dr. condoleezza rice. at age 38, she was named the provost of stamford and as you heard that's the normal moderate. she was the first woman, the first minority and first provost in stanford history. she showed exceptional leadership skills at stanford is that since the time the universities all over the country are trying to get her to be their president, but again, they were as unsuccessful as i was at getting hurt. she is a leader with incredibly diverse skills. she's a concert pianist, sports affection although we and because of her leadership skills has been offered to be the commissioner of the pack 12 and has been considered the commissioner of the nfl and a lot of other sports franchises. [laughter] she serves on the board of hewlett-packard, chevron, charles schwab, grant corporation carnegie, transamerica and many other boards and the civic and corporate organizations. so, ladies and gentlemen, it is my really distinct pleasure, and i think know how your honor does this university have than to hav

we know that they want to dr. rice medicare. -- voucherize medicare. they want to ask seniors to foot the bill. that is bad policy. it is bad for the middle class. what they should do is take their cue from senator simpson and senator bowles and others who have said that balance is the way we need to move forward. we would welcome that in the overall tackling of the problem. >> they are working with congress on these priorities. that just means congressional democrats, right? where have you worked with republicans? >> we have been working with every member's office that is involved in the gang of 8 process. the president made -- met with the democrats. our communication will continue. we are engaged with congress, members of both parties on a variety of issues and all the priorities the president has put forward. let's be clear -- the problem is not a lack of meetings around the table. we saw that in the summer of 2011 when the speaker of the house decided not to pursue the grand bargain. we saw it again in december when the speaker walked away from wh

dr. w.e.b.bdubois, martin luther king, jr., eleanor roosevelt, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, bobby kennedy, constance riceperhaps most of all, paul robeson for me, paul robeson was the sparrow. he was an artist who made those of us in the arts understand the deaths of that calling when he said, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. we are the civilizations' radical voice. never in the history of black america has there ever been such a harvest of truly gifted and powerful artists, and yet our nation hunters -- hungers for the radical song. in the field of sports, our presence dominates. in the landscape of corporate power, we have more african- american president and leaders of industry then we have ever known. yet we still suffer from abject poverty and moral malnutrition. our only hope lies in the recall of the moment which has been referred to earlier here, and was my last meeting with dr. king just before he left to go off to meant this to join the strike was sanitation workers. he held a strategy meeting and dr. king -- the meeting was in my home. dr. king during the meeting appeared to be distracted