it is my honor to introduce barbara olson. white house counsel don mcgann. office, hecouncil served as the chairman of the ftc and was a partner at jones day. all that prior to joining term campaign as their counsel. he earned his ba from notre dame. don has in common with barbara olson and entrepreneurial spirit that he has brought to everything he does. like barbara, he has made his own way often raising and approaching questions in an unconventional way and advocating things simply because he thought they were right. one of his major interests has been judges. another is the administrative state. about which as this conference shows, as we heard last night, there is increasing discussion and debate. it is typical of the don, like barbara, who takes the lead in critical discussions in battles, it is also typical but he does it with energy, zest, and good humor. work with judges and administrative law, don is committed to the constitution and its structure and committed through his public service to advancing the form of inernment, that, to put it his words

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to be here, to be invited to the barbara olson lecture. a new barbara. conventionuring a like this one. when leonard asked if i could do this lecture i think i said i think you have the wrong number. he said he up and listed the folks were given this lecture over the years. scalia and randolph and gorsuch, and then me. one of those names is different than the rest. problem withany truck drivers. people in the media are wondering what that was about. the federal society is an amazing organization. i have been privileged to be a part of it for many years and watch it grow. i remember the first time that i attended one of these conferences. it was 1995. i had recently moved to washington, d.c., and i didn't really know anyone and very few people would talk to me. now i know a lot of people and very few people still actually want to talk to me. [laughter] i met another of people over the years. i remember meeting someone else who had just moved to d.c., and the conversationwent like this. so you just moved to d.c. yes. what were you doing before? i was a law