And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
Paid and for tip oneill you did an advance of about a Million Dollars and it was really and for barack obama from my father. 40,000 well, lets put this. Remember tip with speaker of the house and retiring speaker of the house, and were a great public figure in politician. I was in a heated auction. And we prevailed. Its the first time anybody like anybody. I certainly am not spend a Million Dollars before we say a big enough deal that it got noted the front page in time said oneill gets a million bucks. The barack story was that he was in the president of the harvard law review and the New York Times reported the fact that the first black president of the harvard law review and he got a contract with simon and schuster. And he missed the deadline and they canceled it. And they wanted the money back. And so his agent came to me said look theres a very interesting young fellow named barack obama. Would you like to meet with them . And i did. And i was very impressed. This was 1994 maybe.
And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi