I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio
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Between the two sides most valuable. And the gentleman here at the aisle . Just one second. Next time around. Thank you. This year marks and first of all, congratulations on your Hillary Clinton award this morning. Fiona mentioned a few anniversaries, but this marks the 100th anniversary of world war i. You welcomed a delegation from bosnia i think a couple of days ago and macedonias Prime Minister recently. What kind of message will the upcoming summit send on enlargement . Will there be a breakthrough on the macedoniagreece dispute in europe opinion and perhaps a visit to the region, if enlargement is not deliverable at the uk summit, will you visit all the four country sths because i think we learned the mistakes of bucharest with georgia and ukraine. Luckily nothing of that sort has happened on macedonia. But hopefully nothing does happen. So thank you. Thank you. First, on the nato russiacouncil. Actually, i think we struck the right balance in what we have done so far. Because yo
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