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Money comes and goes, but if you get an Honorary Degree attached, that stays with you until the end of your days. There are certainly speakers who are brought in because there is a hope that they have a particular interest in a program that will be initiated or is ongoing at the university. The university is honoring them because of the shared interest and hoping they will be donating to the university in the future. Many cases were Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degrees are targeted to people of means in the hope they will work with the university in building some particular program. Typi...

Worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our web site at press. Org can. On behalf of our members worldwide, id like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so its not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] id also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter using the hash...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible they are joined by two othe...

On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also...

Rescue dogs, a pet project in australia. Thats our web video of the week. With most of the media covering the middle east and north africa and the political story in egypt. News organizations were wrongfooted by suddenly developments in iraq. By the time waves of correspondents reached baghdad, almost half of the country had fallen to insurgents. The Group Responsible is called the Islamic State of iraq in lavatisis or isil, it captured mosul june 10th. As isil takes more ground and co opts more resources, the pr propagandaa is playing a sentence tral role in establishing a group that is numer...