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Page BUSH, GEORGE W. D Range Date Issue 1 to 32 January 2018 No. 1 A Man with a Code 262 33 to 60 February 2018 No. 2 DALY, MARY C. 61 to 92 March 2018 No. 3 BUSH, JEB Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in 93 to 124 April 2018 No. 4 Economics 190 125 to 152 May 2018 No. 5 Our First and Most Important Teacher 176 153 to 180 June 2018 No. 6 DANIELS, MITCH 181 to 204 July 2018 No. 7 C 205 to 232 August 2018 No. 8 Beware of Tribes 206 233 to 260 September 2018 No. 9 CALDWELL, DAN 261 to 292 October 2018 No. 10 DENHOLLANDER, RACHAEL 293 to 328 November 2018 No. 11 Seeking Security in a Turbulent World 341 329 to 364 December 2018 No. 12 Remember What You Have Witnessed These CANTRELL, LATOYA Past Seven Days 83

Authors There’s Only Us 197 DeVOS, BETSY

B CARSON, BEN Committed to Expanding Education Freedom 248 In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned BARNIER, MICHEL and Coordination 164 Truth 320 Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also CHAWLA, DEVIKA United Europe 27 DUDLEY, BOB Your Own Migration 229 Negotiating the Future of Energy 169 BERENBEIM, RONALD COLEMAN, MARY SUE We’re Characterized as Being at the Root Discovering the Better Angels of of the Problem 350 Our Nature 348 The University-Government Research Partnership Is at Risk 244 E BEURDEN, BEN VAN COLLINS, JAMES C. We Have to Change … and That Is What ELIZABETH II, QUEEN Shell Is Going to Do 126 Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody 280 The Timeless Simplicity to the Pull BIETER, DAVID of Home 56 COOK, TIM I’d Like to Take Us Back to Kindness F and Wonder 323 Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Against Us 330 FALLON, JIMMY BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL You’re Not the Future. You’re the Present. 228 Here’s an Honor Code for Life 218 CRUTCHER, BETTY NEAL A Personal Connection 16 FENDT, GENE BODSON, MICHAEL Three Ideas of the University 353 Capturing the Innovation Tailwind 166 CURRY, MICHAEL BRUCE We Must Discover the Power of Love 202 FISH, JIM BOLTON, JOHN Caring for the Fifth Constituent 103 We Will Not Cooperate with the International Criminal Court 302 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018

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People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age . . . . 20 Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of How Can We Avoid Erasure, on the One FLAKE, JEFF Our Age 111 Hand, and Petrification on the Other? 318 The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy ...... 75 MANDELA-DLAMINI, ZANANI The Vision of the Brexit That We Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State Fought For 251 Who My Mother Really Was 174 of Our Politics: A Way Forward 148 MARTIN, KEVIN How Did This Happen to Us? 193 JORDAN JR, VERNON E. From the White House to the Wardrobe Malfunction: Advice from an Unexpected We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Pragmatism and Compassion 10 Career Path 212 Decisions 316 JUNCKER, JEAN-CLAUDE MAY, THERESA FRANKEN, AL The Honor of Our European Sovereignty 297 Brexit: The Five Tests 134 That’s Why I’m a Democrat 37 K McCAIN, MEGHAN G KAUFMAN, HENRY He Was a Great Man 265 GONZALEZ, EMMA What Financial Change Has Wrought: the McCRARY JR., WILLIAM W. We Call BS 94 Last Half Century and Beyond 344 The .U S. Textile Industry Must Seize This Six Minutes and 20 Seconds 148 KAVANAUGH, BRETT Generational Opportunity 141

GORE, AL An Independent Judiciary Is the Crown Jewel McMASTER, H.R. of Our Constitutional Republic 243 We Could Lose These Conditions 256 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have KENNEDY III, JOE Looked the Other Way 159 GOTTLIEB, SCOTT We Choose Both. We Fight for Both. 68 Our Biosimilars Action Plan 284 MORAN, JERRY

KENT, MUHTAR Time to Inject More Certainty into Our Trade GREITENS, ERIC Policies 279 Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and I Will Resign as Governor of Missouri 201 Hope for America’s Future 22 MORRISON, SCOTT GROSSMAN, DAVID L I Believe You. We Believe You. Your Country Believes You. 359 Israel Is a Fortress, but Still Not a Home 172

LAGARDE, CHRISTINE N GUTMANN, AMY The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey 225 An Education in Values 108 NETANYAHU, BENJAMIN Think Uniquely, Stand United 223 LANDRIEU, MITCH Darkness Is Descending on Our Region 131 The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse 306 H Bend on Its Own 216

