She is a librarian of congress and a dance curator. She has been there since 2015. Before that, she was the executive director at Dance Heritage Coalition where now she provides outreach to artists and national preservation. This is vitally important. Im a dancer in another part of my life and im excited this work is happening. She advises organizations and artists on how to find funding or assistance for records and coauthored with an attorney a booklet on copyright and fair use to navigate issues. But she is also really interested in how the arts connect to other parts of history and culture. And i think that is very much what we will see today. Im looking forward to it so i will say no more an offer libby smigel. [applause] thanks. I really am thrilled to see all of you here on this extremely muggy day and giving up your time to come to this presentation. I want to thank the staff for inviting me to come and talk about things that i really care about dearly. Also, i am looking forwa
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So, good afternoon, everybody. This meeting was requested by the Inspector General. He wanted to give us a packet of information that is unclassified, which originally arrived at the department of state addressed to secretary pompeo. It is in calligraphy. Secretary pompeo in the white house. It may have come from the white house, it may have not. We dont know. There is a series of folders which all come from. Folder after holder. I dont have time to fully scrutinize everything in here. Its essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. Those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. Apparently, the material came in may of this year. It coincided with the moment in which the ambassador was recalled. So it was clearly targeting her as well as some other people. The Inspector General turned it over to the fbi and has not done anything else internally with it at the department of state, as far as we understand. When the whistleblow
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And satellite provider. 50 years after the moon landing, apollo 11 astronaut, Michael Collins, reflected on the Apollo Programs impact at the time as well as on todays politics, diplomacy, Foreign Policy and space initiative. Welcome. It is truly a thrill to see space diplomacy a topic near and dear to me. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. I am a historian of science and technology and a curator at the smithsonian air and space museum for the apollo space collection. 50 years ago this week, the apollo 11 crew fulfilled kennedys call to land humans on the moon within a decade and return them safely back to earth. I hope youve been celebrating all week. A greater percentage of earths population followed their flight than any previous event in human history. After the flight, the astronauts toured over 20 countries on every continent, nixon proclaimed them the best possible ambassadors americans can have on earth. Today, we look back and ask her what was the political and For