About being a librarian in congress. I can remember that because i was surprised, i had been advising and consulting because this was an opportunity for the Library Community to weigh in basically on what would be needed for the library of Congress Going into the next few decades so my name was put forward as a person that i should talk to and that went on for a little while and then i was asked, would you consider being considered for the position yourself and it took me back a little bit and i had to think about what i was currently doing, really publicservice innercity that the state had the Public Library be the state library of baltimore and maryland, this was a very unique situation and i had become a Baltimore Ian and was really working on the issues and i had to think, how can i go from serving the community to serving a country. And what contribution could i make. Why did you say yes . Because when i really thought about the treasures and what is contained in the library of co
Giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Victoria coats security adviser to donald trump. He joined the discussion to Foreign Policy. Topics included israel and gaza, continued u. S. Support for ukraine, china and iran and how Foreign Policy has differed from various administrations. The discussion hosted by the Cato Institute. Welcome, everybody. My pleasure to welcome you here this morning to the Cato Institute for our then future of gop Foreign Policy. Thanks to those who are here in person, thanks to those who are watching online and cspan and always thank tech folks by the grace of god made all of this happen and the conference folks to make sure i showed up where im supposed to be at any given time. For people who are watching online and have questions that they want toat pose to our panelists, you can use the catofp to ask a question on twitter or facebook or whatever the case may be. But i will just set it up that we have the gop is in the midst of a meaningful debate on Foreig
Should get together with each other and say what do we want and then make it known and then illustrate by your example that you can have a home life and work life. One of my former had three young children, a day schedule. There happy with her work. She has a whole library of work at her fingertips at home. It should be much easier to have a balanced life that once was, but dont be shy about speaking up. Have company when you do so so you are not a lone voice. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Our civil rights leaders and great nicknames, all these wonderful things, and thanks everyone for coming. Enjoy the rest your week. [applause] book tv is on twitter and facebook. We want to hear from you. Treat us, twitter. Com book tv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com book tv. Doctor carla, can you remember the first moment that you were asked about being a librarian of congress. I can remember that moment because i was surprised. I had been advising and consulting b
Issues, but i think we can get around them. I think we got the sense that there are serious and deep problems that need addressing. We thank you very much for coming to present your book and thank you to the panel. If you have questions we will be at the reception and just ask us in the informal setting. With that, our time is up. [applause] skraz oakland is 11th on the list. To find out the other cities making the top 20 list look for the article on booksquire. Com. Carla hayden was sworn in as the librarian of congress. She is the first woman and africanamerican to hold the position. Thomas jefferson sold most of his library to congress. The british burned the original library of congress when they invaded washington the year before. A later fire destroyed most of jeffersons books we still have some of them. They make up the heart of the library we have here today. Jefferson as you know was a very unique man. Others arranged books alphabetically or by size. He divided his library int
Here had thele experience of you are driving along and suddenly your car is wrecked . And you pay for that outofpocket. When you are traffic and congestion because of that infrastructure when you could be at home reading to your kids or catching the ballgame, that is a cost to you. Everybody cares about that. Youres not matter what political persuasion is. Economic crisis since the worst depression, our businesses have created early 10 million new jobs over the past 52 months. The Unemployment Rate is at its lowest point since september of 2008. We have made huge strides in Energy Independence for the first time in more than a decade. Business leaders are saying the best place to invest is not china, the best place to invest in the United States of america. But we still have a lot of middleclass families all across the country who are working harder than ever just to get ahead. They need a break. They need some help and having better roads and less delays, that helps. Meanwhile, republ