An hour with President Bill Clinton

from bramlage coliseum at kansas state university k pr presents an hour with president bill clinton i'm j mcintyre william jefferson clinton served as the nation's forty second president his term of office from nineteen ninety three to two thousand one hundred start gets a presentation of kansas since he is the seventh us president to appear as a landon lecture he spoke march second two thousand seven recording engineer then is larry johnson of the kansas state radio network and now here is president thank you for having me here governor i'm delighted to see you again we first met nearly twenty years ago when we were in different positions and flew home and tell my wife that frown that either the head that i thought were the most gifted

natural politicians i had met him at a day and i waited a while but you have certainly proved my prognosis right the pain like the others on the platform the senior curator in fact the president announced the morning was too that isis is elected vice president of zimbabwe this year whatever the person says i want my girlfriend for and preserving

land like you both so much and john tower the service governors together a hundred years ago and it is easy with jonathan allen his mummifying process is working better than mine is we had a great time and then he was the national archives caring for our country's most important records when i was president and he stayed on under president bush <unk> so like you throw out an offensive into service to kansans are americans in their absence are limits and three other tangents first of all your former congressman dan glickman who is the secretary of agriculture and a great job of a physician suddenly a

former senators though and pass along i went to bob dole center to give a speech for him and you know we'd do a few things together after that as of nine eleven we raise a hundred million dollar security college scholarships usually it's thousands of all this label on nine eleven ms molloy says you he said they still get lost and the senate has a haunted by many many years is that for some of them comes on line to be here and our presence of the men and women in uniform from fort riley at apple the

pope it's for all the sincere especially years libya what were supposedly as i understand it is awful to slay some africa found in years both as questions about and i'm gonna take your trip through my mind sort of the beast here that i hope you might help your mind about various things forty one years ago on alf landon gave the first lander in series like the title of the lecture was new

challenges and international relations this is in shorthand the title of one i'm about to save you in part at least is why there's no dividing line anymore between international and domestic relations and if you're a kansas farmer were about prices we you know that in one level if you're a case aides to spend half your family and that you know in another world if you design my wife is you know environments all those airplanes are those office buildings on nine eleven you know in another world if you saw happen to the stock market in america this week at her drop in sun you know what another one so for sailors say is i'm

here in the heartland of the country with a bunch of people who are far more connected to the world beyond america's borders than the students would have been forty one years ago on either coast so what i want to talk about and i am not the remarkable forget the questions is how are you supposed to think about this world i believe that every citizen without regard for your resume are what you think you are more conservative or warble everybody needs some sort of a framework within which you can of it which all these issues that are happening all the time and were you to sort out the ones that on a mountain lions have satellites the headlines every day you know instinctively just

fleeting and then some things represent trend lines they reflect things that so maybe undermined sweeping changes in society we have a framework that you use to think about all this look at the news or a paper are sprawled on the internet the days events it looks like the political problem of chaos theory and physics like just bought stuff online and i used both remember all three out of iowa now the way i do in the process that i arrived at was that as the answer five simple questions and i think everyone is that my answer the same questions even on authorizing un still as a politician hoping to give the same answers all of the states that is not nearly as important that your answer is a sign his mind is that you have an answer

but if you can answer these questions and you'll be able to think about where america in the war or go and what you ought to live how you fit into the larger string of events and what your responsibilities are not only to your family your community but to the future as it unfolds so here they are less into law what is the fundamental nature of the twenty first century world most people would say globalization opera for theatre attendance up for entertainers for two reasons number one what were they sued the most of this is an economic way beyond economics for one the world was about but for a but now there's more money movement but there's

far more information technology movement more travel and much more inertia is gone way beyond economics and there was more arson in america and in all other rich countries and they're used today as people flock of centers of opportunity thinking about it more honest look to this crowd more diverse by by race by religion or even by gender that would bet if we get a meeting here forty years ago so i like that term in attendance number two is a good or bad thing that we're living in an age of global interdependence my answer is both this self evidently for most of us

