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President Clinton spoke about the celebration of a new millennium. He urged everyone to continue to strive for peace and freedom throughout the world.

From 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…

Department of Defence Y2K updates with coverage from the Pentagon Briefing room Deputy Pentagon spokesman Pj Crowley.

Administration 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…

In 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…

Mr. 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…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Mr. 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…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Professor 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…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Scientists 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…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Participants 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…

President 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…

Telephone 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…

Telephone 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…

Mr. 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…

The 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 …

Professor Gershenfeld and others demonstrated several new technologies which may serve as prototypes for new inventions in the 21st century. Among the technologies were machines which used t…