that at harvard. in that time i always wanted to be in the marine corp out of sense of duty to my country. i also felt a certain level of responsibility. my father unfortunately got into some criminality. i felt that he had betrayed the honor of my family and this country in general. i felt it was my job to set things right by serving. i joined as a reservist. it was all before 9/11. this was about a year before 9/11. it was just for me to do some basic service. i didn't know i would end up being on active duty in iraq and end up being with these great guys that i wrote about. >> it's a great tribute to you and to them. the book is extraordinary. thank you for all of that. >> thank you. >> the book is "they called us lucky." thank you so much. >>> the loss of former u.s. senator max collie land a triple amputee, lost three limbs when a fellow soldier dropped a live grenade. he later was elected to the u.s. senate. he died yesterday from heart failure at home in atlanta at 79 years old. he was a great

top harvard students like you are getting a job at goldman sachs is the pinnacle that's what you aim for for better or worse . >> there's things i'd like to have been better at and one of the things i'm good at is getting myself into corridors of elite america. there are better skills one can have but it turns out that was the skill that on accident or on purpose i happen to have repeatedly cracked . i did that in the summer of 16 when i was a student and took an internship at goldman sachs and there was something i learned that summer but it wasn't thething i expected to learn . it is an important part but i didn't learn very much about that but i did learn a lot about how to aggregate power. how to aggregate power in a way that wasn't actually appearing to smack of the aggregation of power so one of the ways to do it was goldman sachs had a hallmark investment which is a service day. go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting tree

guess harvard professor decided to investigate just that. so in the early, 2000 at the american media were presenting climate change is a big scientific debate. and that struck me as weird because none of the scientists that i knew thought it was a debate. so i decided to undertake an analysis of the peer reviewed scientific literature. the i p. c. c. had already stated that most of the observe warming was likely to be due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. so i posed the question, how many papers published in peer reviewed scientific literature? this agree with that statement? i'm to answer that question. naomi arrest his looks up, research papers for global climate change. from the words appear in 937 scientific papers to arrest his read them all and what i found was none. there was no dissenting public publish i to a period literature on the basic question of whether not man me climate change was happening. and i am a professional historian of science. so i thought, well if i don't know this, then probably a lot of other pe

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be, naomi arrest kiss. harvard professor decided to investigate just that. so in the early 2, thousands, the american media were presenting climate change is a big scientific debate. and that struck me as weird because none of the scientists that i knew thought it was a debate. so i decided to undertake an analysis of the peer reviewed scientific literature. the i p. c. c. had already stated that most of the observe warming was likely to be due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. so i pose the question, how many papers published in peer reviewed scientific literature? this agree with that statement? i'm to answer that question. naomi arrest his looks up, research papers for global climate change. the words appear in 937 scientific papers to arrest his reads them all. and what i found was none. there was no dissenting public publish sanctuary. period literature on the basic question of whether or not men may climate change was happening. and i'm a professional historian of science, so i thought, well, if i don't know this, then probably a lot of

, national security advisor and from harvard institute. and he said that i think that i need to take care of my concerns and so he said i know that you want to be establishment in the meantime i want to oversee the broad domestic policies. and reallyam politicall prominent. and it was clear that nixon set them up as buying partners because they would fight each other with great and quite articulately in the went on for the next almost 12 months, 11 months. and so i think we move forward past the site, we've got the program and the urban affairs council and i think this tells a lot about it in the sense of humor so can you describe what is going on o there. >> is a young staff, i was an old timer at age 30 their work through you think you were 22 years old and also 23. we also had the portrait in the middle as part of her group and it was thomas nash from the 18th century cultured. [inaudible]. backend cartoon politics that culture and this is the part that sometimes a dugout of a basement and of the white house in the basement office where

