If your viewers want to be a College President , you probably can be. Theres thousands of them. Theyre always looking. And i urge you not to do it unless you really love young people. Because theyre the reward and their potential. Right . One of the things i teach them is that aristotle teaches that actual is superior to potential. God, for example, in aristotle and christianity and judaism is no potency but actuality buzz you were potency you could changing and get better and that would be imperfection, so its true that Abraham Lincoln in his prime is a superior human being to nearly anybody and to himself when he was young. But against that, theres the massive delight of growth and that is pleasing courses through the being of every being that undergoes it and then ive been here a long time now and some of my students are grownups now, and then some of them are are in very often places and many, many of them are very awesome people and theyre beginning to tell me what to do now all o
That was alan greenspan. Yes. Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Yudhijit talks about agent trying to sell to libya. Thank you all for coming out. I think what we will do. Judhijit can talk for first 20 to 25 minutes and image there would be questions particularly in the book and issues that the books have raised about more contemporary cases and so we can sort of spin off from there and so i guess where should we start, yudhijit, thank you for inviting me to do this. No, absolutely. Thanks to the Wilson Center where i was a fellow january through may 2015 when i was hard at work on this book so its very nice to be able to speak to all of you here at this great institution. Nick, has been a friend of mine, hes obviously a very accomplished journalist, im really glad that youre doing this, nick, with me, im delighted to talk with you about
By alice senior fellow of economic studies at the brookings institution, and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Sebastian, wj, im delighted to be doing this and i think its a fabulous book. Ive known alan for many, many years and we worked together closely when i was his chair, and hes a complicated man and i think you got it about right. But lets start at the beginning. You wrote interestingly about the influence of his parents. Could you talk a little bit about that on career choices . Alan had a unusual upbring in sense that raised in 1930s he was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when he was 33 and then a distant figure who would say he would see his son and then not show up up. I think that probably reenforce a tendency that he had to live inside of their head to be introverted and then that was further reenforced by two flengs his mother first of all talking living aen working in a Department Store in manhattan. And so he was left by h
By alice senior fellow of economic studies at the brookings institution, and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Sebastian, wj, im delighted to be doing this and i think its a fabulous book. Ive known alan for many, many years and we worked together closely when i was his chair, and hes a complicated man and i think you got it about right. But lets start at the beginning. You wrote interestingly about the influence of his parents. Could you talk a little bit about that on career choices . Alan had a unusual upbring in sense that raised in 1930s he was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when he was 33 and then a distant figure who would say he would see his son and then not show up up. I think that probably reenforce a tendency that he had to live inside of their head to be introverted and then that was further reenforced by two flengs his mother first of all talking living aen working in a Department Store in manhattan. And so he was left by h
By alice senior fellow of economic studies at the brookings institution, and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Sebastian, wj, im delighted to be doing this and i think its a fabulous book. Ive known alan for many, many years and we worked together closely when i was his chair, and hes a complicated man and i think you got it about right. But lets start at the beginning. You wrote interestingly about the influence of his parents. Could you talk a little bit about that on career choices . Alan had a unusual upbring in sense that raised in 1930s he was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when he was 33 and then a distant figure who would say he would see his son and then not show up up. I think that probably reenforce a tendency that he had to live inside of their head to be introverted and then that was further reenforced by two flengs his mother first of all talking living aen working in a Department Store in manhattan. And so he was left by h