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John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world. Our purpose is to advance the study and understanding of President Kennedy's life and career and the times in which he lived; and to promote a greater appreciation of America's political and cultural heritage, the process of governing and the importance of public service. We accomplish our mission by: preserving and making accessible the records of President Kennedy and his times; promoting open discourse on critical issues of our own time; and educating and encouraging citizens to contribute, through public and community service, to shaping our nation's future.break

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  • A Conversation with President Jimmy Carter

    Tue, May 17, 2011
    President Jimmy Carter discusses his new book, *White House Diary*, with PBS *Newshour* senior correspondent Ray Suarez.
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  • Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I

    Tue, Jan 27, 2009
    Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, share their stories of eradicating disease and injustice in one of the world's poorest nations, and discuss how changes in US policy can help to build a stronger, more resilient, and prosperous Haiti. Amy Goodman, host of *Democracy Now!*, moderates.
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  • Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part II

    Tue, Jan 27, 2009
    Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, share their stories of eradicating disease and injustice in one of the world's poorest nations, and discuss how changes in US policy can help to build a stronger, more resilient, and prosperous Haiti. Amy Goodman, host of *Democracy Now!*, moderates.
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  • President Obama: Year One

    Tue, Jun 1, 2010
    Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor and Columnist for *Newsweek*, discusses his new book, *The Promise: President Obama, Year One* with his *Newsweek *colleague, Eleanor Clift.
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    Condoleezza Rice: Extraordinary, Ordinary People

    Thu, Oct 28, 2010
    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, *Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family*, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns.
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    Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter on Civic Education

    Mon, Dec 13, 2010
    Retired Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter explain the importance of civic education to a democratic society with Linda Greenhouse, a Pultizer-Prize winning *New York Times* reporter and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School.
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  • Jeffrey Sachs: Ending Global Poverty

    Tue, Mar 5, 2002
    Jefferey Sachs discuses the challenge of ending the poverty that afflicts so much of the world today. **Jeffrey Sachs**, renowned expert on the economic and social devastation of AIDS in developing countries, has been recently named by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, as Special UN Advisor on Poverty, Health and Education.
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  • Presidential Tapes Conference

    Mon, Feb 17, 2003
    A panel of presidential historians examines what the recordings of presidents between Roosevelt and Ford reveal about the essence of each man. Presidential taping systems, begun under Roosevelt and discontinued by Ford, have played a unique role in our country's history. Uncovered at the Watergate hearings, the tapes have been processed over time by the National Archives and Records Administration and now serve as a treasure trove for journalists and historians.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt: The White House Years

    Tue, Mar 5, 2002
    As part of the Kennedy Library Presidential Historian Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Edmund Morris discusses his new, best-selling book, *Theodore Rex*, the second of a proposed three-volume biography. Morris' first volume, *The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt* (1979), won a Pulitzer Prize. President McKinley's assassination brought the 43-year-old Roosevelt a challenging presidency, which included persuading Congress to curb competition-stifling corporate trusts, monopolistic transcontinental railroads, and unhygienic food industries. He also faced labor and racial strife. Abroad, the American presence in Cuba and the Philippines brought criticism, the Russo-Japanese conflict threatened major power shifts in the Far East and Europe, and a politically and financially fraught decision on the Central American canal route, Panama or Nicaragua, loomed large. Despite the demands of family and social life, he read, wrote, and traveled extensively, and put national parks and conservation of natural resources on the legislative agenda.
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis and the Media

    Mon, Oct 28, 2002
    A panel that includes White House correspondents Sander Vanocur and Robert Pierpoint, former CBS Moscow Bureau Chief Marvin Kalb, pollster Tom Smith, and former FCC Chair Newton Minow discusses the role the media played during the Missile Crisis in the attempt to avert nuclear war. Should our country face another confrontation of this magnitude how would today's media respond?
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