i then went to harvard. we didn't overlap but i took the class you teach now. i was a biology major. i was a nerdy science guy through college, and when i graduated i got into the world of biotech investing in the fall of 2007 before the 200 not only capitalism but the merger of capitalism. i did that for several years and for seven years, three years i told my boss as i was going to leave and go to yale because i had this image to be in political philosophy that i'd never scratched. it turns out that got me career mobility instead. they said you can have a portfolio, do it from yale and that's what i did. i spent three years there, met my wife, she was my next-door neighbor in mid to school. when i graduated i came back as an investor and realized i was more interested in getting hands-on involved in addressing some of the inefficiencies that i couldn't address as a bystander and investor. so i started a biotech company which i built from a 2014 to 2021. i served for seven years as the ceo and stepped down this january to give myself latitude to speak freely i

was going to be graduating harvard in june 1938 and joe was in government and he had made his special area of interest. spain, most importantly, it was because that was a war which the church had taking the side of the rebels with franco as opposed to the government side of the loyalist side which was socialist and communist. and one thing that i have to say is that joe jr. and joe and morbid fear of competition. hjack in the meantime had just started his first year at harvard easily two years younger than joe jr. but he was a very very sickly child and family discovered that he does and had a disease at age of 70 by this time, nobody had any idea what was wrong with him and he became in his own words a very interesting case and he goes to europe that summer with his good friend and write some and diary and it's actually available at the jfk library online and it really does make very very interesting reading. negative joe jr. is writing to his father and expounding everything, my father said he believes worse jack, who because of his illness has read so much and is the reader of his

a graduate of harvard, he addressed world leaders at the geneva summit for human rights and democracy in 2019. >> maradiaga: i come here with the conviction and hope that the world will continue to support the struggle of my people to build a free and open society. >> alfonsi: felix maradiaga was teaching non-violent activism to nicaraguan students... ( shouting ) ...when witnesses say he was beaten by ortega's henchmen in 2018. ( loud chanting ) after this attack, maradiaga was hospitalized. for the next few years, he was under constant surveillance by the police, according to his wife, berta valle. >> berta valle: they watch him. they put patrols in front of his house. the police would tell him that he was not able to go out of the house. >> no, no permita. >> valle: and from december 2020 to february '21, he was under house arrest. >> alfonsi: so, no warrant, but he's not allowed to leave the house? >> valle: exactly. >> alfonsi: even so, felix maradiaga decided he would run for president, one of a group of opposition candidates who, for the first time, had decided to band together

this may been to her brother as josiah and taken harvard. he didn't graduate but also herbert and edward winslow were well known to each other. edward winslow was the pilgrim who came on the mayflower and served as governor of plymouth colony and is holding this wonderful letter here. you can't make that much of the writing with exception of the signature which says from your loving wife, susanna. this is susanna compostela mayflower passenger. both edward and susanna were married to other people on the mayflower voyage. their spouses died the first winter and their wedding became the first wedding that took place in plymouth colony. they had josiah here as well as a daughter. so want to talk to you for a minute about religion. to broadly simplify we know that massachusetts bay with settled by people who recalled the puritans. they wanted to purify the church of england. plymouth colony was settled by suffragists who wanted to -- separatists who wanted to separate from england. both groups were reformed protestants who had a lot of common vi

harvard was one of them, they are harvard and i am not so but they have been very good about arranging five visits ahead of time and you have to show your vaccination card, where mask, you have to make an appointment. so they are being and being very careful but is been tough to do manuscript research and i think my colleagues would agree that is much better to go through the repositories than just to rely and getting things digitally remotely because joyce find things and make friends with the archivist. and the library and in the ways .22 things that you may be didn't know about things before so there's a valley of going to the places but we just didn't do that the last year and a half. and i married in archivist. >> so peter what are you working on now. >> a better book on gettysburg, what the world desperately needs. [laughter] but of course like everyone, you feel like you're doing this from a different angle and i think that william. and three confederates and - and the idea is that obviously highly biographical and a pickup on july 1st and rather it starts at the end of the camp

roland scholar and harvard educated attorney who co-founded -- society and migrated from rockefeller campaign to that of richard nixon. proudly joined the new nixon administration in 1969. john later went into banking ultimately becoming head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of pittsburgh. john has joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and son phil. welcome both of you. john's new book, the last liberal republican and insiders perspective on nixon's surprising social policy revealed influence of those across the broader administration priorities and how these men who surrounded the president and the president himself impacted american social policy for decade, much of which we're only realizing now. often richard nixon surprised democrats and shocked republicans with the extent of his pragmatism. he proposed a guarantee familied income and almost achieved a national health insurance program, if you can believe it as a republican. i'll save the best of the conversation for these two gentlemen. join me in backi

