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Welcome. The 64th secretary of state, we are here to talk about her new book, health and other destinations which is an interesting book. I just finished reading it. I look forward to this conversation about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you. I enjoy talking with you anyti anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building of the library congress, shes in her home, i should disclose weve had a longstanding relationship between us, we were young staffers under president carter and i h...

The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only o...

Grisham responds for the democrats. Plus, insight and analysis from our powerful roundtable. And he always did that which was right from his heart. We celebrate the life and legacy of john lewis as he crosses the Edmund Pettus bridge one last time. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. On this sunday, as we celebrate a civil rights legend, the country is still in the grip of the coronavirus that has transform...

Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 would either of your guests argue or say theres legitimacy to that argument that affirmative action per se is a right and my second question is about affirmative action on the federal level, a number of years ago i remembered there was a president ial candidate and one of his big campaign stump lines was the first thing he would do when he took his hand off the bible after he became president was sign an executive order to outlaw all federal...

Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian,...

President buell thank you. Clerk i have angela then ken and victoria and then rory. Thank you, commissioners. I didnt hear if we established a quorum on the commission. I wondered if you have. President buell we have a quorum. Okay, so this can go forward. Im angela, im here following ms. Thompson. Im inspired by the things she gets involved in and mr. Johnsons efforts and life long commitment to elevating who we are as africanamericans here in San Francisco. It is a sitting thing that i, who li...

Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any q...

A blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to fi...

Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any q...

Any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exi...