his good guy as president of the go to institute. there are some advance that one has to be aware of. the 60th anniversary of the bangkok institute is one of them. it's now one of the largest go to institutes in the world. and understandably expectations are placed on me or so i, so i wanted to be there in person. it also answers those asking how i am dealing with the situation. but i only let myself be affected when there are clear facts. supposition alone isn't enough for me. at the evening event partnership between the good institute and the you saw a sample from the princess academy of music was made official because beethoven's 250th anniversary was coming up. bangkok's classical music lovers and their german guests got to hear the composer's 7th symphony. thank you. thank you. thank you so stiff. the tease shows how important the dirty institute has become to cultural life in the time capital of the organization is keen to make its presence in asia. felt especially at such a critical time, the audience didn't suspects that this

it's now one of the largest go to institutes in the world. and understandably expectations are placed on me. so i mean, so i wanted to be there in person and it also answers those asking how i'm dealing with the situation. i only let myself be affected when there are clear facts. supposition alone isn't enough for me. at the evening of the partnership between the data institute and the u. songs from the princess and the academy of music was made official because beethoven's 250th anniversary was coming out. bangkok's classical music lovers, and their jamming got to hear the composer's 7th symphony. thank you. thank you, this is still the tease shows how important the dirty institute has become to cultural life in the time capital. the organization is keen to make its presence in asia felt, especially at such a critical time. the audience didn't suspects that this could be one of the last parties in bangkok for a long while. when lehman travels his one, a fleece usually goes with him on officially and at the couple's own expense. she's his mos

multilateral institutions. that essentially the basis of u.s. interest in these institutions is to legitimize american power. china and russia. they, they, of course, are interested in power, but they do not have the same interests or have not shown the same interest in that kind of global exertion of power in the way the united states has since world war 2 . some people think that china may get there, and that's one of the reasons why china is increasingly interested itself in these incidents, international institutions in a way that it wasn't for prior decades. but that remains to be seen to date is still the united states in the wake of broad were 2 that sees and uses these international institutions uniquely to exert american power and legitimize it around the world. russia and china have just not shown that interest or capability yet. there's some here in washington. fear that's precisely what china wants to do . you see all the china all would like to try and fill a void will or by the presidency next yea

go to institutes in the world. and understandably expectations are placed on me. so i, so i wanted to be there in person. it also answers those asking how i'm dealing with the situation here puts, i only let myself be affected when there are clear facts. supposition alone isn't enough for me. at the evening as a partnership between the data institute and the u. sa sample from the princess and the academy of music was made official because they have 250th anniversary was coming up, bangkok's classical music lovers. and they're jamming got to hear the composer's 7th symphony. feel the 1st of the tease shows how important the dirty institute has become to cultural life in the time capital. the organization is keen to make its presence in asia felt, especially at such a critical time. the audience didn't suspects that this could be one of the last parties in bangkok for a long while. when lehman travels his smile, a feast usually goes with him on officially and at the couple's own expense. she's his most important conf

the coronavirus brought the whole good to institute to a standstill. that also meant that the organizations most important income source language courses began to dry up almost 40 percent of its 440000000 euro budget was in jeopardy in germany. the president and board of directors have to fight for the good institute's very future . right now we're facing an existential threat because of financing. if you were in constant talks with lawmakers of ministers and with the foreign ministry, and that's helping a lot one positive thing in this crisis is that i am still here, that i'm still available this year. because i have a lot of connections and a lot of experience that i can put to use now. it would have been awful to have to watch all this unfold. as a spectator, the government didn't want germany's most important projection of soft power to go bankrupt and reacted quickly. allocating the good to institute up to 70000000 euros in emergency aid to a sign of how much politicians valued the institute's global cultural network and its outgoing president. it

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the very statement of mission the institution has. if it is broken beyond repair in spite of great american efforts, i give you the human rights council at some point i don't want to be connected to that. i can't fix it. i will create something outside of that that will deliver on human rights. there are other things you try to fix. the world health organization. we have been through three, maybe four efforts at reforming the world health organization. significant efforts, real efforts, american led efforts over the decades, republican and democratic administrations alike. epic failures. the president concluded on my recommendation we ought to build an infrastructure that will deliver the outcomes the world health organization is designed to deliver. so it is about purpose, function, does it fit, does it work? i will give you an example where we made one better. there is an organization called the world intellectual property organization. turns out this matters an awful lot to american jobs at home. -- to america's wealth and jobs her

