Something that happens. When his father died he just got involved in activities. When his wife died in the life is gone out, he died he would never marry again, he goes to the badlands and is just on a horse for 10 hours a day. He said finally bit that night because constant activity prevented over thought and then he did come back and eventually marry and have a fulfilling marriage with edith,s girlfriend and monitor as much as they couldve loved anybody. The little girl who was born when his wife died i think represented the dead wife he couldnt remember and didnt want to remember because he had to move forward. Its a terrible thing in some ways. So we did give ally to his sister for a while but edith, the new wife in old friend brought her into the family. In his memoir he never mentioned the name. And comprehensible and just the opposite of somebody who wants to believe the more you talk about the people you loved, the more you keep them alive, he just had to keep moving forward. W
Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. This ear ferguson is on our minds. I think locally it has to be these ferguson problems are local problems. They ar
For a division of the National Institutes of standards and technology. Mr. Grant, thats quite a mouthful, but what is nistic as its known . Guest i should say every program in washington seems to get one. Weve got one of the catchier ones. The National Strategy for trust and identities in cyber stays is an initiative launched by president obama in springtime of 2011 thats focused to looking to raise the levels of trust online by driving improvements in security and privacy for all of us. The first is the passwords are fundamentally broken both from a security and usability perspective. On the security side, we know from studies that a whopping 76 president of Network Intrusions 76 of Network Intrusions last year were exploited, and use about side managing 25 or 30 different passwords, youre told to make each of them 12 characters, increasingly complex. Its, unfortunately, the perfect combination of bad security and bad use about. Beyond the password side of thing, nstic is looking to g
[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft and a bit about the muckrakers. Before we do so, a little more background about her another book shes written. Shes of course written works on lincoln, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and a book on Lyndon Johnson with whom she worked when she was a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [cheers and applause] a big fan of t
The one that got me most was the search for meaning. Guest we are meaningseek creatures, as part of our human conditions. Dogs as far as we know dont agonize about the canine condition or the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, but we do, and we fall very easily into despair if we cant find some kind of ultimate significance in our lives, and our warfare has actually been for men particularly, one of the triggers for a certain ecstasy that chris hedges, New York Times correspondent has written a very good book called war is a force that gives us meaning. Everything was Crystal Clear for men on the battlefield. Theres us and them, its black and white. And also, he says that when youre in the midst of conflict, you see how very, very trivial and pointless most of civilian life is. I was talking to a military historian in britain, and he was telling me one of the chief quarters that drives young people to go to the battlefield is boredom. A sense of utter boredom and futility in t