When the ideas of existence of dark energy actually brings about that our universe could become everything we can see all this can be just a tiny little part of a much grander reality what we call multiverse. There is a picture of that perhaps. You can see the little yellow circle, thats pretty much what we can see around us. If measurement and theories are correct our own universe is infinite in time. This idea of the multiverse is all of that is but a tiny piece of a much grander reality, a multiverse which is made up of many marbles like in this case which are different kinds of universes, each one of them a different loss of physics and an even and thats a sophisticated idea that we brought in to explain the mr. Of the dark push. We dont know if if this makes sense but we dont know if we will ever be able to prove or disprove these ideas. This is very controversial and yet a very exciting but it goes at the heart of one of the biggest questions ever, why are we here and what doesnt
Host of the National War College. The last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. Thank you [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war was the most important decision the republic could make. War is the greatest threat to the public. War focuses power on the executive saying since the executive has more incentive to go to war the founders placed the power of going to war the congress not the executive. The founder who understood war better than any president was George Washington who gave a long farewell address and spelled out the Foreign Policy of the foreigners. He said we should stay neutral in war and cut all foreign powers because they will entangle us in their wars. To support neutrality washington said be leerly and not to borrow more money than we can pay off and avoid political factions. Sounds good me. I am sticking with george. Harvey is the moderator. Bruce you will go first and then john and harvey is going to ask q
Coming up. Theres going to be talk and ceremony and things for the next couple of days, and then on sunday, were going to march in record numbers. The reports coming in are amazing. As of sometime this afternoon there were more than 500 buses of people heading toward new york city. This is going to be not just the largest climate demonstration there ever was but its going to be the biggest political gathering of any kind in this country, and a great many years, and then the next day, and the next morning, people will be down on wall street, flooding wall street, and that will be great and powerful, and [applause] earlier today a reporter asked me, why are you doing all this . And i said, because we have really have to . ÷ give naomis book a great launch. And this is the greatest book authors are forever complaining about how their books dont get a publisher hasnt done enough 200,000 people coming to new york for your book launch. And in this case, it is entirely appropriate because th
History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor
Be live from austin with two other events. Today you would hear from authors charles blow francis fukuyama. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. We will begin at a panel on president Richard Nixon featuring former Nixon White House counsel john dean author of the nixon defense and historian Douglas Brinkley and luke nichter editors of the nixon tapes 19711972. Journalist Robert Draper is the moderator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] this is a wide broadcast on cspan. We will keep things moving smoothly. Thank you very much. We will have introductions in a moment and then we will move forward into our first panel of the day. Thank you all very much for being here with us. [applause] good morning everyone. My name is Robert Draper and im with the New York Times magazine. Our abiding fascination with the 30th president of the United States Richard Milhouse nixon has been stoked by two remarkable books