it's now one of the largest go to institutes in the world. and understandably expectations are placed on me. on site, so i wanted to be there in person. it also answers those asking how i am dealing with the situation. but she's a, i only let myself be affected when there are clear facts. supposition alone isn't enough for me. at the evening event partnership between the data institute and the u. sa sample from the princess academy of music was made to fishtail. because beethoven's 250th anniversary was coming up. bangkok's classical music lovers and their german guests got to hear the composer's 7th symphony. thank you so steve, the tease shows how important the dirty institute has the common to cultural life. in the time of capital, the organization is keen to make its presence in asia. felt especially at such a critical time for the audience didn't suspects that this could be one of the last parties in bangkok for a long while. when lehman travels, his wife usually goes with them on officially and at the couple's own expense. she's his mos

what we said, this is an institution of matters. if we don't think we can get this institution to function, let's measure we have the right structure in place to do that, so we did. bout a coalition in 50 countries. we built a coalition of 50 countries. i remember my first trip abroad. they were giving up on huawei. day, was a report the next pompei of those himself against the wall and bounces. but it is good thought, candor, data. these international infrastructures matter. we should use it for the good of the world. but we never should permit ourselves to be in a situation where the organization no longer has any possibility of delivering a good outcome. that is infrastructure, the models, the approach, see if it is working for you. >> the organizations that came out of president reagan, all those umbrella organizations, those are nearly 40 years old. we have people here that have led some of those organizations. the world has changed dramatically since then. how do we update and modernize? pick your favorite word on how we as a

multilateral institutions. overall, i was struck in to strike a seemingly positive note to do you go along without using the summit achieve anything. i'm not sure that it did and model of the reasons for that is of a back who was at the table. and the question is, you know, the united states was only at the table for some of the time. and many of those low income countries that so desperately needed a vaccine, and that is suffering. the consequences the pandemic are when ted the table. and so we can expect that the communique would be black and it would not really contain any real commitments and nor has it. having said that, i have to say that this must have been enormously challenging to have to hold a global summit digitally. it must have been really, really difficult for all the latest tonight and i suppose insofar as they did manage something that is commendable. but on. 1 the whole, it's disappointing, given the scale of the crisis, faced by lowering can come to peace. you're in one of those countries tha

it wasn't about banning black-owned institutions are -- or white-owned institutions at all. >> kimberly jordan talks about her family, community and church and how they banked at the bank, how the wheelers were members of the same country club, but she is saying she never heard him referred to as a civil rights leader. and she is asking, do you consider wheeler's making the black middle class more accessible to black people a kind of activism? the last question will be from vincent windrow who asks, how did leaders like wheeler leverage their membership in fraternal organizations like prince hall masons? dr. winford: really great questions. the way that i like to -- part of it is wheeler is a banker, he was in a leadership position politically in durham. he led the durham united negro group, a significant voting block in durham. there were a lot of things that didn't go his way and a used his position as a banker, he had the money bags. is important to understand the limits of black leadership, but we also have to think about his role in black educational equality, voting rights for afr

institutions of mutual interests, common interests, institutions. if, if the world was more peaceful, that was good news for everybody. for trade, education, change programs, more freedom, more opportunities, more hope. so this is not a one way street and i think president trump some, i was gotten confused over the years about what foreign policy isn't a gauge mitt. it's not a one way street. it is. it's a 2 way street, it's we can are all as global citizens as all part of a global community benefit from a state prosperous, peaceful world. and i think that that would be joe biden's approach. you know, one of your other close friends has was jim mattis, you know, who is secretary of defense, you know, a successor in your job of course. and so you know, his thoughts and views. well, he's put them out there. but another person who just got terminated, that position is mark esper. he was fired by tweet, secretary defense, you know, really remarkable moment. and sectarian asper, you know, went out and said, if donald trump gets a yes man in that position

it wasn't about banning black -owned institutions and white institutions, not at all. >> we have two more questions and i will give them both to you. they doubled all you've just been talking about. so kimberly jordan talks about her family and community and church and how they banked -- fake that the bank, how muellers were members of the same country club. but she saying that you never heard him referred to as a civil rights leader. and she's asking, do you consider wheeler's making the black middle class more accessible to black people a kind of activism? so class question. and then the last question will be from vincent when drove who asks, how did leaders like wheeler leverage their memberships in fraternal organizations, like oh my gosh sci-fi and prince all masons? >> really great questions. the way that i sort of like to -- wheeler is a banker, and he was in the leader position politically. he led the committee on your affairs, which had significant bite. and there were a lot of instances where things didn't go his way, and we will challenged him. but he used to fact that he

