a panel on independent bookselling. that is our lineup for today live from the gaithersburg book festival on the grounds of gaithersburg city hall. here is john turner. good morning. welcome to the gaithersburg fourth annual book festival. my name is johnny susman and i make gaithersburg resident. gaithersburg is the vibrant diversity that celebrates and supports the arts and humanities. we are pleased to bring you this event, free of charge thanks to the generous support of our sponsor so please visit them today and say thanks. a couple of quick announcements of consideration for everyone here. please silence all of your devices. in order to keep improving his event we need your feedback. surveys are available on our web site paired your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out. by submitting a survey you ll be entered into a drawing for a net e-reader. john turner will be signing books immediately after this presentation. copies of h
[applause] it is great to be here tonight i have a lot of things to talk about and one of the things i would like to start talking about is what is the mild autistic traits that becomes mild optimism? i think half of silicon valley has a little bit of optimism. [laughter] negative at one end of the spectrum like steve jobs or the guy who fixes the copier machine and that the apparent you have people much more handicapped, and nonverbal to live in a supervised living situation. if you take robert einstein who was speech delayed until age three what about albert albert, jr. in today s school system? that makes me shudder. a little bit of these traits research has shown those people that are bipolar you have more creative people and family history of what to some you have more tactical. a little bit of the trait is a disadvantage but at some point it is normal variation. one of the problems is so many people colored by this word from those to live in a supervised situation
universities, if he had been raised in the hood, the odds are greater that he would have been stopped, he would have been frisked, he would have would have been searched and he would have been caught and far from being president of the united states today he might not even have the right to vote depending on the state he lived in. cpu can watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. googles eric schmidt and jared cohen lay out their vision of the future world in which everyone is digitally connected. this event is a little over one hour and starts now. welcome everybody. leave it to eric schmidt and jared cohen to draw a crowd like this at the aspen institute. their book is the new digital age. eric schmidt is a software engineer by upbringing, was chief technology officer with microsystems and the ceo of novell. he has for those of us who love the digital age and even the old digital age as well as the new digital age, he has a nice of having worked at the la
a school founded on the truth that all are created equal. .. orleans who unable to argue with the successes of his policies or the thought behind them rewrote history to cast coolidge as a villain or characterize him. the new deal historians had their work cut out for them. coolidge proceeded over one of the largest expansion in economic growth in american history and he had a lot to say. coolidge gave over 500 press conferences in his red and see, ran for office 19 times and won 18 times working his way from city councilman to president of the united states. truly a small are republican states in. he was the last president to write his own speeches and kent three collections and published autobiography after his presidency. and internationally syndicated host presidential column. my book why coolidge matters is intended to report what coolidge actually had to say and what he did say to restore his views about limited government, american independence and constitutionalism.
question could a black kid from south central los angeles be the photographer for the president of the united states. what s the answer to that question? guest: that is a big yes. host: how did you get the job? guest: back in 2000, i was assigned by the associated press to cover the bush campaign. i was a staff photographer and that s my background, photojournalism. so i covered the campaign full-time for 18 months. host: did you get to know the president in that kind of work? guest: you do. you spent a lot of time on the road mostly with other journalists, and a lot of time with the staff, the campaign staff, and i really didn t think about the job until actually after the election because you might remember the election was decided that night. and during the recount, that gave me the opportunity to pursue the position if governor bush had won the election, and everything lined up. it was perfect timing for me because right after he became president-elect i had o