and we are reasonably decent clothes and we know a lot on the internet will probably get like a river through in our lives and we made people who are from different places and different backgrounds and we learn things and say things and do things that we are empowered and labour the committee's bill is going as the worlds people along wasn't a million people are homeless a billion people will go to bed hungry every night a billion people have no access to clean water to an active people have no access to sanitation one in four of all the people who perished on earth issue from the wars and terrorist incidents the natural disasters for cancer heart attack and stroke from your nine one four of all this will come from for sources that almost no

american will die from aids tb malaria infections related to dirty water column dysentery diarrhea eighty percent last category three children under five years right so all things were not very well connected to the rest of the world and even in the wealthy countries and most of them a huge percentage of the people are only peripherally benefited by globalization if you look at the united states for example this past have been going on for more than thirteen years new ad not actors ever since with gaza on monday night maybe one of those in the minimum wage is have been more or less flat and america from nineteen seventy three through nineteen ninety six in the second term i

went up again and in a poorly diminished for the first time in twenty years and then in the us that a butterfly and then very unusual in this decade we call so we've had high rates of economic growth high rates of worker productivity growth a forty year high corporate profits and yet you have in the united states believes that there's a civil war his family says working families without health insurance boy not lost four percent and you can see that i'm sure all over small thousand lawyers in kansas you guys in arkansas are i don't even see it all throughout new york where i throw a lot now because local offices there in mylar surface during the senate so i see homeless so is publicist that may

answer is both one of people in america are upset when always left wing guests are winning public office in latin america evo morales the first lady an indian in bolivia the poorest country in south america ever likely do is cut his presidency is he harry was american his sister service as first lady izzy had to borrow a dress and take up possibilities for the catalan or the state of his inaugural ceremony and we were all worried because the senate has been nationalized mines and all that other as if you are a forty five year old libyan minor and yet for children in your body was all for its time and you've got your kids would never do any better than you that was you does he was a clearly an

honorable man through intelligent man fully present just wanted to try and make things work for energy so that second question is a good or bad i think it's about third question how should we try to change this war i think we should try to move from independence which is good or bad to integration to a set of integrated communities locally nationally and globally all integrated communities universities or status families businesses military units all integrated communities successful ones have three things in common they have shared opportunities to because of a shared responsibilities for the welfare overhaul and isis as a genuine belonging that is if you want let all the other members in the

end the image you think that your differences are insisting what your common humanity your common membership matters more and this is very very importantly robert the years are going to have that those bombings in the terrorist bombings in london and the british were shattered by this because unlike nine eleven when the united states was penetrated by terrorism other countries the people who pulled off these horrible killings were reduced services who had grown up things you went to work in one of the neighborhoods in atlanta rice's of people working in iran as the people that were interviewed at work were just stunned because they didn't really belong to me it was that those was our thought their differences were more important

than the common humanity they have shared with people some of them for decades the us how they just playing games down the street the whole nine yards is still it did not penetrate the unlucky one that because of that but if you look at the modern world we have no choice but to try to move from independence senate race as a world we live in today is it's just we can't ignore the select weekend he left out of the economically it's ugly it's also un statement i think it's highly unlikely that this century for all of you who were younger than the regional airport is that it is highly unlikely that this century will climb as many innocent was a toy century is the blackened at us about a pessimistic about terrorism and the word of iraq and afghanistan all you should be concerned about oil is how

many people die in a much smaller world and world war one more war to the soviet union the twin wars in the chinese forces would call top took over in cambodia though it may be but two million ill i think that it's unlikely on the other hand unlike the last century we all feel vulnerable all the time when the this is broken arango about the terrorist groups in england tried to put an explosive into baby bottles to put on airplanes or butterflies an airplane filter take a look down their spine because of that we were all feeling vulnerable and we all feel vulnerable to other things the disease one of the interesting things about them is it strays from the last ten years is you can now turn on the evening news and if they're has a chicken has been sound of avian influenza