election polls show americans are losing trust in government institutions and regard the country's response to the pandemic a national failure on the scale or more been digs deeper into us discontent. whether it's donald trump or joe biden who's sworn in on january 21st next year the pillars of u.s. society will not stop shaking just for that covert 19 may be ravaging the united states but americans think that their government and its institutions could be just as dangerous to the country in an earlier poll when asked to name the greatest disappointments the u.s. congress and the us president came up top that might be because on capitol hill they seem to spend more time in name calling than actually getting things done is following the radical left agenda no religion no anything hurt the bible heard god. prisoners who have in modern history joe biden is the puppet of left wing extremists trying to erase our borders eliminate our police we have racists and they've existed then tried to get elected president the 1st one that has this fits into a greater pattern of distrust and the failure of

he was appointed the secretary of the smithsonian institution in june of 2019. and what a first year you have had. obviously, covid forced closure of all 19 museums for the first time ever. and it happened in the middle of march of this year. that really created an opportunity and requirement for secretary bunch and the great staff of the smithsonian to even further turn to their already substantial digital efforts. they launched smithsonian cares, a new website that aggregates the smithsonian's many online resources. in addition to smithsonian cares, the smithsonian offers a learning lab. that is an online tool created specifically to work with teachers and students and distance learning. no shock that the learning lab had a 500% increase from march 2019 to march 2020, and i suspect that increase has only continued to grow. established in 1846, the smithsonian, now 170 years later, encompasses 19 museums and galleries, numerous research and educational facilities, the national zoo, a growing collection of 155 million objects and specimens of various kinds. we a

mutual consensus institutions. common interest interest -- institutions. if the world was more peaceful, that was good news for everybody. for trade, education, more freedom, more opportunities, more hope. this is not a one-way street. i think president trump somehow has gotten confused over the years about what foreign policy is and engagement. it is not a one-way street. it is a two-way street. we can all, as global citizens, as part of a global community, benefit from a study, prosperous, peaceful world. i think that will be joe biden's approach. steve: one of your other close friends was a, who was secretary of defense. so you know his thoughts and views well. he has put them out there. another person that got terminated in that position is mark esper. he was fired by tweet, secretary of defense, really remarkable moment. secretary esper went out and said if donald trump gets a yes-man in that position, god help all of us. what do you think our devcon level should be regarding concern over what mark esper share

we said this is an institution that matters. let's make sure we get the right team, the right structure in place. so we did. we built up the counter-isis coalition of 90 countries. almost 50 nations who refused to put chinese telecom and for structure in their country -- infrastructure in their country. i pitched my first country giving up huawei. epic failure. but it turns out good work, rational thought, candor, data, has now led 50 countries and dozens of telecom companies around the world to say we will not let this happen. national infra structure matters. we should never permit ourselves to be in these situations where one organization has no possibility of delivery a good outcome. >> that framework, the models, ,the approach -- models, the approach. let's wrap up with this question. the organizations that came out of president reagan's westminster speech and all those umbrella organizations, those are nearly 40 years old. they continue to do great work. we have people here who led some of those organizations. at the same

it's one of the most prominent positions in the institution. and at that point, he is one of the highest ranking african americans in the federal government. and he had been brought along slowly. he first came to the house and worked in the library during the civil war. and he had been promoted by radical republicans like senator some tour, who helped push him along in his career. another one who is appointed during reconstruction is the first african american page to serve in the house on the floor, alfred q powell of manchester, virginia. that's just south across the james from richmond. and he is appointed by a member. he is part of the reconstructed virginia government. he is a carpetbagger from the. north a former union officer and he serves in a district that represents richmond and its environs. he is appointed in 1871 and serves about a year and a half in the house. and he is also, the other connection there, is that he is the great grandnephew of john mercer langston, who was in washington. >> i think he was serving as the dean or pres

was developed by the institute in moscow advanced stage 3 trials with 55000 volunteers are still underway if russia gets w.h.o. approval it will still speed up the a veil ability of the job globally and despite skepticism about the vaccine in the west including claims that corners were cut to russia it into production moscow says it has confidence in the drug and this comes as russia sees a spike in covert $1000.00 infections with more than $18000.00 new cases registered in the past 24 hours and the total number of cases exceeding $1600000.00 country remains among the worst hit in the world together with the us india and brazil. of coveted tightening its grip both in russia and worldwide r.t. has heard from a leading evolutionary biologist was conducted extensive studies into the virus he explains how it mutates and how outbreaks can be dealt with can catch the full interview on our website but here's a quick preview. i think it's a blessing the crown of our says evolve more slowly than other r.n.a. viruses but still it's a very quick process the virus mutates every 2 weeks but in one spe

but that isn't an accident and so those, the banking and financial institutions in particular, those organizations including realtors, the groups that hope to create that situation need then to admit their complicity in creating these kind of places where these inequalities exist and then after we can have an honest conversation admitting the complicity, then talk about how can we now dismantle some of the practices and the narratives that we have had about the particular places and these ideas about the wealth and risk and opportunity and kind of redirect the conversation. >> you mentioned the attempt after the civil war so one of the things you can talk about that and you have a chapter about trying to get compensation and i don't think many people know about the freedmen's bank so i wonder if you can give us a little bit on that. >> believe it or not, they are doing a test if you hear the siren in the background so i will talk louder. the bank was created after the civil war, immediately after the civil war in 1865 and it lasted nearly a decade to 1874. it was a bank that was form

to keep it from damaging or institution forever. our institution forever. tonight, kentuckians said, we are not finished yet. kentucky wants more of the policies that build the best economy in modern history. not socialism that would stop prosperity and hurt workers. we want to continue building our military and leading around the world. justo cut that deals or hold, our adversaries will ignore us. -- bad deals or just hold, our adversaries will ignore us. eliterrender to an coastal culture that says the most vulnerable lives are disposable. so tonight, kentucky said, we are keeping our front row seat in the senate. we don't yet know which presidential candidate will begin a new term in january. we don't know which party will control the senate. but some things are certain already. we know grave challenges will remain before us. challenges that could not care less about our political polarization. we know our next president will need to unite the country, even as will continue to bring different ideas and commitments to the table. but we also know, beyond a

the importance of formal institutional histories. we have these informal institutions. everybody knows a campus reference is a ration so we can do that. oftentimes. those same types of history's are whispered among ministers as well. >> i always do think about that. if you do private chats if you work in a place like that. you don't think about it as much about how the administration is often doing that. if you have other questions. you can put them in the comments in the book. one of the things i was thinking about as well. you never quite know the world that your book is born into. by virtue of the fact that we are having this conversation like this. i just kinda wonder how would you say the university as you know it has changed in a time when you started writing the book. this book. even the book i thought was good to be born six or seven months ago it is drastically different. we are talking about the semi or football is usually a given. in even the fact that to be clear. people have always raised concern about campus policing. with more black students. but in gener

we will explore how black women use financial institutions like the corporation institutions that they lead and controlled to challenge the constraints of jim crow, sexism and economic exploitation. they used companies like this to carve out possibilities for themselves in the u.s. economy and society. they understood that notions and ideas about wealth, value and risk were shaped by gender and race and your place in the economic ladder. but they are not simply defined by these factors and process. they took an active role in shaping the meaning of wealth and opportunity and while i acknowledge the limitations they faced because of the race and gender and class, i also want to demonstrate how black women define their values and often ways that ran counter to the kind of messages they received about their worth as citizens and economic actors not just in black communities but also the larger u.s. economy. so we should have a good amount of time left for questions and answers. i think the best way to really understand the st. luke's corporation is to women who were vitally important, tha

but i know that the institutions remain and, and the systematic undermining of american institutions is at the hands of this president. and certainly he's not, i would give him credit. he's done an incredibly successful job and undermining authority and undermining sort of the american institutions that we, that we rely upon to do things like the peaceful transition of power. so. so will it be inside of china? absolutely. will it happen? absolutely. ribbit chan. we have hillary clinton to quote, reelection telling joe biden not to except and not to make any kind of concession, you know. and then donald trump was accused in 2016 of not accepting the electoral outcome. hillary clinton still hasn't made me. she thinks she's still president for something like that. and then you have that be a break in our system. you made it. you say it's not. it's and you made a statement. i think it's easily refuted. ok, we look at what the f.b.i. did to the truck, campaign, destroying institutions. what was the f.b.i. and the intelligence community doing, reveling in that election year? that's the kin

