Said the president's next stop was
the UConn Storrs campus. He was
there to speak at the rededication
of the Dodd Center for Human Rights
named for former Connecticut Senator
Chris Dodd and his father Thomas Dodd,
who was a prosecutor in the Nuremberg
Trials before he was a U S senator.
Mr Biden gave a lengthy and wide ranging
speech invoking images of the Holocaust
and the human rights atrocities committed
by Nazi war criminals and advocated
defending human rights and dignity.
To deal with the past,
you must face the truth.
Well, there's Dachau Buchenwald Auschwitz.
Or other camps. Millions.
Of Jews rounded up.
Along with members of other
minority groups thrown into camps,
abused, used as forced labor,
medical experimentation,
6 million Jews murdered.
Including so many who
met their ultimate fate.
In the gas chamber.
The president also made the point
that there are fewer democracies in
the world today than there were 15
years ago and said human rights and
democratic principles are under assault.
For his part, former Connecticut Senator
Chris Dodd said he was deeply grateful
to UConn for recognizing his family
by Rededicating the Dodd Center for
Human Rights and that he was honored
that President Biden made the trip.
Having my friend the President,
to come here was just inviting someone
who has a I have a good friendship with.
He has over his entire public career
dedicated much of it to human rights,
and so it was a wonderful compliment
personally. But beyond that,
it's more of a compliment to the issue.
It's a great honor. Genuine art.
And at this great public university.
Celebrating the life and
legacy of not one but.
Two proud sons of Connecticut.
Senator Thomas Dodd and my good
friend and we truly are really
good close friends to Chris Dot.
The rededication of the Dodd Center
was an invitation only event not
open to the student body at UConn.
But that doesn't mean the students didn't
have opinions about the president's
visit and the president's policies.
FOX 61's Matt Karen brings a student
reaction and a look at how this
presidential visit came to be.
Well, the stage was quite literally set.
Officials from UConn telling me that this
day has been in the works for quite a while.
They were just waiting on word from
the White House on when it would happen
and it ended up being today UConn.
It's a really great thing for any university
to have a sitting president come and visit
a sprawling metropolis of education.
How often does the President
come to your school on this day?
Hosting the leader of the free world,
they're pulling out all the stops.
They imported trees, it was.
All the buzz we were talking about how
the library is probably going to be.
You know, all full of Secret
Service security was tight.
Fox 61 asked what would these
students say to the President.
The messages were mixed.
Welcome to UConn.
We're really glad to have you here.
Cancel student loan debt
please pretty please.
I would say that you're not welcome here.
I think it's exciting that he's coming,
but excitement wasn't the word
for everyone. He's done stuff.
I don't like to for messages
scrawled in chalk on the pavement
to the trendy anti Biden meme.
Let's go, Brandon.
Right to the student Rec
Center where students gathered
with signs claiming President
Biden was anti human rights.
He has betrayed and neglected
almost all of the promises that
he has made during his campaign.
Furthermore, his career has
been completely antithetical
to the pursuit of human rights,
to which we here are extremely committed to
the President arrived via Marine One
helicopter descending to attend the
dedication of the Dodd Center for
Human Rights in honor of former father
and son US senators from Connecticut,
Thomas and Chris Dodd.
It's one of the largest human rights
collections anywhere in the country.
It's a great testimony to the
strength of the program we've
built here in human rights to the
legacy of Tom and Chris Dodd,
and to what we hope is a bright
future of human rights at Yukon.
Looming beneath the excitement
of the presidential visit,
his 38% approval rating,
a national supply chain shortage
and an infrastructure bill
that some people disagree with.
We hope the federal government will
not repeat Connecticut's mistake.
When you have a.
An infrastructure bill that
specifically directs jobs to labor
unions rather than to those who can
do the job's best and most efficiently.
You have one of two results.
Either the public gets less than it
should or you end up with projects
that cost more than they should.
The last time UConn had a
sitting president visit,
the university was back in 1995.
Then President Bill Clinton came here,
ironically enough to open the
Dodd Center for Human Rights.
Reporting on the UConn campus at Storrs.
Matt Karen Fox 61 news.