Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
Welcome to our 35th annual Allstar Party. Please join me in welcoming a lady we love. Who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. This is dutch reagan. And now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. A very special friend close to our hearts. Mr. Dutch reagan. Hello. Nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brothers keeper, Frances Albert sinatra. You may be seated. Im delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. The first lady of the United States and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. And now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. Youve already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. And emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella ive ever known in my life and my buddy, mr. Dean white. Mr. Burt reynolds. Mr. Vincent sculley, a giant in the baseball world. Mr. Ben vereen. And the variety club office
Hello. Im cant hate, the library of congress and welcome to our very First Virtual National Book festival presents. As with all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic, the safety of our staff members, our visitors, our scholars is our First Priority at the library of congress. And so were following this cdc recommendations and guidelines in all of our buildings are close to the public until further notice. However, it is the liberia submission to engage and connect with our users. And so we have been rolling out various programs virtually for parents and teachers, scholars, students and everyone who could benefit, we hope, from our resources online. And so please visit our website llc. Gov for more useful information, not only about was going on currently, but also things that you could use during this time. Now to our events. We will be joined by bestselling author john barry who will be discussing his book the great influenza the story of the deadliest pandemic in history. H
Safety of our staff members, our visitors, our scholars, is our First Priority at the library of congress and so we are follow centers for Disease Control recommendations and guidelines and all of our buildings are close told the public until further notice. However it is the librarys mission to engage and connect with our users, and so we have been rolling out various programs virtually, for parents and teachers, scholars, students, and everyone who can benefit, we hope, from our resources online. And so please visit our website, loc. Gov for more useful information, not only about what is going on currently but also things you could use during this time. Now to our event. Well be joined by bestselling author john. In barry who will be discussing his book, the great influenza, the epic story of the deadliest plague in history. He will be joined in conversation by mr. David ruben stein, our chair of the National Book festival and author of the american story. Conversations with master
For that generous introduction. The phrase beyond my wildest dreams is kind of a throwaway phrase in our culture. But i thought maybe one day i write this book and people notice it, maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience. [laughter] it tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which deal with the Police Department and some of which deal with the charleston mayor as the police chief and current mayor here is plain and poignant. We are all errors to something. We have no say we are born where we are and we have no say of what we inherit and what we dont. All we have control over is what we do with it. We are going to recount some of the triumphs of the city and the greatest tragedies so it is for all of you moving on from the tragedy of 2015, youve created this group. You decided intentionally to create this space where difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and hum