Please welcome our guest speaker. [applause] hello, guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about tara, you need to just get out of the whole you have been living in for a while because her book has just celebrated the hundredth consecutive week ahead of michelle malcolm, michelle, down there thats very cool. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative, and thats why youre so interested and youre s still here for the last lecture on the second day. I thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho, and actually to me at such a beautiful setting, there must be a lot of beautiful memories you still have from that. Yes. It was a really Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on. I still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and of playing on that mountain, i think its an incredible, we had this entire ground and wonderful space and a lot of great things that can happen. I guess we were
[inaudible conversations] please welcome dr. Carla hayden and susan orlean. [applaus [applause] well, i have to start by, im carla Hayden Library of congress and i want to thank jamie and feline and the angels and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who hassle evaluat evaluated elevated libraries to such an extent. Thank you. Let me say there have been patron saints of libraries, Andrew Carnegie and stuff like that, about you you are now number one. I finally smacked down Andrew Carnegie. You have. Thats great. How does it feel to be the patron saint of librarians . When i started this book, i couldnt have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn in to the story because i really wanted to understand what happened in 1986 that this epic fire that closed the l. A. Library for several years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I ive often said to me if city hall burned down, i would have thought thats too bad and i assume theyll rebuild it
Karl, you know the difference between right and left; right . You are on their right. [laughter] okay. Welcome, everybody. Im susan eisenhower. It is a terrific pleasure to be here today to have a conversation with dr. Cheney and karl rove. This is a real honor for me and a real treat to be able to have kind of an intimate conversation about the executive power in the United States, to actually wield power alongside of the president of the United States and also to talk about what its like to be behind the scenes. Let me just say very quickly if i cough, im not sick. Im having a little you came back from wuhan with that cough. I was a little worried about it. Are you feeling all right . Youre a little warm. Do you want to change . I think the two women ought to be here i had to clean up somebodys fireplace the other day and inhaled some fire smoke, so in any case, dont be alarmed if i find myself coughing. Let me just say it is a thrill to talk to again and as i had some experience as
I dont believe in long preambles but i feel that i should say a few words before i Start Talking about technology. The first thing is that i am well aware that many of you have no idea going on. So thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. Tim s speaks very well of you. I know those really big names. So i feel very honored to be here. So who am i. I write a column for the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it. Thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is that i do radio. Adagio for service they called 50 things that makes economy. And all about numbers and how we think about numbers and how number sometimes stray sometimes. It helps us understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called malcolm gladwell. Cautionary tales which is all about things going wrong and sometimes in tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can learn from them. So in between all of that, i write books. It took about wh
Glad to start by carla library of congress and i just want to thank jamie and the angels and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. [applause]. Let me just say, there have been saints in the library. You are now number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. Susan you have. So how does it feel to be the patron of all of the librarian. When i started this book, i could not have anticipated that part of it. Susan i was drawn into the story because really, wanted to understand what happened in 1986 that this epic fire the close the la library for seven years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why cared about it so much. I have often said that if someone had said to me, city hall burned down i wouldve thought, thats too bad. And i assume they will rebuild it. But hearing the library had burned, felt like this deep profoundly personal loss. And i thought, why do we feel such a connection to books. Why do we feel such a co