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Physically at least invest in those countries or asset class is. Then i think how the world will change with the emerging markets to riga heavy lifting producing the stuff that we consume and we thought this was a good deal. That has not been of a good deal for them ended gravy train for americans but that will and and when the producers start to consider what will they consume . So what somebody in china will buy will be different than what the american buys in china if they buy a car chases are it is the first car but in america they just trade the old one and. In china it is printed do so there is a lot of steel and resources. A lot of the cars they will get from lusby will sell them the used cars we cannot afford to drive because gasoline prices are too high one of the reasons they are driving less is they dont have a job. Why Energy Consumption is down so much but it will go down more because now they will have jobs but cannot afford the gasoline because as the dollar collapses what happens . They collapse so with the prices go down everybody tries to say inflation is bad it is great with Consumer Prices the best thing that happens is prices go down when the dollar collapses for everybody else that will go way down and what you do with the price of something goes down . To buy more. Why do we all have self loans . Why didnt we when gordon gekko had his . 2,000 apiece in a net cost almost that much to make a call but now they are cheap people buy things because the price goes to and we enjoyed a higher standard of living that is what will happen outside the United States with america will see prices skyrocketing but it doesnt have to me that way for you because if you get your money out of dollars and zero the assets and the currencys get yourself on the Receiving Side because 300 million americans will be a lot polar but others will be a lot richer as far as what the currency can buy. If you can reallocate your portfolio now, then you will benefit from that transition and have more purchasing power looking at net asset if a country becomes richer assets are more valuable if they become poorer they become less a valuable. I will own u. S. Realestate if america is a port nation that real estate is a lot less valuable because it is worth you can rented for but if everybody is broke spending threequarters of income on food and electricity how much do they have left to pay rent . In the collapsing economy they moved in with their parents or their kids or take on borders to rent out rooms. So the of purchasing power goes down this is bigger than 2,008 how is it possible such a big crisis is on the horizon and hardly anybody sees it . That is what happened before. The same thing and it is happening all over again. The people that were warning about the are wrote last prices are warning about the next one because we understand the problem we know the government did not solve that but made it worse said you have to recognize you will not have a Second Chance to get this right and what will be much crisis but in 2008 the dollar rose around reckons lows around 70 and rose the next crisis will not happen that way it will imploded is a dollar crisis it will require a different approach to a lot of people think it is a repeat of 2008 but it will not happen the fed will not let it. Bet on falling prices even though that is what we need a key and printing of money to make sure the dollar loses value and as the world rushes to get out of it will be a different crisis so get a right and the early dont be late. Get your accounts set up and we can talk to if you have questions, by the booth to talk specifically about the brokerage accounts, the fee is, how to get started, the i. R. A. We have several brokers year from the office i dont have time to take a cue when they buy will be at the bruce, i i will do my best to answer it by about a time. Thank you for coming. [applause] 84 come make [inaudible conversations] who is hungry for lunch . Raise your hand for i am always hungry. We have a unique opportunity a very distinguished panel and they are going to discuss world war i and contrary to some of the rumors going on a freedom fest none of these men actually fought in world war war i. [laughter] with the war to end all wars. Can you imagine . One hundred years later a politician calling a war to end all wars . Nobody would buy that what was happening today 100 years ago when the war had not quite started everybody was mobilizing but nobody had a clue what would happen so i am looking forward to these gentlemen to give us insight the firstever like to introduce his first visit to freedom fest of professor at the university of texas in austin and holds this senior chair in history he is written out several books also tom palmer at freedom fest he works for the Atlas Network said beside him we have john of lee involved with a conservative how many have the of debt your american conservative magazine in the package . We have john browns Senior Market strategist with euro pacific now most of you have seen him on tv. He has a long history with politics and so i am looking forward to his discussion in today and he was born nearest to the town of of world war when we will let him go first. Each of you have to amend its that will give us to an extra and i will time you may be we will talk to nine per questions could you want to ask, up to the front. Would you like to start to tell us about the war to end all wars . Thank you for giving the that position and adulated served to engage the germans of the british and french and preteens ladies and gentlemen. In a glint pretty much worldwide that was the first row of war but because of the shocking evidence it was turned the war to end all wars but then it grew in by mismanaging the peace it heralded the Second World War with a huge arms race and heralded one century increasingly lethal violence. And a very great change to write this book i studied the war in some detail now with the attempt to share with you some of my findings regarding the huge changes that have occurred i am leaving the of lessons but basically the changes that i have divided into three areas. Politically one saw that age of empire chance virgin