Bob Iger honored by Save the Children, amid Oprah Winfrey (Oprah)'s presidential prodding
"There is not a human being on the planet Earth that I hold in higher regard than Robert Iger, no one," Winfrey said of the Walt Disney Company CEO at the event which also honored Jennifer Garner.
"I'm reminded of something that Ronald Reagan said to Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential debate: ‘There you go again,'" quipped Iger, who has in recent months steadfastly rebuffed any talk of entering the already crowded field of election contenders. "Please: I am not about to become the 25th or the 30th person seeking the presidency in 2020. But I certainly hope that whoever runs and whoever wins makes the safety and well-being of children their number one priority.
Winfrey recounted how, under Iger’s leadership, "Disney employees take part in a variety of volunteer efforts that support Save the Children's mission, including Kids for Kids. It's a Disney funded initiative in which Disney volunteers had filled tens and tens of thousands of backpacks with school supplies, personal care products, toys and books that are then distributed to children in need.
"I often believe that profound change is needed to ensure that every child has the support that they need to thrive and to rise and to become everything God meant them to be, regardless of background, regardless of ethnicity, geography, or circumstance," Iger added.
Garner recalled that early on in her pursuit of philanthropic causes to become involved in, she told her team "'Whatever fundraising, whatever policy work, whatever you want me to do, I'll do, but you have to balance it with site visits,’ because I have to have just met a family in order to talk about them, and I'm nothing without stories, because I'm not an expert…So I've gotten to go on site visits across the country over and over and over again, and it's the most...
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