Readers. [applause] good evening and welcome to the strand rare book room, my name is nancy beth lied and for a little bit of history the store was founded by my grandfather benjamin bass in 1927 and then my dad who passed away, fred bass, it was a part of new yorks famous book row which ran along Fourth Avenue one block away from astro place to union square and there were 48 used bookstores that all kind of competed with one another. All the stores have shattered except for the strand. I want to thank you all, you voracious readers because we are Still Family Owned and still driving, in fact, we are doing 400 events and discussions just like the one tonight and even tonight we have four events. Its really fun. Thank you. And thank you cspan for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine, yet americans will spend 3. 4 billion on medicine and healthcare this year. So, thats largeness to send every family of four a check for 40,000 for their care. We all know that happiness is not a bi
Is what reality steve wrote about you and these girls true . No. There is no truth in it other than, yes, i have interacted with these two women. Ive talked to one of them, ive dated the other one. Other than that, they try to throw sharp who was former bachelor contestant from then season they tried to throw her name into the loop and i dont even know where that came from. What about your relationship with chris harrison. He didnt feel your intentions were necessarily in line with what the show wanted . We just had our our questions as to is he really ready . Is he sincere about this . Why do you think he said that . Ive had a lot of time to think about that. I didnt have a relationship with chris. He stayed pretty distant. Defending their decision to pick nick and i think that if im defending my position as a Production Company to pick someone, ive got to have some rational why the other guy was not right. Its just the can response i think so. I know, right . I know a lot of us would
Is what reality steve wrote about you and these girls true . No. There is no truth in it other than, yes, i have interacted with these two women. Ive talked to one of them, ive dated the other one. Other than that, they try to throw sharp who was former bachelor contestant from then season they tried to throw her name into the loop and i dont even know where that came from. What about your relationship with chris harrison. He didnt feel your intentions were necessarily in line with what the show wanted . We just had our our questions as to is he really ready . Is he sincere about this . Why do you think he said that . Ive had a lot of time to think about that. I didnt have a relationship with chris. He stayed pretty distant. Defending their decision to pick nick and i think that if im defending my position as a Production Company to pick someone, ive got to have some rational why the other guy was not right. Its just the can response i think so. I know, right . I know a lot of us would