One of the most significant politicians in the country whose name is not remembered. Part of the problem is that in the nature. In 1954 there is enormous stigma and his widow made it her lifes work to make sure that the story of the suicide was never told. She went so far as to threaten the author of the history textbook that if he knew anything about the suicide in his textbook that she would sue him and so although he knew part of the story, he left it out and so for all these years students in history have read a book on page 521, but on page 521 of doctor larsons book it is overcome by personal and political problems he took his own life on june 19, 1953. He was enormously wellliked. Democrats democrats always have a hard time getting elected to the first time he ran for office, he was the top gogetter in his county and got elected to the legislature and people around the state asked him to run for state office when he became secretary of state and then governor. He was somebody th
Newspaper article or a Magazine Article that that could be a books . Yes. I read an article 10 years ago about how in, very shortly in the 21st century, more households in america will be supported by women and that that is a giant slot, i mean, a giant change. And it made me want to explore what the implications of that might be for men and women, for marriages, for raising children, for love, for courtship. And i got a great book out of it spent what was the books . It was cold the richer sex but it was written by a Washington Post reporter, and who is now at the new America Foundation in washington. It generated, landed on the cover of Time Magazine and it generated a huge conversation about how do we all need to adjust our lives to this economic new reality, and is this good for men and women . And i think we were in the camp of yes, even that makes couples stronger and live up to their potential is a good thing. One of the authors or pair of authors you worked with were nancy gibb
On both sides. But it out to the people. Both sides rejected that, the political leaders rejected it. So the voice may be in the decision going to the people. That is why i was arguing for detail so that people can understand. Dont tell me what the borders are unless you show me exactly how this will work with security. [inaudible question] my suggestion is my suggestion is, you need these working parties, parties that do the planning , israeli, palestinian, american, anyone else. There are some issues like water distribution and other things that have technical aspects to them, but no one has ever drill down to that level to say, produce a detailed plan, not some sort of agreement that is very vague as to what happens. Okay. I have been given the hook. Thank you. [applause] thankyou, general zinni. Thank you all for being with us. We have copies of his wonderful book and invite you to come and have your books signed. Thank you all and good evening. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible
Here we are with the secret world of oil. On the seamy injured underside of the oil business. And the question youre probably sick of answering, why did you write this book . Ive written been the oil industry for a long time. Ive written for over a decade. And ive written about the corruption of the International Oil industry, and the way the United States maintains Close Relationships with various pretty unattractive regimes and the basis legalizationship is oil. When i was at the Los Angeles Times in 2002, when first start writing about the topic. I wrote about the obion family of in new guinea. Nobody knew about it or cared about it. A pariah state. Terrible dictatorship, and dirt poor. And then in the mid1990s, exxon found a lot of oil off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and other American Companies poured in, and suddenly thisship changed. It was no longer a poo rye ya and thats there was this close, still on a friendly relationship because its embarrassing but a reapproachment and