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to apply to the show for an emergency license for the vaccine but movie was developed by the gamma institute in moscow events they used to read trials of the vaccine with $55000.00 volunteers are underway if russia does get d.h. approval it will speed up availability of the shot globally and despite skepticism about the vaccine in the west including claims that corners were cut to rush it into production moscow says that it does have confidence in the drug war this comes as russia sees a spike in 1000 factions with more than 18000 new cases registered in the last 24 hours and the total number of cases in the country exceeding $1600000.00 remains the country itself among the worst hit in the world together with the u.s. india and brazil. with covert tightening its grip both in russia and globally artie's 3rd from a leading evolutionary biologist who's going to extensive studies into the virus he explains how it mutates and how breaks can be dealt with you can watch the full interview on our website is a preview. i think it's a blessing the coronaviruses evolve more slowly than other r.n.a. vi

i will focus on one company and use it to explore how black women used financial institutions that they lead and control to challenge the constraints of jim crow, sexism and economic exploitation. they used companies like the sls see to carve out possibilities for themselves, they understood ideas about wealth and value and risk were shaped by gender and race and your place in the economic ladder but not simply defined by those factors and processes. they took an active role in shaping the risk and opportunity. i acknowledge the limitations they face because of their race, gender and class, i want to demonstrate how black women define their values in ways that often ran counter to the kinds of messages they received about their worth as citizens and economic actors, not just in black communities but also the larger us economy. we should have a good amount of time left for questions and answers. the best way to really understood is through two women who were vitally important to the venture, chair ready jones and lulu robinson jones. in the next slide you will see two images, i only have

he went on to lead the group institute from 2008 until november 2020. and one of his last missions was in the media before the pandemic. he was invited to speak at a conference on the restitution of artifacts looted during colonial times. sure is not a peace making per se, but it functions in that spirit when it encourages real exchange and i am of the opinion that we are in germany can only be a cosmopolitan society if we were flecked more than just ourselves in 1909 lehman with the backing of then chancellor gerhard schroeder unveiled his master plan for the renovation of berlin's museum island. perhaps his greatest career achievement needed size. every age has its people thought that means that now someone has to come along who has new ideas and sets new impulses. so that it always has a fresh and contemporary shape. so i can let go very easily with some projects such as the humble forum also came with their share of controversy, but close to dudley man will now regard them from a distance. and i'm joined by my colleague who coauthored the documentar

institution of slavery. thank you so much everybody for listening. >> 50 years ago on september 24, 9064, chief justice earl war

there's ways the financial institutions can help. ultimately it still has to be done by the people of these countries. my own sense is that the russian behavior with auto ukraine probably enhanced ukrainian nationalism more than any other step. but ultimately it will be up to the ukrainians, but what i've seen, whether i was in government or the world bank or outside is there's a combination of moral support, sharing experience, you know, encouragement that people can often underestimate, but this is where, again, i can't emphasize enough the role of congress and parliamentary assemblies. all you had to play -- you've had to deal with domestic politics but you're also dealing on the international scene. you have to go home to your voters, you have to deal with issues at home. but you can also help people understand how they can do these things. a lot of the end of the day, whether it's the situation in ukraine. we have a new president in moldova who used to be someone at the world bank, these are step by step actions. and frankly i'l

and, he feels like he can make changes by feeding into the institution. and trying to effect change, from his position of power. through committee chain. >> and one of the interesting things is that in addition to being committee chair, it's being part of that institutional approach to things. he then has a portrait of himself, as many committee chairman did, created and it's one of the first portraits of african american in the u.s. congress. which really raises it to a very elevated place in our restoration. william dawson's portrait, it's the first african american committee chairmen portrait in the collection, and he's the first ever african american men in the chair coming in the house. it's a wonderful portrait in that it really represents him as the embodiment of a permanent chair. it is not one where there is lots of other elements in there to give you clues to hockey is, it's really about the stature of the man. he is standing alone, he standing in a very conservative blue suit, he looks like a member of congress. and that's the thing that's real

this was hosted by the hoover institution. >> larry diamond, , senior fellw at the hoover institution with over research fellow glynn, i lead the hoover institution project on globals china's sharp power. we join with us in on u.s.-china relations at asia society, are cosponsored today, and warmly welcoming you to this event with assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs david stilwell who is joining us from tokyo today and will address the theme of today's session, covert, coercive and corrupt, countering chinese communist party malign influence in free societies. following his address he will engage in a conversation with two leading china scholars, orville schell and oriana mastro. the first is by my pleasure to welcome for opening remarks the director of the hoover institution and the 66 secretary of state of the united states, condeleezz rice. >> i am deliged to open this session of our project at hoover on chinese sharp power. and i especially want to welcome assistant secretary of state for east asian affairs, david stilwell. this project i think i one of t

