If this is the first time for you to visit a special welcome to you. We have a fabulous library which is available to the public for research this evening tony from the Historical Society will do the honors so well take a moment to greet everyone and now we will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers c
Conservativism for decades. Hes edited it since 1997, rich is also a syndicated columnist and author i very much recommend to you the previous book study of Abraham Lincoln social and economic thought lincoln unbound. This new one speaks to a very live and significant controversy in our politics a subject that has been an area thats been a subject of enormous amount of thought and argument in the last two years the question of nationalism of the nation and its place in our politics. Its connection to some of the forces and threads that have been driving the politics of the west in recent years. The forum will be very simple, will hear from rich a little bit about the book. Then he and i will discuss it for a few minutes and then open to questions from you. Please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause] thank you thank you everyone, its a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book tour so far, came very ear
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. I just want to say that four days notice, this is a lot of crowd. This isioning off amazing, this kind of crowd with a level of interest today here for this great politics eggs breakfast. We do these things because we have great sponsors who are here. Their names are around the room to help us put these on. We have been doing quite a few of them of course, and i want to just mention that comcast, they are always front and center, always willing to help but comcast is going to be in this room in about two hours and they film their newsmaker segment. As soon as this is over we go right into comcast mode so other exciting week. We have a lot of great dignitaries. But i just want to recognize heather who really got the Harvard Institute of politics off the ground and running and its a great partner with us. Im so happy you are here today. [applause] neil we have a great partner, is aew hampshire partner great partn
The society will do they honor. I just wanted to take a moment to greet everyone. [applause] a terrific number of programs. Including some definitive conversations how to begin. This is a book about lifetime work. A career based in the strong premise that cities are important. Vital to civilization. Vital to this world. I will let her tell you about the book. I will tell you the first time i met my first week at the appropriation, they had left. Primary for mayor. I never met him although i knew the Agency Working there to graduate school. It happened on a very odd day. We were working on the 46 floor the building. We were the only at the time. A very difficult time. They were reluctant to sign the lease with the state agency because god knows what that might feel like. It was only between paper or obligations. That particular day, everybody was carrying around a copy of the New York Post. A story. This private building on no lower floor than the 46th floor. Fatally, it was not like a
Right now. And good afternoon im scott wapner live. Over the next two days the Halftime Report is debating the state of tech and where your money will work best in the space. From the latest ipos to the f. A. A. N. G. S. We are joined by jeff richards, Jason Calicanis and dan niles. Lets welcome in our guest host for the hour today. He is raise ing a new fund. They are going to invest in private software companies. Well get into that a little later on. Jeff richards is with us on set. He is invested in slack, square and air bnb. Thanks for having me. Good for us to come back out here. Six months dpoe we were here and taking the temperature of tech. Ill ask you first, the state of the market out here is what . Frothy. Word association. Frothy. Just think late stage private valuations are quite high. And then youve seen a bunch of what you would consider previously Growth Investors, Growth Private account investors moving earlier and earlier to get away from the frothiness and that is ca