Then Clinton will speak to children from a variety of countries at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center. One hundred of their family members were invited also, but they will dine outside in a heated tent in the Rose Garden. Besides Ali and Taylor, the dinner guests include opera divas Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, historian Arthur Schlesinger, poet Rita Dove, concert violinist Itzhak Perlman, playwright Neil Simon, and actors Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Mary Tyler Moore. Dove and fellow poets Robert Pinsky and Maya Angelou contributed works, and an original score was composed by John Williams, who will also serve as conductor. The president will speak in the final minutes of 1999 and, at the stroke of midnight, there will be fireworks and a light show.
Breakfast is planned.
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