Ellen karel has written a book called force. Whats on the front of starbucks . It is a motorcycle deleted or not and it is in the middle of nowhere in the southern south america actually. It is a bmw because i took that motorcycle for three years alone and with it all over the world. We have passions and dreams. I always wanted to travel around the world. My passions have been certainly writing and motorcycle riding and i find myself at a fork in the road, unemployed and recently divorced. So, i decided that instead of just scrambling to try to find the next job i sold everything that i had, and i hopped on a motorcycle to visit and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. We come to forks in our lives and they are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and what we share and eat food with and finally, you know if you are a musician and you know what a tuning fork is in that brings harmony and resonance to that so there is a
Good evening. Im tom putnam director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the kenibrar and my of the ceo of the Kennedy Library thank foundation and all of my all library and foundation collects and i thank you for coming. Welcome all those watching on cspan. And acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedyth Library Forum lead sponsor bank of america, raytheon, bostonion, an our capital, the Boston Foundation and our mediart partners the boston globe, viacom. X you are for me with the story. Its th the late 1950s idential candidate scion to fortune, oneman force field of celebrity good look and charms, fresh all victory in his home state in the middle east and impatient under president eisenhower itching to get the country moving again and encountering his main impediment to the white house in the form of richard m. Nixon. The description applies to john f. Kennedy also fits nelson a. Rockefeller. The resemblance is more uncanny when compar
Then they have the kids to a lot of times. Then they have to prepare food. Its a hard life. I always say just because i dont know anything because not much has been written about asmat women what appears to be a culture in which women have very little importance for power isnt necessarily true. Its just that we men are privy to mans world and we are the writers. I always say that if you know of any ph. D. Candidates who are women who are looking for a thesis, a woman could go live in asmat and come up with really remarkable stuff. The role of the women and really what their role is. Obviously much greater than we in and my interactions with them would indicate. But it is cut off to me. Thank you and i think that was it. Thank you everybody. Appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] the judges decision in 2010 was instructive. Hes the first person who is a neutral person to have reviewed all of the evidence in the case and he decided that the evidence in the case was either no
A republic no more Big Government and the rise of american political corruption by jay cost. My name is john samples. Icann would like to welcome you to our event today for this very important book. If you read the book florins before today come the day will proceed in many ways save his fellow other bookworms have. You would hear from some participated in the there will be a questionandanswer session about 1 00 and also one other thing like our other events, please turn off our cell phones now so we can have the event in peace and quiet. Some of the things will be different today. We are trying different to us. A different format. Into this particular case, are out there jay cost with a few general sense of the lay of the land. Mycobacteria and Chris Edwards and they will for a few minutes give you some impressions of the book and then work how much a increase will have a conversation about the spread of a little corruption in america a republic no more. I look at the administrative s
The people who get in government think that they can centrally plan the economy as it the economy or set society was like a chessboard that the government can manipulate. That is the problem with the Big Government. So i dont think i think jays critique is the hamiltonian or henry clay kind of Big Government system perhaps could have worked in washington if we changed the institutions in washington over the decades. I dont think thats right. I think the government failed because it tries to centrally plan. A second point and maybe this is more, i thought it was interesting more bit of an agreement with j. Is that the master and the of checks and balances and that factions and extend republic our each other to the broader public good medicine and fairly, jay can correct me if im wrong, didnt see logrolling. Its a central and crucial problem in government and jay goes into this in some detail. Back to the 19th century logrolling was a huge problem with various programs. I think a discuss