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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 that any sponsorships that were going to be more difficult than they thought it would be. He asked ...

Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern space flight. For the next three hour, we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. , where we will talk about apollo 11 historians and michael collins. You want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspanwj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th ann...

[inaudible background conversations] [inaudible speaking] the panel is titled American History, renegades and sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr, with the library commission, was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival we couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or libraries from all over the state so thank you very much for your support. We are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm, our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom craven, eric j dolman and Peter Houlihan. You can purchase copies of their boo...

Stewart. You can also follow the cspan city tour on twitter where behind the scene images and video. Cspan cities. [inaudible] good morning and welcome to the Franklin Roosevelt president ial museum. I am so glad you could join us today for the 17th annual reading festival. We have tried piped a tremendous lineup today. About a 30 minute talk there will be some question answering that a book signing, because we are joined today by her friends at cspan, if you are going to ask a question please use the microphones so your question can be heard. This is a important part of the leg us. When he bu...

Hi everyone. My name is elizabeth. I would like to welcome you all. Sweltering evening to the union market. If you have not already done so, please take a moment. Do whatever it is you do, just do do it silently. You do not want to be the person whose phone starts ringing on national television. I will be Walking Around with this wireless mic. Please raise your hand, wait for me to get to you. Everyone here can hear your questioning. It gets picked up for the recording as well. If you have not purchased your book yet and you would like to, they are all available at the register. Now to why we ...