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My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before ...

Discussion with professor from Rice University welcome to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you for the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to someone who sits on the board of several museums i have a deep appreciation for the role of institutions that play in the local community as a window of the past and a guide to the future the indispensable resources i go above and beyond what you read in books. Houston is fortunate enough to have this place its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist i have always sought to maintain to be involved in cultural organ...

Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coro...

Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coro...

Further. In 1889, they established the Illinois State Historical Library and since that time we have been collecting all the treasures that help illustrate the wonderful past of illinois. As you might imagine, the illinois story is not complete without a really close look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. In the lincoln collection we have 52,000 uses the cover every aspect of his life. The collection would include about 18,000 autographs written about Abraham Lincoln. He is the most written about american ever, which is quite staggering. On any given day a visitor to the museum is able to see ab...