mr. clement. to the corporate governance. donald beaver junior was the 46th solicitor general of the united. mr. verrilli is a partner in the law firm tolles and olson and the founder of its washington, dc office. mr. verrilli is also a lecturer law at columbia law school, where he teaches classes on the first amendment and the supreme court. previously, he taught amendment law for many years at the georgetown university law center. mr. verrilli is one of the nation's premier supreme court and appellate advocates. he served as solicitor general of united states from june 2011 to june 2016, before serving as solicitor general. mr. verrilli served as deputy white house and previously as associate deputy attorney general in the united states department of justice. in those positions, he counsel the president obama cabinet secretaries and other senior government officials on a wide range of legal issues involving national security, economic regulation, domestic policy and the scope of executive and authority. mr. verrilli earned

mr. clement. [applause] >> reporter: donald marelli junior was the 46th solicitor general of the united states. he is a partner, and with the washington dc office, mr. marelli is a lecturer in law at columbia law school where he teaches classes on the first amendment and the supreme court. previously he taught first amendment law for many years at the georgetown university law center. he's one of the nation's premier supreme court and appellate advocates who served as solicitor general of the united states from june 2011 to june 2016. before serving as solicitor general, he served as deputy white house counsel and previously as associate attorney general of the united states department of justice. in those positions he counseled president, cabinet secretaries and other senior government officials on a wide range of legal issues involving national security, economic regulation, domestic policy and the scope of executive and administrative authority. here and his bachelor of arts degree from the yale

mr. clement: thank you very much. thank you very much. that ovation means a lot to me in the means a lot to me. a letter from general meese means the world to me. i am really honored to be with you and honored to be receiving this award. it is a particular honor for me to receive an award named after general meese. he is somebody who has had such a distinguished career in public service. most of us know him from his service in the reagan administration at the federal level but long before that, he was serving with governor reagan and the reagan administration came to a close almost 35 years ago. general meese has been a constant presence in washington and he is a great legal scholar but also it means a lot to lawyers of my generation and younger to have somebody around who is a tangible link to the reagan administration and at the reagan revolution. so i am really tickled to have too received an award named after him. i feel a little bit that i'm getting this award largely because i can't keep a job. [laughter] i keep on leaving these lar

mr. gorbachev, tear down thiss wall. [cheering] in the office of the secretary of defense. holds degree from american university in georgetown. william serves as chairman of the clementsenter for national security at the university of texas during the bush administration he served the state department from the national security council but he holds his degrees fromit stanfod and his undergraduate degree from stanford and his doctorate from yale. h.r. mcmaster served as the white house national security advisor to president trump. and in the united states army in which he rose to lieutenant general. general mcmaster is the author of the classic work on vietnam dereliction of duty. last yearr he published battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world. a fellow at the hoover institute general mcmaster holds an undergraduate degree from united states military academy and a doctorate from the university of north carolina at chapel hill. jamie, will, hr thanks for joining us. jamie fly let's set the scene. on his first trip to germany in 1970 i quoted your essay for the reagan institute. on his first trip to germany in 1978 reagan visited the site 16 years earlier 18-yea