institution itself will be viewed as peripheral. i think the current crisis in europe and north america, the pandemic, and the ongoing uncertainty, the collapse of the post-cold war era after the russian annexation of crimea and the war offers an opportunity and a necessity to rethink european-euro atlantic security. why is europe important to us? it still is. asia's become more important but europe is still our main partner. and it's important what sort of system governs europe and how all european nations deal with their own security. and new issues have arisen. and the osce is really the only body in which you can get an all-european, all-euro atlantic solution to these. you can't do it in the e.u. there are important nations left out. you can't do it in nato. there are important nations left out of nato. you can't do it in the nato-russia-czech council because there are still important countries that don't take part in that. so the osce really is the european forum, all-european, euro atlantic forum, in which you'll deal with qu

so the command stretched these financial institutions like the independent order of st. luke's. they decide better career options and housing choices. they rejected these efforts to police their behavior and the way they spent their leisure time. these would be called new negro women were attracted to the promises of investment as a vehicle for civic inclusion, for political rights, and as a way to destroy and dismantle jim crow. but they also grew really tired of these pages that implied that men were the proper producer and consumer of these investment products, these markers of citizenship. so the financial institutions that women lead and controlled experimented with innovative ways to raise capital but they also struggled with experience and, of course, the intractable problems of racial and sexual discrimination. my book, "banking on freedom", deals with a number of the sorts of tensions but here i'm going to focus on the rise and the fall of the st. luke finance corporation. it is 1916 and the struggling new york district of st. luke's which is headquartered in harlem has

on the institution side, there are few impediments. you see that shortly after we gave our guidance on crypto custody that the nations largest bank j.p. morgan announced it is going to launch a crypto business. thatrecognizes the fact 50-60 million americans own the stuff and some of us might be excited and some not, but the point is a gigantic proportion of our society believes it is the future for various reasons. that as athing is country, we have not recognized the important competitive aspect of this. when you see that china has already adopted a digital currency that is now transacting en bloc chain and in this country, we are still years away from a national real-time payment system, i come to your same conclusion which is that the best solution is to win the way we always have which is to unleash the power of our private sector. we have built private stable coins in this country that already have a market cap in the tens of billions of dollars. they are transacting daily growing rapidly and used for broad martial purposes. i do

we believe the new leadership of the smithsonian institution also recognizes that. the commission acknowledged that museums are not built overnight and the project would require at least a 10 year timeline. but we wanted to get going immediately. during the commission's deliberations, we had a series of conversations with smithsonian leadership. as a result, the commission proposed that the first critical phase establish an entity called the american women's history initiative within the smithsonian. we felt that this initiative would immediately make women's history a top priority across all of the smithsonian museums and would be the first essential step toward a permanent museum. we're delighted that as result of our recommendation the smithsonian immediately launched this first step in 2017, and was instrumental in securing the first $3 million to begin it. as you have heard from secretary bunch, the initiative has been very successful over the past four years. we are very grateful to the smithsonian for taking the women's initiative from an idea to reality. my

this is no time to declare war on or institutions -- on or institutions because one side is angry that the framers made it hard it achieve radical change. this is time defend all we inherented and pass it on stronger. when i was a child or that's was battling a dealership virus, polio. it was hurting thousands of families every year. as a have young child that fight became my own. while my father was fighting world war ii in europe i was fighting a different battle. thank god i had a guardian angel angel. her name was jean and she happened to be my mother. she found our way to warm sprepbgs in georgia -- springs in georgia and went to the facility over and over more than 100 miles round friend. my mother took doctor's advice as gospel. she kept me still when i wanted to run around. guided me through exercises i apparently hated. and she did it wail check -- while checking mailbox for letters from my dad from overseas. it is only because her determination my first vivid memory by her side in a small store on our way out of warm sprepbgs springs buying my first pareir schaus of. we beat

as for disease control or being hit from all sides other essential institutions of u.s. society are affected by a deep crisis for example law enforcement. from the. recent protests sparked by the killing of george floyd as well as a long history of police brutality have many americans asking whether or not they're really safe and protected public trust in the police as an institution has been in decline intelligence agencies are yet another example they are expected to gather information and then provide it to the military but lately they seem to have been getting caught up in political squabbles if the 1st people you met from so-called american intelligence were dirty cops who have now proven to be sleaze bags at the highest level you could perhaps understand my reluctance to embrace the intelligence agencies seem to be competing with each other rather than being focused on getting the job done many wonder if they are up to the task of taking on china which has now been labeled the new big threat the us government and intelligence community will fail to achieve the outc