Bombing grozny because you use air power in kosovo. You cant talk about jailing Political Prisoners because you have guantanamo. You cannot talk about press freedom because george bush fired dan rather, right . That is exactly what he said to him once. In 2005, he said, george bush, you fire dan rather so you can talk to me about that. If you go out there and say that, americans dont really understand you. That is the way putin side. Having said that, he certainly has a point to make, which is to say that they United States has avoided at times the u. N. Or other ratifying types of structures for issues like the proposed strike on syria. I was with the president in st. Petersburg when he was trying to get more support out of the g20 and didnt really get what he would have liked out of that because there was great ambivalence in the international community, as there was anemic in public, by the way, and as there was obviously in the oval office. Obama himself didnt want to do what he sa
1960s we start. Then 2011 2000, 2001. We already achieved elected leadership. Then [inaudible] then 2011, i now completely retired from political responsibility. So in meantime, i take i take not of responsibility effort to educate younger tibetans, you see. So a thousand year old knowledge which come from india, knowledge. I quite often challenge, some person, author, described tibet and buddhists. They are totally wrong. Out of their ignorance. And half i think the tibetans themselves, you see, in popular [inaudible] not much difference is about their knowledge. So i think the impression of tibetan, too much emphasis, importance of dalai lama. Not steady. So i think the people got the impression tibetan prison is Something Like lamaism. So lama have some kind of freedom. That is totally wrong. I always described myself as a simple monk. Just one of the buddhist monk. According of the system, 250 precepts. No exception. [inaudible] same way. And steady, regular study. I think yesterda
Minutes. [applause] thank you all. Thank you for coming. I appreciated, especially on this taken a terrible weather. I woke up this morning. I expected to be a lot worse. It was not that bad. The 130 wakeup call which is really the not going asleep golf. But it was not too bad out there, thank god. I think you for coming. Thank you to heritage. Special thankyou to my friend for really providing some stage in the eyes of the last couple of years in a number of different aspects of my life. Thank you for having me. Constantly being available even though i probably in are you and your cellphone, merit more than you care to. Thank you. I appreciate it off. I want to talk for 15 or 20 minutes, and our right to start with my job with the nypd, the police department, and have it changed my internal compass. And it was it was a strange occurrence i had as a young man. It is in the book. Then i would like to delve into some of the secret Service Years and some of the people i met with. I found
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Charter has invested billions building infrastructure, upgrading technology, and powering opportunities in communities bignd small. Charter is connecting us. Good morning and welcome to the history biography stage at the library of Congress National book festival. I am mark sweeney the deputy laboring in congress the theme of the book festival brings us together so let me say how wonderful it is to see you all here together in person for the First Time Since we gathered here last in 2019. We are thrilled that cspan book tv viewers are also joining us, so welcome. [applause] cspan will be recording the events on stage. The stage has a long history of being one of the festivals most popular stages. Today you will be hearing from authors that go deeply into the role women play in the civil rights movement. The relationship with bald eagle a more completeag accounting of the mexicanco revolution and strange history behind the search for the nile river and many other topics. You learn a lot