a rhodes scholar and harvard educated attorney who cofounded a society and migrated from the 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of richard nixon. he proudly joined the new nixon administration in 1969. working with daniel patrick moynahan and later working with domestic adviser john earlson as special assistant to the president for urban affairs. john later went into banking, ultimately becoming head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of pittsburgh. john has joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and son phil. welcome both of you. john's new book, the last liberal republican and insiders perspective on nixon's surprising social policy revealed influence of those including moynahan and earlman across the broader administration priorities and how these men who surrounded the president and indeed the president himself impacted american social policy for decades, much of which we're only realizing now. often richard nixon surprised democrats and shocked republicans with the extent of his pragmatism. he proposed a guaranteed f

jack, in the meantime, has just started his first year at harvard. he's only two years younger than joe junior, but he was a very sickly childr. in 1947 the family discovered he severed from addison's disease. at this time no one had any time -- any idea what was wrong with him and he became in his own words a very interesting case. he goes to europe that summer with his good friend and wright's home and writes a diary and that diary is actually available at the jfk library online and it really does make very interesting reading because you have joe junior who is writing his father and expanding everything that he says with my father says, my father believes whereas jack who because of his illnessd has read so much and he was definitelyy the reader of te family and he's thinking things through trying to understand what's happening between communism and fascism particularly in europe and how it will affect america. he was definitely very clearheaded internationalist thinker.heit so, how will joe achieve this? he's been writing for a lot of the press a

. >> 's son joe junior was going to be graduating in harvard in 1938 joe was studying government and he had made special area of interest and at that time most important it was because that was the war in which church had taken a side difranco as opposed to the loyalist which was socialist and communist. one thing i have to say joe and joe junior underworld of communism. jack in the meantime has just started his first year at harvard he's only two years younger than joe junior but he was a sickly child going 1947 the family discovered he suffered from addison's disease. but at this time nobody had any idea what was wrong with him and he became a very interesting case, he goes to europe that summer with his good friend billy and that's available for jfk library online and it really does make very interesting reading because you have joe junior writing to his father and expounding everything that he says that my father says that my father believes in jack has read so much he's definitely the reader of the family he is trying to understand what's happening between communist and fascism

that corporate america is holding onto both culture only to increase progress and is interviewed by harvard university economics professor greg matthew and afterwards is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> well, it is a delight to be here to chat with you and congratulations on the book. an congratulations on success and watching us out on amazon and obviously a lot of people are buying yet in this way because it is a great book.oo it's very provocative and on a very important topic so i'm delighted to hear to share it with you before we get to the book, i wonder if you could tell us a little bit about your biographies, think they shaped things your writing in this book and very interesting biography on something i didn't know. a year ago or so, tell us a little bit about this pretty. >> so it is and raised in ohio which is actually where i live today and my parents were immigrants from any and my dad came over the late 70s and a in the early 80s and is funny sad story, weight sediment at why did you come halfw

his son jack junior would be graduating from harvard june 1938. and he made spain his special area of interest. why? because most importantly it was because that was a war where the church had taken the side of the rebels. as opposed to the government side or the loyalist side which is socialist and communist. one thing i have to say is that joe and joe junior has a morbid fear of communism. that he was two years younger but he was a very sickly child only in 1947 when the family discovered he suffered from addison's disease. but at that time nobody had any idea what was wrong with him. in his own words a very interesting case. he goes to europe that summer with his good friend and that's how to be available jfk library online and it really does make very interesting reading because you have joe junior who was writing to his father and expounding everything that he says that my father says and believes. and then he is thinking things through to understand what is happening with communism and fascism and how that affects america. he was definitely

he discussed his book with harvard university economics professor and former george w. bush economics advisor greg. here is a little bit of that conversation. >> i think that there is something to be said for exploring the way in which may be it can stand on its own 2 feet. a big part of what i take aim at in the book isn't just the ideology in and of its own right but it's merged with capitalism which actually taints both the progressive values that the corporations are asked to be stewards of and relegating the purpose in and of itself so that is what the heart of the book is about more so than a criticizing one end of the political spectrum or another. >> host: now "after words" errors every sunday on booktv and you can watch all previous episodes on the website, booktv.org. and it is also available as a podcast on c-span's new app, c-span now. finally, here's some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to "the new york times." topping the list is a book we will not be covering on booktv, and it's memoir the storyteller. after that, to rescue the republic on

