I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig
Daughter. [applause] his daughter, and his son are in the audience and my mother and my uncle. We have these fine books that are comprised of 1500 pages and there is no overlap between the two because of the conceptual differences. The book by john dean, legendary watergate figure accountable to president nixon, the nixon defense, New York Times bestseller is an authoritative examination of the 1,000 or so conversations that were taped in the Nixon White House. The nixon tapes by douglas brinkley, they did not these books offer a you remarkable searing view of Richard Nixon and all of his ruthless pragmatism and pettiness and offered glimpses of the possibility of what could have been a great presidency had not been undone by his almost shakespearean problems. I turned this over to the authors and say a few words about the books and i will start with doug and luke. Thank you for being here. I am a professor at rice university. Luke teaches texas a m in history and there you go. This ca