NORTHAM, RALPH HALEY, NIKKI LEONARD, RICHARD We Are Bigger Than This 72 The United States Will Remember Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass 250 This Day 50 O LI, KEQIANG HIGGINS, MICHAEL D. The International Landscape Continues to OBAMA, BARACK A Real Republic 358 Be Complicated 338 Given the Strange and Uncertain Times J M We’re In 234 We Never Doubted That We Were on the JEMISON, MAE MACRON, EMMANUEL Same Team 263 It Did Not Start with Donald Trump 309 Look Up 51 A New Breed of Multilateralism 154

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Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey PENCE, MIKE TESORO, VICKI of the Wounded Healer 268

In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen A Tall Order, a Small Step 53 the Story of America 79 WARREN, ELIZABETH Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our TILLERSON, REX W. Pocahontas’s Real Journey 96 Lodestar 109 The Most Precious Thing You Possess 147 A Crisis of Faith 274 A New Approach to China 333 TRUDEAU, JUSTIN WEN, WANG PERRY, RICK We Were Wrong. We Are Sorry. And We U.S. Society Is Mistaken in Making China The New Energy Realism 128 Will Never Let This Happen Again. 12 the Scapegoat for Its Own Problems 189

POMPEO, MIKE TRUMP, DONALD WILLEM-ALEXANDER, KING

What We Demand from Iran 184 Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North 2 How We Stand in Life Ourselves 55 We Are Not Going to Let the United States R Be Taken Advantage of Anymore 6 WILLIAMS, JOHN C. Four Vital National Interests 34 Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm ROLD, ANA When the Data Meet the Forecasts 98 Time to Officially Recognize Jerusalem as the Thoughts on Pie: Peace or Justice? 163 Capital of Israel 49 WINFREY, OPRAH We Are Building a Safe, Strong and Proud S America 62 Their Time Is Up 69 America First Does Not Mean America SCHEER, ANDREW Alone 77 WITTEN, JASON

Canadians Occupy a Special Place in the Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This The Secret Is in the Dirt 198 Fellowship of Free Nations 15 Action Now 162 The United States Will Withdraw from the Z SESSIONS, JEFF Nuclear Deal 182

Ending the Opioid Crisis: Our Mission Isn’t America Chooses Independence Over ZUCKERBERG, MARK Global Government 294 Hopeless 144 At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough 188

SHARPLESS, NORMAN E. TRUMP, IVANKA The Power and Promise of Cancer The Future We Can and Will Build Subjects Research 253 Together 17 A SMITH, LAMAR V

A New Concept of National Power in Abortion, Ireland Outer Space 288 VARADKAR, LEO Abortion, Yes or No?, Abortion, Yes or No? 70, 116 Leo Varadkar 70, 116 STAVRIDIS, JAMES We Must Now Ensure That from Words The Educated Mind 101 Flow Actions 290 Adversity The Sea Is History 221 VEASEY, MARC The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey, Christine Lagarde 225 STEPHENS, BRET So What Unites Us? 46

Four Questions About American Affordable Housing Greatness 43 W In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation Free Speech and the Necessity of and Coordination, Discomfort 117 WAMBACH, ABBY Ben Carson 164 Give Me the Effing Ball 209 African American Entertainers

Their Time Is Up, Oprah Winfrey 69

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African American Women Astronauts Biosimilar Drugs Catholic Church

