Because after all, he is someone who has been a professor of law. It was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. That is how i would characterize it. Did you leave there writing things down after you were there to remind yourself . Can you give us an example . You know, when done with this i think we will have more dinners with him. One of my colleagues and i talked a little bit about writing a piece called dinners with obama. I think it will be a very positive piece because he listens. He wasnt intent on giving us instruction or lobbying us for anything in particular. Except that at the first dinner he wanted to know how president s achieved the transformative presidency. How did Franklin Roosevelt do it . Theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, Ronald Reagan with his reagan revolution. At the second dinner, because this was in 2010, he was slipping somewhat in the polls and did not have the continuing hold of the publics imagination. That is not unusual. Once president s are
Good morning. Or as say and say in texas, hi you all. Its a great day to be in austin texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the book festival with the moderator New York Times author and writer, Rachel Swarns. Im going to tell you a few things about rachel because i know you came here to hear her and not me and because our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995 reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaigns of 2004 and 2008 and on First Lady Michelle Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at different events this year where i got a book that she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama. After hearing her talk, i bought six more copies. I bought them for all of my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you is a good investment. It helped me better understand my own familys
Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
From a french company. They get 30 they dont even pay tax on. We have to run a country. I think simpsonbowles is the right direction, but i dont think simpsonbowles goes far enough. At one time i thought steve forbes idea was great, but he wants to keep a certain piece of money that is an entitlement. Guest and makes a very good point that we have got to have the kind of progrowth tax reform that simplifies the system, broadens the base, lower rates, but that stimulates Economic Growth and economic development. That means not only getting people back to work but it is the growing economy that creates more revenue, not higher taxes. The growth and the revenues from growth is what we really need to address the deposition and debt. Often we dont focus on that enough in the scoring, like the cbo, Congressional Budget Office scoring you see all the time, the revenue from growth is not factored in. In anything we put together a, like we just made the lower tax rates permanent for 99 of all t
View, are completely unobjectionable. Dick gregory titled his first autobiography, nigger an autobiography. And Richard Pryor with two great albums, that nigger is crazy and bicentennial nigger. Host when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. What reaction did you get . Host when i do. Guest when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. And continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. Some people took real offense at the title. If there was one aspect of the book that probably got me the most negative reaction was people who complained about the title, and who thought that i was being sensationalist, i was exploiting this term by putting it right there in the title, right there on the cover of a book that would appear in your book stores all across america. And what i said to people was and i still say and i say this unapologetically if you write a book you want people to read your book. There are thousands of books in any bo