november presidential election. this is an hour and half. one of the best things about sitting across from you is that, for all of us who have been part of the institute s staff, we are wondering what you been thinking, with this experience has been like for you over the last year-and-a-half, two years. so tonight, we get to hear for the first time your reaction to the campaign. thank you very much. i want to thank the in boyer for the support the university has given the institute politics, including making it possible for us to hire such extraordinary people like steve edwards and been restored and all of the other people and ben reeseberg and all the other people. [applause] you have been wondering what i have been doing and i have been wondering what you have been doing. [laughter] those who were disappointed by this outcome, the democrats elated by this outcome given the conventional wisdom around this campaign, the president s approval ratings that were barely
presidential candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. she may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. but i will give her three weeks. three weeks, we ll know if this is real. three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. i thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who had at least a taste of the national stage or, which was more of a consensus in the political committee, that he might take rob portman from ohio because ohio is so important. portman was a guy who is a center-right conservative, who might be more broad. i think barack was surprised by the choice. do you think portman could have changed the outcome? i don t know. there is a lot of reflection on that in romneyland. when you were talking about the adjustment that obama felt he ha
the colonists were sending ships ever where to get muskets and can t after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so- called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. the king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. as soon as the colony s found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies, in new hampshire and then rhode island, colonist patriots over the monitions so everyone knew what was coming in the winter of 7074-1775. this brighter suggests that 1775 was a critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. that is sunday night at 8:00 on cspan s q7a. next a discussion with the all women delegation to congress from new hampshire. for the first time
[inaudible] winged a microphone. that i didn t know. [inaudible] by this time i read up on him. i had crossed him off, but i did interview him nevertheless. and of course the rest is history. no, that is true. there were several levels, particularly mid-level management where people who tell me will do everything we can to undermine you and make sure this doesn t happen. nakashima was then the director general and basically he thought that in one year time it would be, how to say we will just kill it, et cetera. too ridiculous to even talk about. when i was writing about it, i said how is this possible? to go beyond personalities, there is indeed an issue in the u.n. system, which is very rich in terms of its diversity and different agencies and everybody is looking for money, fundraising. so there is a lot of turf and all of that going on and i don t think that coordination is actually the solution. but i must also say that probably in dissent aids that we are the mo
now everything private about us is not in the house. we we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. so we talking about? well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about? we are talking about not only states, but think about it, private data affects 800 million people. it will be the third largest nation in the world after china that has its own currency and economy. and yet, there is no revelation about what can be posted in the government can try to get information off of social networking sites. we are talking about companies that made a deal with internet service providers in california in order to put their hardware. they could copy and analyze every web search mitigation was just a settlement, but we have to think about the way it our private information has become public and potentially monetize them out there. okay, so we are talking about the real beginning of this conversat