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visit beijing. we do not know when. are you concerned about those reports? i do not know why we would be concerned about those reports. north korean leaders go to china all the time. is the u.s. appointing a resolution to suspend the iranian membership in the u.n. council? there was a discussion about iran s abysmal human rights record. i do not know if there is any initiative being put forward at this time. the egyptology is an minister of antiquity resign. each ethologist a prominent minister of antiquity has resigned. is there a fear of getting of egyptian museums? i cannot say there has been discussions with egypt on the subject. our approach in the case of egypt in the ongoing efforts that we have had with the international community to preserve assets of egypt, we are taking steps to preserve assets for the people of egypt, for the people of libya, and for others. we think these are cultural assets that belong to the egyptian people they should be ....
not him. in fact one of the reasons he was told by the family that he decided to run for president a second time to deal with that blemish on his career. thank you very much for your time. up next on booktv allen meltzer presents the history of the federal reserve, 1913 to 1986. he is joined by paul volcker former federal reserve chair during the carter and reagan administration. they discuss past and present issues. mr. volcker talks about his experience in office. this is hosted by the american interviews american enterprise institution. it is about an hour and a half. good morning. i am vincent reinhart a resident scholar here at the american enterprise institute, and for the next hour and a half, we are going to be talking about volume two in allen meltzer s magisterial history of the federal reserve. as you know, this is a work long in coming and it was a little difficult to know how to summarize 1312 pages of the history of the federal reserve from 1951 to ....
very expensive. every day but it s occupied or not costs money to maintain. and seeberger was the chairman of that particular committee. he was at this seminar. and i was present because they were celebrating the museum of the city of new york at an exhibit. and they said do you have a question? i was in the audience and i said yes, did i do the right thing, everyone said absolutely. but i didn t. why? because the symbolic values to the black community was far more important than, i think he was actually $9 million that we saved, aside from health care. but it was the most costly hospital in the system with the worst hospital care. i could have been a hero in the black community if i had saved it. instead, they said no, medical care is bad and we re wasting $9 million. i was on several programs a long time ago, and he said what s the worst thing you did in terms of you regret. i said nobody asked me the question. i volunteered because i believe it was. from the point ....
52? i joined in 49 for nine months and then went back to graduate school and then came back permanently [laughter] okay. then bracketed by a stint in the private sector, he was at the u.s. treasury department as directer of financial analysis in 1962 where he first met allan meltzer and then deputy undersecretary of monetary affairs. from 69- 74 he was the undersecretary of monetary affairs, chairman of the federal reserve starting in 1979. i m saying this not because paul volcker needs an introduction to any of you, but rather, to underscore that his career is interwoven in the history of the federal reserve that allan talks about in volume two. what i m going to do this morning is ask a series of questions to allan and chairman volcker including a set for each of the four decades covered by volume two. and then probably by about 10:00, open it up to questions from the crowd. so the obvious question, 1312 pages, professor meltzer, is there a single message abo ....
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