Nick some. Good afternoon everybody. Can everybody hear me. Im very short. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose, i am travis cohen a bookseller here and also in charge of the on cyprus Traditions Club at the store. This to quick housekeeping and they will jump right in. Between politics and prose there is three location at the wharf, union market, we host around 1000 authors a year. So if you need help tracking that as we do if you want the full last we have flyers at the info desk in an updated calendar on our website which we highly encourage people to check out. Please remind everyone to silence your cell phones, thats always not fun, as we open the floor to questions and we have two standing microphones here just that one. And we are both recording audio and video today. So thats good incentives to one silence your cell phone and also asked sissy into question so we can get to as many people as possible. And also a good reminder after were done here if you want to pick up
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Launch, which were excited to host here this evening i want to extend a special welcome to kristens mother and secretary carlucci, his widow Marcia Carlucci and kristens husband, mr. Joshua. We thank you so much for being here this evening. I also want to welcome the chairman of the reagan president ial foundation institute, mr. Fred ryan. Thank you so much for being here this evening. Thanks, fred. Well, here we recognizing kristens for the publication of get me carlucci. And this release is near and dear to our heartsâ– 1 here at the Reagan Institute because. Kristens father, secretary carlucci, had an outsize impact on the reaganâ– Q Administration serving in a variety of roles both terms. Now, before serving in the Reagan Administration, Frank Carlucci and diverse career in the Foreign Service in cold war hotspots, really across the globe in the 1960s, he was a political and a nixon and foreign ministrations he was ambassador to portugal during a particularly tumultuous of time he
Here. And i. Can go over there and find some oh, good evening, everybody. My name is roger zakheim. As you just heard, im the director of the Reagan Institute, the dc office of the Ronald Reagan president ial institute, and hope you all been enjoying this reception. Christine carlucci reids book launch, which were excited to host here this evening i want to extend a special welcome to kristens mother and secretary carlucci, his widow Marcia Carlucci and kristens husband, mr. Joshua. We thank you so much for being here this evening. I also want to welcome the chairman of the reagan president ial foundation institute, mr. Fred ryan. Thank you so much for being here this evening. Thanks, fred. Well, here we recognizing kristens for the publication of get me carlucci. And this release is near and dear to our hearts here at the Reagan Institute secretary carlucci, had an outsize impact on the Reagan Administration serving in a variety of roles both terms. Now, before serving in the admik ca