness and who are part of a Broader Community than just the family is so let her down. So she learned how to user education even though she only graduated from high school. She was incredibly intelligent and kept taking College Courses almost into her 80s. She was supported by the community and really nurtured by her belief in what this country meant. She instilled that in my and everyone that she touched. But you had to take responsibility and you had to have a good work ethic but you were part of a community. It wasnt just either the individual or a member of a community. It was be an individuaindividua l within a community and in a Larger Community of our country. So what i hope is that my grandchild when he or she comes into the world this fall, will have that same view of what america means and why america matters. I had such a perspective from outside for those four years, i saw us once again using our innovation, our energy and our resilience to come back from a terrible economic crisis that is still not fully resolved. But i also saw so much disagreement and argument about what we were doing and what we stood for and what were the right decisions and one particular moment that i read about in the book happened to me when i was in hong kong in july 2011. It was during the first serious effort by some in the congress to default on our debts. I had a preexisting speech and there were all these asian Business Leaders there. They stood in line to say to me whats happening in washington . What is going to go on there . Is the United States really going to default on its debts and i said oh no of course not. We will figure it out. We will work her our way through the politics of it and i had my fingers crossed behind my back. What i noticed on that first occasion was bewilderment, confusion. How could a great country do this to themselves . This is about paying debts that they are devoted for whether they agreed to or not it was voted for. Fastforward to last fall and we have a Government Shutdown that prevented the president from going to important meeting in asia where the president of china, president putin of russie United States was absent. And once again talking seriously about defaulting on the debt. I asked my team to give me the News Coverage about what people were saying around the world reticular leann asia and not exclusively europe and latin america and it was no longer be wildermuth. It was contempt. It was how can you trust americans . I can even run a government anymore. One chinese official said its time to deamericanized the world. Lets move toward a different reserve currency besides the dollar. Those are consequential assessments of us because we cannot be strong abroad we are not strong at home. We cannot continue to try to argue for and implement a rulesbased order in the Global Economy where people have to play by those rules and where there are measures of accountability if they dont if we cant demonstrate that our economy is working for everybody. So the book is about my time as secretary of state that i carry with me all of my life experiences. Im not ready to stop and think about the legacy because i want to keep thinking about what my life has meant and what my obligations are to my grandchild and everyone else and im going to do that through the work of the Clinton Foundation in other ways. But it is [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] i will hasten to add, it is a question in the responsibility for all of us and a hard choice and a very hard choice. It is a very hard choice but i think all of us have some hard choices about what kind of citizens we are going to be, what we are going to ask of our leaders but also we are going to ask of ourselves and what has always made as strong as americans goes back to that incredibly astute observation by de tocqueville when he came to walk around and understand what this country is about and understand with his countries about any look at how we organized herself and how we were democracy and the institutions we were building. He said he came down to the habits of our hearts. I think we have got to ask ourselves what it means today to be an american in the 21st century and what we expect from each other, what we expect from our government and what we expect from our businesses are academic institutions. Because im more optimistic and confident about what our potential is but i know we have some hard choices to make to try to realize that so thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Im sorry we dont have more time. Thank you all very much. [applause] thank you. Thank you all. [applause] hello, how are you . Hi create thank you. How are you doing . Good morning, everybody. I would welcome you here for us off by thanking George Washington university for hosting the event this morning. And behalf of the center of global interest, my name is mike to sell. I will be very brief so we can get to what turned out to be a fantastic set of speakers. Has kicked off a project that we thought up in anticipation of the 2018 world cup in russia. We started with the premise that everything is connected, that sport is not disconnected from history and politics and anything else. If you dont agree with that, it is not up for debate today. You will have to live with it. The program will include andtional panelists publications in collaboration. It is an opportunity to look at the social, Economic Issues through sport. That is good for two reasons. One, we have all been invited to russia in 2018 effectively. These are rough times for u. S. Russia relations. A rough time for the russian people, increasingly isolated in many respects and an opportunity for something sort of good to happen. The debate over whether russia should host the cup is effectively over. The world cup qualifying draw took place in c petersburg. If you are a in saint petersburg. If you are a soccer fan, it is over. Howan have a discussion on the cup was awarded and the story behind that, but that train has left the station so to speak. Im going to now introduces the speakers briefly. We are fortunate. Everybody we wanted to come to this and talk agreed to it. So i appreciate you coming. I think you will be happy with it. So mainly to my left, professor marlee leroux, assistant director of the institute for russian and eurasian and dependent studies. Independent studies. On research focuses nationalism and that works very well for what we are going to do here today. Described aswas the title was totally awesome. Player, aantastic twotime acc player of the year at uva, which is an honor she shares with mia hamm. She is also a fan favorite. Those of you who know her know why. She is also very articulate and an energetic advocate for gender equality in sports. We are happy to have you here. She is respected as an athlete importantly. At the end of the table to professor lisa dealt in writing. She has been a professor here at georgetown from us to quarter of a century. I think its good. George washington. I am a George Washington student myself so i am ashamed. She is an expert in mega sports. Her Research Falls along the lines of Sports Tourism and management must specifically on Space Affairs on spectators, how they interact with the event. Finally, we h