Ladies and gentlemen, please, please take your seats. It is time again for our annual DealBook closing dinner, where we look back at the year that was to toast and roast the year’s deal makers and look ahead to what may come next.
Thank you all for coming to D.C. this year. A special thanks to the folks in the reservations department at the Trump International Hotel here who helped us rent this ballroom on last-minute notice. We know how booked up this place can get with foreign diplomats and leaders; we understand we were competing with a Russian delegation, an Israeli group and perhaps even Bob Dole, who was apparently trying to get the room on behalf of Taiwan.
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