Look Up, Our Biosimilars Action Plan, We Must Now Ensure That from Words Mae Jemison 51 Scott Gottlieb 284 Flow Actions, Leo Varadkar 290 African Americans, History Blasey Ford, Christine Censorship A Personal Connection, We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Betty Neal Crutcher 16 Decisions, An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned Truth, Jeff Flake 316 Betsy DeVos 320 Agriculture BP Center for Public Policy Priorities Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody, Negotiating the Future of Energy, Pragmatism and Compassion, James C. Collins 280 Bob Dudley 169 Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. 10 We’re Characterized as Being at the Root Anti-Apartheid Activists of the Problem, Chemical Weapons, Syria Bob Dudley 350 Who My Mother Really Was, Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This Zenani Mandela-Dlamini 174 Action Now, Branding (Marketing) Donald Trump 162 Apple Inc. Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and Hope for America’s Future, Child Sexual Abuse Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Muhtar Kent 22 Against Us, Remember What You Have Witnessed These Tim Cook 330 Past Seven Days, Brexit Rachael Denhollander 83 Astronauts Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also United Europe, Michel Barnier 27 Child Sexual Abuse, Australia Look Up, Mae Jemison 51 Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of Our Age, I Believe You. We Believe You. Your Country Boris Johnson 111 Believes You., Scott Morrison 359 Authoritarianism Brexit: The Five Tests, Theresa May 134 How Did This Happen to Us?, China, Foreign Relations Jeff Flake 193 The Vision of the Brexit That We Fought For, Boris Johnson 251 The International Landscape Continues to A Crisis of Faith, Be Complicated, Elizabeth Warren 274 Bush, Barbara Li Keqiang 338 B Our First and Most Important Teacher, China, Politics and Government Jeb Bush 176 Baltic States-United States Relations A New Approach to China, Business Ethics Mike Pence 333 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have Looked the Other Way, Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, China-United States Relations H.R. McMaster 159 Ronald Berenbeim 348 U.S. Society Is Mistaken in Making China Banks and Banking Businesswomen the Scapegoat for Its Own Problems, Wang Wen 189 What Financial Change Has Wrought: the The Future We Can and Will Build Together, A New Approach to China, Last Half Century and Beyond, Ivanka Trump 17 Mike Pence 333 Henry Kaufman 344 C China-United States Trade War Boise (Idaho), Politics and Government Time to Inject More Certainty into Our I’d Like to Take Us Back to Kindness and Canada, Politics and Government Trade Policies, Wonder, Canadians Occupy a Special Place in the Jerry Moran 279 David Bieter 323 Fellowship of Free Nations, Andrew Scheer 15 Christmas Big Money in Politics How We Stand in Life Ourselves, A Crisis of Faith, Cancer Research Willem-Alexander 55 Elizabeth Warren 274 The Power and Promise of Cancer Research, The Timeless Simplicity to the Pull of Home, Norman E. Sharpless 253 Elizabeth II 56 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX

Church and State, Ireland Conservative Party (Canada) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

We Must Now Ensure That from Words Canadians Occupy a Special Place in the We’re Characterized as Being at the Root Flow Actions, Fellowship of Free Nations, of the Problem, Leo Varadkar 290 Andrew Scheer 15 Bob Dudley 350

Civility Consumer Behavior Democracy

Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State of the Wounded Healer, Hope for America’s Future, of Our Politics: A Way Forward, Beverly J. Warren 268 Muhtar Kent 22 Jeff Flake 148 How Did This Happen to Us?, Climate Change Denial Cooperation Jeff Flake 193 We Could Lose These Conditions, Thoughts on Pie: Peace or Justice?, Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Al Gore 256 Ana Rold 163 Barack Obama 234

Coca-Cola Company Corporations, Finance Democratic Party

Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and What Financial Change Has Wrought: the That’s Why I’m a Democrat, Hope for America’s Future, Last Half Century and Beyond, Al Franken ...... 37 Muhtar Kent 22 Henry Kaufman 344 We Choose Both. We Fight for Both., Joe Kennedy III 68 Commencements Corteva Agriscience It Did Not Start with Donald Trump, So What Unites Us?, Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter Barack Obama 309 Marc Veasey 46 to Everybody, James C. Collins 280 Beware of Tribes, Demonstrations Mitch Daniels 206 Courage Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass, Give Me the Effing Ball, Richard Leonard ...... 250 Abby Wambach 209 You’re Not the Future. You’re the Present., Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey Jimmy Fallon 228 From the White House to the Wardrobe of the Wounded Healer, Malfunction: Advice from an Unexpected Beverly J. Warren 268 Career Path, Crop Improvement Kevin Martin 212 Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter Dictatorship, North Korea The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t to Everybody, Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North, Bend on Its Own, James C. Collins 280 Donald Trump 2 Mitch Landrieu 216 Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar, Here’s an Honor Code for Life, Cyberterrorism, Russia Mike Pence 109 Michael Bloomberg 218 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have The Sea Is History, Looked the Other Way, Discrimination James Stavridis 221 H.R. McMaster 159 We Were Wrong. We Are Sorry. And We Will Think Uniquely, Stand United, Never Let This Happen Again., Amy Gutmann 223 D Justin Trudeau 12 The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey, Distributed Ledger Technology Christine Lagarde 225 Dallas Cowboys Capturing the Innovation Tailwind, You’re Not the Future. You’re the Present., The Secret Is in the Dirt, Michael Bodson 166 Jimmy Fallon 228 Jason Witten 198 Your Own Migration, Diversity in the Workplace Devika Chawla 229 Data Protection Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough, Economics, Common Good Mark Zuckerberg 188 Mary C. Daly 190 How We Stand in Life Ourselves, Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Willem-Alexander 55 Against Us, Dow Chemical Company Tim Cook 330 Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age, Ronald Berenbeim 348 Jim Fitterling 20

