you could do it, then you could change the world with him. that was incredibly gratifying. you were with him for a long time. you saw him develop over many years. did he change his outlook? did he change his approach? yes, i think he did. i think those of us who worked with him in the 80s, i think he was more difficult, less mature. by the time the 90s and 2000s rolled around, he turned into a more mature person. i don t know if he was easier to work with, but he was more mature and a much more experienced ceo. it s interesting, i was reading a story, you know, toward the end of his life we saw steve jobs, very public figure. we heard him on the apple stage twice a year rolling out big products. i don t think he was afraid of any camera. yet, when you were rolling out the macintosh, i think it was, you were running the pr. you wouldn t let him go on david letterman essentially because you didn t think he could handle david letterman. yes, that was back in the day when david le
movie where she says to julia child says to her husband, you are the butter on my bread, nora got the marriage she deserved and she was the happiest person in love i ever saw. you know, you i remember, you ve written some things about love and marriages and not great marriages. john heilemann found this nora ephron quote earlier, i just love it. i ve made a lot of mistakes falling in love and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. right. yeah. that s what sums it up. and missing pie. you know, that s the thing. and you know, it was if death can be romantic as you do it, i was on the phone with a friend of hers yesterday talking about, of all things, slip covers and where s your slip cover and she got a call that, you know, nora was near the end, and she i mean to die that way, where the
well, now that you got this out of your system, are you ready to go back to cleveland and play some ball? i was on you, i was furious at you, i just thought, you know, you don t care, do you? that you were on me? yeah. i just thought that the opportunity was there, by god, i m going to stick it out in cleveland and lift that city. yeah. i heard all of that too from you. yeah. i thought we were friends. we are friends. that s why it hurt me. my fifth time on here with you david. another cleveland question. how there s no way to know this, what would it felt like if you were still in cleveland and won the championship there, would it have been better or would this one be better? i think the feeling i had on thursday, i could have been on mars. right. and won that championship. it felt amazing. it was the it was better than what i expected. wouldn t let him go on the cleveland thing. baseball, strange night in the bronx. yankees hosting the indians.
end of the book is written the way you want it written, not about how you re dying but how you lived, is a great thing to do. i think did you ever talk to her about paris and food. food. i mean food was essential. it is essential to our being but we kind of forget it in our busy world. and she became so important and would pull you in. not let you forget. she d force you to experience it. she gave me a play by play map of paris and where you go to eat what the best things there are to eat in paris and why. and the e-mail was you know, if you were lucky to be with her, she would see the things you were seeing and she would get it. like i remember when nail salons started and she said, there aren t enough fingers and toes in manhattan to support all these nail salons. no. you know, she lived an extraordinary life too. talking about a romantic life,
here? the other thing that the poll shows is people do not know how they feel about health care. it s amazingly unformed and i think that those opinions will be formed by what the supreme court does. people will the problem the whole time. positively or negatively, to a great measure by what the court says. so that is still a big unknown. we also don t know what the economic wins will look like, europe will look like, a lot of undetermined things. it s not only the advertising but what is reinforced by these appearances. joe biden in iowa the last couple days and other key states where he was making the argument yesterday, that mitt romney is a job creator if your job is overseas. so that s the outsourcing argument that they re trying to make. you can say it s not accurate, you can argue the what private equity does or doesn t do but that s the message they re hammering home. focusing their attack. remember the context here also. this month this past month that this polli