The 13th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy, the philip e and answered be foundation. We are especially grateful to our sponsors for this glorious menu, the Trinity United Methodist church and we would also like to welcome our litter artery numbers and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make Successful Events free to the public. 90 percent of our revenue comes from our donors and members and we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors and we dont want to miss any of the fun. So, download the new book savannah book festival 2020 app on your phone. And you can be in the know. About everything we have going this year. If you need more info about downloading this app, you can find in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Robert wilson will be signing festival purchased copies of his book in the square immediately following the presentat
Foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and rick mary romanos. The Trinity United Methodist church. We would also like to walk on those. Its through your support that we are able to make festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors. And we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors. We dont want you to miss any of them. Download the new savanna book festival 2020 on your phone. And you can be in the know about everything we have going on this year. If you need more information about downloading the app you can find it in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. They will be signing the festival purchase copies of their book immediately following this presentation so dont miss out. If you are planning to stay for the next author. Please move forward and to move the seats as best as possible. The ushers will need to be able to count the seats that are available and allow other atte
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Everyone else in that room. The late senator john mccain was so right, i thank god for the words he said before he passed away, he talked about oppressing and suppressing the press, if you begin down that line you begin a dictatorship, who are we in 2018 . What are we . Fred time such as this i just think about that in these books that are out right now, its not a coincidence about these books talking about the dysfunction god bless him, he has gone into the stratosphere because he has painted the picture that we already knew but he is putting something to it and he is giving you texturing contents and even amoroso with her takes, god bless her, i wish her well. [laughter] and then you have me, we are all talking about the dysfunction, there is some kind of commonality that is true and bob woodward, how you gonna call bob woodward an idiot, bob woodward was part of that reporting team that uncovered what . Watergate. Uncovered what . Watergate. And for many of you who were around at th