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Ending the Opioid Crisis: Our Mission We Have to Change … and That Is What The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy, Isn’t Hopeless, Shell Is Going to Do, Jeff Flake 75 Jeff Sessions 144 Ben Van Beurden 126 The New Energy Realism, Family Life E Rick Perry 128 The Timeless Simplicity to the Pull of Home, Negotiating the Future of Energy, Elizabeth II 56 Economic Forecasting Bob Dudley 169

Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm Federal Reserve Bank When the Data Meet the Forecasts, Energy Policy Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm John C. Williams 98 The New Energy Realism, When the Data Meet the Forecasts, What Financial Change Has Wrought: the Rick Perry 128 John C. Williams 98 Last Half Century and Beyond, What Financial Change Has Wrought: the Henry Kaufman 344 Entrepreneurship, India Last Half Century and Beyond, Henry Kaufman 344 The Future We Can and Will Build Together, Education Ivanka Trump 17 The Educated Mind, Financial Services Industry James Stavridis 101 Environmental Degradation Capturing the Innovation Tailwind, Michael Bodson 166 We Could Lose These Conditions, Education-Government Relations Al Gore 256 The University-Government Research First Generation College Students Partnership Is at Risk, Equality An Education in Values, Mary Sue Coleman 244 Amy Gutmann 108 Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Barack Obama 234 Education, Higher First Ladies

An Education in Values, European Union, Foreign Relations Our First and Most Important Teacher, Amy Gutmann 108 Jeb Bush 176 The Honor of Our European Sovereignty, The University-Government Research Jean-Claude Juncker 297 Partnership Is at Risk, Food and Drug Administration Mary Sue Coleman 244 European Union-Great Britain Our Biosimilars Action Plan, An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned Truth, Scott Gottlieb 284 Betsy DeVos 320 Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also United Europe, Michel Barnier 27 Three Ideas of the University, Food Science Gene Fendt 353 Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of Our Age, Boris Johnson 111 Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody, Education Policy Brexit: The Five Tests, James C. Collins 280 Theresa May 134 Committed to Expanding Education Freedom, Betsy DeVos 248 The Vision of the Brexit That We Fought For, Football Players Boris Johnson 251 The Secret Is in the Dirt, Embassy of the United States, Jason Witten 198 Jerusalem European Union, Politics and Government Time to Officially Recognize Jerusalem as the Foreign Trade Regulation Capital of Israel, Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also United Europe, Donald Trump 49 Michel Barnier 27 The .U S. Textile Industry Must Seize This Generational Opportunity, The United States Will Remember This Day, The Honor of Our European Sovereignty, William W. McCrary Jr. 141 Nikki Haley 50 Jean-Claude Juncker 297

Fourth Industrial Revolution Empathy F People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age, Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, Jim Fitterling 20 Ronald Berenbeim 348 Facebook

At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough, France-United States Relations Mark Zuckerberg 188 A New Breed of Multilateralism, Emmanuel Macron 154 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX

Francis, Pope The Vision of the Brexit That We Fought For, Indo-Pacific-United States Relations Boris Johnson 251 We Must Now Ensure That from Words Flow We Are Not Going to Let the United States Actions, Be Taken Advantage of Anymore, Leo Varadkar 290 Greek-Americans Donald Trump 6

The Educated Mind, Freedom of Speech James Stavridis 101 International Cooperation Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort, Thoughts on Pie: Peace or Justice?, Bret Stephens 117 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Ana Rold 163

An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned Truth, Caring for the Fifth Constituent, Betsy DeVos 320 Jim Fish 103 International Criminal Court We Have to Change … and That Is What We Will Not Cooperate with the International Freedom of the Press Shell Is Going to Do, Criminal Court, Ben Van Beurden 126 John Bolton 302 The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy, Jeff Flake 75 Negotiating the Future of Energy, Bob Dudley 169 International Economic Relations G U.S. Society Is Mistaken in Making China the Gun Control Scapegoat for Its Own Problems, Wang Wen 189 Gender Bias We Call BS, Emma Gonzalez 94 Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in International Relations Economics, Six Minutes and 20 Seconds, Mary C. Daly 190 Emma Gonzalez 148 Four Vital National Interests, Donald Trump 34 Generic Drugs H Four Questions About American Greatness, Bret Stephens 43 Our Biosimilars Action Plan, Scott Gottlieb 284 History A New Breed of Multilateralism, Emmanuel Macron 154 How Can We Avoid Erasure, on the One Hand, God, Love and Petrification on the Other?, America Chooses Independence Over Global Maud S. Mandel 318 Government, We Must Discover the Power of Love, Donald Trump 294 Michael Bruce Curry 202 Honor The International Landscape Continues to Golden Globe Awards Be Complicated, Here’s an Honor Code for Life, Li Keqiang 338 Michael Bloomberg 218 Their Time Is Up, Seeking Security in a Turbulent World, Oprah Winfrey 69 Dan Caldwell 341 Housing and Urban Development

