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the event includes tributes to the late senator bayh massachusetts governor deval patrick, massachusettsessman ed markey and former longtime kennedy aide paul kirk. kennedy institute president peter meade begins the program. >> good morning, ladies and b gentlemen, thank you very much y for being here. ol really do appreciate it. f if we could begin to have folksr take their seats we will have time for pictures of littledown, later. billpl delahunt, could you sit down please? thank you. [laughter] lieutenant governor is about to take his seat by the treasurer there. we're making real progress here. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and in so many ways is the khoir was saying just a bit ago, this is the day the lord has made. let us rejoice and be glad. [applause] i was just telling vicky i was walking earlier and looked up at the incredible blue sky with the sunshining down, and i said something that so many of us said so many times in our lives, thank you, ted. well, people will take credit for much of what happens, we give him the responsibility and credit for this beautiful day, and

she's just finished five years of continuous service, first for deval patrick in massachusetts and thently as assistantñr secretary of homelad security for intergovernmental affairs. and she's going to take a look at homeland security in the context of a changing threat and changing budgets. how do we, where do we stand in terms of the homeland security enterprise? and then, finally, we're going to close with our own barry lynn who directs the -- and i always forget the name of the program -- it's the markets, enterprise and resiliency initiative. and barry brings an incredible understand understanding of private sector supply chainsçó and economic networks. and many of you are going to recognize how important and relevant this is given al-qaeda in the arabian bemince rah's attempt -- peninsula's attempted attack last year on global shipping, on fedex and ups. what could that have done if the attacks were successful, and looking at some of the vulnerabilities that are still out there. we don't talk about it much in recent years, but there's still considerable, we've got a lot of concent

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are we able to elect another, you know, deval patrick in the political arena? we have a lot of steps to take before we finally can proclaim that we are post-racial. but we've made significant progress. i think we're at that mountain top moment. we know what the future looks like, but getting to that next phase of our political development will require significant leadershipn behalf of racial and ethnic minorities in this country at a time when our numbers are increasing. we need to make sure that our voices and our messages are increasing. and as you all know, i will address this issue. because when you look at the e emergence of these two big minorities in this country, we have to take a real deep breath and say, okay. so latino women, black women, we vote, we vote an extraordinary number. but are we voting for each other? ourselves? are we going t use our political out to put men in office when we might look at ourselves and say, you know what? why you? because there's no one better. why now? because tomorrow isn't soon enough. >> let me ask you, when you loo

are we able to elect another, you know, deval patrick in the political arena? we have a lot of steps to take before we finally can proclaim that we are post-racial. but we've made significant progress. i think we're at that mountain top moment. we know what the future looks like, but getting to that next phase of our political development will require significant leadership on behalf of racial and ethnic minorities in this country at a time when our numbers are increasing. we need to make sure that our voices and our messages are increasing. and as you all know, i will address this issue. because when you look at the e emergence of these two big minorities in this country, we have to take a real deep breath and say, okay. so latino women, black women, we vote, we vote an extraordinary number. but are we voting for each other? ourselves? are we going the use our political clout to put men in office when we might look at ourselves and say, you know what? why you? because there's no one better. why now? because tomorrow isn't soon enough. >> let me ask you, when y