WEBVTT 00:18.130 --> 00:19.930 Do we won't. 00:20.640 --> 00:23.260 As promised we have a wonderful program for you this evening. 00:24.060 --> 00:25.850 So without further ado. Let's get started. 00:26.990 --> 00:29.980 I wanted to quickly remind everyone why we're here tonight. 00:31.100 --> 00:34.050 To celebrate the accomplishments of the women and the men. 00:34.740 --> 00:38.150 Web served in are serving our country in the foreign service 00:38.440 --> 00:39.970 over the past nine decades. 00:41.210 --> 00:43.360 On may 24 19 20 four. 00:44.000 --> 00:45.500 Congress passed the Rogers said. 00:46.230 --> 00:49.600 It created a distinct foreign service personnel system under 00:49.600 --> 00:51.010 which the secretary of state. 00:52.640 --> 00:55.390 Continues to assign diplomats abroad today. 00:56.690 --> 00:59.540 Foreign service members fonded after in that same year. 01:00.470 --> 01:01.860 And after has of art. 01:02.390 --> 01:05.750 Over the decades to be both a labor union and a professional 01:05.750 --> 01:09.470 association thanks to the leadership of many people in this room 01:09.470 --> 01:10.070 here tonight. 01:11.690 --> 01:12.860 Asus core mission. 01:13.430 --> 01:16.710 As the voice of the foreign service is to promote the career 01:16.710 --> 01:19.020 diplomats and development professionals. 01:19.640 --> 01:21.450 Collectively and individually. 01:22.460 --> 01:25.950 And to make the case in the public that the foreign service is 01:25.950 --> 01:28.090 vital to our country's national interests. 01:28.950 --> 01:33.040 I speak for the apps aboard. For all of the staff and for the 01:33.040 --> 01:36.610 dozens of volunteers on asses committees. Interstate is an honor 01:36.610 --> 01:37.340 and privilege. 01:38.000 --> 01:39.060 To pursue that mission. 01:40.370 --> 01:43.720 Nineteen. On the face of it is a very impressive number. 01:44.670 --> 01:47.230 In reality that number makes us both young and all. 01:48.460 --> 01:51.300 We all know people who have reached the venerable age of ninety. 01:52.040 --> 01:55.850 And so the night I would like to recognize three lifetime after members. 01:56.500 --> 01:59.850 Who are with us and you are huge older than the foreign service itself. 02:01.590 --> 02:05.240 So please join me in a round of applause for investor and former 02:05.270 --> 02:06.960 director general john clark. 02:19.580 --> 02:22.820 Was. Who lunar mission into unwanted a difficult. Time. 02:31.650 --> 02:33.440 In them doesn't rule is. 02:34.040 --> 02:36.890 The father of crippling sudden investor and the father of the 02:36.890 --> 02:39.420 current and bastards Senegal Lewis. Lucas. 02:48.200 --> 02:49.980 Used origins 90 years as 02:51.770 --> 02:54.790 That makes is a young profession that can build on the successes 02:54.820 --> 02:58.530 of the past and continue to redefine ourselves for the future. 02:59.540 --> 03:02.960 In that spirit I would also like to recognize our youngest aston member. 03:03.500 --> 03:06.550 Still finishing or a 100 class in getting ready for their first 03:06.550 --> 03:09.250 assignment and she is Stephanie. Correctly. 03:18.490 --> 03:19.360 So we'll see. 03:20.460 --> 03:25.060 Bolti celebrating the past and to re committing ourselves to service. 03:25.880 --> 03:29.570 Service and support of new innovative professional and diverse 03:29.950 --> 03:33.120 foreign service meeting march 20 first century to palms. 03:35.180 --> 03:37.860 One person who would penalise is our profession today. 03:38.510 --> 03:41.310 Is this on himself of the foreign service officer named richard 03:41.310 --> 03:45.070 kerry and he's none of them. John kerry secretary of state. 03:46.520 --> 03:49.760 The secretary has gained are aberration and support for tackling. 03:50.570 --> 03:53.140 Our toughest diplomatic assignments. 03:53.920 --> 03:58.320 And she relentlessly moves the ball for to strike diplomatic goals. 03:59.210 --> 04:03.360 As this photo a test is also setting new standards for multi 04:03.360 --> 04:05.630 tasking and Horror. 