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Both reforms and what it looks like, from a local government standpoint. Thank you for coming today. And your time and energy you have put into being here and making this session have an. Sessionhappen. Thanks to those in the rooma and those online. I thought it was a little bit about what cna. I met a few people who know cna pretty well but somebody did ask me what cna stood for. The center for naval analysis. I will get into that in a little bit. N profit no institution that uses analysis to help government be more effective. Our approach is unusual in the field of research and analysis. And...

Narrator the home of the californiacs was the first state park. Back in 1965, the government gave her the yosemite alley. Which was a state park until it went back to uncle sam again in 1890 to become part of Yosemite National park. At the turnofthecentury, she made a second effort, buying 9000 acres of redwood forest and created californias redwoods state park. Redwoods, the tall tapering giants of the tree world, are largely responsible for the fact that the golden state has a state park system, one of the finest in existence. During the world war, and extraordinary organization, the save th...

Soon find out. Three main points i want to discuss. Three so whats for today. The first is on the role of president ial character. Our history is oftentime made by powerful characters. In the white house, character is king. What were going to find out today, these two elections and other related elections were influenced in part to a good degree simply by the character of the individuals that were going to discuss, strongwilled folks, personalities shape history. Second point, scandals have shaped history. We dont like to admit this. Its not a source of pride for our country, but more often th...

[applause] [cheering] narrator that game was not won by the man who made that touchdown, it was by a team. And every man had a share in winning it. Now were playing another kind of a game now, only this one is not for fun. It is for keeps. [gunfire] narrator this game will not be won by any single player. It will be won by a team, a team called the united nations. The ball will be carried by the men in the backfield, the tough little guy from china, big joe russia, john britain, and the guy called yank. The four greatest backs in the world. So lets take a look at the men who carry the ball wit...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profi...