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Dr. Carson. Wanted to start with back and forth that took a place in a note in your autobiography. Being offered a spot at west point. Heres something you said at a press conference friday. I never said i received a full scholarship. Wait a minute. Dont lie. I never said that i received a full scholarship. Nowhere did i say that. Full scholarship is how west point refers to the tuition program. You told charlie rose about a full scholarship back on october 9. Lets listen to that. I was offered a full scholarship to west point, meet general west moreland, my pathway would be medicine. Straighte...

Are at the world famous Schomburg Center for research in black culture. Why is the world famous . Because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. And who is pearl . He is the founding cureateer. He migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. He worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventua...

The the sponsors of this discussion. And to all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work we thank you for coming in for joining us. You to those thank from outside traditional areas of our field, scholars and advocates for community advancement. Especially to our panelists, special guests who i will introduce at greater length later on in the program. Your inputppreciate and want to thank you for helping us expand the scope of historic reservation so that it reflects the two root true diversity of our nation...

Chair of the board of trustees of the National Trust historic reservation. I thank you for coming to the diversity summit. It will be the kickoff of the diversity and inclusion programming that you will see throughout our conference. We are being taped by cspan and we are live streamed. I would also like to recognize the sponsors of this discussion. The National Park service, the Smithsonian Institution and to , all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work, we thank you for coming in for joining us. And a sp...

I now have a scheduler and her parents are here. Thank you for the millers. Also, i can tell her one more time that kansas city has the most complete Baseball Team i have seen in the last 30 or 40 years. [applause] so, i want to thank also the chancellor for welcoming me here. 11 years ago, i came here to launch a lecture series. I was honored to do with then because i always like bob dole and i always admired him. And because even when we were, we knew we were going to be running against each other for president , we found a way to Work Together. So, i think we need to be serious about this t...