Imagine, your mother a fugitive, your father a stranger. Your home, your name, your past was any of it real . The first thing i felt, just pit in my stomach. I just felt like it was my fault. A mothers crime. A fathers pain. What kinds of emotions did it stir up when you would see that crib . It would just make me cry. A daughter forced to face the shattering truth. I was shocked and i was just terrified. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with finding savanna. In 20some years, will i recall how you tucked and curled against my neck and chest . Reporter a fathers love. Harris todd once tried to put it into words. In 20some years will i recall how i often held you long after you had fallen asleep, listening to you breathe . Reporter tried to express what it meant to cradle his baby daughter savanna. And you, what will you remember of these wondrous days as a baby girl along with your old father whose entire life you now are . Reporter back in 1994, harris could n
Imagine, your mother a fugitive, your father a stranger. Your home, your name, your past was any of it real . The first thing i felt, just pit in my stomach. I just felt like it was my fault. A mothers crime. A fathers pain. What kinds of emotions did it stir up when you would see that crib . It would just make me cry. A daughter forced to face the shattering truth. I was shocked and i was just terrified. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with finding savanna. In 20some years, will i recall how you tucked and curled against my neck and chest . Reporter a fathers love. Harris todd once tried to put it into words. In 20some years will i recall how i often held you long after you had fallen asleep, listening to you breathe . Reporter tried to express what it meant to cradle his baby daughter savanna. And you, what will you remember of these wondrous days as a baby girl along with your old father whose entire life you now are . Reporter back in 1994, harris could n
[inaudible conversations] [applause] this is great. We have a full house tonight. Good evening. I am Jean Mccormick and i have the honor of being the president of the institute for the United States senate. It is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight along with our special guest for this Evenings Program, katie and robin who will be coming through this door in a minute. We are doing something a little different tonight. We are really thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute, membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you who might be visiting the institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. It is truly spectacular in the way that senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate. Every day, students and adults like you and i come in and become senators for a day and try to grapple wit
Special guest for this Evenings Program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. We are thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. Membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. Its truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate and the life of our government and every day students and adults like you and i sit in those seats and they become senators for a day and actually try to grapple with the same issues and be reminded of the Important Role of participation in a democracy. We all have to be involved. Through our interactive programs like tonight our goal is to see ourselves with the new generation and they keep thinking to myself real spy or as of th
Thank you for coming out tonight. It is my pleasure to welcome you here. Before we began just a few housekeeping notes. Take your time not to silence your cell phones, very important. While your funds are out there is no need to turn them off you can follow kramer books on facebook, twitter and instagram. We do have social media which is exciting. If you visit our website you can sign up to find out about events like tonight. My name is emma and im pleased to out them you and to welcome david tonight to discuss his book how to survive a plague the inside story of how citizens and science tamed aids. His work is considered the definitive history of a successful battle to halt the aids epidemic. The documentary film was a finalist. In one of the Directors Guild award and the peabody award and nominated for emmys. Im sure a lot of you are familiar with the documentary. We are thrilled to learn more about this new release book. Please join me in welcoming david france. [applause] thank you