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it was born at harvard law school, by derrick bell, he was a marxist, it is pushed by marxists this is founding ideology behind this theory, think about it. if you are a certain race you are opressed, even if you are not in your own life you are opressed. if you are another race are an opressure. you are white. that is how this works. white versus all minorities, this is the americanization of marxism. it is per -- we have two great guests, republican candidate for governor in virginia glenn youngkin and also lieutenant governor candidate in virginia winston sears, we want to talk to them but first a quick redo, we had letter from national school board association september 29, 2021. an inside job. biden administration. they conspired to go after parents. parents, grandparents tax payers, citizens who had concerns about critical race theory and the transgender movement and other things going on in our schools to indoctrinate our children. in part you recall that letter said, these acts of malice, violence and threats again public school officials by parents, have increases -- >> what h

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>> yes the texture would be even more disappointed to hear that not only have i keep my harvard background by appearing before the yale backdrop but even co- taught a couple of classes since returning to new haven. i did grow up in new haven so obviously i have that bulldog obtained in me at some level to begin with and it has bubbled to the surface but i will say that if harvard wishes to preempt to coteach a classe with a tenured faculty position i'm more than happy toto take them up on that offer at any time if the president of harvard is watching right now and wants to bring me home i am fully available. [laughter] host: buffalo new york please go ahead with your question or comment. >> what does it take to get chronic lyme disease recognized so healthcare insurance stop persecuting doctors p that treat chronic lyme. host: do you have lyme disease? >> no. my significant other does. >>caller: i'm very sorry.y >> and very sorry i know what youla go through. there are two plausible answers one is generational change where basically this is a very long-standing phenomenon where it is less

top harvard students like you are getting a job at goldman sachs is the pinnacle that's what you aim for for better or worse . >> there's things i'd like to have been better at and one of the things i'm good at is getting myself into corridors of elite america. there are better skills one can have but it turns out that was the skill that on accident or on purpose i happen to have repeatedly cracked . i did that in the summer of 16 when i was a student and took an internship at goldman sachs and there was something i learned that summer but it wasn't thething i expected to learn . it is an important part but i didn't learn very much about that but i did learn a lot about how to aggregate power. how to aggregate power in a way that wasn't actually appearing to smack of the aggregation of power so one of the ways to do it was goldman sachs had a hallmark investment which is a service day. go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting tree

we discussed his book with harvard university economics professor george w. bush economics advisor. here is a little bit of their conversation. >> i think there is something to be said for really exploiting the way to woke us can stand on its own tee feet when it's intermingled with capitalism. a big part of whatf i take in the book is not just the woke ideology in its own right but it's a merger with capitalism which actually taints both the progressive values of corporations are asked to be steward of as well as changing corporate purpose in end of its own right as well. that is what the heart of the book is about brother think criticizing one end of the spectrum or another part. >> now after words airs every sunday on book tv. you can watch all previous episodes are website booktv.org. it is also available as a podcast at c-span new app, c-span now. finally, here are some the best selling nonfiction books this week according to the "new york times". toppinge the list is a book we will not be covering on book tv andd is musician memoir the storyteller, after that to rescue the rep

he discussed his book with harvard university economics professor and former george w. bush economics advisor greg. here is a little bit of that conversation. >> i think that there is something to be said for exploring the way in which may be it can stand on its own 2 feet. a big part of what i take aim at in the book isn't just the ideology in and of its own right but it's merged with capitalism which actually taints both the progressive values that the corporations are asked to be stewards of and relegating the purpose in and of itself so that is what the heart of the book is about more so than a criticizing one end of the political spectrum or another. >> host: now "after words" errors every sunday on booktv and you can watch all previous episodes on the website, booktv.org. and it is also available as a podcast on c-span's new app, c-span now. finally, here's some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to "the new york times." topping the list is a book we will not be covering on booktv, and it's memoir the storyteller. after that, to rescue the republic on

