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Good morning. Or as say and say in texas, hi you all. Its a great day to be in austin texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the book festival with the moderator New York Times author and writer, Rachel Swarns. Im going to tell you a few things about rachel because i know you came here to hear her and not me and because our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995 reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaigns of 2004 and 2008 and on First Lady Michelle Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel ...

Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapes...

Releasing the first ever passports with x jenga markers indicating transgender people. They also talked about recent efforts to recruit more lgbtq people in the peace corps. Good afternoon. Walking to the center for strategic and international studies. I am marti flacks from direct of Human Rights Initiative and principle of international i am delightedi to be cohosting todays events with the diversity leadership in International Affairs program here at csis and with the support of our Employee Resource Group on this topic. Its wonderful to see so many of you here in person in the Building Bac...

So, we also reached out to the community. We brought Task Force Meetings down into the neighborhood as often as we could. We sat in a night club on 11th street when we launched the whole idea of the social heritage district. We had a fourhour seminar type saturday that was held in the Community Room at the folsom door apartments where people we published a schedule and people that wanted to address various issues like affordable housing, transportation, a whole range of things, could come in and share their thoughts. No topdown sort of presentation. Simply come in at a given hour and lets talk...

View, are completely unobjectionable. Dick gregory titled his first autobiography, nigger an autobiography. And Richard Pryor with two great albums, that nigger is crazy and bicentennial nigger. Host when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. What reaction did you get . Host when i do. Guest when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. And continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. Some people took real offense at the title. If there was one aspect of the book that probably got me the most negative reaction was people who complain...