Hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a question . Do you have a question, sir . Thank you. Just a question about the Montgomery County Library System which is really important here. Since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, ive been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a drivers license, help many of them become citizens. And recently were talking about technology, i started broadcasting our meetings live on facebook live, and weve had thousands of people around the world watching the meetings from the Montgomery County library. Thank you. Gentleman in the back. I just wanted to say one of the best things about living in Montgomery County is the great Library System and the great Staff Members they have there. How with libraries offering an everexpanding variety
Volunteers for working so hard, especially hard this year given weather to make today possible. And thank you all, really, for coming out. Youre all a very hearty, hearty bunch. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. Second, if youre tweeting today, please use hashtag gbf. And, third, we really want your feedback. So, please, at the end fill out a survey. Theyre available at the back of the tent or on the gbf web site. And if you complete a survey, you have a chance a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Finally, Juan Williams will be signing books after this presentation. Hell be, theres a signing line on the other end here of the festival grounds. And copies of his book, we the people, are on sale in the politics prose tent which is just out here, over there. Now, a quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, theres no charge for the festival, it does help the book festival if yo
How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
Okay. Good afternoon. Im bradley graham, im the coowner of politics prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of everybody here at the gaithersburg book festival, thank you, thank you so much for coming. This is, of course, the seventh annual festival here in 2008ers burg gaithersburg. This is the fifth Consecutive Year that politics prose has been here as the official bookseller, and we really want to commend the gaithersburg staff and all the festival sponsors and volunteers for working so hard, especially hard this year given the weather, to make today possible. And thank you all, really, for coming out. Youre all a very hearty, hearty bunch. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. Second, if youre tweeting today, please use hashtag gbf. And, third, we really want your feedback. So, please, at the end fill out a survey. Theyre available at the back of the tent or on the gbf web site.
We go along as well. Taye diggs, you mentioned that there was a bit of a kerfuffle when you were doing press for this book, but im going to quote you here and let you talk about this. Were talking about president obama here, and this is you speaking. Everybody refers to him as the first black president. Im not saying its wrong, im just saying that its interesting. It would be great if it didnt matter and that people could call him mixed. Guest uhhuh. Yes. Host so do you consider him to be the first black president . Guest i do. I do. But thats only because im playing by the rules that have already been set. See what im saying . I always, i always tell my friends i bet you, you know, i would bet you that growing up there were black folks that did not accept him or black folks that said he talked white. And, you know, after you reach a certain level a lot of times these same black folk turn that around and say, okay, now that youve established yourself, now we can accept you, you know wh