Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t
Discipline like the arts and sciences, the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and Albert Einstein. We talk about innovations so often, its almost drained of its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it whether it be after world war ii when you have to create a whole new world order like the world bank and the Marshall Plan or steve jobs who says okay we are now in a digital revolution and have to make it personal. These are people who are able to think different and outofthebox. So i want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of the themes in all of your her books seems to be the connection to spirituality. Everybody had written about the leaves believes whatever they did was part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs at the end of his life and i asked him why did you do what you do, what was the meaning and he said life is like a river. You get to pick things out of
Thank you for joining us. Great crowd. Hello, everybody. Its an honor to be here with you. I heard there was a new book coming out. Kind of neat to read i think im actually selling more kindle copies than hard cover. I was going to ask you to autograph this. There you go. It was got some questions lined up. I do remember it was in this very room not long ago we talk about intel for the documentary. For cbs. And as we were talking and watching, you point out there was arthur rock standing right next to gordon moore, having a conversation, and i. Taking a shaking, horrible iphone photo of that historic moment. That had to be an inspiration to see them together. Yes, and perhaps the last time. A sense that history was turning that night. I should say, you and i could literally swap seats here. I had the interview show on pbs and you cover Silicon Valley every day and knows what is going on. Maybe halfway threw well switch rauls. Host i do cover and it we have had this discussion before an
Decades of twisted music. But hes going to talk today about his induction into the rock n roll hall of fame, as well as his new book. And the chief executive of the philly pretzel factory, his twisted products have led him to profits. All that and more over the next hour. First the headlines. Google out with its earnings after the close of u. S. Trading. The companys sales falling short of estimates. Revenues excluding sales passed on to partners was 12. 2 billion in the First Quarter, shy of a projection by analysts for 12ds. 3 billion. Shares are dropping in the after hours trade. American express also out with its results. The company said First Quarter profits rising 12 and that beast analysts estimates as customer spending improved. And new York Attorney general is said to have sent subpoenas to six High Frequency trading firm asking for information about special arrangements they have with exchanges as well as their trading strategies. Thats a look at some of the top headlines at
Philly pretzel factory, his twisted products have led him to profits. All that and more over the next hour. First the headlines. Google out with its earnings after the close of u. S. Trading. The companys sales falling short of estimates. Revenues excluding sales passed on to partners was 12. 2 billion in the First Quarter, shy of a projection by analysts for 12ds. 3 billion. Shares are dropping in the after hours trade. American express also out with its results. The company said First Quarter profits rising 12 and that beast analysts estimates as customer spending improved. And new York Attorney general is said to have sent subpoenas to six High Frequency trading firm asking for information about special arrangements they have with exchanges as well as their trading strategies. Thats a look at some of the top headlines at this hour. Thanks very much. Now google reported First Quarter results today after the close of trading, sales falling short. As advertising railts for advertising