Much wisdom we would have missed out on. The one and only president for sure trevor of the Carnegie Corporation. Ishmael the director of the library in alexandria, and they are joining us to celebrate your service. We are also lucky to be joined by the latvian ambassadors to the United States committee acting librarian of Congress David howell and Jane Mcauliffe the director of outreach and delegates to the board. Grace mckenna and come i havent seen her come there she is, whose family has done so much to shape this Institution Come and Diana Davis Spencer who has been a great friend to our work. The gatherings like this remind me what a impact the center has around the globe including hundreds in russia and ukraine and even now we pick the best scholars and the most brilliant staff to work on the most important issues and we learned that from you. You always scholarship at the heart of the work. No one who knows you would be surprised. Some may already know this but jim and his daught
Every stillness every day will make movement more tolerable. For more information on bob tvs recent visit to Santa Barbara and the many other destinations on tower cities tour go to cspan. Org citiestour. Now a panel on the life and career of recent lid retired librarian of congress, james billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. Humbled to be next to any understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harmon, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] we have no Cannon Institute no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. 0 who knows how many friends and how much wisdom would we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegat
After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation, and he took us all on a tour of the creme lip. Kremlin. Priceless. Jim, your command of russia, its history and its culture shows up everyone here. Y
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