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we could start with a bill that is working its way through the house. what do you think about that? is it necessary? >> there's always room for an agency to reform. i like to think i contributed to reform when i was there when i was acting chairman. we opened up the agency and made it more transparent, a lot more participatory. the biggest reform i would like to see would be to empower commissioners to talk to one another so we could sit around a table like this and talk about some of the momentous issues that are curbing the destiny of our future and currently we are prohibited from...

>> please, everyone, warmly welcome former president bill clinton. [applause] >> thank you very much, and sanjay, bono, alicia, senator rubio, congresswoman lee, muhtar, and all the other people who have been on this program. let me begin by just saying that if you're a great deal of gratitude. as you said, bono, in a remarkable article in "the new york times" today, or what has been done. i appreciate the announcements made today by president obama, and my friend carlos. i think elton john for what he said. i want to recogni...

the vietnam veterans memorial in washington, dc. when you walk into the library, it's sort of like entering a magical place because it's so different from the exterior of the library which is like a rustic barn. it was taken apart plank by plank. the interior designed by maya lynn, constructed, created and then the planks of the barn, the barn put on the how does so we still have that rustic outer and then this beautiful, beautiful modern interior. part of our collection -- we like to call it our crown jewel is our children's collection. the many, many books that we collect here in t...

interestingly enough, too she then wrote one of the first histories of the revolution published in 1805 she was a friend of abigail adams and john adams and john adams actually encouraged her authorship and venture to history so she is someone that again has been forgotten but at the time was unknown because she was instrumental in promoting the revolutionary cause. >> on the front of your book is the painting. >> it's from the early 19th century and it's really an idealized vision of a woman and she's holding -- this is the war in the gura holding an american flag on top of that is ...

venture into history. and so she is someone that i think, again, has been forgotten, but at the time was well known to americans because she was so instrumental in promoting the revolutionary cause. and on the front of your book is this painting, drawing? >> guest: yeah. it's a painting from the early 19th century. it's a folk painting. and it's really an idealized vision of a woman. and she's holding -- this is from the war of 1812 era -- and she's holding an american flag. and on top of that is what you call a liberty cap, and that is a very famous symbol of liberty. and in her han...