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After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, tw...

Well speak with the lead attorney for the prisoners at californias pelican bay state prison, as well as the mother of a man who has been held there in solitary confinement in for more than 14 years. Then, to guatemala. A normals moment is citizen, although he still the president of the republic. He has lost immunity. As a consequence, there could be criminal prosecution against the president. Amy well speak with journalist allan nairn about the Guatemalan Legislature voting to strip president otto perez of immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for his impeachment. And then to a new accou...

Well speak with the lead attorney for the prisoners at californias pelican bay state prison, as well as the mother of a man who has been held there in solitary confinement in for more than 14 years. Then, to guatemala. A normals moment is citizen, although he still the president of the republic. He has lost immunity. As a consequence, there could be criminal prosecution against the president. Amy well speak with journalist allan nairn about the Guatemalan Legislature voting to strip president otto perez of immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for his impeachment. And then to a new accou...

Necessarily conceived as such, or did he . I guess this is a big source of contention. What did reagan really intend to achieve with this pursuit of sdi . Guest he intended to protect the United States against incoming Ballistic Missiles house of representatives and it becomes much more, becomes this really big source of discussion during these two days. Im just interested to learn some the details and to really get a sense in your book of the kind of granular back and forth. Guest without cutting them up too much although were here to tout the book, the chapters three, four and five go back a...

Family was poor and lived in the middle of nowhere and the chances of them coming together as leaders of the world was you know . And they realized that and said Something Special happen to me, you and Something Special brought us together. And i think one thing i should have added that maybe people were right and the house was haunted. What happened there was so extraordinary and in a way so mysterious and so extra worldly that, you know, maybe they are right, maybe it is a ghost house or haunted house. Host well it is an ex extraordinary story and thank you for your time. This was a lot of f...