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Responsible for conserving the nations history and treasures, and my opening question is to our host for this conversation, carla hayden, who is the brand new 14th librarian of congress, just starting her job in the fall of 2016. Why did you take this job . Let me see how you finish this sentence. I took that job because i want to . Open this wonderful Treasure Chest so as many people as possible. It has, in the room that were in now, has six stratovarious violins and original scores from beethov beethoven, haydn, no relation, and there are so many things here, and thats why i took the job. David farrio youve been at this a bit longer. You are the tenth archivist of the United States, started the job in 2009. Do you remember where you said yes . I said no twice when i got the first calls but it and it took someone from the Transition Team to come to new york to talk to me about what this administration was looking for in the new archivist and i said yes because of the the opportunity t
This is cspan3. We are in the library of congress for a conversation among three people who are responsible for conserving the nations history and treasures, and my opening question is to our host for this conversation, carla hayden, who is the brand new 14th librarian of congress, just starting her job in the fall of 2016. Why did you take this job . Let me have you finish this sentence. I took this job because i want to . Open this wonderful Treasure Chest to as many people as possible. It has, in the room that were in now, six stradivarius violins and original scores from beethoven, haydn, no relation, and there are so many things here, and thats why i took the job. David ferriero, youve been at this a bit longer. You are the tenth archivist of the United States, started the job in 2009. Do you remember why you said yes . I said no twice when i got the first calls but it and it took someone from the Transition Team to come to new york to talk to me about what this administration was