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Presentation of the colors that will be followed by the singing of the national anthem. [inaudible conversations] poco [applause] [applause] [applause] please be seated. Thank you to the West Covina High School and rotc honor guar guard. I would like to recognize some special guests with us this evening. Please welcome to members from the board of directors of the Richard Nixon foundation, john and sandy quinn. [applause] Orange County supervisor. Members of the city council including the mayor,...

Members and guests appear and guests. Tonight i have the honor of introducing a friend an academic colleague who also happens to be a bestselling author, columnist, speaker, commentator and senior Level Management strategist peter guest speaker has worked with president s and popes from here at home to south asia to iraq. For more than 20 years, our speaker has provided strategic and crisis communication counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, not for profits, advocacy c...

Knowledge my staff is here in a board member as well with you can wave your hand. [applause] we have many partners year of busboys and poets they have been a trend is partner with all of our evens eighth this double love literary art so by citing the list you will receive information about that some however like to bring our Program Partner up from busboys and poets. We have the Public Events manager. [applause] i and the booking Events Manager here so for those of you dont know now they are bus...

Merrimack river, and it is usually a headquarters for president ial campaigns. Every four years. But its the state capital or about 10,000 state workers within probably 20 miles of where were sitting. You mentioned the state capital. Do we had that way . Yes. Lets go see the capital. This is the capital, was built about 1816. It is the oldest capital where the Legislature Still sits in the original chamber. Its had a little bit of expansion but its essentially the same building as in the early 1...

And now on book tv on cspan2 it as live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Todays author schedule includes msnbc chris hayes, law professor cheryl and National Book award kathy oneill and recently named National Book award finalist. We will kick off today with a discussion on the immigrant experience. This is a book tvs live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Good morning. Welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Those of you brooklynites get that punch line but being the only law s...

Hi everyone i am carolyn greer, the producer of the brooklyn book festival with my colleague ms. Koch. We are in our 12th year this season and so delighted to have all of the fabulous authors participating. This year we had a very special circumstance with this particular program. Which is very important and very compelling on the subject of refugees. We decided to go in a different direction and do it from reporters. Telling from their insight and experiences in the field. And what happened is ...

Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be f...

Quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will enjoy all the programming on cspan booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. Just keep reading. Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by s...

You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading. Heres what oklahoma congressman Steve Russell had to say. I read all kinds of stuff. Im a voracious history reader. Not much onion fiction although there are some. I just finished a fiction book, i should say im not much on fiction. But i did just finish a fiction book by Derek Robinson that was kind of a british antiwar protest on a world war i setting, and it ki...

[inaudible conversations] hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. Im lilly myer, the Events Manager at politics and prose. Im glad you all came. First a few things before we get started. In case you missed the sign, this weekend is a member sale. All books or 20 off if youre a member. Youre not a member, its a great way to support your local indy book store and get 25 off and the other way to support your local book store is attend a evens. In september were hosting salmon rushdie. I hope youll...