Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith the great. So i call this the june knee damage Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. My experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The hightech industry is a classic example. If
From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow Bureau chief and later as Foreign Editor and assistant managing editor. Please join me in welcoming David Hoffman to the Louisville Free public library. [applause] thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a weeknight, and i know that a lot of you probably have other things to do, and its really exciting for an hour to come to louisville and see so many people interested. A book takes years and years to write, and im going to give you the best of it in 5 minutes. [laughter] 35 minutes. And answer your questions. [laughter] id like to thank the Louisville Free public library, id like to thank lisa, id like to thank the Library Foundation for making this talk possible, and i hope that after ive spoken for a little while that youll have some questions, because i cant possibly get everything i wrote in this book into 35 minutes. The book is about spying. A cia man wrote a generation ago that, like war, spying is a dirty business. You peel away the cl
We will take you live to William Dudleys remarks. First, julie hyman is with us. We are halfway into the monday trading day. Julie we have nearly a flat line. The nasdaq gaining a little more, but it has given up about half its games today. We had a record at the end of last week, so we are seeing that extended into todays session. Any higher close, no matter how small, will be a record for the averages. Gains are somewhat tepid. I want to check some of the under the radar movers. One is anthem. The company is getting a new chief. Josephl be succeeding later this month. She is one of the highest ranking women in the healthinsurance industry. She was formerly the ceo of united health. Of the insurance arm of united health. Comments in the u. K. There is a trade dispute with boeing. He says the final ruling may not match the preliminary ruling, which was more in bum party are bombardiers favor. And analyst says we are seeing a rebound to a sixweek high in natural gas. Bestt weather has l
Distortions the way the story was told and other public records. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Were back now with more live original to of thing a annual gaithersburg festival. Melvin goodman will talk about his time with the cia. [inaudible discussion] welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. Im audrey and im washington independent review of books representative here helping at this festival. Its a city that proudly supports the arts and humanity. Were pleased to gripping you this fabulous event thanks to the generous support of sponsors and volunteers. When you see them, please say thanks. A few announcements. Please silence your cell phones. If youre on social media, use the hash tag gbs and i think i see gbs17. Your feedback is valuable to us. Surveys are able. By submitting a century ray you will be entered into a drawing for a 100 series to gift card. Melvin goodman will be signing books after the presentation. Copies of his book right here are on
Jacobson assumption until i decided to work on the book. It was a strange gift for the works. Coming to it with no background and completely clean, meant that i could mime mine own memories and layer in this information that i was learning. It wasnt like one of the things i often said about this work as i was doing it is i didnt come with a story to tell. I didnt come saying i have this whole story i need to impart to you. The look is the attempt to put together the pieces. One of the most important things about the work is when i realized i was reading about it film and with it in mind i might want to write something about it after my father died, i realized that no one really talked about it as a whole movie. It is interesting that you brought that up. People talk about it as evidence, as an artifact that ended up being worth a lot of money, people talk about it as a culture touch stone. People look at it as a lens in which you can look at media, ethics and changing waz. But for our