and purchase -- >> and by the book through harvard. >> sensei, nicola and geoff thank you again for your time and thank everyone at home who's watching tonight showed up for authors, publishers, indie books ali and incredible staff here at harvard book store. the link is in the chat if you'd like to purchase a copy of united states. please member to shop local and from all of us at harvard book store be well, stay safe, and have a great w >> so our keynote speaker this afternoon for our event is john tamny contra many of you know his name. he is executive director of freedomworks center for economic freedom but i think for our purposes more poorly i consider him maybe the best financial journalist in the united states today. he knows his economics, very well read which is actually surprisingly rare in his profession did you probably know his writing from forbes and real clear markets what he's the editor. he's written several books including one in 2016 which is interesting on the fed but his most recent book just came out earlier this year that is called "when politicians panicked" and

around graduating from high school and received a degree from harvard at just the age of 17. he started taking online classes at harvard when he was 11 now is about to get his law degree from washburn university in topeka. he says he's ready to get out of the classroom at this point and put his knowledge to work. >> we this early a big fan of learning in reading. but. it's important. be the best. we didn't. >> kind of feel like a slacker compared to him. he gets his degree next month and says he doesn't know what his next steps will be. but he says he will consider a role in government. >> this was a dream come true for michigan boy who was sworn in as an honorary police officer was part of a make a wish program. dre was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in children and he went through chemotherapy. and this the new remission now for a year. his mother says drains been dreaming of being a police officer for years, but she says he is already her hero after being sworn-in. dre got a special tour of the police station and even got stuck behind the wheel of a patrol car. check

we both teach harvard undergraduates. my sense is that as a field and probably as individuals we have done enough to train people in how to make things happen, not just what things you want to happen. and whether the politics of it. but how do you actually get those good ideas to work. >> i have a mantra which i just say, which is in city government capacity is far more important than policy. which means the ability to get things done is much more important than knowing clever ideas which you actually want to do. >> i'm going to follow-up on that in a bit but am going to turn to some of our audience questions. the first question, what is the best use of office skyscrapers? if more people work from home? >> i think we may have lost ed for a minute. >> let me start off, which is if more people are working from home that would be less demand for downtown office space. that would be particularly true among the kind of suburbanites where they house at home and in space and so on. there are probably two things that can happen t

a recent harvard/harris poll found voters 47% mentally fit for the job, 58% believe he's too old to be president. for those who find today's conversation to be in poor taste, need i remind you in october of donald trump's presidency, 27 psychiatrists who had never examined donald trump writing a book warning that his state present a clear and present danger to our individual and well-being. throughout his term, there were many discussions in the media about his unfitness for office as well as countless petitions including one signed in 2019 signed by 350 psychiatrists claimed that his mental health was deteriorating rapidly. the head line on "the wall street journal" this morning puts the political situation in stark terms. it says, as joe biden turns 79, a panic over kamala harris, he's unlikely to run in 2024, and his vp is deeply unpopular. what does yesterday's physical and the polling mean for biden's presidency and the chances that he'll run again in 2024? you might remember in his first news conference, the president confirmed his plans to run for re-election in 2024. >> have yo