04:06.320 --> 04:10.740 Arm reaching new standards a multicultural was a you can also 04:10.770 --> 04:12.940 talking myself on incapable distinct. 04:13.910 --> 04:16.870 So on mister sector. We all wonder who was on the forum with 04:16.870 --> 04:17.710 you at that moment. 04:18.650 --> 04:22.560 And maybe we'll hear so please la consecutive stage on. Care. 04:32.250 --> 04:36.490 While you very much. Thank you and your team and some for everything 04:36.490 --> 04:39.050 that you do for all of the men and women the foreign service. 04:39.050 --> 04:43.010 Welcome. To this magnificent that ben Franklin Rome. I've been 04:43.010 --> 04:46.090 fond of reminding people that in this day and age ben Franklin. 04:46.090 --> 04:47.780 We've never been confirm for. Anything. 04:51.360 --> 04:51.920 Was to. 04:52.810 --> 04:54.520 And that just because the. Gridlock. 04:56.480 --> 05:00.140 I want to the I thought those very private moment out there and try. 05:01.500 --> 05:05.690 Knows a moose to be a sticky on my frustration on the ball and it. 05:06.250 --> 05:08.330 Will not tell you who S non-farm with. 05:09.840 --> 05:10.880 That's. Diplomacy. 05:12.380 --> 05:16.430 And it's really a special for video would be here with all of 05:16.430 --> 05:17.980 you from our. 05:18.890 --> 05:23.650 A from our nine year olds who are older than the service itself 05:23.680 --> 05:27.560 the ambassadors. Thank you for grazing us with your presence 05:27.560 --> 05:31.410 here to our youngest where everything is in the future. She gets 05:31.410 --> 05:33.720 ourself owner does when everett and switches. 05:34.520 --> 05:36.810 No Instagram to really work with two. 05:38.350 --> 05:38.960 We're or 05:40.220 --> 05:42.590 I'm sure they're salty before the night is over. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.840 Am. I had. 05:47.410 --> 05:50.430 Had a spectacular dinner last night in mexico city. 05:51.490 --> 05:55.860 It which we were CERN aided by some Moammar out to them. 05:56.550 --> 05:59.220 And we that was creating a really good time. 05:59.820 --> 06:03.390 But it's my understanding so their later years play the job. 06:03.510 --> 06:06.740 So there was pressure are nearing nine india. 06:07.730 --> 06:09.030 For absolutely. 06:10.160 --> 06:15.330 Up. Both chloride went to mexico this week. I have a great honor. 06:16.140 --> 06:20.640 Of delivering the commencement addresses to both boston college 06:20.640 --> 06:22.520 a yale university muhammad are. 06:23.340 --> 06:25.410 And I watch all the no. 06:26.630 --> 06:28.260 A They will host. 06:28.830 --> 06:32.670 A very different experiences is nice to be in front of a diplomatic. Initiatives. 06:37.780 --> 06:42.480 But it was really interesting eight year old a when my mind that 06:42.480 --> 06:44.690 out when it was announced a those Gillespie. 06:45.800 --> 06:50.290 A In the other leaders a number of people quickly contacted the 06:50.290 --> 06:53.890 other leaders to come out and I went on line and check the comments section. 06:54.740 --> 06:58.990 And arm they've won the first comments I read was make sure you 06:59.410 --> 07:02.800 drink a five hour energy to keep you or age. 07:04.160 --> 07:07.400 I promised of all I wind speed one minute more than four hours 07:07.400 --> 07:07.790 a night that. 07:09.320 --> 07:13.540 A than the another one several years it screwed up. There's surgery 07:13.540 --> 07:15.070 state badly yet. 07:16.750 --> 07:18.280 Eyes I'd dole them. Stay tuned. 07:19.280 --> 07:22.440 And then finally this is the best of our somebody said you know 07:22.440 --> 07:26.030 as I'm really proud that he ilia sectors state. 07:26.730 --> 07:29.670 Now night I thought I should stop reading there. I didn't I read 07:29.670 --> 07:31.610 on it said but here's plot. Ugly. 07:33.730 --> 07:40.180 So a So this is this is a relief to hear the No comment section. 07:41.720 --> 07:43.830 Am. At any rate to. 07:44.660 --> 07:46.320 If those. Two. 07:48.520 --> 07:51.620 Public addresses were intimidating. I have to tell you this one. 07:52.220 --> 07:55.530 Is even more so in many ways because on top was like going to 07:55.530 --> 07:56.810 the dean saatchis. 