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Sunday, April 28
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation honored former Polish president Lech Wałęsa Thursday night in an exclusive dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel. Wałęsa was the first democratically-elected Polish head of state elected since World War II. His leadership was instrumental in ending Soviet domination of Poland and setting the stage for the rest of Eastern Europe.