Blair urges renewed commitment to values that built Western cultureIn an age when Western civilization is facing acute challenges, Tony Blair said westerners must continue to hold strongly to their beliefs in freedom, democracy, the rule of law and equality.
“These values are what make our nations great,” Blair said Oct. 3 at Union University’s 14th annual Scholarship Banquet. “It sustains them now and will sustain them in the future. They are the things that make our way of life worth standing up for and worth believing in.”
Blair, who served as Great Britain’s prime minister from 1997-2007, was the keynote speaker for the annual event, which drew about 2,000 people to the Carl Perkins Civic Center and raised about $500,000 for student scholarships. READ MORE
Bush reflects on 8 years as first ladyDespite the media regularly portraying her as a stereotypical 1950s-era housewife who kept her opinions to herself, former first lady Laura Bush has plenty of strong beliefs about national and international affairs, she said Oct. 19, 2010.
She shared some of those opinions during her address at Union University’s 13th annual Scholarship Banquet at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. The event drew about 1,700 people and raised about $600,000 for student scholarships, bringing to more than $5 million the total amount that has been raised for student support through the Scholarship Banquet.
Bush talked about the eight years she spent in the White House, and about how she and her husband George are adjusting to their post-presidential life in Texas.
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