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program is called sidling pathways to mars. you can find out more at buzz aldrin.com if you want the t-shirt you can go to buzz aldrin.com. that is a fund-raiser for his foundation every penny goes to the foundation and then i know you think you re going to explain site colors now you are not. [laughter] [applause] i reading a book by president carter, his autobiography. i had the privilege to attend sunday school recently. it was the amazing and that has turned into a wonderful museum he is brilliant it continues to be a true moral leader and is way ahead of his time. it is well written and is current with a lot of history but it tells you who he is the was a believer in god but how he applies his christian values in his public life in terms of feeding the hungry in sheltering the homeless and all the great values taught through the bible. with regard to the haitian revolution that raider even it a successful revolt you cannot begin to understand the haitian revo ....
you ve come tonight to what i think is going to be a wonderful program that we are putting on in cooperation with the norwegian embassy. because this is, the story we re going to be hearing tonight is about a world war ii, very important and famous and dramatic as you will hear world war ii raid into norway conducted primarily by norwegians. it was an obvious thing to partner up with the norwegian embassy. so i d just like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the norwegian embassy. specifically, jon oyslebo who s minister counselor at the royal norwegian embassy. he s been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour. he served here previously a decade or so ago, i believe. his immediately preceding tour was in oslo at the foreign ministry where he s been a number of times, but he s also served in good diplomatic fashion in countries as varied as mozambique, poland, switzerland and morocco. jon and, indeed, the en ....
[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, to the international spy museum. i am mark stout, former historian of the museum, the current historian is out of town on a secret mission which he will hear about in the future, i am always delighted to come back to my old haunt and step in when necessary. i think it will be a wonderful program we are putting on in cooperation with the norwegian embassy because this story we are hearing tonight is about a world war ii famous and dramatic world war ii raid into norway conducted by norwegians. it was obvious to partner up with the norwegian embassy so i would like to say by way of introduction to our friends from the norwegian embassy, specifically, minister, counselor for communications, cultural affairs and education at the royal norwegian embassy. he has been serving in washington for 10 months on this particular tour. he served previously a decade or so ago, preceding in oslo at the foreign minister where he has been a ....
me to solo the national anthem. good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the best attended a.j.c. global forum in our 110-year history. [applause] we are more than 2,700 people here tonight. we represent more than 70 countries. we have diplomats here tonight, and i d like quickly to read the countries so that we all know who s here as an exception of friendship with a.j.c. we have diplomats from albania, angola, argentina, armenia, australia, austria. aber za january. barbados, belgium, brazil, bulgaria. brunaldy. costa rica, cyprus. equatorial guinea. ethiopia, georgia, ghana. greece, hungary, israel and italy. kurdistan, lithuania. macedonia, mauricious and mexico [applause] let s hear it for micronesia. [applause] mongolia, morocco, paraguay, the philippines, romania, serbia, slovaka. slovenia, south korea, spain, sri lanka, swaws land, sweden, in dad and tobago and inidad and to bago and uruguay. have i missed any countries? france? bonjour. i m ....
ladies and gentlemen, cue the color. [music] pres. obama: good morning, everybody. due to the possibility of thunderstorms, we ve decided to arrival ceremony indoors. of course, our nordic friends to tough weather. you should know that here in washington, we have not seen the sun for about three weeks. which you experience for months end, but despite that fact, e want you to know that we are deeply happy to have all of you here. we are honored to welcome not one nation, but five. our great nordic friends and partners. niinisto and mrs. finland, solberg and lofven,f norway, sweden and denmark rasmussen, and prime minister johansson and ingibjorg of ice land. delegations, r welcome to the united states. i m going to try this as best as i can. speaking foreign language] . [applause] welcome. [laughter] saying welcome in foreign language] those, i m not sure were delivered perfectly, but i think the spirit was understood. today is an opportunity for michelle and me to ....