07:58.160 --> 08:00.160 Am I get the dean of. 08:00.910 --> 08:04.250 Dean emeritus of the United States senate foreign policy and 08:04.250 --> 08:04.790 it was are. 08:05.990 --> 08:10.520 A we're the deed of washington media farm policy andrea mitchell. 08:11.390 --> 08:13.710 I've got the dean of the in the house. 08:14.250 --> 08:16.830 The judges of what we do in bill burns here. 08:17.660 --> 08:22.780 And of when he gets here Gonzalez on a a flight from new york. 08:22.780 --> 08:23.490 I'm told. 08:24.080 --> 08:27.390 But to just knowing compounds. Good beer is the dean of. 08:28.010 --> 08:32.150 Things that are great and good an American about america. I think 08:32.150 --> 08:33.360 everybody would agree with that. 08:33.960 --> 08:36.580 So I thanked embryo for hosting. 08:37.380 --> 08:41.620 I think Adrian i've known each other for about 25 or three years sold. 08:42.710 --> 08:43.390 We. Are. 08:46.060 --> 08:48.280 To that's why she does so well. Here. 08:51.560 --> 08:52.920 The art of diplomacy. 08:54.050 --> 08:57.920 When I first got Timiraos freshman senator. 08:58.640 --> 09:01.830 And one of the things that I really grew respected appreciate 09:01.830 --> 09:05.350 about it was yeah she chased a story in yeah she wanted to get 09:05.350 --> 09:05.870 the truth. 09:06.470 --> 09:09.070 Which you know what she always wanted to tell the story the we're 09:09.070 --> 09:09.940 really wants. 09:10.840 --> 09:15.050 And as a reporter it wasn't just a question of breaking the story 09:15.050 --> 09:17.240 was getting the story right. 09:17.990 --> 09:23.250 That an is cherished the in anybody today and I think. 09:23.750 --> 09:25.580 That's exactly what to. 09:26.120 --> 09:29.870 Journalism should bring to covering the world today. 09:30.540 --> 09:33.940 A very complicated world CES travel but they on a number of trips. 09:34.630 --> 09:36.020 She is a pioneer. 09:36.740 --> 09:38.200 Among women in journalism. 09:39.140 --> 09:40.210 And she's. 09:40.830 --> 09:46.190 A So invested in helping to tell the story of American. 09:46.700 --> 09:50.130 Diplomacy that she's agreed deer with us tonight. We're very 09:50.130 --> 09:51.840 grateful to probe which thank you. 09:52.570 --> 09:53.480 This is. Also. 09:58.720 --> 10:01.770 Also one of the world's all. Day. 10:02.390 --> 10:05.960 He's the one last to join you in a very privileged to beer celebrate 10:05.960 --> 10:07.630 nightie extraordinary years. 10:08.340 --> 10:12.630 He works very very closely with all of us a on seventh floor 10:12.630 --> 10:13.870 and throughout the department. 10:14.510 --> 10:18.550 And is advocacy as partnership of really made an enormous difference. 10:19.130 --> 10:23.500 A in very recently breaking the gridlock with the United States senate. 10:24.530 --> 10:27.830 In helping to get a whole bunch of our folks confirmed that the 10:27.830 --> 10:32.850 truth those that we now have thousands of foreign service officers 10:32.850 --> 10:37.610 who were commissioned tenured and promoted and bob as a guy who 10:37.610 --> 10:40.380 was really central and helping to bring it home tours centers 10:40.380 --> 10:41.640 to make it happen. So thank. You. 10:48.260 --> 10:53.430 Also one of the Edmunds clem a hermans those servers state department 10:53.500 --> 10:58.360 to extremely. Well there's the Acting director general of foreign services. 10:58.360 --> 11:00.270 Great managers a great recruiter. 11:01.110 --> 11:03.490 And he listens carefully. 11:04.430 --> 11:07.930 Which is accused of being I think a great director general and 11:08.190 --> 11:12.130 I want to thank him for the job that is done in the G do juice offers. 11:12.860 --> 11:17.380 I've also are pleased that colin the excepted beer and I know 11:17.380 --> 11:19.540 is that that's never easy flying. 11:20.190 --> 11:22.290 Iran's calm polish an. Unwelcome. 11:47.960 --> 11:52.460 Honestly nudges the they didn't the great politician the times 11:52.460 --> 11:53.370 as a rival really. 