Wendy Luers, the founder and president of The Foundation for a Civil Society, reminisces of her time as an aid and friend to Czechoslovakia president Vaclav Havel. Her husband, William “Bill” Luers was the former United States Ambassador to Czechosolvakia at the time that Havel first came into leadership. She remembers Havel as an artist, art lover, and as the newly appointed president with large ambitions to change the countries democracy. At the time Wendy worked for Amnesty International and the Human Rights council and gave advice to Havel while he developed his plans for a new society. Using examples from the United States Bill of Rights, as well as ideas from several European nations, they helped Havel set a plan to rebuild Czech society.