And so instead of doing all the talking, what I want to do is maybe just provide a few opening remarks and then basically have aconversation with you about things that are important to you and important to this community, important to this state.
This is a standard conversation, like the classic opening moves of a chess game, where what matters, much more than what one says (which is brief and obvious), is the tone in which one says it.
The opening night cocktail on Sunday included a long and lovely conversation with Lem Daniels of Deutsche Bank and Treasurer of the Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce.