BUSH ATTENDS BOOK GALA
President and Mrs. George W. Bush descend stairs at the Library of Congress following a program honoring authors at the National Book Festival Gala Dinner in Washington, DC, September 28, 2007. Also shown are Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Mrs. Marjorie Billington. (UPI Photo/Martin H. Simon/Pool)
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WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- The songs "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "Stand By Your Man," and a recording of Mort Sahl's comedy act are to be preserved by the U.S. Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- "All the President's Men" and "The Exorcist" are among the U.S. movies to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Library of Congress says it plans to preserve "The Incredible Shrinking Man," "Jezebel," "The Muppet Movie" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Paul McCartney has been chosen to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a U.S. Library of Congress official confirmed Sunday.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says he has appointed Kay Ryan to serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder has been chosen to receive the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, it was announced Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Twenty-five classics from every era of American filmmaking have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A New Orleans radio station has donated more than 7,000 hours of live jazz and blues recordings to the Library of Congress in Washington.
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