11:55.800 --> 11:57.390 I E a without with right. 11:58.460 --> 12:03.090 It I'd I'd the had the pleasure working with dog piled whereas 12:03.090 --> 12:06.670 centers through those many years and years many different jobs. 12:07.640 --> 12:10.440 I was think about and there's a guy and served two tours of duty 12:10.440 --> 12:11.260 in vietnam. 12:12.340 --> 12:15.460 But I also think about how we rose up through the ranks that come. 12:16.080 --> 12:20.250 A the youngest in the first African American chairman joint chiefs 12:20.250 --> 12:20.850 of staff. 12:21.500 --> 12:25.390 And I think of as leadership there and that critical period of time. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.220 One of president george Herbert walker bush when we roll back. 12:29.820 --> 12:33.050 What to sell in the same phony to get away with in colin. 12:33.050 --> 12:36.910 We're forever indebted in grateful for your leadership but especially 12:36.950 --> 12:37.670 I thank you. 12:38.200 --> 12:43.350 Because I really tried to emulate you with respect to the Personal 12:43.350 --> 12:46.520 you played here in the department and making sure that the troops. 12:47.090 --> 12:50.450 A have a sense of direction and that you're connected to them 12:50.580 --> 12:52.380 and I appreciate that as everybody. Is. 13:02.720 --> 13:06.180 I want is a noble words like you and about to fellows been around 13:06.180 --> 13:09.010 your for while 32 years foreign service. 13:10.040 --> 13:12.290 He has worked for 10 sectors of state. 13:13.280 --> 13:19.460 A if there's anybody today in the ranks of professional diplomacy. 13:20.050 --> 13:21.580 Who pet advises. 13:22.460 --> 13:25.790 The quality is there to look for the leadership a steady hand 13:25.790 --> 13:29.590 the quiet diplomacy the ability to work through difficult to 13:29.620 --> 13:30.740 issues calmly. 13:31.300 --> 13:33.720 And doom leads by example. 13:34.340 --> 13:35.630 A and by. 13:36.250 --> 13:37.760 A so clients a. 13:38.590 --> 13:42.010 Steady misses you will lose builder and signal were. So. 13:47.810 --> 13:55.710 The Doesn't listeners will was sealed williams stands the politics 13:55.710 --> 13:59.930 of that all and how to work through it and the it's really exemplary. 14:00.380 --> 14:01.020 I'm also. 14:01.740 --> 14:04.960 Really proud of the team that we have assembled here at the state 14:04.960 --> 14:06.830 department for the second term. 14:07.550 --> 14:10.540 Of the obama administration of great former president for his 14:10.540 --> 14:11.360 willingness to. 14:12.140 --> 14:15.680 A Bring on board lava folks to to. 14:16.430 --> 14:20.110 We thought could really help to make a difference as we go forward 14:20.110 --> 14:22.300 and in in the foreign policy of our country. 14:23.120 --> 14:28.200 Tom shannon has greatly agreed to serve as the councelor of the department. 14:29.120 --> 14:32.410 And I'm very proud. The fact that thomas just a seven foreign 14:32.410 --> 14:36.950 service officer to hold that post including legends like chip bollen. 14:37.490 --> 14:38.810 And georgia a cannon. 14:39.420 --> 14:45.290 A and the first one to do so in 32 years. So I'm glad he is doing 14:45.290 --> 14:49.340 that we of leaders like and Patterson the Victorian alone the 14:49.370 --> 14:51.870 linda thomas greenfield who left. 14:52.400 --> 14:57.880 A Apollo she loved to take on a poster that ashford take on difficult 14:58.350 --> 15:00.980 and who is now serving assistants are very for. 15:01.520 --> 15:03.170 Africa have been affairs. 15:03.710 --> 15:08.710 A and and also think we build a team that is capable of the dancing 15:08.710 --> 15:10.640 American foreign policy effectively. 15:11.270 --> 15:18.650 A The The I'm also happy this is my my former. 15:19.520 --> 15:23.330 Chairman occasionally they got it was only occasionally because 15:23.330 --> 15:24.490 I give us a chance. 15:25.190 --> 15:29.390 And I ranking members ranking member of my last uses german. 