and so the influence and the good work of bill frist is far and wide. and it's fitting that we are here to honor this good man. i want to welcome as others have the members of the frist family and it is indeed a large one a lot has been said about this good man and i would like to add just a brief word of my own. when you come across a man like bill frist, you can't help but wonder where does it all come from? i mean, no one doubts it takes a lot of natural talent to become a top transplant surgeon. no one doubts it takes a little hard work to switch careers in the middle of one's life and then your new career flourished and rise to the top as quickly as build it. but his accomplishments are singularly impressive you suspect there's a little bit more to it than that i think bill provides for himself in the book that he wrote about his own life. there he recalls as a child growing up in national he grew accustomed to the sound of his father's car pooling of the drive we in the middle of the night to make a house call. he got used to play a site by strange

the ground breaking ceremony for the edward kennedy institute, and former senate majority leader, bill frist portrait is revealed in the capitol. >> the george poke awards and the night before the annual awards ceremony in new york, some of the winners gather for a seminar. this year, four investigative journalists discuss lifting the vail of secret ri on sensitive subject. we'll also hear from ac thompson and a "washington post" reporter, dana priest. this is an hour and a half. >> i would like to introduce to you first and again to be acknowledged sydney, our curator, and the current curator of the poke awards, john darnton. >> thank you very much, dr. steinberg. i'd like to welcome you all here to this event. as you know, the george poke seminar is a one time of year when we get to wrestle with some of the major issues about journalism and to discuss them with some of our winners. i would like to say first of all, i'd like to acknowledge the center for communication which is the cosponsor of this event, and it's exec -- its executive director katharine williams. our theme this year is pen