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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.

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…

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…

Mr. LeCarre spoke about how his life experiences were reflected in his writing. He said that he first began to be interested in intelligence matters while working in refugee camps in post-Wo…

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…

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

Mr. Witt reported that no problems have been reported yet in the computers of emergency agencies in the U.S. After his prepared remarks he responded to questions from the media.

Mr. 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…

Mr. Thibodeau talked about his book, A Place Called Waco: A Survivor’s Story, written with Leon Whiteson and published by Public Affairs. He focused on his experience as one of only nine sur…

James Lee Witt the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency talked with reporters about the status of Federal Emergency Management preparations for the year 2000 rollover. He said…

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.

Author John Callahan talked about the book Juneteenth, written by Ralph Waldo Ellison. The book is based on manuscripts from Ellison and Mr. Callahan edited the raw manuscripts to create a m…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

In a commemoration of the first ten years of C-SPAN’s Booknotes program, clips of past programs were shown and C-SPAN staff members were interviewed about how the program is created. Several…

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Ms. Lamott discussed her book Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, published by Pantheon Books, a collection of essays describing her reluctant journey into faith. She also reflected o…

Mr. Koskinen talked with reporters about continued preparations for the year 2000 rollover and said no problems have been reported yet. He responded to questions from the media.

Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.

Mr. McConnell talked with reporters about international preparations for the year 2000 rollover and responded to media questions.