15:30.410 --> 15:34.030 But they were eager to who whether it was nuclear. 15:35.350 --> 15:40.060 Weapons reduction proliferation treaty after treaty energy policy 15:40.060 --> 15:41.090 food security. 15:42.060 --> 15:45.190 The linkage of agriculture to American foreign policy. 15:45.830 --> 15:50.680 Day it was always there always importantly looking for a way 15:50.680 --> 15:54.790 to try to find a bipartisan approach a non partisan a political 15:54.790 --> 15:58.670 way of solving problems in decked every single one of us are 15:58.670 --> 16:01.580 grateful that you have the terrific statesman for years. 16:01.580 --> 16:02.720 Thank you very very. Much. 16:10.820 --> 16:14.290 Neither where there's also would undermine from United States 16:14.290 --> 16:20.770 Kyra se. We worked very hard together on the In the Special committee 16:20.770 --> 16:23.170 to try to deal with the budget. He knows the budget as well as 16:23.170 --> 16:25.940 anybody but he also knows farm bosses wells anybody. 16:26.510 --> 16:29.050 It's fitting that someone who was born in karachi. 16:29.600 --> 16:31.210 In grew up in Sri Lanka. 16:31.810 --> 16:35.480 And now represents so many people who are part of the foreign 16:35.480 --> 16:36.330 service family. 16:36.880 --> 16:39.670 And on issues that matter to all americans. 16:40.340 --> 16:43.410 Whether it's climate change of the minimum wage are immigration 16:43.750 --> 16:47.690 kristen Holland is front and center and making sure that america 16:47.690 --> 16:52.170 true stays true to our bad usage or responsibilities in the world 16:52.170 --> 16:54.640 and we're grateful to press for that come. Also. 17:00.210 --> 17:04.230 I do is look and those who were good for and the two armored 17:04.230 --> 17:06.910 the the regina Spelling offer here tonight. 17:08.150 --> 17:10.670 Up they are out there are two families here tonight. 17:11.660 --> 17:17.130 Oh understand the risks of service within the ranks of foreign service. 17:17.870 --> 17:19.980 At Better than anybody. 17:20.980 --> 17:25.200 And I'm very grateful the time married of in Virginia a smelling often. 17:25.760 --> 17:29.810 An Atom thomas sector year. I got to know tom anne-marie duff 17:29.810 --> 17:32.940 the And their daughter regina last year. 17:33.750 --> 17:36.960 I was able to stop often does it with them very briefly after. 17:37.640 --> 17:40.470 We all over the terrible news of los a than. 17:41.370 --> 17:45.400 We met to in impact Chicago at the airport they were very kind 17:45.400 --> 17:48.060 to come briefly and we did a quick stop offering. 17:48.940 --> 17:52.840 I was blessed to have them console me more than I can solve them. 17:53.430 --> 18:00.140 But to We're very very proud the of what to regime as doing carrying 18:00.140 --> 18:04.630 on fran in the state department and we thank them profoundly 18:04.630 --> 18:07.960 for being here in the works that to tony thomas said was doing 18:07.960 --> 18:09.540 for yue-sai guy in haiti. 18:10.280 --> 18:13.620 A Equally exemplary extraordinary. 18:14.180 --> 18:18.690 Totally in keeping with the spirit of both adventure but most 18:18.690 --> 18:22.670 importantly that special thing that brings people year to try 18:22.670 --> 18:25.700 to make the world safer and make the world better and make a 18:25.700 --> 18:30.290 difference and help other people by bringing our that use our 18:30.290 --> 18:36.740 beliefs to them in the best of ways and so we thank you for precisely 18:36.740 --> 18:39.700 the gift that we celebrate in the foreign service. Thank you 18:39.700 --> 18:40.360 very. Much. 18:48.590 --> 18:52.620 The Wall those was Wall designer in new. 18:53.970 --> 18:57.170 But I was a few words were generally that's a. 18:57.800 --> 19:00.730 We are and where we're going year and then turn over their very own. 19:01.400 --> 19:02.380 And we can eat. 19:03.440 --> 19:08.690 Up. Ninety years ago the foreign service was just absolutely 19:08.690 --> 19:09.770 on recognizable. 19:10.810 --> 19:12.270 Compared to what it is today. 