My parents lived in metropolis, illinois, which was across the river from paducah. Paducah was the closest hospital. I grew up in metropolis, illinois. If you could tell us a little bit about your upbringing and if you see anything in the way that you are raised, the family that you are from that may have caused you to become involved in the movement. Were ofow my parents modest means. Both of them were from farm families that had come over from germany and were , and to get land here every German Family had a plot of 80 acres. Im not quite sure how that where my but thats a farm,ents lived, on and both of my parents grew up on a farm. My mom was able to go to Southern Illinois Teachers College and became a teacher. He farmed, and he also had a furniture store, so we lived the town was very small. 6000 people, and it is still 6000 people. Metropolis is just, you know, a farm town and very, very far away from urban centers. Its, like, halfway between st. Louis and memphis, so the big li
Now Condoleezza Rice on democracy. [inaudible conversations] [applause] and actor price is going to be interviewed for us by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg or National Book festival cochair and very generous supporter mr. David rubenstein. [applause] please welcome both of them. Plea [applause] and thanks, and enjoy. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you very much or having me here and welcome everybody. Yo thanks for being here. Its a great event, great event. [applause] its hard to believe but youve now been out of government for about nine years bo so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend that we will talk about it tell us what you been doing since he left government other than writing three a selling books, this is the third but other than that you were teaching at stanford and what ozzy doing . Ive gone back to what i consider to be my real profession are they had thatat digression in washington. I started
Dr. Rice is going to be and dr. Rice is going to be interviewing for us by one of the best interviewers to have his own show on bloomberg, our National Book festival cochair and very generous reporter, dr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. [applause] and pain and enjoy. Well, thank you very much for coming. Spinning to make for having me. Welcome to everybody. Thanks for being here. Great event. [applause] hard to believe that youve been out of government for nine years. Before we get into your new book, democracy, which ite highly recommend and law talk about coachella such events since he left government otherng than creating bestsellingk. Books. Other than that youre teaching at stanford and what else . Ive gone back to my real profession, i have had to question washington, but i started there is an assistant professor and so i returned to stanford. I teach both business and undergraduates. N i have been able to do a little bit of work in the private sector, a little co
Might have been making a couple of hundred you know, a dime was a significant amount of would especially when he hand it to children. Hildren were able to then go out and buy things and it was all because of mr. Rockefeller. Good guy rather than this bad businessman everyone has come to know him as. Oil, the company that rockefeller founded here in leveland, quickly became successful. Obviously making rockefeller the it also an he was but impacted cleveland economically. Brought money into the city ut also the ability of rockefeller to be able to pay decent wage, and llow them to live a good life here in cleveland. It was just another one of those cleveland at e in the time that was doing so well that theauto industry, citizens of cleveland had a you know good, quality of life in the city at the time thanks to these major be it the auto industry, bringing that wealth into the city. Our citys tour staff recently traveled to cleveland learn about its rich history. Learn more about the ci
Anniversary Conference Held in washington dc and is about 90 minutes. Mary ok, we are going to start. My name is Mary Jean Collins and i will be the moderator of the workshop today. [applause] mary nothing but stars on the panel here. [laughter] honored tol very even be there today into the remembering the brave women and men that started the National Organization for women. It was june of 1966 that they first got together. Since nobody, we do not have anyone living that was at the first meeting, at the washington hilton. No, second meeting. Come on. Here is some of the history here. There was a very active womens bureau and the department of labor. 1966, the democrats were in charge, president kennedy had been elected. The women from labor and uaw and other unions are very active in the department of labor and the womens bureau was led by feminists and they persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women. There were many states, i do not know if all sta