jim wilson lives in laconia. like many of his neighbors, he is a member of the republican party.s year, he is chairman of the laconia chamber of commerce, and he owns the town's camera store. >> if you're familiar with super 8 cams, ed, this is the one that loads with a drop-in cartridge. >> jim cares deeply about the future of his country, and he is concerned about the way the government spends money, including his tax money. he thinks a republican administration can do a better job. and jim thinks there is one man who can do it best. jim is a nixon man. >> there's absolutely no advantage for nixon to come and debate, because as long as nixon stays in the background, says nothing, romney just digs a deeper hole and buries himself. he's right on top. >> with romney right now -- >> his wife ann is still considering other candidates. >> if rockefeller were going to run, i'd vote for him because i think he's that middle of the road. >> would you consider voting for eugene mccarthy? . >> that's beside the point. we know he's not going to make it. >> there were others in laconia who d

>> jim wilson, working for nixon in laconia, was looking forward to the republican national conventionchoices at the miami beach convention were richard nixon, governor nelson rockefeller of new york, who was now working hard for the nomination, and california's governor, ronald reagan. ♪ as the republican delegates gathered in this resort city, it soon became clear that nixon was also their choice by an overwhelming mandate. >> the next president of the united states, richard nixon. >> and i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. tonight i see the face of a child. he lives in a great city. he's black. or he's white. he's mexican, italian, polish. none of that matters. what matters, he's an american child. he sleeps the sleep of childhood and he dreams the dreams of a child. that child in that great city is more important than any politician's promise. he is america. i see another child tonight. he hears the train go by. at night he dreams of faraway places where he'd like to go. seems like an impossible dream. but he is helped on his journey through l

bratton: broken windows refers to an article written in 1982 by the late jim wilson. the idea that if you don't pay attention to little things, they can grow into big things. in 1829, saidl, police exist to prevent crime and disorder. we start focusing on the disorder and the serious crime. we do not do a good job focusing on that. success -- i my think it's been successful that i focus on both the miter thanks and the big things. graffiti, abandoned cars, things that people see every day. even in the most crime-ridden cities, most people are not victims of serious crime. charlie: it is an optic. comr. bratton: an optic that generates a feeling. the current controversy homeless people ineets, street every american city, is an optic. there is great concern about that. was inere near what it the 90's. about minority communities? comr. bratton: the last couple years has seen a sentiment in many minority committees that broken windows was disproportionately being applied to them. the point that i make is, the disproportionate amount of time police spent in poor neighborho

as jim said, for those of us in the bird conversation field, it is a wonderful coincidence to be here at wilsonnter as we celebrate today, the 100th anniversary of the signing of this first migratory bird treaty. i have been in the conservation field a long time, and it is one of the almost, not the first, but one of the very first pieces of conservation legislation enacted here in the united states, and it is sometimes hard to imagine with all the things that are going on now that 100 years ago there was enough foresight to join for two different countries to join in forces for nternational resource. what jim did not mention is over time, in addition, mexico joined the treaty, the u.s. has also signed treaties with japan and russia, so it is truly a multinational thing. i will introduce our speakers today. to my immediate left is dr. charles francis, the manager of bird population monitoring with the canadian wildlife service, a part of the environment and climate change canada. next is deb hahn, the international relations director at association of fish and wildlife agencies, and we will hea

as jim said, for those of us in the bird conversation field, it is a wonderful coincidence to be here at wilsoncenter as we celebrate today, the 100th anniversary of the signing of this first migratory bird treaty. i have been in the conservation field a long time, and it is one of the almost, not the first, but one of the very first pieces of conservation legislation enacted here in the united states, and it is sometimes hard to imagine with all the things that are going on now that 100 years ago there was enough foresight to join for two different countries to join in forces for international resource. what jim did not mention is over time, in addition, mexico joined the treaty, the u.s. has also signed treaties with japan and russia, so it is truly a multinational thing. i will introduce our speakers today. to my immediate left is dr. charles francis, the manager of bird population monitoring with the canadian wildlife service, a part of the environment and climate change canada. next is deb hahn, the international relations director at association of fish and wildlife agencies, and we will

as jim said, for those of us in the bird conservation field, it's a wonderful coin kidden to be at the wilson center as we celebrate today, the 100th anniversary of the sign of the migratory treaty. it was not the first but one of the first pieces of conservation legislation certainly enacted here in the united states and sometimes hard to imagine with all the things that are going on now that, you know, countries to join. over time in addition to mÉxico joining the treaty, we have u.s. has also sign treaties with japan and russia so it's truly a multinational thing. i'm going to go ahead and introduce our speakers here to. my immediate left is dr. charles francis. next is deb hann and finally we are going to hear from humberto berlanga in mÉxico city. so charles, i believe you're up first. >> so thank you, what i'm going to tell you about today is a project that we have been working on and completed just recently in north america's birds. this is a project that brought together the three countries. this is the first time we tried to do a joint report for the three counties. there's copies af

jim, i want to ask you, how did you do here's the thing. our sports producer, rich dun said we have to go practice. we went over to wilsonh andh through from the mound.und. i thought we threw about 100 pitches. about 75 percent made it acrosst the plate but when i got to theo field in buy i they didn't let me on the mound. the pressure was you could throw the pitch. if you throw it too hard with such a short distance where doee it go. i wasn't pleased with . here's what he told me to do. first off youdt off youd good warmup in. and then when you get outjz the, you can't be/ww9athathathath= i did this. the grand if finale here. it is pitch night. you have to see the promows. it's about the first professional female majorjo leaguer and the gristle led catcher played by mark paul kessler coming this fall to fox. and jim, a little side note, our second pitcher right here is a player for earn base full, a semi pro female baseball in the area. a special female baseball player. these guys are going to have amazing pitches that make me look bad. b feeling good. a little waive to the crowd. this is going to be the standard here.

jim earned a master's degree in international economics from yale and holds mba from the university of pittsburgh. william t. wilsons a senior research fellow in the asian study center. before joining heritage in 2014, dr. wilson headed economic and financial research for the earnest&young institution studies and spent three years in beijing before starting office in moscow where he lived for two years. prior to that, bill was executive vice president and head of economic research for the national bank of kuwait. he holds ma and ph.d degree in economics from perdue university. after jim and pill present this year's global agenda we will be honor today hear comments about it from steven moore, distinguished visiting fellow for the project for economic growth. steve is very familiar to americans for long career writing about economics, wall street journal and is frequent appearances on cnbc with larry, earlier steve founded the club for growth which helps select conservative members of congress including heritage foundation president jim when he first ran for congress. steve has a master's in economic from george mas