Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, this seems offputting to a lot of people. The way we allocate radio spectrum come and how we make Resources Available to the Wireless World we are in today, is fascinating, and there is a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio act. Primary actor Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. It is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, t
Springwood is the same way. When you walked into these buildings, you did not come in as a king or a queen, Prime Minister, first lady, president , whatever, you came in as a friend. And coming into some at his home as a friend is different than walking into their place of business as a colleague. So going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events would be much different than coming up to this very secluded porch, where nobody was willing to take a picture of the handshake. It was a place he could be open with his guest, and showing him sitting in his wheelchair laid it all out there. Hes there showing off the fact that i am not hiding anything from you, and i think his guests receive that in such a way that they were willing to open up and not hide anything from him. The way they used this place really facilitated some wonderful conversations, and they were able to really delve into some of the major issues and come up with an Incredible Solutions some Incredi
Part made his reputation on this and his participation in ensuring a smooth transition for president fords move into the white house, we at have the library know from our experiences that researchers ,com,com ma scholars, Civil Servants and curious citizens will find ways to learn from his collection that we cannot really imagine today. The continuing interest in technology, its free flow with the subject of a book that we reviewed yesterday in the wall street journal. This particular collection, the whitehead papers, gives us all gathered here today much pride. Under the leadership of librarian of congress j. H. Billington and with great assistance from chief of the Manuscript Division and his extraordinary staff, allen koltai tom studs and janice ruse, dr. Whitehead, toms widow has developed a web site containing digitized copies of much of the collection. Knowing that there are jams her to be discovered by future generations, she has explored the last and most effective ways to orga