And publisher. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Good to be with you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello. Thank you for coming out to tonights. I know that humidity is like inching up hotter and hotter. So, thank you for coming in and im glad we have got the ac going, so welcome. Make yourself comfortable pair before we get started if you housekeeping notes. If you could take the time to silence your cell phone and while you have your phone that you dont have to turn it off. You can follow kramer books on facebook and twitter and instagram. Signup for our email newsletter if you have not already. We would love for you to visit our website at kramer. Com. And on our website you and bind their events and sign up for our newsletter, so that way you keep on top of the great stuff we have got going like tonights event with Elaine Kamarck. I am that events director here at kramer books and its my pleasure to welcome you in my pleasure to welcome elaine this evening for her new book why president s fail and how they can succeed again. For those of you that dont know elaine is a senior fellow at booking and the founding director of the center for effective public management. She is also on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy school of government. And mr. Bell, elaine argues president s today spent much time time talking and not enough time governing. Sounds like some people we might now. Im so glad shes here to this share this timely book with us. Please join me in welcoming Elaine Kamarck to kramer books. ,. [applause]. Thank you for coming out on this muggy august nights. I went to talk briefly about the book, read a couple passages and then take any comments or questions people may have. There is a lot of books written about president s, how they communicate, how they campaign etc. There are very few books and this is one written about the president s relationship with the bureaucracy or the permit to government that in fact he or she is in charge of. So, this book really focuses on the relationship. It is told through a series of failures, which i call and this is a very technical Political Science term, crash and burn. These are crash and burn failures that i talk about in the book. I talk about its totally biased bipartisan book. I have two democratic president s, one republican president in its. Its not about party. Its that the job of the president. I talk about the first thing i talk about is the iranian rescue failure in 1980, some of you here can remember that. And then talk about that of course was the carter administration. I then talk about three failures from the bush administration, 911, the iraq war and the financial crisis. Also, hurricane katrina. I talk like to fill your strum the, the Affordable Care act rollout and the failure at the Veterans Administration to care for our veterans. What runs through all of these is that president s