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[crowd conversations] jim good morning. Good morning. Jim my name is jim. I am with the comcast corporation. We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Cspan, our partner at comcast, cspan is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. It gives our audiences on cable a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public poli
Domestic unrest such as recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our armscontrol creeks . Even contemplating nuclear testing. Should the names of confederate leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and the doctors be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james madison. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power, american failure, successes and a new path forward in the postcold war. Doctor cates was an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head of the agency. Secretary gates served as a member of the National Security Council Staff in four different administrat
My experience that much more. Guest thank you. Great to be here. Host i want to dive right in and ask you to read a bit from the process. Host guest turning towards our house on the hillside i see movement of a different type, shadow is pushing for the current, my brothers are a weak testing the weather. I imagine my mother by the stove hovering over pancakes and my father by the backdoor with his steel toed boots and putting his hand into his gloves. The school bus goes past without stopping. I am only seven, but i understand it is this more than any other that makes my family different, we dont go to school. The government cant force us because it doesnt know about us. Four of my parents and children have no birth certificates or medical records because we were born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse, no School Records because weve never stepped foot in a classroom. At nine i will be issued a delayed certificate of birth but at this moment is according to the state and gov
Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th