Silence. Why should my husbands job or yours prevent us from doing this and being first lady should prevent us from expecting our ideas. She and president gerald ford it discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, and so much of a public life struggled with jargon alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her First White House years. Good evening and working to cspan series, first ladies, influence an image. Well tell you about elizabeth of our president gerald floored, and here is Richard Norton smith. President ial historian and we have one of the academic advisers. We have talked about a number of president ial libraries. Among them the Gerald Ford Library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fourth, so you bring that to the table. In folders closure, i try to be objective as possible, but i was very fortunate to become friends with the ford. I want to start the story where we left off, which is that night in august where they learned we will be in the white house
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says
And the readers for allowing me to be who had elevated libraries. [applause] let me just say that you are now a number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. But when i started this book i could not have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn because they wanted to understand that happened in 1986 the epic fire that close the black one the library for seven years but more importantly i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I have often said if somebody said to me city hall burned down i would have thought thats too bad. I assume they will rebuild it. But hearing that a library had burned, felt like a deep profoundly personal loss. And i thought why do we feel such a connection to books . And what is so disturbing. And with the investigative curiosity with the overarching question of why do we care so much about libraries. And thats what stirs a lot of people because for many people it was a reminder to them of how much they care about libraries. So the thing that i
Thank you for coming. That is the pink newspaper thats really good. I present bc radio. Ive done a show for the World Service ive made fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how numbers lead us astray and sometimes help us to understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis. Called Cautionary Tales its all about things going wrong sometimes and tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. In between all of that i try to write a few bucks. The second thing i want to say is thank you to the Rancho Mirage festival to jamie and the rest of the festival. A round of applause for jamie please. Jamie emailed me probably 18 months ago and suggested i fly across the world from Oxford England to come to Rancho Mirage. Its a huge journey for me. Thank you very much to all of you. I feel fortunate to be here. [applause]. I said i wasnt a fan of long preambles. Clearly im a total hypocrite. Let me talk about this book of mine. I dont if you can see the sl
Smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith we appreciate you coming into the studio for this interview. Always a pleasure, peter. Even if it is just approximate. You and jonathan. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways it has affected us but i think perhaps its unfortunate but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable, irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us because it is then that the architecture broadcasting, one source of content to everybody in a geographic area, without stress on the System People began to realize how valuable broadcasting remains and survey after survey continues to show that broadcasting remains the most important source of journalism when people just want the facts. But you know the nab since its