Strobe Talbott is the Keynote Speaker for the Celebrate Planned Parenthood Annual Gala

Business Wire, Nov 20, 2007

Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) proudly presents Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State, as the keynote speaker at Celebrate Planned Parenthood, the annual gala celebrating Planned Parenthood.

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Planned Parenthood:

For nearly 80 years, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has worked in our region to make sure all people have the information and the means to make free and responsible decisions about whether and when to have children. Planned Parenthood operates 27 clinics in Minnesota and South Dakota, providing quality and affordable family planning, reproductive health care services and education to nearly 60,000 women and men each year.

Strobe Talbott:

Strobe Talbott has been President of the Brookings Institution since 2002. He has served as founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, then as Deputy Secretary of State for seven years. Mr. Talbott entered government after 21 years with Time magazine as a reporter, a Washington bureau chief, editor-at-large and foreign affairs columnist.