Journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i had a day company and was running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . People say running an airline not an easy thing to do. You have weather to deal with, energy, lots of employees and so forth. But you grew up in a family of nine children, so which is easier, growing up in a family of nine children or running an airline . Running an airline certainly. [laughter] our family was great. Im the oldest of nine. I was sharing with david earlier that when i was 5 years old, we already had six kids in the house so nine kids sharing three bedrooms, 1 1 2 baths, my dad was a dentist. He had his practice inside the house. My mom worked for him. Was it a busy practice at times . You must have had some gaps, but the interesting thing about it was that growing up, i didnt travel i didnt board an airplane until i was 25
Only on e. T. This is where we really get down to the good stuff. Blake shelton on those marriage rumors. Who wouldnt want to be married to gwen stefani . And new music. Im just having a blast right now. Then, taylor swift putting biebers manager on blast. Im obviously not going willingly. Plus, brads Holiday Plans with only some of kids . Then, a christmas classic turns 30. Only we are with chevy chase talking a christmas vacation reboot. Ill do it for 40 bucks. And we turn it up 98 degrees. With todays cohost, nick lachey. E. T. Starts right now. Welcome, everyone to the london west hollywood. Always great to have nick here. Nick lachey and that velvet voice. Lets start with Blake Shelton talking wedding rumors. Have you heard his new duet with gwen . Only e. T. s Cassie Dilaura joined blake at his big album release party. I dont want to live without you there are so many powerful lyrics that i know people are going to talk about. I dont want to look back in 30 years and wonder who y
Joining her to discuss the problem with everything is judith shes a critic and journalist and the author of the sabbath world glimpses of a different order of time. Former the editor of lynn walt franco Deputy Editor of new York Magazine and science editor of the new republic shes written for the New York Times book review among numerous others. Thank you to our friends at cspan for joining us to film us conversation for book tv. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming meghan and judas. [applause]abmeghan and judith. Am always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that early actually but earlier i was on a book tour and i was in minneapolis, i was in st. Paul, it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university and minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about those things went to see David Sedaris except for one young
Capital orve university is fortunate to be surrounded by the many governmental nonprofit and International Agencies and organizations that make decisions that affect each of us every day. Our location here allows us to be part of those decisions and allows our students access to the uniquely dc experiential tylearning opportunity and allos our faculty to provide rigorous and highquality scholarships and research and informs policy making and problem solving. It allows our university to serve as a hub for timely discussions that areta important and relevant to all of us. Tonight we are pleased to host former United States ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley, in a discussion about her new book with all due respect defending america with grit and grace. It offers a firsthand perspective on national and International Matters as well as behind the scenes account of her tenure intr the trump administration. Ambassador haley will be joined tonight by moderator and United States sena
[applause] good evening, everyone and welcome to the George Washington university. I am pleased to welcome you to tonights event presented in partnership with politics and bookstore and the third in the George Washington universitys president ial distinguished event series. We launched the series last semester to give our students the opportunity to hear from renowned leaders, the individuals to bring dialogue insight and inspiration to the campus. In the heart of the capital, the university is fortunate to be surrounded by the many governmental nonprofit and International Agencies and organizations that make decisions that affect each of us every day. This allowser us to be part of those decisions and allows our students access to the uniquely dcdc experiential learning opportunities and allows our faculty to provide rigorous highquality scholarship and research to inform policymaking and problemsolving. And it allows the university to serve as a hub for timely discussions thaton are