those last few months of the law says in the end the us in a chicken and mining a chicken in indiana and it's been an amazing they salivated influenza and i can tell you how many square kilometers in all three countries they kill every last second to make sure that no way within those are related influence that got iron in human populations that were smiling but this is a good thing because they recognize there is no known cure no known vaccine right now for eighteen influenza and people and we know that at the end of world war one and three rolling waves the so called spanish influenza was actually began on an army base here in kansas showed twenty five to fifty million people go there was no known antidote to say that this is this is an unstable set and the third thing or seventies that

is sustainable because of climate change and because in addition to climate change because of resource depletion matthew symonds i distinguish detroit an investor who is no liberal democrat or you're like me he is one of the bush family's close friends is a conservative republican he says we have thirty five years of recoverable oil the saudis and exxon say no no we talk about a hundred years now the oldest city in civilization according to carbon dating that we know what that way is jericho in the middle east ten thousand years ago that is that the real have a top people are saying we have a hundred years ago ten thousand and one percent of the whole business of those eyes have left to foreign oil in addition oil we're

serious also wrote and around the world which is not to create food shortages of the refugees in the last decade only argentina and brazil would have about it we've also still basic biggest apostle all the rnc members on the last decade had significant increases in value america and canada and the rest of europe like hell they're only continue to reduce or eliminate the writers not only have to know the panthers were supposed to go to nine billion by the middle of the century from cincinnati for you don't speak it the soil utero do you have water quality rosy about diversity last ninety percent of all the major cities years of the world are now under stalked so what we're doing is not sustainable good and that what it was that was fine and that what if we went

through a set of communities locally nationally globally weren't share opportunities for participation shared responsibilities for our common welfare and a genuine sense of belonging because our common humanity is more important or interesting difference is we have a chance of a college called a fourth question how in the world would you do that these places get harder to do well it gave you your job tomorrow morning talking about any part of this answer song to be very brief gets worse is how you do it you have to have a security policy there are people we need people in uniform like you've got to have a security policy are people trying to take this down and destroy you well i just had a stunning to save a

young man and i feel that i helped raise and just retired as a captain report to pursue the rest of his life he won the bronze star of losing his unit was no man in the battles is iraqi unit had no deserves the train of thought he was in other words a successful american soldier in the marine corps he wrote an essay because that for the study was neutral the rest of life in which he said we can go over there and what i think is we can look to a military solution first we had the military can only be effective if we also have a diplomatic solution and for overcoming my friends as well as the weapons and that's if you think that with all the problems in the world with unstable sorkin's

dances and non state actors like terrorist groups and an organized criminals and drug dealers noisy always got to have politics at work no matter how good we are at what we do and if you look for example at this deal the president has lived with north korea i happen to think it's pretty good deal and i was delighted to see it happen but it was produced by diplomacy so you need a security strategy that the policies you need strategies of michael jordan more partners and curators the reality of numbers it is joined a half the world is not part of what we are only piece of the numbers bob dole and george mcgovern last year to about how we fit in honolulu guess what had been passed there was one we know how to get a hundred and thirty million children were

enormous buildings through anecdote also very much money we no i don't see the socal millennium development goal to eradicate extreme poverty on earth by twenty fifty and it doesn't cost all that much money we actually know how they do it when i was in my last week but three hundred million dollars into a school speaking from the senate also mcgovern supporter and we present moment in poor countries by offering i'm afraid steve wants pursued and breakfast with it comes to that the male enrollment went up with really at all his last six million houses fifty bucks a kid get children's to come is it worth it if thousands of eight kids none of them would have become parents just as we say we spend a hundred billion dollars in afghanistan has spent four billion in iraq

