i would like to turn ther podium over to myrlie evers-williams. [applause] >> good evening to all of you. i am so delighted to see you here. as always, i am moved by my friend dr. manning marable and hall articulate he is the historian many as and the picture that the present so thoroughly and so colorful a polka . if i may now call you manning in front of all of these people, i think you. dr. manning marable hasm played such an important role to get the book published in and out to the public.utt, i want to in thanking him tell you how this came about. but before i do that i do want to say he is a man who makes promises and i am sure very carefully but he keeps them and that is something epitomized medicare as well. n iot am not promising anything that you cannot keep but that you do promise keep the promise. that is what medgar did. i thank you for going into his new interiors and background. i met to medgar evers the first day, the first hour of the first day that i was on campus as a freshman studental as we call it at a endow college my grand

before myrlie fake republics in egypt, tunisia, and libya. iraq is also in this category. for these countries, our goal should be to help promote freedom and democracy in the region. elections have produced anti- democratic regimes undermine both freedom and stability. we must do more than monitor polling places. we must redirect foreign aid away from efforts. we must direct those efforts toward building the allies. governed by free people according to the rule of law. we must insist that the international partners get of the sidelines and do the same. we should have no illusions about the difficulty of the transitions face had by libya, tunisia, and especially egypt. whereas libya is rich in oil and indonesia is small, among the regions of the emerging democracies, it remains the biggest opportunity of the biggest danger for american interests. too many egyptians are now rejecting the beginnings of the economic opening engineer in the last decade. we act out of friendship when we tell egyptians and every new democracy that economic growth and prosperity are the result of

before myrlie fake republics in egypt, tunisia, and libya. iraq is also in this category. for these countries, our goal should be to help promote freedom and democracy in the region. elections have produced anti- democratic regimes undermine both freedom and stability. we must do more than monitor polling places. we must redirect foreign aid away from efforts. we must direct those efforts toward building the allies. governed by free people according to the rule of law. we must insist that the international partners get of the sidelines and do the same. we should have no illusions about the difficulty of the transitions face had by libya, tunisia, and especially egypt. whereas libya is rich in oil and indonesia is small, among the regions of the emerging democracies, it remains the biggest opportunity of the biggest danger for american interests. too many egyptians are now rejecting the beginnings of the economic opening engineer in the last decade. we act out of friendship when we tell egyptians and every new democracy that economic growth and prosperity are the result of