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Hello im David Rubenstein at the library of congress in washington, d. C. As part of the National Book festival and we are pleased today to have Washington State bob gates whos written a book called exercise from power which ive read and recommend. We are going to talk about this book and a little bit about bobs career. I should point out we worked together along time ago about four decades ago in the Carter White House when i was the deputy and bob gates was executive assistant. So in those day...

Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to ...

Something he needed help with. It had been started early in 2001. Its an idea that really came from laura bush. She asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. He said there isnt yet but there will be. So i came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival. The idea was to do to the mall and a series of tents that was set up for the first year. It turned out...

[inaudible conversations] booktv on instagram, follows for publishing news, and behindthescenes pictures and videos, instagram. Com booktv. Next on booktvs thanksgiving Holiday Weekend complete coverage of the fifteenth annual National Book festival held this past september. First Cokie Roberts talks about her book on women in washington d. C. During the civil war era called capital dames the civil war and the women of washington. [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being here this labor day...

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