Governors, Missouri In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation International Security and Coordination, I Will Resign as Governor of Missouri, Ben Carson 164 Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, Eric Greitens 201 Benjamin Netanyahu 306 Human Experimentation in Medicine Governors, Virginia International Space Law A Personal Connection, We Are Bigger Than This, Betty Neal Crutcher 16 A New Concept of National Power in Outer Ralph Northam 72 Space, Lamar Smith 288 Great Britain-European Union Relations Human Rights Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of Our Age, International Trade Barack Obama 234 Boris Johnson 111 We Are Not Going to Let the United States Brexit: The Five Tests, Be Taken Advantage of Anymore, I Theresa May 134 Donald Trump 6 The Vision of the Brexit That We Fought For, America First Does Not Mean America Alone, India, History Boris Johnson 251 Donald Trump 77 Your Own Migration, Time to Inject More Certainty into Our Trade Great Britain, Politics and Government Devika Chawla 229 Policies, Jerry Moran 279 Brexit: The Five Tests, Theresa May 134 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018

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The United States Will Withdraw from the In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen Nuclear Deal, the Story of America, Leadership in Women Donald Trump 182 Mike Pence 79 Give Me the Effing Ball, What We Demand from Iran, Darkness Is Descending on Our Region, Abby Wambach 209 Mike Pompeo 184 Benjamin Netanyahu 131 Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, Israel Is a Fortress, but Still Not a Home, LGBTQ2 People Benjamin Netanyahu 306 David Grossman 172 We Were Wrong. We Are Sorry. And We Will Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, Never Let This Happen Again., Iran, Politics and Government Benjamin Netanyahu 306 Justin Trudeau 12 In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen Life Skills the Story of America, Job Satisfaction Mike Pence 79 So What Unites Us?, From the White House to the Wardrobe Darkness Is Descending on Our Region, Marc Veasey 46 Malfunction: Advice from an Unexpected Benjamin Netanyahu 131 Career Path, Kevin Martin 212 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Ireland, Politics and Government The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t Bend The United States Will Withdraw from the on Its Own, A Real Republic, Nuclear Deal, Mitch Landrieu 216 Michael D. Higgins 358 Donald Trump 182 The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey, What We Demand from Iran, Christine Lagarde 225 Irish Abortion Referendum Mike Pompeo 184 Abortion, Yes or No?, Lobbying Leo Varadkar 70, 116 Journalism A Crisis of Faith, Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort, Elizabeth Warren 274 Israel, Politics and Government Bret Stephens 117 Darkness Is Descending on Our Region, Love Benjamin Netanyahu 131 Judges We Must Discover the Power of Love, Israel Is a Fortress, but Still Not a Home, An Independent Judiciary Is the Crown Jewel Michael Bruce Curry 202 David Grossman 172 of Our Constitutional Republic, Brett Kavanaugh 243 M Israel-United States Relations K In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen Mandela, Nelson the Story of America, Mike Pence 79 Kansas, Economic Conditions Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Barack Obama 234 Darkness Is Descending on Our Region, Time to Inject More Certainty into Our Benjamin Netanyahu 131 Trade Policies, Mandela, Winnie Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, Jerry Moran 279 Benjamin Netanyahu 306 Who My Mother Really Was, Kavanaugh, Brett Zenani Mandela-Dlamini 174

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Manned Space Flight Decisions, Israel Is a Fortress, but Still Not a Home, Jeff Flake 316 David Grossman 172 Look Up, Mae Jemison 51 Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, Kent State Shootings Benjamin Netanyahu 306 Manufactured Housing Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey J of the Wounded Healer, In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation Beverly J. Warren 268 and Coordination, Ben Carson 164 Japan-United States Relations Kindness Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar, Mass Shootings I’d Like to Take Us Back to Kindness and Mike Pence 109 Wonder, We Call BS, David Bieter 323 Emma Gonzalez 94 Six Minutes and 20 Seconds, Emma Gonzalez 148 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX

Mayors, Houston (Tex.) N Nuclear Weapons, Iran

Pragmatism and Compassion, The United States Will Withdraw from the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. 10 Nassar, Larry Nuclear Deal, Donald Trump 182 Remember What You Have Witnessed These Mayors, New Orleans (La.) Past Seven Days, What We Demand from Iran, Rachael Denhollander 83 Mike Pompeo 184 There’s Only Us, Latoya Cantrell 197 Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse, National Cancer Institute Benjamin Netanyahu 306

McCain, John The Power and Promise of Cancer Research, Norman E. Sharpless 253 O A Man with a Code, George W. Bush 262 National Council of Textile Oil and Gas Industry We Never Doubted That We Were on the Organizations Same Team, We Have to Change … and That Is What Barack Obama 263 The .U S. Textile Industry Must Seize This Shell Is Going to Do, He Was a Great Man, Generational Opportunity, Ben Van Beurden 126 William W. McCrary Jr. 141 Meghan McCain 265 The New Energy Realism, Rick Perry 128 National Football League Me Too Movement Negotiating the Future of Energy, Bob Dudley 169 Their Time Is Up, The Secret Is in the Dirt, Jason Witten 198 Oprah Winfrey 69 We’re Characterized as Being at the Root of the Problem, Medicine National Rifle Association Bob Dudley 350

The Power and Promise of Cancer Research, We Call BS, Oncology Norman E. Sharpless 253 Emma Gonzalez 94 The Power and Promise of Cancer Research, Middle East, Politics and Government National Security Norman E. Sharpless 253

In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen Four Vital National Interests, Donald Trump 34 Opioid Abuse the Story of America, Mike Pence 79 Seeking Security in a Turbulent World, Ending the Opioid Crisis: Our Mission Isn’t Dan Caldwell 341 Hopeless, Migration Jeff Sessions 144 Native Americans Your Own Migration, Outer Space Treaty Devika Chawla 229 Pocahontas’s Real Journey, Elizabeth Warren 96 A New Concept of National Power in Outer Military Strikes, Syria Space, New Orleans (La.), Politics and Lamar Smith 288 Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This Government Action Now, P Donald Trump 162 There’s Only Us, Latoya Cantrell 197 Missouri, Politics and Government Partisan Politics New York Times I Will Resign as Governor of Missouri, Here’s an Honor Code for Life, Michael Bloomberg 218 Eric Greitens 201 Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort, Bret Stephens 117 Monetary Policy Philosophy, Ancient North Korea, Politics and Government Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm Three Ideas of the University, Gene Fendt 353 When the Data Meet the Forecasts, Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North, John C. Williams 98 Donald Trump 2 Plato’s Academy What Financial Change Has Wrought: the Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar, Last Half Century and Beyond, Mike Pence 109 Three Ideas of the University, Henry Kaufman 344 Gene Fendt 353 Nuclear Arms Control, North Korea

Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar, Mike Pence 109 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018

Political Activists, South Africa It Did Not Start with Donald Trump, Research Universities Barack Obama 309 Who My Mother Really Was, The University-Government Research Zenani Mandela-Dlamini 174 Partnership Is at Risk, Presidents, Ireland Mary Sue Coleman 244

Political Corruption A Real Republic, Michael D. Higgins 358 Resilience A Crisis of Faith, Elizabeth Warren 274 The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey, Privacy, Right Of Christine Lagarde 225

Political Leadership At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough, Your Own Migration, Mark Zuckerberg 188 Devika Chawla 229 Pragmatism and Compassion, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. 10 Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Against Us, Royal Weddings Four Questions About American Greatness, Tim Cook 330 Bret Stephens 43 We Must Discover the Power of Love, Michael Bruce Curry 202 Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State of Propaganda, Russian Our Politics: A Way Forward, Jeff Flake 148 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have Rule of Law Looked the Other Way, How Did This Happen to Us?, H.R. McMaster 159 Political Participation Jeff Flake 193 Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey Public Health of the Wounded Healer, Russia, Foreign Relations Beverly J. Warren 268 Our Biosimilars Action Plan, On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have Scott Gottlieb 284 It Did Not Start with Donald Trump, Looked the Other Way, Barack Obama 309 H.R. McMaster 159 Public Housing S Political Persecution, Canada In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation and Coordination, We Were Wrong. We Are Sorry. And We Will Ben Carson 164 School Choice Never Let This Happen Again., Justin Trudeau 12 R Committed to Expanding Education Freedom, Betsy DeVos 248 Prescription Drugs Race Discrimination School Shootings Ending the Opioid Crisis: Our Mission Isn’t Pocahontas’s Real Journey, Hopeless, We Call BS, Elizabeth Warren 96 Jeff Sessions 144 Emma Gonzalez 94 Our Biosimilars Action Plan, Six Minutes and 20 Seconds, Recycling Industry Scott Gottlieb 284 Emma Gonzalez 148 Caring for the Fifth Constituent, Presidency of Donald Trump Jim Fish 103 Scotland, Politics and Government