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good, this is as close as i'm ever going to get to harvard. [laughter] i'm sorry. we had good times there. i read the whole book and i adore victor as i'm sure all of you do and the sad thing i realized about the dying citizen victor is it leads to the dying country and one reason you are sounding the alarm, i think. let's start with the title and why you call it what you did. >> my friend roger asked that question and i said it's not dead, it's still dying, it's respirator. >> you are saying there's a chance. >> yes. if we have this conversation two years ago whatever your political persuasion would be, i think we wouldld.on say the bors improving, secure. he would say the middle east is much better than it is now and there was a new policy toward china and maybe you could argue the economy while we were spending too much money, who were not grappling stagflation futurists on the middle class, first increases in real wages in 12 years. critical race theory was not so emboldened as it was in 2020 or whatever wet called it, identity politics so whatever was going on

born and raised in cincinnati ohio the nab afro-american studies from harvard university, and a women's studies for memory phd american studies university of minnesota. currently a professor of history at harvard also the director of the charles lawrence center for studies of american history. i'm not kidding when i say doctor miles is prolific author of six books, her first but ties that bind from the organization of american historians and american study association and the house on diamond hill one public history and the american society for ethnic history book prices. her novel was an award finalist. also public lecture series won the award for social history and the history of race relations from the organization of american and historians. but then the legacy award of nonfiction an american book award and the frederick douglass prize. we are all here to learn all that she carries which receives an outpouring of faith some of that comes from the back of the book and then to confront the staggering atrocity of american slavery and the beauty of the lie street chronicles with the bri

have a letter for president roosevelt to the president of harvard. complaining that his son won't be home at the lake this summer and we really must have our son home, part of the family and it's -- it's on white house stationary. do you look at that and say let the kid go? i've got -- we've got several more questions. time for a few more. a question. from our senior historian. theodore roosevelt could have run for president again in 1908 but decided to step aside four years later and run for the president. was not running in 1908. one of his biggest regrets. >> oh, thanks, matt and thanks for the video on the west wing. that was just perfect. in 1908, he said he wasn't going to run again after the 1904 election. he effectively turned two terms because mckinley die too early in the second term. he loves working as a president. he loves the job and said he did. and i think he thought it was a political misstep as well. never announce your intention so early in the game and probably why it led to the animosity with taf and to throw his hand in the ring

i am joined by a professor of pediatrics at harvard medical school and a vaccine expert at the bloomberg school of public health at johns hopkins university. thank you both very much for coming. >> thank you very much. jonathan: let's start with well-child visits. how do they impact future health? especially for children who don't -- would not have access to sufficient health services as an infant? >> well-child visits are part of working to make sure that children grow up healthy, giving them and their parents his skills and abilities for health care up. -- especially kids in poverty. there is a lot of work we can do in prevention in that area, too. jonathan: i have a question about that point but i will have to hold off. many visits include vaccinations which have been front and center throughout the pandemic. explain how vaccines layer the -- vaccines level the playing field? >> vaccines are a low -- you will need a vaccine once or twice in your life to prevent a disease from happening ever. if you can prevent a disease from happening, you never have to treat it. you never have to dea

this is as close as i'm ever going to get to harvard. i went to harvard of central new york, syracuse university. >> me too. >> that's all right. we had good times there. so i have read the whole book, and i adore victor, as i'm sure all of you do. and the sad thing i've realized about "the dying citizen," victor, is that it leads to the dying country, and it's one of the reasons why you're sounding the alarm. let's just start with the title and why did you call it what you did. >> as i said to my friend roger, i said it's not the dead citizen, it's still dying, so it's rest rating. >> so you're saying there's a chance. >> yeah. and if wee had this conversation let's say twoif years ago, whatever your political persuasion would be, i think we'd say the border was improving, it was secure. and you would say that the middle east was much better than it is now, and there was a new policy toward china, and maybe you could argue that the economy, while we were spending too much money, we were not grappling with a stagflation their future. so

this is as close as i'm ever going to get to harvard. i went to the harvard of central new york, syracuse university. >> me, too. >> that's right. we had good times there. so i read the whole book and i adore victor as i'm sure you all do and the sad thing i've realized about the dying citizen, victor, it leads to the dying country, and it's one of the reasons why you're sounding the alarm, i think. so let's start with the title and why you called it what you did. >> and well, as i said to my friend roger when he asked that question, i said it's not the death, it's dieing, it's rest patrioting. >> so you're saying there's a chance. >> yes. if we had this conversation two years ago, whatever your political persuasion would be, i think we'd say the border was improving, it's secure and you would say that the middle east was much better than it is now, and there was a new policy toward china, and maybe you could argue that the economy, while we were spending too much money, we were not grappling with a stagflationry future. so in the middle

