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I am pleased to introduce tonights speaker, neil oxman. Neil was born and raised in philadelphia. He spent much of his childhood in the stacks of the free branch of the library on 58th and baltimore avenue. Skipping ahead a few years, neil founded the Campaign Group in 1980, and since then, they have worked on more than 750 contested primaries and general elections across the United States. Among his clients have been former mayors Michael Nutter and current mayor jim kenney. He has also served on the free library of philadelphia board of trustees and the Free Library Foundation board of direc...

Weve got former president bill clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton and even the wife of the vicepresident ial nominee, tim kaine, and theyre having three separate events during this hour alone and hillarys Campaign Making last minute ad buys, a sixfigure push in colorado as her lead in that state drops and hillary changing the tenor of her ground game. Critics now calling her out for taking the high road when the polls are going up and hitting the low road when the poll numbers going down. He goes low, we go high. He calls women ugly, disgusting, nasty, all the time. He calls women pigs. When th...

Next, karla knorowski reads passages from the book. Including writings by jimmy carter. Former secretary of state colon powell and julian bond. The New York Historical site and the Reading Group do hosted this hour long event. It is my great pleasure to introduce tonights speaker, carla. We have met a couple of times before most recently at the New York Historical society when we mounted wonderful exhibition lincoln and the jews which she then went on to mount with tremendous success in chicago. Carla is chief executive officer of the Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Foundation which serv...

International community to do the things they are doing. In our meeting earlier with us afghan womens council, one thing is so many nonprofits have gone in, lets get some for profits in afghanistan. [applause] figure out ways to help develop the country so the Afghan Government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. I want to add something to all of this. I am really honored as always to be around you. They have done an incredible job. When i saw the book it reminded me, took me to 14 years ago. I want to read something to you. The honorable mrs. Bush, i would li...

We do kind of share the same work ethic. We both sort of we had to hit a deadline they set for us wimple had tone could churning out words. But lin is a very rare specimen. I have got top work with a lot of very talented people, and theres something unique about that guy. About how closely he listens, thing you dont think he is picking up, the speed his brain is moving all the time, even when you think its not. It comes out when he does improve improv. He is part of a hiphop team and is funny and comes up with things that are moving. So, yeah, you sort of have to be on your toes when youre wit...