…If Chocolate and Chip had a good night’s rest at the Willard hotel last night, they should be in fine form this AM. I saw them strutting their stuff & fanning their tail feathers at their press conference yesterday, where National Turkey Federation chairman Ronnie Parker was justifiably thrilled at the whole affair…
…As I navigate the strike, I see it as evidence of a broken system that is harming its most vulnerable people. Public funding of universities is drying up so we have switched from having tenure-track faculty do most of the work, to having lower paid employees do it. Those who are suffering are those with the least power in the system,…
…I greatly appreciate your attendance at ASEAN. According to the NYT “showing up matters” especially in Asia. According to the WP, one of your “enduring challenges… (is) to persuade your fellow leaders that former (POTUS’) disruption of American foreign policy was an aberration, not a long-lasting shift.”…
…Are you ready for your trip? I’ve never been to any of the places that you will be visiting. I hope you get a couple of minutes to go to the beach in Sharm El-Sheikh. It’s too bad that you’ll be too busy talking to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi about jailed activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to go snorkeling….
