Millennium Celebration Speech
President Clinton spoke about the celebration of a new millennium. He urged everyone to continue to strive for peace and freedom throughout the world.
1,555 viewsPresident Clinton spoke about the celebration of a new millennium. He urged everyone to continue to strive for peace and freedom throughout the world.
1,555 viewsFrom the Herndon Air Traffic Control Center, Monte Belger the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and Carol Hallett the President of the Air Transport Association tal…
63 viewsDepartment of Defence Y2K updates with coverage from the Pentagon Briefing room Deputy Pentagon spokesman Pj Crowley.
8 viewsAdministration officials talked with reporters about the status of the year 2000 computer conversions in the Departments of State, Transportation, and Energy. Ms. Abrams said that the succes…
86 viewsIn the style of an official state dinner, a New Year’s Eve dinner was held for the new millennium. During the program White House officials talked about the preparations for the dinner, Pres…
1,391 viewsMr. Koskinen reported on preparations for the year 2000 rollover. He said that he will be in an airplane flying to New York at midnight to demonstrate his confidence that systems will not fa…
57 viewsMr. Lillibridge talked about public health practices, focusing on advances made in the field over the last century and about emerging threats to human health and the challenges of finding so…
54 viewsProfessor Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, spoke about changing technologies, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of building machines that act more “human.” He al…
479 viewsScientists talked about ongoing efforts to detect signals from extraterrestrial sources. Among the issues they addressed were the technologies involved, the chances of detecting signals, and…
354 viewsParticipants gathered to mark the beginning of a new century. Choirs, bands and entertainers performed for the crowd and Mrs. Clinton described a time capsule which was created for the event…
750 viewsPresident Clinton announced the resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. He praised President Yeltsin and talked about working with acting President Putin. He took questions from medi…
651 viewsTelephone lines were opened for audience comments. Callers answered the question, “Who was the most significant person of the century?” Live shots were shown of The Mall in Washington, DC wh…
82 viewsTelephone lines were opened for audience responses to the questions, “What have you learned from watching C-SPAN?” and “Why do you watch C-SPAN?” Live shots were shown of downtown Washingto…
98 viewsMr. Umansky talked about the variety of Millennium Lectures being offered by the Smithsonian Institution today on the future of the arts, technology and many more areas. He also responded to…
115 viewsThe guests talked about today’s resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his probable successor Vladimir Putin. They also talked about the instability of the Russian economy. Then …
204 viewsMr. McConnell reported that there had so far been no major reports of computer failures due to the year 2000 turnover in any country. Many countries are already several hours into the new ye…
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