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2011:

  1. We Remember the People We Lost in 2011
    We Remember the People We Lost in 2011

    with Duke Snider, Reynolds Price, David Broder and more on Dec 30, 2011

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  2. An appreciation of Vaclav Havel
    An appreciation of Vaclav Havel

    with Vaclav Havel on Dec 19, 2011

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2000:

  1. A conversation with Vaclav Havel
    A conversation with Vaclav Havel

    with Vaclav Havel on Sep 13, 2000

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1995:

  1. An interview with Vaclav Havel
    An interview with Vaclav Havel

    with Vaclav Havel on Oct 27, 1995

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Václav Havel was a playwright and political dissenter who became president of the Czech Republic after his country was freed from Soviet domination late in the 20th century. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic.

He also wrote plays and poems, and by the 1960s had a reputation in literary circles. His plays included “The Garden Party” and “The Increased Difficulty of Concentration”. His outspoken critiques of the Communist government made it difficult for him to have his works published in Czechoslovakia, and he spent a total of nearly five years in and out of jail for his politics. In 1989 Havel emerged on the world stage as the leader of the democratic movement, and after the fall of communism he became the president of Czechoslovakia. Havel resigned in 1992 when it became clear that internal divisions were coming to a head, and in 1993 he was elected the first president of the newly-separate Czech Republic. He was reelected in 1998 and served until February of 2003.

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