Marathon press conference at the white house to talk about yesterdays election and future relationship with majority public it the way we are talking about issues is not working, then i will try some Different Things. If the ways we are approaching republicans in congress is not working, i am going to try Different Things whether it is having a drink with Mitch Mcconnell or letting john weiner me again at golf. Or weekly more weekly press conferences. I dont know if that would be affected. Whatever i think might make a difference i will try out up until my last day in office. That was his last answer in a press conference that lasted well over an hour. That answer had a little bit of humor to it. Overall most of the press conference did not have that. How did he do overall including that answer. Like that was the exception that proves the role. I was struck by the perfunctory quality to all it. The prepared statement and the first statement look like he would rather have than almost an
Enough recognition as a metric for a failure. Maybe that was part of it. Its urged to implement this amazing vision and the slowness of society relative to his own life lock. On the recognition side, i think we should never use the recognition we get as a measure of success, ever. I think its a big mistake. If you do this, you the true innovators are the true recognizers. Recognition itself in my opinion is plainly the wrong metric. As is money. The real question for me is always, how much do you affect peoples lives to the better in the future. In that case, its fair to say that he was probably ahead of his time. He was the first. He invented whole bunch of things to use everyday. All things we share have massively influenced people. It massively influenced people. He put things out that people would pick up. If he was around today, i would say hey, you have a symposium in your honor. Another story occurs to me that your comment brought up one of my sort of weird illnesses that i coll
And to think that we are carrying on their legacy, that of the Wright Brothers and their creative spirit, it is so important. Here at wright state university, we have the Wright Brothers report cards. So here we have a few report cards of welder, and he was such a good student. In algebra he was getting 80s and 90s most of the time. He was a pretty good student. He went to Central High School in dayton and also a high school in indianapolis, indiana. End of report cards definitely let us know what they were studying in school and what their foundation was for their future experience. And they were not necessarily as good as those of welder. This one was from Central High School in dayton and he got a 75 in algebra and you might think its kind of a low score for somebody to go down and create an airplane. But he just didnt like the organized classroom although he was very inquisitive. So lots of fun to look at, the Younger Generation really enjoys looking at these and once they got out
Seem possible that wilbur is gone. And so probably he felt his lost the most. And i think that really demonstrates how this is a story of an entire family, those who went through a lot of Different Things in their lives, not just this in flight, but a lot of tragedy and emotion, and a lot of interesting things that teach us something about what it was like, what life was like early in the 20th century. For more information on booktvs recent visit to dayton, go to cspan. Org local content. About my book but i decided in the end it might be easiest to explain how i came to write it. Because i take the fact back to the summer of 2006. I should say i love being a historian graduated in the 19 nineties but that was tested in june of 2006 kafta degette i spent that month at a Historical Society to work on the Cypress Hills massacre and let me ask has anyone heard of the cyprus hills massacre . I saw why would be spending time at the event because the notorious 1870s slaughter in which a grou
You know about this. And it leads to the question, are they misof informing congress, do you think . And if so, why . Well, first of all, they havent been asked the right question, so they havent misof informed congress. But there is such a thing as to missive misrepresentation to missive misrepresentation. And if you knew there was a terrorist getting your money, you would with duty bound to report it. And our country, our administration should not be vibrantly and robustly allowing american taxpayer money to be fungiblely financed into terrorist salaries. We should just abruptly say this has got to stop. Now, let me give you a similarly. The biggest simile. The biggest demonstration in the history of man kind occurred in egypt some months ago. The biggest petition in the history of mankind occurred in egypt some months ago. The Muslim Brotherhood was dethroned. The question was, and i have my own tv show, i asked this question, everybody in the media was asking this question, was it