it is irrelevant whether you support or oppose the assault policies and either of those places the point i'm trying to make it we gotta have a security strategy but if you live in an independent environment and even killed there are power enemies you gotta have a surgeon they were partners and fewer in the state and it is always always cheaper than fight the piano playing supposedly well this is the most important lesson or reduced is supposedly elvis and the answer is we all are or other things that the government has an absolute there are things in the doing that you can do legally unless you put on a uniform crime problem for you and you'd be infected if you try

there are policies that cannot really change in america effectively unless the government changes its direction and encourage that we had only way that wal mart is basically a conservative company not unionize and sci you were most liberal use of america's standing together last week calling for universal health care for all americans and cause they see it wanted for humanitarian reasons the walmart realizes that we're going to go buy some was really interesting we all have to do something so that brings me to besides want which is that in america we have a whole history of citizen actions to announce what i mean when i got out of the white house it wouldn't say my wife with the senate and we were like it's like we change roles in the play after thirty years as for thirty years she'd been out there doing those things it non politicians starting at a secret

affair with his children rain and preschool programs the arkansas from israel were worried about how we built up healthcare and education and rural areas not all the stuff malek for it's innovative ways to tell people you present one is whether all this is a person and then also i have to do this i don't have a clue i'll never get that i was shaving one day or leaky valve a lot of oil so why doesn't ask what's in the morass that i had to tell and non government organizations to them or what am i supposed to do and cast and lots more and i've got a lot to work with people that were otherwise political adversaries month former president bush and i knew we always had a good relationship that we become immensely close working on the tsunami relief working on that its release and developed a good relationship with

the current president and we all agree on what's really think i have a good relationship with and only does allow like that like some summit miami father he was the speech today before countries where people are starving quarter four twenty five the war which i think is better than applying evolving role in america you know farmers' markets art and the like vermont your tax dollars go further and more people live with her so i tried to think about these talk all these issues that with the wind i can't say i'm the services whatever services and let's answer that question then you identify reading this lesson is signed one has agreed on a fistfight or local or national level or what can be done by the business community identified a question that sort of in my mind i'm passing out assignments every day and i want you all think about that

because a big part of their building this world this last one elementary opened for questions is what i would call a relentless search for a home improvement i want to end where i began if alf landon were giving a lecture to i guess see the hundred and twenty years old wells but he wouldn't be able to say trans and international relations that he was a very smart guy he would talk about how the line between what is international and national what is local and global has totally evaporate and i find out more and a lot of poor countries that i had aids projects and twenty five countries where we provide the least expensive but for a place in the world where we sell them in sixty countries five hundred and forty thousand people in the world you are getting aids medicine since two thousand are getting artists contracts

negotiated and we work and twenty five countries and i can say i won't go into a country was the government asked van and they agree to work with us and we work through them saw as if something happens to me i want to know the system the health care system was working for not just for a cure for tb for malaria for maternal and child health for tropical diseases i want people to be stronger don't have a government there's not much the rest of us did help settling in america is some people in kansas believe that the world is going darker for them that they're not part of this that's right any dentist more as a representative in congress goes out and tries to give a speech in his district about how we should be treating all these jets and poor country so we'll give them all in school and then i will go to mcgraw says and i will be radicalized then people go into him like he's not serve as

a dentist every town has closed what that you're about those people for let him go and i guess what i'm trying to tell our news i think we have to take care of us but in the end we can take full care of america's next generation unless we take care of the world so i think that i mean you have there's no i think there are three home improvement issues that if we dealt with and that would dramatically increase our ability to deal with the challenges because we can't keep on with the health care system at lollapalooza

the white house opposes to joe says that civilian is a retired three star admiral former commander george was about carrier group from a catholic family of seven siblings we had six in addition all the real resilient includes timed him on notice to vote for me to like it but says that ran for congress in part because the star of the family later life he was traveling a seal on hand is only child the brain cancer and he was told a lot of really the issue of that and as ebenezer she did not she recovered but he didn't know that so he took early retirement so he could be in his daughter's that's at every single day she still had left on this earth and he can meet all these people who are like him have not been in the military and didn't have good health insurance

