From the heart which the news york times called a deeply felt kingly observed account and mrs. Bush conjures a hometown with enormous detail later system and feeling. Tonight mrs. Bush will be interviewed by Cokie Roberts and we are all delighted to look on her back to the Smithsonian Associates event. Copies of mrs. Bushs book which she has already signed are available in the lobby. Because of her schedule there will not be any personalization of the books after the program. Before we begin i would like to remind all of you to have your cell phones or Electronic Devices silenced and im going to do that with mine too. [laughter] additionally no photos are allowed during the program from cell phone cameras or any other cameras. We appreciate your cooperation on both of these items. As ive mentioned we are pleased to have Cokie Roberts. Conversation with mrs. Bush are cookies a senior news analyst for npr news where she was a Congressional Correspondent for more than 10 years. Additional
We are thrilled to have our authors and conversation chief at the wall street journal and leads a team of euros across the west covering, among any one many issues with them pandemic policy and economics state and city news immigration and in her career though wall street journal and editing positions london dallas pittsburgh and featured authors melissa korn Higher Education reporter for the wall street journal. Previously will for dow jones newswire and a graduate of cornell and Columbia University graduate school of journalism. We also have Jennifer Levitz National Reporter for the wall street journal previously she wrote and has a number of two Pulitzer Prize and graduated from loyola maryland and in their review she wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level and examination of the intersection of ambition and money and Higher Education. A fastpaced account of the massive College Admissions scam. This indictment of contemporary American Culture offe
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