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Aspen Ideas Festival

The 2007 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival

Churchill is the leader to learn from

Broadcast: Midday, 08/10/2007, 12:00 p.m.

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In a lesson from history, Newsweek's editor Jon Meacham spoke at this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival about what President Bush could learn from Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and what the American people should look for in their next president.

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