Video Recording of President William Jefferson Clinton at a State Dinner for President Václav Havel of the Czech Republic

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Video Recording of President William Jefferson Clinton at a State Dinner for President Václav Havel of the Czech Republic

1998

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Havel, Václav, 1936-2011

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Václav Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he became more politically active and helped found several dissident initiatives, including Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. His political activities brough...