That’s Why I’m a Democrat, Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass, Renewable Energy Sources Al Franken ...... 37 Richard Leonard ...... 250 The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy, The New Energy Realism, Jeff Flake 75 Rick Perry 128 Scottish Labour Party Negotiating the Future of Energy, Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State of Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass, Bob Dudley 169 Our Politics: A Way Forward, Richard Leonard ...... 250 Jeff Flake 148 How Did This Happen to Us?, Republican Party Sea Power Jeff Flake 193 That’s Why I’m a Democrat, The Sea Is History, Al Franken ...... 37 Here’s an Honor Code for Life, James Stavridis 221 Michael Bloomberg 218 It Did Not Start with Donald Trump, Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass, Barack Obama 309 Selectmen, Connecticut Richard Leonard ...... 250 A Tall Order, a Small Step, Research, Government Policy A Crisis of Faith, Vicki Tesoro 53 Elizabeth Warren 274 The University-Government Research Partnership Is at Risk, Mary Sue Coleman 244 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings South Korea-United States Relations The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t Bend on Its Own, We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North, Mitch Landrieu 216 Decisions, Donald Trump 2 Jeff Flake 316 Sovereignty Success in Business Sex Discrimination Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and We Will Not Cooperate with the International Hope for America’s Future, Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in Criminal Court, Muhtar Kent 22 Economics, John Bolton 302 Mary C. Daly 190 Space Shuttle (Endeavor) Supreme Court Nominees Sexual Minorities An Independent Judiciary Is the Crown Jewel Look Up, of Our Constitutional Republic, We Were Wrong. We Are Sorry. And We Mae Jemison 51 Brett Kavanaugh 243 Will Never Let This Happen Again., Justin Trudeau 12 Space Exploration We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Decisions, Sexually Abused Children A New Concept of National Power in Outer Jeff Flake 316 Space, Remember What You Have Witnessed These Lamar Smith 288 Sustainable Agriculture Past Seven Days, Rachael Denhollander 83 Space Traffic Management Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody, Sexually Abused Children, Australia A New Concept of National Power in Outer James C. Collins 280 Space, I Believe You. We Believe You. Your Country Lamar Smith 288 Sustainable Development Believes You., Scott Morrison 359 State of the City, Boise (Idaho) People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age, Jim Fitterling 20 I’d Like to Take Us Back to Kindness and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Caring for the Fifth Constituent, Wonder, Jim Fish 103 The International Landscape Continues to Be David Bieter 323 Complicated, Li Keqiang 338 State of the European Union Syria, Politics and Government Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This Action Shell Oil Company The Honor of Our European Sovereignty, Now, Jean-Claude Juncker 297 We Have to Change … and That Is What Shell Donald Trump 162 Is Going to Do, State of the Union Ben Van Beurden 126 T We Are Building a Safe, Strong and Proud Soccer Players America, Donald Trump 62 Teaching Give Me the Effing Ball, We Choose Both. We Fight for Both., The Educated Mind, Abby Wambach 209 Joe Kennedy III 68 James Stavridis 101

Social Justice Stoneman Douglas High School Technology Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Shooting Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Barack Obama 234 We Call BS, Against Us, Emma Gonzalez 94 Tim Cook 330 Social Media, Security Measures Six Minutes and 20 Seconds, At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough, Emma Gonzalez 148 Textile Industry Mark Zuckerberg 188 You’re Not the Future. You’re the Present., The .U S. Textile Industry Must Seize This Jimmy Fallon 228 Generational Opportunity, Social Values William W. McCrary Jr. 141

Think Uniquely, Stand United, Success Amy Gutmann 223 Too Big to Fail So What Unites Us?, Marc Veasey 46 What Financial Change Has Wrought: the South Africa, History Last Half Century and Beyond, From the White House to the Wardrobe Henry Kaufman 344 Given the Strange and Uncertain Times We’re In, Malfunction: Advice from an Unexpected Barack Obama 234 Career Path, Kevin Martin 212 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018