policies to sources and he says he is and it was one of the re release it into risky for running for united states congress was over qualified person likes its up to congress the iran i care about them but we got to something we can withstand assisted design come on healthcare know the country spends more than a well that's a hundred billion dollars a year was then so it's this is supposed to be at this state of fiscal conservatives fervently ok so if it was an eight hundred billion dollars more on something that anybody else on earth surely you'll get some ways you're eighty four percent nobody else's years fewer than a hundred percent our overall health outcomes writing is thirty seven although we do it size thirty four the life expectancy what are we thankful well we spent thirty four

percent of their health care dollar on administration crossed from providers and insurers no one else spends more than it that's three hundred billion dollars a year that we pay for two million americans to go out and fly trouble work every day over getting paid for providing healthier was i can get the money and the other side unimpeded people by an awful lot of lawyers a camera crews in the grinding transaction hall is more than enough to use your body recovery and other answers to that there are other things that we should talk about it all they did involve medicine and bob weiss now in normal traits of obesity and diabetes among young people adult onset diabetes among young people exploding in america emory university says that in the nineteen nineties when i served twenty seven percent increase in health care costs was caused by that because in its consequences more heart hurts more strokes were one historic places levy's

members of congress will have to spend a lot of your tax money on medicaid but this year twenty percent of the medicaid budget was terrified for people goes to this is directly related to the explosion about the listener lots of issues that's issue number one issue number two is the economy we can keep having an economy where people like me in the top one tenth of one percent yet more more more money every year they thought that the us every year and middle class people's wages will rise now i promised a very good talk about this and i would like to tell you that we got inequality down and wages up in my second term because bob rubin i worked under economic geniuses i'd love to stand here with a straight face and tell you that we hadn't heard anything we had policies

and our policies were directly responsible for moving hundred times as many people from poverty to the middle class in our years of the previous one but the real reason of all jobs in previous that america had a source of good new jobs in the nineteen nineties because the jobs in information technology there that the dot com companies and video game companies in texas and exploded in every aspect of american life arkansas it's harvest season where ryan and rice crop or i go to plan season and all my farmer friends also where condition tractor has with abuse though what the plan when the planet and what the fertilizer use and that was the bar's singers all that had these jobs every workplace in america chase in the nineties now this decade has not seen a source of new job that's a

problem that's only of plywood and it is a process on the ground if we make a serious commitment to a plane independent energy future we will create those jobs in kansas and across the country who do not have to accept my word for this you can look at the evidence it to pieces of evidence number one in europe that look most like americans they are the ones that are most free market oriented most unregulated our problem the netherlands denmark and mr unlike america their unemployment rates almost identical to ours with their growth rates are their wages are going up inequality is going damn why in the last few years the danish economy is increasing size about fifty the person at the same time as a lady how much and how much their greenhouse gases this is heaven for his answer and see

nothing no increase in interviews know increasingly as guest list of their greenhouse gas emissions have gone now while their county has gone up fifty percent because it also decided to generate electricity for women let's take the uk even more likely when in my last year's president when we negotiated it a mama lice and nine we negotiated chiaro commonsensical which calls for all these countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions down below ninety nine i'm leaving and al gore and against us that wanted man of the steel from an outside an awful that you need to get off the airplane before the senate voted against the senate voted against it almost all on its own republican and millions of the democrats voted against it before i can send it to i

thought i said america's we had to reduce our energy consumption and the poison was due in near you the end of civilization as we know it there are what i'd give a speech on climate change and it elicited a giant beyond from all but the most fanatic members the press was a maliki with uniting you know set something very different they said oh we like the cue card it's a perfectly nice piece of paper with the truth is it's a low little weak sisters that too much compromise its two week we were gone to the party also targets but twenty five to fifty percent that's what they did and their unemployment rates as low as iris what their wages are going up in inequality has not gone up and their growth is that because of all the jobs they created and clean energy and the british government is actually put out a list

