President ial library and museum. Im so excited for you to be here today. We are commemorating the refugee act of 1980 signed by president carter in march that year. On behalf of president carter, who was unable to be here, i just want to welcome you first, welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and a few feet away is the Carter Center which is an ngo. Together president carter looks at us as the center. We provide him with data, research, camaraderie, advice and we work really, really hard for him as well. The refugee act is an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act and the migration of the refugee assistant act. The goal was to provide permanent and consistent admission to people who were suffering in other nations and to provide asylum. That was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting to be here today too. We are par