19:13.190 --> 19:17.430 The back then we had fewer than 700 foreign service officers. 19:18.290 --> 19:20.360 And now we have more than 13 thousand. 19:21.860 --> 19:26.170 Back then we had no female chief submission not. 19:27.110 --> 19:28.730 Now we have more than 40 eight. 19:29.390 --> 19:32.400 I'm proud to tell you that right now in this department. 19:32.940 --> 19:37.280 Five out of six of our regional assistant secretaries are women. 19:37.790 --> 19:41.950 Four out of six of are under secretaries are are women. 19:42.500 --> 19:46.860 And we're joined tonight since we have to deputy sectors of state 19:47.200 --> 19:51.590 50% are whether. And what other this year heather here about 19:51.590 --> 19:53.710 answering right over here. So. I. 20:00.140 --> 20:05.990 That the when it started we heard the only one African American 20:05.990 --> 20:07.520 foreign service officer one. 20:08.140 --> 20:09.330 Man in clifton work. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.560 I have no room way that plan because my dad actually work for 20:13.560 --> 20:17.980 a way that in those early days. Now we have nearly a thousand 20:18.140 --> 20:22.220 African American foreign service officers following in his footsteps. 20:23.030 --> 20:28.130 It all started as as bob reminded us with a congressman by the 20:28.130 --> 20:32.340 name of john Rogers. So I'm proud to say hailed from Massachusetts. 20:33.110 --> 20:37.340 A and what is seen in war as a private in the army. 20:38.080 --> 20:41.680 Searing him the price that we pay when we don't solve. 20:42.590 --> 20:44.200 Conflicts peacefully. 20:45.530 --> 20:49.300 So we set out to build a modern foreign service precisely the 20:49.300 --> 20:50.960 tried to prevent wars. 20:51.800 --> 20:55.620 And then to try to provide a foreign service that was a strong 20:55.620 --> 21:00.080 in diplomacy as our military is in its capacity to wage a war. 21:00.830 --> 21:01.690 It wasn't easy. 21:02.870 --> 21:05.160 He proposed bill after bill. 21:06.110 --> 21:09.960 He summoned testimony drafted liberally dozens of our pets. 21:10.740 --> 21:13.380 And it took seven years to pass the Rogers are. 21:14.390 --> 21:16.600 Isolation as am then austerity. 21:17.220 --> 21:22.200 Randy. Then as now the temptation to sort of turn inward it's 21:22.550 --> 21:25.040 and to retreat from the world was gaining ground. 21:26.070 --> 21:26.920 But he got it done. 21:27.920 --> 21:32.970 And he kept pushing it in 19 24 house resolution 63 57 passed 21:32.970 --> 21:36.670 congress and a gave birth to the modern foreign service. 21:37.340 --> 21:39.170 That accord to Rogers. 21:39.800 --> 21:44.160 The promise of good diplomacy as the greatest protector of peace. 21:44.980 --> 21:47.290 And then and and our hope this. 21:47.910 --> 21:53.610 A that people recognize that 90 years from that moment that is exactly. 21:54.190 --> 21:55.920 What foreign service has done. 21:56.950 --> 22:00.400 One of the greatest royal warrants being sectors. Stay telltale. 22:00.400 --> 22:01.720 I'm sure calm would agree.. Is. 22:02.750 --> 22:08.240 Is. Because of our travel and because we interact with all of 22:08.240 --> 22:11.750 you win with people around the world. We get to see this every 22:11.750 --> 22:12.420 single day. 22:13.280 --> 22:16.010 We get to see people going out and making of efforts. 22:16.570 --> 22:20.020 I said yesterday in mexico city women that we've all of the embassy. 22:20.760 --> 22:24.150 That to they really are the envy of other people because they 22:24.150 --> 22:25.980 get to wake up every single morning. 22:26.650 --> 22:30.100 Believing and loving what they do when they go to work because 22:30.100 --> 22:32.300 they know they're gonna make a difference not everybody gets 22:32.300 --> 22:32.870 to do that. 22:34.410 --> 22:39.270 And so it is really a special thing to be part of this family. 22:40.250 --> 22:43.470 And if you just look at last year. I ask you the measured when 22:43.470 --> 22:47.630 our diplomacy is doing. I know I listened to the You know so 22:47.630 --> 22:49.040 political currents. 