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and i studied classics at harvard. aristotle got it, that when you create an oligarchic system, i'm quoting aristotle, you have two options tyranny or revolution. unfortunately, we're barrelling towards corporate tyranny. i had to throw that in. that has nothing to do with the book. >> i think we want to take some questions from the audience. >> if you have questions, you can line up at the microphone. we'll try to get to your question, so one question per customer. >> oh good, great. >> i just wanted to commend you on your work. my name's paul fletcher. i used to do similar work at mcneil's penitentiary and washington state penitentiary, and the inmates wrote a grant, and they went to the federal government and got it funded. i got them out on furlough. and we got a halfway house which was one of the first in washington state in 1968. then we set up a halfway house on a top floor of the dorm at the university of washington, and if they were two years towards their parole, they got paroled to that halfway house, and th

. >> i was briefly -- after i left the white house, a fellow at the kennedy school at harvard and i they took us through the archives and they have a letter from roosevelt to the president of harvard complaining that his son won't be home at the lake this summer and we really must have our son home, part of the family. and it's an absolutely -- it's on white house stationary. do you look at that and say, maybe, i let the kid go? i've got -- we've got several more questions. we've got time for a few more. a question from matt costello, our senior historian at the white house historical association. matt asks, theodore roosevelt could have run for president again in 1908 but he decided to step aside. four years later, he decided to run again for the president. was not running in 1908 one of his biggest regrets? >> thanks, matt. thanks for your video on the west wing. i think that was just perfect. yeah, i think he did. in 1908, he said that he wasn't going to run again after he won the 1904 election. he effectively served two terms because mckinley died so early in his second term. he regr

the mean time delegates gathered scotland today for that big you and climate summit with calls to harvard mission of the world. look in on here. but there are cries of hypocrisy already as around 400 private jets who reportedly fly in those v. i pays for the event and a decade long case, a canadian court rules committee didn't cross the line. when you make jokes about a disabled child, the must be a stop between hatred and comedy, between biology and free speech. no one saying there shouldn't be consequences. what the argument is, the consequence should not be you being by tens of thousands of dollars and not be able, as actually not allowed to criticize someone ah despised for the afternoon here in moscow. good afternoon from russia live from ortiz, world news, age cues. kevin, are in with you today this monday, november the 1st, let's talk about them. first off, last weekend's g. 20 summit in rome was the 1st time the group of world leaders met in person since the started upon their maker. the genial atmosphere was changed with controversy as often happens at these things. as francis pr

and i know he is recovering from this, he is a harvard educated lawyer. he is veteran, he earned a bronze star in his duty for his country. his dad was a kale farmer, grew up in a small town in arkansas. i got to tell you something, he is the real thing. his resume is the real thing and when you have the chance to follow him around like i have had the honor to do, he is the real thing. he matches his resume exactly, except for the fact i cannot see any harvard in you, except the iq. i just want to make sure all of you know -- i do not mince words about what i think about folks. tom cotton is the real thing. classy and quite frankly, i'm really happy that he likes our state and decides to grace our state with his presence. without further ado, senator cotton, it is our privilege to welcome you to the state. [applause] sen. cotton: thanks for that great introduction, i guess. unique introduction, i think. it is always great to be around. it is especially great when vicki is here. geoff's and bobby's routine reminds me a little bit i'm sure from your point o

they go out i and encourage they're never intending to take her not getting into harvard, princeton, yale that adds another rejection more exclusive. this is extremely unethical active basically wasting people's time to gain the ranking systems. what was your college experience and would you do differently today? there a small liberal arts college for undergraduate taught both types ofit institutions, i see some similarities some differences between them. if i had done college pick a major early on trying to find a new way, path, hobby, consumption good and life. in other words, think about a way to get there college efficiently. one thing ing would've done in high schools taken more advanced placement classes or dual credit classes at a localn community college to try and knock the general education requirements out-of-the-way. one of thee major contributors to the cost of college today as you are spending one and half -- two years of your college experience taking jen ed classes and paying full tuition.io this is a very heavy expense on students and their parents but it is somethin

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