by category of how many jobs they created by billionaire kyoto targets and they're so excited they're gonna really don't antonini if you look around here the greatest thing about biofuels of any fan is that they don't travel well that's good that means no big long pipeline to never fifty or a hundred or two hundred miles you got sober in the distribution network and we can revitalize rural america we can bring back the small towns and rural areas and we can do it and want to get the customers of that song on cellulosic ethanol comprises omaha beach we can do it all about supply europe but it's not just that it's not just that lies my library as three hundred nights all

reflected like that my greenhouse gas emissions thirty four percent those things might in america by americans and i can go on long on and on if we might because i come and then we would deal with africa you know we could deal with health care do with the economy and deal with climate change and we would give americans spice commercials place financials place to say okay go out there with a security policy in diplomacy a policy that there were partners and curators and bring the world together buying the world again to give our children the future they deserve so anyway that's not something happens in tomorrow and your last tale about you've been on a cigarette my answer was my answer is always determined by this question does this or that of the other course of action help or hurt our efforts to build a whirlwind more shared opportunities shared responsibilities and

genuine sense of belonging if it helps i'm forty of their herds and again end up i don't know i try to figure it out that's how it always emerging of history that you may not agree with analysis which usually or answer those questions what's allegedly for six euros a good or bad i was like to change it what steps are necessary to do that they're supposed to finally the answer is we're in around a government you are you know listening to former president bill clinton picked stephen

thompson clinton than three questions from the audience how to use diplomacy to try to solve the middle eastern palestinian israeli uranium israel viewed when the starting point is iran's position of rationing annihilate israel well first of all i think that the deal with iran and syria the other powerful parties is somewhat different from the houses where negotiations we're moving back to the right position the hamas palestinian government and the fatah the party of the late yasser arafat and the current presence around us they averaged a unity government agreement the israelis and the americans say the agreement is not there enough to resume negotiations

because hamas has not explicitly said we're gonna say no terrorist negotiations just as rosewater this but they're getting here this is what happens all the time but it's never too gruesome then find each other and violence and the killing of innocents has been a part of that they have to find a way to talk to where they tell each other enough that they know they're not going to kill each other but they don't tell their public so much it looks like they've abandoned their convictions that's gone on it's a kabuki dance but but the good news is they're dancing and you got all the arab states now wanting to be israel's best friend because they're more worried about the rise of raunchy of water it varies then the stabilization within their own borders so there's much to hope for they're my own view is that that you know hamas many different ways to say no to carry us negotiations and as long as they're

part of the unity government of president abbasi as for paulson's muslims they were on or both those conditions and i assume that that they will obviously have to embrace israel's existence and supportive and have a relationship with an authentic taste you and if they say something like that is that explicit than they still the little wiggle room for the radicals but they can also talk and maybe stave off disaster with iran i think that i agree with jim baker and lee hamilton's commission i think that we should be talking to the right is because even the iranians in some other conservatives have repudiated president obama than his ass anti israel holocaust denying remarks and i'll just say all of the utilities first of all attacking them as all the rebels is that their three thousand many people as live in iraq all it's not clear that with an airstrike we could take out whatever incipient

nuclear efforts like have depending on where they are and it's also not clear that it would be the most effective strategies for this reason when i was president of iran had six selections to for miers to for congress to for president they were the only country in the entire world that six times in a row boarded for the most progressive outward looking candidate they could vote for by margins of sixty six to seventy percent the problem with iran is the only country in the world with two governments and on our constitution their religious council which represents only a third of the people controls the fonz ago the terrorists are concerns about new intelligence that the foreign policy plans and has the power to take candidates off about and strike laws on the books or stop them from being enacted in the first place so dealing with him is a total had a cousin of the wood to the government's and the government with all the people behind