22:49.560 --> 22:52.960 They're people who tried to drag me down by asserting that you 22:52.960 --> 22:55.880 not doing enough read in your war where you show the for whatever 22:55.880 --> 22:56.320 it is. 22:57.050 --> 22:59.260 But we're getting things done. 23:00.390 --> 23:02.750 And we're getting them done in the best traditions of what the 23:02.750 --> 23:04.530 palm is supposed to do promise. 23:05.400 --> 23:08.900 People are angry because we didn't strike to syria one instant. 23:09.550 --> 23:14.970 The guests y-up today 92% of all the chemical weapons in siri 23:14.970 --> 23:19.240 are out in being destroyed and the other 8% will get out. 23:19.830 --> 23:21.630 That never would have occurred otherwise. 23:22.640 --> 23:23.930 Likewise in africa. 23:24.680 --> 23:26.180 We are on the brink. Of. 23:30.740 --> 23:36.030 We negotiated an agreement with them 23 will one of the factions 23:36.030 --> 23:39.380 in the democratic republic of Congo which is disarming and we 23:39.380 --> 23:42.210 have agreement from all the parties to move forward and build 23:42.210 --> 23:43.210 a political future. 23:43.820 --> 23:47.390 And and now the sort of and these years of war in san Suu there 23:47.750 --> 23:50.400 once again a struggle the call on others to been part of are 23:50.400 --> 23:55.100 longtime we've moved the parties were starting to separate the 23:55.100 --> 23:58.330 begin to build possibility bringing the un and other troops to 23:58.330 --> 24:01.870 the table and trying to make these same thing and molly's same 24:01.870 --> 24:03.240 thing and other parts of the world. 24:03.900 --> 24:07.170 In Afghanistan we just had an extraordinary election result. 24:07.360 --> 24:09.490 Not throwing out it's not over yet. 24:10.160 --> 24:14.880 But that's how you do this step by step by building things and 24:14.880 --> 24:18.570 keeping faced with the sacrifices people make to help get you there. 24:19.070 --> 24:22.890 So we have another option that hopefully will mark a real transition 24:23.180 --> 24:26.080 and an opportunity for Afghans to determine their future. 24:26.760 --> 24:29.830 In the Iran we are a. 24:30.910 --> 24:35.090 You know you kind traders in a series of said you you know you 24:35.090 --> 24:39.460 don't negotiate can negotiate we are not doesn't mean we're gonna 24:39.460 --> 24:40.280 get a result. 24:41.020 --> 24:43.410 It doesn't mean we're gonna get where we want to go. 24:44.180 --> 24:46.140 But if the when we had to do. Something. 24:48.030 --> 24:50.780 To assert our interests properly for the world. 24:51.350 --> 24:55.020 It would be only after we have exhausted all the possibilities 24:55.080 --> 24:58.720 diplomacy and all of the remedies available to us. That's what 24:58.720 --> 25:00.370 the promise to is supposed to do. 25:01.190 --> 25:05.190 And I couldn't run the many other parts of the world where america 25:05.290 --> 25:08.620 and americans are making a difference as I said to the graduates 25:08.920 --> 25:09.680 over the weekend. 25:10.420 --> 25:14.350 You know I don't think a lot of people are really lying awake 25:14.350 --> 25:17.090 at night hoping that america will leave where we are. 25:18.070 --> 25:20.520 Most of them are worried about whether or not we might. 25:21.980 --> 25:25.370 They're asking us to be there. But there are a nigeria. 25:26.470 --> 25:28.030 All the the United States. 25:28.760 --> 25:32.310 Is there offering the assistance to help find those young women. 25:32.870 --> 25:37.240 Other countries not only are there it invited. 25:38.180 --> 25:39.380 But they didn't even offer. 25:40.740 --> 25:41.930 That's a difference. 25:43.040 --> 25:45.340 And I think it's a difference worth dwelling on. 25:45.930 --> 25:48.970 We were the first people on the ground in the philippines. 25:49.710 --> 25:52.160 Ahead of countries that lived right in the neighborhood. 25:52.720 --> 25:56.500 We were there with our armed forces ability to move goods and 25:56.500 --> 25:58.850 helping people to be able to restore their community. 