when did you have lunch with chuck berry? i've had a lot of meals with chuck berry. so the chuck berry is a party now at age deceased. he he was one so i wrote in this book the magic bus i had mentioned chuck berry as a poet now you weren't supposed to do that and i actually wrote it in a wall street journal article about st. louis about ts eliot the great poet but chuck berry is also a poet. i was just a little throwaway cultural. peace nothing that spectacular except joe edwards read it in and he ran runs a restaurant called blueberry hill near washington university and he showed it to chuck berry and chuck thought my description of him was really spot on he's from saint louis. he lived in st. louis there and then chuck berry loved the magic bus. he said i would have stayed in school if somebody would have let me get out of the prison like. school room and actually go and see and do things so he just took to the concept and i got out of nowhere. i always remember the day and my mailbox came a package and he sent me his autobiography and a guitar pick and a note tha

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formal ceremony, during the dinner, there was entertainment, and two of the arteries in 2000 were chuck berrywo of the honourees. i saw her standing by the stage, standing alone for a brief moment, and i went up to her and asked her if you wanted to dance. we had that captured on film, it is a photograph close to my heart, and reminds me of thejoy she brought to thejob and reminds me of thejoy she brought to the job as well and her commitment to the power of cultural diplomacy and the fact that she always believed that the arts and music, artists, literature, are so critical does different cultures. incredible, and she inspired a lot of people through her story of the american dream, i guess. indeed. if i may, on a personal note, as the son of an immigrant, who was raised by single mum and interested in public service, when i met professor albright at georgetown university, it could not be a more inspiring figure for me to meet, and i know when a child with her, from uzbekistan to burma to mali and across the united states, she inspired so many people from across diverse backgrounds, especial

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there was an event for the kennedy center honors and to the recipients of the honors that year were chuck berry and herbie hancock, the musicians, and so after a formal dinner, there was news and they were performing and i saw her standing by the stage alone. and so i just went up and asked her if she wanted to dance and a photographer capture that movement. and i'm going to cherish that memory and a smile on her face always. and she was sure to make most of moments like that as well. sometimes it's difficult for women in politics to b. o. show a sensitive side to who they are as people because they're expected to be strong. a hard to a certain extent went in your opinion, was missile bright. or when did she have the ability to you might say, show that charge, but in a way that allowed her to get the diplomatic success she needed with any particular issue. i was an assistant to her successor the u. s. mission to the un bill richardson. and whenever she came back to her old stomping grounds, a secretary of state for a ministry level medium security council was great using this for all signs when

owensboro, kentucky hunter thompson from louisville, kentucky carouac from lowell, massachusetts chuck berry from st. louis and knievel from brute montana say anything any yeah. it's a it might be that i wasn't part of a new york kind of the intelligentsia. i was out there in public schools in america eating at seven elevens and you know land grant universities those all were figures that were very popular in america, but probably weren't aren't given the respect by critical community perhaps as much as as they could, but i don't know. i mean i those are just some of the cultural people i've written about, you know, there are a lot of people i like i just didn't get that opportunity either. i didn't get an assignment to write about them or you know, if i wouldn't have had the connection for bob dylan if i didn't first get to do the profile. rolling stones so as much as i'd like to do an oprah winfrey profile, i'm not being asked to do the oprah winfrey profile, so i can't, you know talk about but she is an amazing career and some days oprah winfrey's biography will be very important to mean