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Virtual Signature Event Governor Ralph Northam, Steven Collis Virtual Signature Event Governor Ralph Northam, Steven Collis, Ralph Boyd, Jr., & Secretary Lonnie Bunch The Honorable Ralph S. Northam Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia Steven H. Collis Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer AmerisourceBergen Corporation Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. President and CEO of So Others Might Eat (SOME) The Honorable Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary of The Smithsonian Institution Moderator: David M. Rubenstein President, The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Friday, June 12, 2020 1 ANNOUNCER: Please welcome David Rubenstein, president of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN: Welcome, everyone, this morning. I appreciate your joining us. Today is our 12th Virtual Signature Event since we began doing these virtual events. And today we have four extraordinary guests. And I will just introduce them briefly now, and then I’ll give you a little bit more introduction when they actually do the discussion with them. First, of course will be the honorable Ralph Northam, who is the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the 73rd governor. After Governor Northam we’ll have Steve Collis, who’s the chairman, president, and CEO of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, which is the largest wholesale distributor of pharmaceuticals in the United States. He will be followed by Ralph Boyd, president and CEO of So Others Might Eat, SOME as it’s known. And then, finally, we’ll have the honorable Lonnie Bunch, who is a secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. So now let me talk with our first guest, the governor of Virginia, the commonwealth of Virginia, the 73rd governor, Governor Ralph Northam. Thank you very much, Governor, for coming. VIRGINIA GOVERNOR RALPH S. NORTHAM (D): David, thanks so much for having me. And I hope you and yours are all staying healthy and safe during this pandemic. MR. RUBENSTEIN: Thank you. And I should point out that the governor has an unusual background. Most people in political life might be a lawyer, maybe a businessperson in some respects. But the governor is a pediatric neurologist. There are very few pediatric neurologists who wind up being governor of states. But he is maybe one of the first. And he is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, VMI. Went into the military for eight years. And while in the military got his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School. And, as I say, practiced pediatric neurology for quite some time before he got into government. And he was a state senator, a lieutenant governor, and now a governor. So, Governor, you made a little news recently when you thought that it would be a good idea for the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond to be taken down. And now a court has held it up for a bit. What’s the status of that? GOV. NORTHAM: Well, it is in the court system. But, David, just going back a little bit, these statues have been the source of a lot of divisiveness for years. They have been discussed. And then we had the tragedy, as most people remember, in Charlottesville a couple years ago. And that was really centered around the Robert E. Lee statue. We lost a young lady during that time, one of the protesters. Lost two of our state troopers. And then, you know, we had the unrest – the terrible tragedy in Minneapolis that really brought this into focus again. And we’ve had a number of marches, protests. And, again, this Robert E. Lee statue is just a symbol. It glorifies a time in our history that we should – none of us should be proud of. And so, I made the decision that it needs to 2 come down. Now, interestingly, David, there are other Confederate monuments in Richmond. They are owned and controlled by the city of Richmond. The statue of Robert E. Lee, and there’s some interesting history of that, was put up in 1890. But it is owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia. So, we’ve actually been looking at this legally, talking with our counsel over the last year. We feel that we’re on solid ground. But there has been two lawsuits. There’s an injunction right now that will go on for a few days. We hope this process will go quickly, and at the end of the day this statue will come down. MR. RUBENSTEIN: When it comes down, what will you do with the statue? Will you give it to somebody else, or will you destroy it? What do you do with the statue? GOV. NORTHAM: Well, it will go into storage initially, in a safe place. And then there will be discussion on where it would best be placed, whether that be in a museum or in a cemetery. And then there’s a little bit more complicated, the pedestal on which the statue stands. We will have discussion on what to do with that, whether that should be taken down or whether we could use that to put different exhibits to welcome people to Richmond. As you may know, Richmond has become a very diverse, progressive, and inclusive city. And, again, this is a gateway – this Monument Avenue is a gateway into the city of Richmond. And I think there are a lot of better ways we can promote inclusiveness and diversity than what’s on top of the pedestal now. MR. RUBENSTEIN: So, are there other statues or Confederate symbols that are also under the control of the governor, and so that you could remove that? And are you planning to do so? Or are there others like this? GOV. NORTHAM: This is the only one that’s strictly under control of the Commonwealth. There are a couple of statues on Capitol Square that – one of Robert E. Lee, another of Harry Byrd. A lot of discussion is going on as to what to do with those. But we’ll let the General Assembly, the legislature, decide on that. And I’ll certainly work with them. But this particular statue, the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue, is the one that we have control over at present. MR. RUBENSTEIN: So, the killing of George Floyd is a wake-up moment for many Americans. And are you, as the governor, working on any other initiatives to kind of reduce racial tensions and to increase the dialogue between the races about what might be done to improve their relationships? Is there anything else you’re doing now? GOV. NORTHAM: We are, David. And just to kind of look at our history of 400 years, I think this is what a lot of people really need understand, especially people not of color, like you and me, and I suspect a lot of your viewers. And that is the subject of black oppression. And I think that if you look at our history, you know, we obviously had the Civil War. And that’s behind us. And then we had Jim Crow. And now that’s behind us. Then we had massive resistance and then mass incarceration. And I think what this episode in Minneapolis just displayed, brought into focus, was that we still have black oppression in our society today, just in a different form. So, there are a lot of what I would call other monuments of inequities – inequities in access to health care, access to 3 education, access to the voting booth, access to business opportunities. And so, our administration has been working on a lot of those, but we obviously have a lot more work to do. And we’re committed to doing that. I have another year and a half left. And we’re going to continue to allow the good work that’s been done already. MR. RUBENSTEIN: Now you point out you have a year and a half left. Virginia is the only state in the union which only allows its governor one term consecutively. You can run after if you’re out for a while. Do you think that’s a good idea or not? GOV. NORTHAM: Well, I could argue both sides of it. You know, David, I’m smiling a little bit. You know, with COVID-19 this has been 24/7 just nonstop for me and for our Cabinet secretaries, our administration. So right now, I would lean toward saying that one term is a very good idea. Obviously, I followed, you know, Governor McAuliffe. I was his lieutenant governor. We worked very closely together. So, when the same party, you know, takes over, it makes it a lot more consistent with a lot of the things – priorities that we’ve been working on. You know, if you switch parties then you have to kind of start reinventing the wheels. So, there are pros and cons but, you know, following Terry [McAuliffe] was a good thing. And we’ve had our hands full. And I kid with people, you know, we’ve – we had a great session. Got a lot of good things done, a very progressive budget, and then COVID-19 and now the racial unrest, the last thing we need right now at this time of year is a hurricane. So, we’ll keep our fingers crossed. But hopefully we can get through this fall and get out of COVID-19, get our economy recovering, kind of get back to near normal as best we can. MR. RUBENSTEIN: You also followed Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. They were previous governors. Is it kind of intimidating to sit in the same seat that those individuals had? GOV.
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