ford slash science. 20 years ago matson founded. was a highly promising young swimmer in 2001 he was diagnosed with leukemia while still in his team. but i was 19 i was focused on the next swimming competition on the next world championships. always thrilling hearts always working hard and all of a sudden i was laying in a hospital bed and i was diagnosed with leukemia felt like a nightmare it felt like it was not me. but it was. a stem cell transplant helped him to escape the nightmare. after 6 months in a hospital bed he was back in his element the pool the 1st couple of years after my treatments i was the liaison i 1st played with my parents a lot and they were complaining to my doctor that i was not doing a thing. and then i started to enjoy exercises and swimming a bit again and to make a long story short. a couple of years later in 2008 i won the olympic gold medal. that looks almost like these so there will be moments when i was diagnosed leukemia but i was like no think he was. the utes nightmare and all of us beautiful. pie

and i want to start with patty matson who i covered when i arrived at the white house at the beginning of the ford administration. patti, you had already been hired as a speechwriter and deputy press secretary for pat nixon. and you told me once that she -- she had a keen eye for what was appropriate. and she was very much shaped by that -- by her growing up, how hard she worked. that work ethic. >> it's one of the things that i think is so important about her. she -- i had been in television, in politics. i've known a lot of people who work hard, but this -- this one takes the cake. she really was -- she was in full bore. and the first thing i noticed, really my first day on the job, can you all hear me back there? when you sent something up to her that needed her input overnight, literally, it was on your desk the next morning before you got in. it didn't matter if there had been a state dinner the night before. she had a job. she treated it as such. the day-to-day handling of constituents was so important to her. it was one of the first things she said to me in our job interview. th

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and, of course, as you will recall the matson case is about that, the case in which lincoln represented a slave holder who was trying to retrieve his runaway slaves. they had left because he kept them i believe in the state for two years. so he had run afoul of the law and lincoln had represented him because he believed that everyone deserved representation. lincoln's own family had moved from kentucky to indiana and eventually to illinois where they hoped to find sufficient cheap labor -- cheap land, excuse me, and no competition from slave labor. but as southerns moved into the territory, the prejudice migrated with them. by the 1850s some of the mid western states including illinois had passed anti-immigration laws aimed not at the irish or german newcomers to america and those seeking economic opportunities close to them in the east and you get the instance where you have fairly recent immigrants passing laws that actually discriminate against american born people. just astounding. those free blacks who defined the law faced fines as much as $50 for the offense. the inability to pay

. >> marilyn matson from cornell medical college.i appreciate the clarity of your presentation and impressive work that you're doing. one of the things that came to mind was the delay in identification and response to ebola and so my question really is what does the cdc do to try to increase collaboration with countries, health departments in countries around the world to begin to do something about early identification and response and then something maybe about the world health organization in terms of whether it plays a part in this -- in this area? >> that's a great question which links back to earlier question about what can you do, so the u.s. government has embraced something called global health security agenda and so should we and that is a way for us to work with countries internationally to make sure that they have the right tools and systems in place for the early diagnosis. you want to find the first set of cases. .. .. but you an international public health event, an international concern, the official term to say my go

guest: >> marilyn matson from cornell medical college. i appreciate the clarity of i appreciate the clarity of your presentation. one of the things that came to mind was the delay in the identification and response to ebola. so my question really is what does the cdc do to try to increase collaboration with countries and the health departments around the world. and to begin to do something about early identification and response and then something maybe about the world health organization in terms of whethes it plays a part in this area. ali: is a great question which leads back to the earlier question about what can you do. so the u.s. government has embraced something called global health security agenda. so should week. that is a way for us to work with countries internationally to make sure they have the right tools and systems in place with an early diagnosis. there is number of countries that have bought into this including who remember, is the technical agency that does this work. in the cdc has people all of the world to help with

[inaudible] >> marlon matson from marlin medical college, i appreciate the clarity of your presentation. one of the things that came to mind was the delay in identification and response to evil and so my question really is what does the cdc do to try to increase collaboration with countries health departments and countries around the world to begin to do something about early identification and response and then something maybe about hethe world health organization in terms of whether it plays a part in this area? >> that's a great question which links back to the earlier question about what can you do ? the us government has a embraced something called the global health security agenda and so should we and that is a way for us to work with countries internationally to make sure that they have the pright tools and systems in place for the early diagnosis. you want to find the first set of cases. there's a number of countries that have bought into this including the who and the cdc is a technical agency and cdc has people all over the world help with this but who has a global mandate to