it they like us and i want a future with us and other government will let him get over all the cells which me that it requires great care and the most important thing for you should be i can't answer your question we can't make a deal the government committed to destroying israel cause we're told that flight out there that will destroy them but the most important thing he used to be a dominant john has now been rebuked in his extremist itunes by a lot of the conservatives and you should also know the voters in iran did not vote for him because of this that is not what he wants he won because they voted six thousand dresses and the conservative walk stop them at every turn so that the average voter's wife never got the job as a good honest effective hardworking populist mayor of toronto and he's thinking i sound like this i discuss religious post

wealthiest black music admired he's promised to give me more than your money i'll put him in there maybe he can like your wife these lives that was my office but that's why he wore he did not win because they want to destroy israel so what we have to keep in mind and all are believe that iran is not to forget about where two thirds of the people are even if those two thirds of people have nothing to do with funding to terrorist operations and training and a lot of these other problems we've got a week i still believe in a bottle any size of an outsider if i think that was most traces it done a better job than most people mo in imposing these economic sanctions it is not true that economic sanctions are always ineffective they're working pretty well with iran for me because i like the russians chinese and others do not want to raise to have a nuclear weapon itself an arms race in the middle east so there are actually work and other people think don't give up on the facts that's a political system i feel the squeeze from economic sanctions when i know i have to go to war and may not have a disaster and my

view is no matter what he says you need to talk in your body before you blow it in other words if you're going to find somebody i don't care what you don't have in common ambition top force you should be trying to avoid that doesn't appear mr president thank you for coming in manhattan my name's character in an especially teacher or early middle school there's dealing with the stress of a widely right now because the state assessment next week what do you think that the current policy under no child left behind and high stakes testing especially christians especially as i so often have a proposition that pleases nobody on this issue but i think it's the right one so i like to think i'm not against testing and accountability but here's what's wrong with

congress i think no job one man has years to hear too many tests and i think that they are they are and the focus it's not that the remedy is you know cutting back on the federal money when i think there really should be identifying new leadership really practices law school places and i think that the tests are they invite the worst of all worlds they invited teachers to teach that says the war is set to spend on time and in the status of this i would suggest or not ortiz of these gorgeous things that was awesome he's been on because it reveals that years ago we always people from the military or one my great frustration about public education's every single challenge in american education has been met by somebody somewhere

and that makes it worse less than a mile from office in harlem there is the frederick douglass academy a public task and it's a hassle of choice yet to choose to go there but there's no academic screening there's no income stream is not open his country to follow the rules in the frederick douglas high school in harlem which is almost one hundred percent minority hispanic and after the students have virtually no dropout rate overnight the son of ornithology overnight percent of them graduate from college on time do your grievances and they are an example of that is at stake their test scores the new york state average now that's great when you get nervous always know what my question is those have come within two miles or three other high schools that are still in

a tight contest winners and the performance for the dropout rate is i are advocates of ornithology when they do they don't often stein sixty why is it that we have all these success stories that we cannot replicate success if the military work that way we could never say that unit into the thing the whole premise of what these people do is that leadership in the top procedures can be implemented excellence can be replicated over and over and over and now for some generals always done it better than others yes there's some real company commander is always going be better than others yes well some people shoot better than others yes and some people like that are closed doors and others yes but the idea that we can replicate excellence to a very high level so that we can have predictable performance is what is at the heart of the only staples of the year what they do the replication of excellence that's the problem

public education and i do not believe that the turnout already promised testing it from accountability i do not believe that currently no child behind system replicates excellence that's really needed you've just heard a lecture given by former president bill clinton recorded march second two thousand seven planets coliseum kansas state university there was a presentation of the landon lecture series on public issues the recording engineer was larry jackson and the kansas state radio network and j mcintyre at our present is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas supporters takeover why why the journey from being a woman without a child to being a mama that idea twenty two practices and perceptions of america so many women say the same thing that i feel like superwoman they feel like now that they

gave birth they can do anything and this amazing experience of empowerment that they believe in themselves that most strongest most powerful that they can see themselves as the power of the human being able to do things that they didn't realize that they were able to do before i came here presents birthday thirty nine at eight o'clock kansas public radio