Andrew Milgram

It was part of Romania then.

But he and his oldest brother walked down to the Black Sea, caught a boat, ended up in Curacao.

and would make enough money to bring each brother five brothers total over they moved their parents into mandatory palestine and then ultimately they'd go back for a for the arranged marriage and because there were ultimately not a lot of jewish girls running around in latin america in those days

And so he had gone to Eretz Israel to get married.

My father was born there, but then raised in Latin America, came to this country for education, couldn't get a visa.

There were constraints on Jewish immigration in those days.

And so went back to Venezuela, had met a guy here in the United States that he had gotten to be pretty friendly with.

And they had this correspondence back and forth about how to start a business and what would they do.

And ultimately, my father, after several years, was able to come back to the United States.

And he and his business partner went to my hometown, Beaumont, Texas, and started their first business was a precast concrete business.

And they grew that and they grew that into a number of other businesses that ultimately service the oil industry.

America is like the greatest system that has ever existed.

It is the greatest economy.

It's the greatest economic system, greatest political system that has ever existed.

But countries like companies are delicate.

They're fragile.

They require care and feeding.

They require respect.

They require engagement.

And they're subject to abuse.