Object of which to which our inquiries are directed. Nd you can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Congressman tom cole, why do you put books and recommendations . Ive always been academics and its been a big part of my life and i was actually a Community Director because we get the questions all of the time. I use books when im making a point in town Hall Meetings and we would return to regular feature and been pretty surprised about how much attention it gets. Host and you change it every month or so . Guest yeah, we do. We sort of struggle to find the right way. Sometimes itll be a series of books on a particular topic, native americans. Its usually the easiest ways, literally what youre reading now and we keep one up about a month and, you know, maybe ill have two or three books that im reading and, okay, here take the picture this month and next month or whatever. Do you ever post reviews . No, i have never done too much of that. I havent had time to post reviews
Verizon have in place to protect the information you get from consumers and customers and how is that information used . Guest that is a good question. We have a Privacy Policy in place that covers how we use customer information. The whole list of different issues. And a whole gamut especially. The line drawing at the fcc is exercising is trying to figure out where do we give customers notice and opt out. We have had to make those calls over the years. We spend a lot of time on privacy. A chief privacy officer reports to me. We spend a lot of time on that. Very important to the company. We have a lot of different consumers and we have a policy we post on our website. We give customers separate notices. When they change the policy. There is a lot of information we are providing to customers and trying to make clear how their information is used, how it is collected and what we do with it. Host do customers read the long, privacy forms . Guest they do. We spend a lot of time explaining
Doing fine. But what they are learning every day. In those letters are absolutely phenomenal. As the harvard medical school. Host the last question or comment who was the last president to write his own speeches . Order your thoughts on the gaggle of writers and handlers for modern president s . My guess is theodore roosevelt. With the power the president to communicate it is somewhat diminished by that that is not to say they have written some of the most powerful parts of the speeches they have made kennedy was a very good writer in the speech from the car and not from the script some president s have had wonderful writers for their scrips and Ronald Reagan had peggy noonan and george h. W. Bush when he became president and they were writing speeches. Words are much more important than many people realize. Using words is a huge part of leadership. To all have that power of communication and with the door in thing full franklin roosevelt. Could we still the maltese following generatio
Them and she had and how do we fight this sort of forces that fight and can some ways selfishness or selfjustification and societally how do we stop this inventing in our schools and education . This is the institution which record providing the american dream, the only semifunctional one. I wonder to what extent we reduce the problem to how we make the schools better. Why . The answer comes back to kids. When you see Public School students, you understand they are being largely deprived of opportunities that should be theirs. Those schools need attention. They need funding. They need political will and people to come teach even if they dont teach all that well. For a time. I think we are about out of time. Thank you all for coming and for participating. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congressman said break away the recommendations for books on your website . Ive always been a big part of my life and i was actually a pretty Smart Communications is idea b
Speechwriter, but in making a film about them. Which is how i came to be a today. I made a film in 2006, seven, eight, about the obama campaign, and one of my favorite parts about the film is getting to spend time with the speechwriters. And when i met dick goodwin a aa screen for the family started telling me stories, and the stories were so rich and so colorful that i thought this would be a great subject for a documentary. And knows all these guys really well and knows where all the bodies are buried. So without further ado, i would like to introduce robert and you are in for a real treat. Thank you. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. I want to thank david murray the professional speech Writers Association for putting this panel on. I want to thank georgetown for hosting us. I want to thank cspan for preserving for posterity that will no doubt be great wisdom from this panel. So the Space Shuttle has blown up yet there has been a terrorist attack. There has been a