rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with peter orszag, he is director of the office of management and budget, and we talk about the budget, about the deficit, and we look ahead to the summit in which president obama will talk about a health care in a live televised encounter. as you go out over the long term, there is nothing else we can do. i don t care what revenue proposals you have, what social security proposals you have what proposals you have to reduce discretionary spending. none of that will matter over the next five or six decades unless we succeed ineducing the rate at which health care costs grow. that is the single most important thing we can do for our long term fiscal future, not only thing, but the single most important thing. rose: and we continue with author and journalist richard reeves. his new book is called daring young men, it is about the berlin airlift. you ll learn a lot about your country and about the people who came forwa
rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with peter orszag, he is director of the office of management and budget, and we talk about the budget, about the deficit, and we look ahead to the summit in which president obama will talk about a health care in a live televised encounter. as you go out over the long term, there is nothing else we can do. i don t care what revenue proposals you have, what social security proposals you have, what proposals you have to reduce discretionary spending. none of that will matter over the next five or six decades unless we succeed in reducing the rate at which health care costs grow. that is the single most important thing we can do for our long term fiscal future, not only thing, but the single most important thing. rose: and we continue with author and journalist richard reeves. his new book is called daring young men, it is about the berlin airlift. you ll learn a lot about your country and about the people who came fo
rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with peter orszag, he is director of the office of management and budget, and we talk about the budget, about the deficit, and we look ahead to the summit in which president obama will talk about a health care in a live televised encounter. as you go out over the long term, there is nothing else we can do. i don t care what revenue proposals you have, what social security proposals you have, what proposals you have to reduce discretionary spending. none of that will matter over the next five or six decades unless we succeed in reducing the rate at which health care costs grow. that is the single most important thing we can do for our long term fiscal future, not only thing, but the single most important thing. rose: and we continue with author and journalist richard reeves. his new book is called daring young men, it is about the berlin airlift. you ll learn a lot about your country and about the people who came fo
rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with peter orszag, he is director of the office of management and budget, and we talk about the budget, about the deficit, and we look ahead to the summit in which president obama will talk about a health care in a live televised encounter. as you go out over the long term, there is nothing else we can do. i don t care what revenue proposals you have, what social security proposals you have, what proposals you have to reduce discretionary spending. none of that will matter over the next five or six decades unless we succeed in reducing the rate at which health care costs grow. that is the single most important thing we can do for our long term fiscal future, not only thing, but the single most important thing. rose: and we continue with author and journalist richard reeves. his new book is called daring young men, it is about the berlin airlift. you ll learn a lot about your country and about the people who came fo
what he finds is that all these individuals had such mammoth curiosity it consumed their imagination and brigade abilities, and that is what the special gifts they had brought to the world, so here is walter isaacson to talk about his book. [applause] thank you. henry lewis, was said to indulge in personality journalism. he said time magazine did not invent personality journalism. the bible did. that s how we tell stories and convey the moral lesson of our times. so as bash a bra said, i have always tried to be interested in creative people. in this town you know a whole lot of smart people i m not sure this is working. it is. a whole lot of smart people, and you kind of realize after a while that smart people are a dime a dozen, and they don t often amount to much. what does matter is creative people, can think out of the box, come up with something new, and so in this book, i tried to look at very smart people and figure out how they had to have a moral center, ho