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H.H. DALAI LAMA'S address at the CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ceremony: PART 1
US
President GEORGE W. BUSH'S address at H.H. DALAI LAMA'S CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ceremony. October 17, 2007.
ORDER OF EVENTS:
PRELUDE/MUSIC: US Air Force Strings
WELCOME : Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
PRESENTATION OF THE COLORS: US Armed Forces Color Guard
NATIONAL ANTHEM: J. Mark McVey
INVOCATION: Rev. Barry Black (Chaplain of the US Senate)
REMARKS ON THE RESOLUTION:
Rep. Ileana Ros –Lehtinen
Rep. Tom Lantos
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Music (Mozart): US Air Force Strings
REMARKS:
Nobel Peace Laureate - Elie Wiesel
Republican House Leader – Rep. John Boehner
Republican Senate Leader – Sen. Mitch McConnell
Majority House Leader - Rep. Harry Reid
Speaker of the House - Nancy Pelosi
President George Bush
PRESENTATION OF THE GOLD MEDAL
Sen Robert Byrd
Speaker of the House - Nancy Pelosi
President George Bush
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
BENEDICTION: Rev. Daniel P. Coughlin (Chaplain of the US House of Representatives)
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H.H. DALAI LAMA'S
address at the CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ceremony: PART 2
H.H. DALAI LAMA speaks on the subject of animals at a Washington D.C. shelter.
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CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL CEREMONY in honor of HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA OF TIBET, TENZIN GYATSO The Rotunda,
US Capitol, Washington DC. Weds. Oct. 17th, 2007 at 1 pm
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GOLD MEDAL GALA
America Celebrates the Dalai Lama
Oct. 18, 2007 at Andrew Mellon Auditorium, Washington DC
hosted by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blum, Richard Gere and Carey Lowell and benefitting the International Campaign
for Tibet
Masters of Ceremony: Terre Blair and Marvin Hamlisch
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Part I – (1:13:10)
Welcome: Richard Gere, ICT Board of Directors
“One Song”: by Marvin Hamlisch performed by: Harolyn Blackwell (soloist) & the National Cathedral Choir, Master
Chorale and the Eastern Singers
Acknowledgments: Terre Blair
Screening of Film Clip: Kundun & Martin Scorcese
Introduction: Richard Blum (for Dianne Feinstein)
Remarks by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Part II – (57:07)
Remarks: Richard Gere, Lodi Gyari (ICT Executive Chairman), Sogyal Rinpoche (Board Member, ICT Europe) & Geshe
Tsultrim Gyeltsen (Board member ICT)
Closing & Thanks: John Ackerly (ICT President)
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Thursday Oct. 18th at the Park Hyatt Ballroom, Washington DC
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Asia Society, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies present His Holiness the Dalai
Lama in conversation with Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador to the United Nations and member of President Clinton's cabinet;
Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, and Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State. Welcome and
introductions by Andrea Koppel, award winning international journalist with CNN.
