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The 33rd annual Chicago Tribune lit fest. A special thank you to our sponsors, todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2, book tv. If theres time at the end of the q a session with the other we ask you to use the microphone provided so viewers at home can. Before we begin please silence your phones and turn off all flashes on the cameras. And please welcome our interviewer, associate editor at the Chicago Tribune, colin mcmahon. [applause] and afternoon, thank you for coming, thank you for coming to the lit fest and im thrilled to be here with tom rex is written several books, well talk ...

City, we arent that large that we dont really have [inaudible] of San Francisco. And clearly a number of steps have been taken, but they do appear to take an awful long time to get there. Even if we ignore the fact that this is a 2015 report because we did get an update on the current priorities and in 2016, were hoping to hear better information, but the fact that after all the discussion, that saint lukes is just an example. It has taken almost three years in order to bring about one additional bilingual staff member. And was apparently some question that there is community input. So i belie...

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You are watching by tv. Next thomas ricks looks at why so many world war ii era generals are held in high regard while history is not than suband a general sick amanda troops during later wars. Its a little over an hour. Good evening everyone. Welcome and thank you for joining us. My name is Richard Konte and im the president of the center for no america security. Its a pleasure to welcome you here to celebrate the publication of senior fellow thomas ricks book the new generals American Military command from world war ii to today. Speaking of books, we have some for sale so if youre interested...

Youre watching book tv on cspan. Now, tom allen, former sixterm democratic congressmann front mississippi, recounsels his inability to understand his republican colleagues and vice versa and contends congress will remain lock logjammed until the try to understand each oomph this is just over an hour. [applause] thank you very much for those kind words, and thank you all for being here tonight. This is a wonderful crowd, and im very pleased to see so many of you here. I have to say its a special pleasure for me to be at the Jimmy Carter Library because my late father was one of those very early...