Contents

Preface

I. Secrecy and Disclosure

1. Steven M. Martinez. Computer Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act
2. Bill Moyers. In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind
3. Michael V. Hayden. What American Intelligence and Especially the NSA Have Been Doing to Defend the Nation
4. Hodding Carter III. Fooling the People

II. American Culture and the Arts

1. Jean Trounstine. Eight Things I Learned in the Belly of the Whale
2. Andrew Taylor. The Footprints, the Giant, and the Rotarians:
    Exploring the Value of the Arts to Communities
3. William Safire. “Never Show the Audience the Back of Your Neck”:
    The Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
4. Anne Bogart. Southeastern Theatre Conference

III. Responding to Natural Disasters

1. George W. Bush. Address to the Nation from New Orleans
2. Jerry Elman. Hashanah President’s Speech
3. Dianne Feinstein. Conference to Commemorate the Centennial Anniversary
    of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
4. Michael Chertoff. National Convention of the American Red Cross

IV. Farming and Agriculture

1. Chuck Hassebrook. Transformational Farm Policy: Will It Work?
2. Justin Isherwood. On Where Wilderness:
    Thoughts on the Virtue of Farm, Family, and the Rural Life
3. Mike Johanns. 2006 Agricultural Outlook Forum:
    Farm Policy A Portfolio of Economic Opportunity for Rural America
4. Odessa Piper. University of Wisconsin—Madison Commencement Address

V. Africa

1. Condoleezza Rice. Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA) Forum
2. Jendayi Frazer. Center for International Political Studies
3. Jeffrey Krilla. The Endangered Children of Northern Uganda
4. Linda Thomas-Greenfield. State of Democracy and Human Rights in Africa:
    The U.S. Perspective

Cumulative Speaker Index: 2000-2006

Index

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