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[inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the 19th annual National Book festival brought to you by the library of congress. [applause] this festival is free of charge thanks to the generosity of donors large and small. He. Please make it brief and to the point, you are giving us permission to use it to web cast and finally i ask that you please turn off your cell phones, thank you and enjoy your day. Good morning, book lovers, how are you . Can we stop for a moment and acknowledge the librarian, hardworking staff and the volunteers . Absolutely. [applause] im chairman for the Natio...

I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set...

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Bookstores like this. We are very happy to be here. Thank you for having us. What do you. David aldrich, michael, the most important person in the room, and we are thrilled to have everybody from cspan god bless you all from being her for beine members of my family. We have a really good show and as they realize this is the last one for a few weeks because we will take a few weeks off and take a breath. I really liked the show and i start flailing a lot into it. We have a birthday we will discuss and wdiscuss inevitabley officials and what its lik like running a local independent bookstore the...

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