my name is jim byron and i am honored to serve as the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. and it's my pleasure to welcome you tonight to the nixon library. i also want to welcome all of you live tonight on youtube and on x formerly known as twitter because we live stream of our distinguished speakers series events and we're proud to offer them as civics lessons that anyone watch online and enjoy. i want to welcome blake kernan, a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. thank you for being here. and i want to recognize a few special guests. mike antonovich, longtime los angeles county supervisor. where's mike? there he is. and i want to welcome mazzie, francine and jo lynn and pat mahoney, who are members of the american civics campaign finance committee. so thank you all. i also want to thank all of our presidents club members, associates club members for their support, which makes this evening and all of our distinguished speakers series events possible. and if you're not a member, i would encourage you check out membership and check out our mem

. >> jim byron. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> it's the top of the hour and we are staying on top ofhat breaking news. take a look at this incredible video. that is a delta plane flipped over now upside down on a runway. now this happened at toronto's pearson airport. now, within the last hour, we got audio of the air traffic controller

. >> jim byron. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> it's the top of the hour and we are staying on top of that breaking news. take a look at this incredible video. that is a delta plane flipped over now upside down on a runway. now this happened at toronto's pearson airport. now, within the last hour, we got audio of the air traffic controller reacting to this crash. >> where's the crash? it's on runway 23. right. that threshold right at the intersection there. two, three and 15 left. flight one medevac. just so you are. there's people outside walking around the aircraft there. yeah, we've got it. the aircraft is upside down and burning. >> here's what we know. at this moment, all passengers have been accounted for. at least 15 are injured. at least two people have critical injuries. now you can see the passengers here walking off the plane. one of them capturing this incredible moment. >> in toronto. we just landed our plane crash. it's upside down. fire department's on site. mount tai down. everybody. most people appear to be okay. we're all getting off. >> cnn aviation correspondent pe

ladies and gentlemen, name is jim byron and i have the honor of being the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. and it's my pleasure to welcome you to the nixon library this evening for another distinguished speaker series. i'd like to begin by welcoming my colleague tamara martin, the director, the richard nixon presidential library with the national archives, and she's doing this evening by her daughter, eleanor. welcome. i i'd also like to extend a to our president's council and associates club members as well as any nixon society annual members who are here with us. i know there are a few members in the room here tonight because the proceeds raised your membership and. your annual dues enable programs like tonight to happen. so thank you very much for your membership and i would invite all of you the room who are not members to explore a fully tax deductible membership to get involved and stay involved with the nixon foundation. visiting us online at nixon dot org this evening the nixon foundation is pleased to help launch a new book the mysterious mrs. nixon the life and