25:59.570 --> 26:03.900 We are about to see the first it's regeneration in africa. 26:04.520 --> 26:06.520 Compile help begin that jury. 26:07.380 --> 26:10.010 And I remember back in the nineties who bill frisson. I worked 26:10.010 --> 26:12.960 with them in order to try to do that now we're on the brink of 26:12.960 --> 26:15.220 something that we never would have imagined that there. 26:15.840 --> 26:17.100 Was a de sects. 26:17.630 --> 26:21.410 Now it's a possibility for life and a whole new generation that 26:21.410 --> 26:23.440 will be free from that splurge. 26:23.970 --> 26:26.260 So everywhere I travel my friends. 26:26.780 --> 26:29.500 From bother that Baghdad to beijing to. 26:30.050 --> 26:32.070 A Boston oomph. 26:33.800 --> 26:34.930 I just all that word. 26:37.250 --> 26:40.770 Where I'm here at home. I really feel the importance of what 26:40.770 --> 26:43.950 we're doing and the difference that we can make. 26:44.600 --> 26:48.720 I've seen us create diplomatic opportunity and in so many countries. 26:49.250 --> 26:52.510 I've seen as make a difference on the ground with education exchanges 26:52.510 --> 26:57.580 education programs medical systems helped engagement development 26:57.580 --> 26:59.050 yue-sai do you name it. 26:59.720 --> 27:04.240 And we are trying to show people the story of American diplomacy. 27:05.180 --> 27:06.000 Harry Truman. 27:06.560 --> 27:07.480 George marshall. 27:08.870 --> 27:13.040 Led america's efforts to rebuild europe against the will that 27:13.040 --> 27:16.850 many people in the country was a popular wasn't popular in guy rich. 27:17.570 --> 27:20.990 But think today how many people would say that is something that 27:20.990 --> 27:21.830 we shouldn't have done. 27:22.560 --> 27:27.030 Building the unbelievable alliances the strength of the democracy 27:27.030 --> 27:27.890 uses result. 27:28.480 --> 27:31.290 So I just because they're saying to the to. 27:32.440 --> 27:36.300 A The some special about being. 27:36.910 --> 27:39.070 America. You really is different. 27:40.250 --> 27:42.550 You think about almost any other country in the world. 27:43.510 --> 27:45.990 And almost all of them are defined. By. 27:48.900 --> 27:52.970 Bloodline were designed by ethnicity are defined by. 27:53.480 --> 27:57.080 Lines that were drawn in the peace agreement are in the end of 27:57.080 --> 28:00.720 colonial as a more by leaders like winston churchill another 28:00.720 --> 28:04.670 sitting a roman this will be this missile be that not america. 28:06.170 --> 28:08.960 We must never forget that. What makes america different. 28:09.740 --> 28:14.440 From other nations is not a common bloodline. It's not a common 28:14.440 --> 28:17.480 religion or a common ideology are common heritage. 28:18.020 --> 28:18.860 It's actually. 28:19.370 --> 28:23.270 What makes us different is actually an uncommon idea. 28:24.650 --> 28:27.390 That all men are created equal. 28:28.120 --> 28:33.950 And that everybody has these un ilia noble rights. We are an idea. 28:34.760 --> 28:37.790 Unlike other countries. We are an idea. 28:38.850 --> 28:41.400 And In our idea. 28:42.080 --> 28:44.790 Every American gets to fill it out. 28:45.370 --> 28:46.960 Defined over time. 28:47.840 --> 28:51.890 So that's what they're calling them. Good diplomacy years. 28:52.440 --> 28:53.730 It's filling out the idea. 28:54.400 --> 28:56.710 And exporting it to other people in the world. 28:57.660 --> 29:02.140 And we are working all of us together to try to create order 29:02.170 --> 29:03.130 where there is none. 29:03.920 --> 29:05.850 To bring stability out of chaos. 29:06.460 --> 29:11.180 To fix what is broken in to make this complicated world just 29:11.210 --> 29:15.310 a little bit less complicated and a lot more free. 29:15.870 --> 29:19.080 And that's really worth the effort. Thank you all for being part 29:19.080 --> 29:19.270 of. That. 29:29.930 --> 29:32.400 And. And 29:35.780 --> 29:37.010 Nick use that drew Carey. 29:37.940 --> 29:38.340 Thank you..