Good evening. Good evening. Im steve we bert with the like librarys Public Affairs staff and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight. And thanks to rainy day books, our frequent and favorite collaborator and of course one over the nations great independent book stores. We operated ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming, whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a coup of oped pieces for the New York Times and for cnn business. After the death of david koch. Chris spent aye eight years ee. Americaed in kochland, the place and title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the very potent Political Network that was put together by da
And Roger L Williams who was on a plane in the late 60s and a backup, we could talk about the cook family and charles kochland, but in 1967 when his father passed away, they were rearranging the firm and try to figure out what to name it. I specifically chose the name kochland because it was a family name but also completely with the character, hard to remember and without subscription. They were not a consumer Oriented Companies that want to develop a brand name. They wanted to avoid scrutiny. Largely because they were in oil business in the theory of the oil business was ops of the old saying whats good for the motor Oil Companies good for the United States. When oil prices shot up these companies were getting massive profits at the expense of ordinary people. The idea was when your business like this, these day in the background. He stayed behind the curtain and quietly make a fortune. Charles kochland is the second part of her born in the patriarch, early in the book you talk about
We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming. Whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. He didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporters calls and wrote a coup of oped articles after the death of david koch. Chris spent eight near in the the kochland, the place and the title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the potent Political Network that was put toth by the david koch and his older brother, charles, from their base three hours down the road in wichita. Anybody here had a chance to read the book yet . So, you wont understand but youll knee immediately when you get into it, as you get into it, what im talking about. Its daunting when you pick it up. Its 574 pages and thats before you get to the noteses appendix
She commutes to her job in the east bay. She just spends countless hours. Studies show the bay area is second only to la when it comes to terrible traffic. Good evening. Lets take a live look at the traffic map behind us. Now that commute is back in full swing. You see a little less red on the map. Things are starting to pick up again. Bay area. Thank heavens we are not in la. Los angeles drivers wasted 119 hours. We are secondworst with 103. Followed by washington dc 102. New york 92. And finally chicago drivers losing 58 hours sitting in traffic. The city claims in the bay area alone 3. 3 billion gallons of gasoline is burned sitting in gridlock. His wife is living the nightmare. My wife commutes to her job in the east bay. She just spends countless hours on the bridge. We have traffic on the weekend. Even at night. It is traffic everywhere. We take bart every day. We cannot drive in the city. It is a nightmare. Reporter buses ferries and trains all help. The majority of folks still
Shoot our show people dont realize we shoot the show at 8 00 in the morning. We try to get a jump on [ laughter ] kelly and ryan. But we do know that someone won and we also know we have an american treasure from oakland with us tonight. The great tom hanks is here on our show. You may have heard its toy story 4. I saw its other night, and its great, which is no surprise. I like every tom hanks movie. I like every tom hanks movie except the one where he saves matt damon at the end. [ laughter ] but other than that. Tomorrow as you may know is flag day, and its also our president s birthday. Donald trump turns 73 years old tomorrow. Hes the oldest president ever. Ill send him your best. [ laughter ] how is donald trump only 73 . It feels like hes been president since 73. [ laughter ] anyway, theyre having a fun shindig for him at the white house. Melanias planning to hide inside a cake. Shes not going to jump out, though. Shes going to stay in there a couple years until the coast is cle