[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone, good afternoon. My neighboring is michael, resident fellow of American Enterprise institute and its my pleasure today to welcome to aei profess or Cass Sunstein. He was the administrator of the Office Information of regulatory affairs, commonly known as oir from obama administration. Hes written a dozen books and herest hes here to talk about his latest books which is called republic. I think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago but its an important and interesting book so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. Okay. Well, its a thrill to be out here and you all do amazing work and ive learned so much from whats produced here on legal and regulatory matters and i really thank you on behalf of zillions of people. I was blessed or cursed for the last several years to live in the waldorf towers, which is pretty heavy stuff from a boy from massachusetts and i lived there because my wife embassador of united
Giving bunch of speeches and ran are across former Washington Post writer peter eisner and did traveling through, and while we were were will, i was there on speaking to peter and let me know that he was working on a new book about spies and manila one claire thrip and number working on archives i knew of other people tharm working on books about Claire Phillips like okay, all right. But then pete let me know ive got Claire Phillips diary. So that feeds into a lot and over the past two years because we have all of the papers of parsons one of the main characters of the story as well as the papers of john boon who was a big gorilla on baton and daughter is with us tonight. Gene can you just raise your hand . [applause] im so glad she came down and donated papers quite a long time ago. And its a really a thrilg for all of pus to have you here. But petes work is now finished two years in the making and here we are with a really great piece and let him tell the story that he has to tell so
Enough to assemble a list of the least influential people of 2016. I added some losers to their list. On it, Anthony Weiner was once a Democratic Party star. But nows a oneman freak show. Wiener stiffed hillary when the f. B. I. Decided to probe the computer. Chris christie was never destined for the white house, but he learned how to stare ominously at the back of president elects head. He would have been a terrifying candidate or a. G. The entire state of california couldnt deliver hillary the goods. It got no thump by the Electoral College, and jerry brown and nancy pelosi and the dork dumpster couldnt grease hill over the hump. Celebrities in so cal are also i am potent. They all came up flat. And two monsters were created as amy shierm and lena dunham made gaffe after gaffe when they used to make us laugh. They couldnt muster any enthusiasm in the middle of the country. They think by virtue of their past success people will automatically agree with their superficial leftiness. But
Enough to assemble a list of the least influential people of 2016. I added some losers to their list. On it, Anthony Weiner was once a Democratic Party star. But nows a oneman freak show. Wiener stiffed hillary when the f. B. I. Decided to probe the computer. Chris christie was never destined for the white house, but he learned how to stare ominously at the back of president elects head. He would have been a terrifying candidate or a. G. The entire state of california couldnt deliver hillary the goods. It got no thump by the Electoral College, and jerry brown and nancy pelosi and the dork dumpster couldnt grease hill over the hump. Celebrities in so cal are also i am potent. They all came up flat. And two monsters were created as amy shierm and lena dunham made gaffe after gaffe when they used to make us laugh. They couldnt muster any enthusiasm in the middle of the country. They think by virtue of their past success people will automatically agree with their superficial leftiness. But
Enough to assemble a list of the least influential people of 2016. I added some losers to their list. On it, Anthony Weiner was once a Democratic Party star. But nows a oneman freak show. Wiener stiffed hillary when the f. B. I. Decided to probe the computer. Chris christie was never destined for the white house, but he learned how to stare ominously at the back of president elects head. He would have been a terrifying candidate or a. G. The entire state of california couldnt deliver hillary the goods. It got no thump by the Electoral College, and jerry brown and nancy pelosi and the dork dumpster couldnt grease hill over the hump. Celebrities in so cal are also i am potent. They all came up flat. And two monsters were created as amy shierm and lena dunham made gaffe after gaffe when they used to make us laugh. They couldnt muster any enthusiasm in the middle of the country. They think by virtue of their past success people will automatically agree with their superficial leftiness. But