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Beware of Tribes, Seeking Security in a Turbulent World, Time to Officially Recognize Jerusalem as Mitch Daniels 206 Dan Caldwell 341 the Capital of Israel, Donald Trump 49 Triple Bottom Line United States-Baltic States Relations The United States Will Remember This Day, Nikki Haley 50 People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age, On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have Jim Fitterling 20 Looked the Other Way, In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen H.R. McMaster 159 the Story of America, Trumbull (Conn.), Politics and Mike Pence 79 Government United States-China Relations United States-Japan Relations A Tall Order, a Small Step, U.S. Society Is Mistaken in Making China the Vicki Tesoro 53 Scapegoat for Its Own Problems, Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar, Wang Wen 189 Mike Pence 109 Trust A New Approach to China, Mike Pence 333 United States, Military Policy Beware of Tribes, Mitch Daniels 206 Seeking Security in a Turbulent World, United States, Department of State Dan Caldwell 341 Truth The Most Precious Thing You Possess, Rex W. Tillerson 147 United States Navy An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned Truth, Betsy DeVos 320 The Sea Is History, United States, Economic Conditions James Stavridis 221 Truth, Political Aspects Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm When the Data Meet the Forecasts, United States, Politics and Government The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy, John C. Williams 98 Jeff Flake 75 Four Vital National Interests, Donald Trump 34 Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State of United States, Foreign Relations Our Politics: A Way Forward, That’s Why I’m a Democrat, Jeff Flake 148 The United States Will Remember This Day, Al Franken ...... 37 Nikki Haley 50 How Did This Happen to Us?, Four Questions About American Greatness, Jeff Flake 193 America First Does Not Mean America Alone, Bret Stephens 43 Donald Trump 77 Here’s an Honor Code for Life, Time to Officially Recognize Jerusalem as the Michael Bloomberg 218 The Most Precious Thing You Possess, Capital of Israel, Rex W. Tillerson 147 Donald Trump 49 Tuskegee Syphilis Study America Chooses Independence Over Global We Are Building a Safe, Strong and Proud Government, America, A Personal Connection, Donald Trump 294 Donald Trump 62 Betty Neal Crutcher 16 We Will Not Cooperate with the International We Choose Both. We Fight for Both., U Criminal Court, Joe Kennedy III 68 John Bolton 302 The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy, Unfair Trade Practices United States-France Relations Jeff Flake 75 America First Does Not Mean America Alone, Time to Inject More Certainty into Our A New Breed of Multilateralism, Donald Trump 77 Trade Policies, Emmanuel Macron 154 Jerry Moran 279 Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State of United States-Indo-Pacific Relations Our Politics: A Way Forward, Uniqueness Jeff Flake 148 We Are Not Going to Let the United States A Crisis of Faith, Think Uniquely, Stand United, Be Taken Advantage of Anymore, Elizabeth Warren 274 Amy Gutmann 223 Donald Trump 6 America Chooses Independence Over Global United Nations United States-Iran Relations Government, Donald Trump 294 The United States Will Remember This Day, The United States Will Withdraw from the It Did Not Start with Donald Trump, Nikki Haley 50 Nuclear Deal, Barack Obama 309 Donald Trump 182 What We Demand from Iran, Mike Pompeo 184 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX

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A Man with a Code, That’s Why I’m a Democrat, Remember What You Have Witnessed These George W. Bush 262 Al Franken ...... 37 Past Seven Days, White, Bill Rachael Denhollander 83 We Never Doubted That We Were on the Same Team, Pragmatism and Compassion, Women Political Activists Barack Obama 263 Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. 10 Who My Mother Really Was, He Was a Great Man, Williams College Zenani Mandela-Dlamini 174 Meghan McCain 265 How Can We Avoid Erasure, on the One Women Soccer Players United States, Social Policy Hand, and Petrification on the Other?, Maud S. Mandel 318 Give Me the Effing Ball, That’s Why I’m a Democrat, Abby Wambach 209 Al Franken ...... 37 Women Economists Women’s Rights United States-South Korea Relations Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in Economics, Their Time Is Up, Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North, Mary C. Daly 190 Oprah Winfrey 69 Donald Trump 2 Abortion, Yes or No?, Women Entrepreneurs Leo Varadkar 70, 116 United States, Trade Policy The Future We Can and Will Build Together, Time to Inject More Certainty into Our Trade Ivanka Trump 17 Work Ethic Policies, Jerry Moran 279 So What Unites Us?, Marc Veasey 46 Universities and Colleges

Three Ideas of the University, Gene Fendt 353

Utilitarianism

Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, Ronald Berenbeim 348

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