to selfdetermination and nationalism. It approved also that in the long Term Economic power is superior to military power and a costly lesson the First World War was the first to involve the raising of funds by the introduction of said dreaded word income tax now the social changes basically was the first war war, the first real war to involve citizens at large rather than just our mes. Is seized in britain at least the extremely rich upperclass replaced by a fairly rich middle class. Prescription began that was the big change women entering the work force was the big thing socially and of course, this heralded with the vote first in england than the United States america is way ahead of britain with pecan marriage was so dreadful on the first day alone the battle that lasted five months the british lost 20,000 dead on the first day and 40,000 lou didnt we did. 60 then all went in were killed and looking at some of these were there are roughly 12,000 graves but the shocking piece 8,400 of those graves are unidentified blown to bits in the nomans land by rats or cats just dying and akkadian doll identity was lost it left a tremendous awareness of casualties to affect the tactics and strategies ever since no longer carries rose soldiers into battle there was a social cost and support for the war and casualtys then the military changes the importance of trench warfare with those two areas of mobile war the beginning and then to have the worst casualty rates therefore we see the introduction to double the of battlefield between the infantry and the taking and the camouflage introduction and also the french use gas for the first time, a teargas saids l y4a germans use the first poison gas in the war then we saw the introduction of barbed wire and the recognition of the beginnings of the effects of the shell shock in the long drawnout recognition in the face of the enemy now with posttraumatic stress and the propeller that allowed the machine guns allowed the original which are identified in my book air latitude fire through the up propeller in the introduction of bombers on civilian populations and the introduction of the airforce as the separate arm of the armed forces which was a very interesting introduction and now a recognition of the sky as a vital area of for now extended into space as vital to control a huge interest the navy the importance of submarines and heavy armor on the ships because the shells went straight through the wooden deck with that squadron with the battle. Also showing that the enormous effectiveness of blockades not just for luxury items but vital and germany enter the war starving. Of with the interesting interlude that released 2 million german soldiers to push us into the ocean on the west because he was getting 52 mae brought 500,000 soldiers across with the german offensive breaking through the alliedlyons they were stopped by the french food and wine. Because the moment they broke through the front line they entered the villages and farmland and whole divisions were brought to waltz because the men could not get up off the ground there were plastered with alcohol and they could not move so they had a chance to reestablish of life so in the First World War it was stopped by a french food and wine. [laughter] [applause] that is interesting the next time i go to france i will remember that. [laughter] i appreciate that summary of the changes world war i brought. I had been teaching history for 35 years the more i teased the more i am convinced the basic questions are simple and very profound and one of the abiding questions typos to my a students is the very basic question is why wars ocher. Why is there more . This is a fitting moment because if i had asked the questions when hendrick years ago today june june 151914, then the obvious answer would have been war is when it thinks go wrong because if you look at the history of civilization for the previous century would have noted that peace is the norm and there had hardly been a decent sized war and the western world. The crimean war but the American Civil War was the biggest thing around except for those too large wars the nations figured out how to resolve their issues and conflicts peacefully. Then rolled war one broker alrich shad air that expectation followed by a report to which seem to suggest peace was not the norm but war was the norm so by 1945 after having experienced world war i and rolled toward to when weld pulled for three breakout . Says the cold war developed and allies squared off their money number of moments that this is it than people expected and planned for it. That was 1945 now 80 years later eyehole and world war iii has not occurred. I have to say yet. Of fundamental question for historians is why is this so . Because we had developed Nuclear Weapons of mass destruction it has raised the cost to such an extent space and leader was the gist country to war but it is worth noting that wars have begun by peoples whose sanity could be called into question so there has not been a big war since report tussaud it starts to look as though that long century of peace maybe that was the norm the two world wars were the exception and to now we have gone a better part of a century but if peace is the norm that all they have to do is avoid screwy things up or make the mistakes that led to world war i. But if peace is the exception anwr is the norm said world war iii is out there waiting to happen and this cannot be answered until after the fact that i will try to draw to lessons from world war i and they apply to the United States than to the world at large. The first lesson is capitalism cannot save the world or in hasnt or slightly differently, a man does not live by bread alone. But my point is plenty of people look at it 19 tanner 1913 who said the war between advanced nations has become impossible because each of those stations of the west are the others best customers and there are too much lost you will know the era before parole for one is considered the first great age of globalization and the World Economy was so intertwined it would be sheer folly for germany to attack pressure are the United States to go to war the reach the other is best customers and what nation would commit such absurdity . Capitalism cannot save the world but neither can socialism the era before world war i it was also the age of the Great Expectations of socialism and various socialist communities are geared there would never be a war among the nations because even though the capitalist imperial leader government the workers feeling greater solidarity along class lines rather than nation to nation would never go to war. The leaders might say go to war but they never really lets us but you go to war of the workingclass but they would reject that call because their consciousness was raised by socialist activities. That blew up during the summer of 1914 when it became clear that despite the commercial and Financial Connections they went to war nonetheless despite the solidary along class lines workers and france decided their interests lay with the capitalist now with the workers of germinate and all down the line. There were expectations utterly shattered and one of them was the idea economics trumps politics it did not at the beginning of the war. The second bus and that has policies connotations for today is that empires grow brittle with age. And here i will include the United States not back them but now. We could debate the terminology but great powers need to learn to accommodate rising powers at a very basic level the cause of the First World War was the inability of the existing status quo to a acknowledge that germany was now a great power and to find room for germany at the table and is france and britain and russia felt threatened to and with their earthier they refuse to give germany what it needed to prevent the germans for feeling theyre not part of the system. The result was the First World War the second result was the Second World War. What it does this mean for today . The rising power today is china and it will seek tough Foreign Policy commensurate with its wealth. John browne suggested economic strops the military and it does eventually i would put it even firmer if there is one iron lot of international affairs, it is this, that sooner or later every country gets the Foreign Policy it can afford. We had one that was modest compared to the economic power through the 20th century but eventually developing a Foreign Policy to protect economic interests and china had a modest Foreign Policy already starting to assert itself and it will continue to do this. Whether the chinese are justified or not is beside the point of germany was justified to carve out a place with the imperial throne in the first decade and a half is beside the point. It will happen in. The status quo will have to figure out a way to accommodate china. Happen either peacefully or by war. I will leave it at that. [applause] i was not given the First World War but my of gold was as the british officer he was gassed and died when he was 48 that we all know the disaster of the war but the greatest the solid discredited western civilization coming out of the First World War one of the statements is you cannot make an omelet without breaking a sweat that massive killing was partly the discredit of western civilization and other system would work better if it was justified its 20 of all british officers were killed 12 percent of the soldiers at of every 20 englishmen at the end the three were dead and five were wounded. The devastation cannot be measured by had the opportunity in the crimea i went to the battle site i always wanted to see the charge of the brigade i saw the valley brett have been to end the british were still wearing bright red not the generals fight the last war but from 75 years from the year before actually they started with the tactics of the first british battle plan for the infantry to clear out the machine guns and barbwire to have the of a cavalry charge theyre all cavalry officers and they wanted to do that even the germans had the calvary troops in the back. I am as written about that with an article on the internet also americas way of war and i think of the lessons to learn is that there is never a short war israeli Prime Minister was supposed to the first attack 21 years ago and said you never know when a war starts where it will end that is the first rule. The second was the disaster of American Intervention we go into the war like a Football Game that we seldom have plans what to do when we delivered to europe and manchuria to the communist. Tom paine had one of his writings stuck in my mind whether what worser started to raise taxes or taxes are raised to start wars because they go so close to get there but you never know. With the internet americas way of war but the great generals with without going to war it is a last option because you never know when you start where it tends. Be careful of your generals the gross incompetence sending their young men into a machine gun fire over and over again. Another point to bring up to date is watch out for your allies. This started because of serbia killing the archduke with these vast empires in europe think of thats whatever small allies with nato guaranteeing up borders all over the place but fate of taiwan, israel, japan now we were about to have a military confrontation because of deserted islands in the Pacific Ocean because we guarantee japan . Any of these countries could put us into a major war that could escalate into a nuclear war you the allies that help you not dry q. Another lesson perhaps is today we have the experts on fourth degeneration warfare and today his point is when we win like libya what we create is a failed state that is more of a threat to u. S. Because our choice is to win and creates a disaster as a failed state. I will leave it at that. Is an honor to speak after these honored historians with the different perspective then it is complementary i will talk about it tomorrow it is that there are things that you can do or policies that make war less likely not impossible one of them is free trade the higher the degree or the greater volume of less the likelihood of going to war but as we have seen it does not make it Impossible Research has been directed does it make war more or less likely . I also recommend to Stephen Baker and his book on the decline of violence and Human Experience and he has a chapter in the book as well. Allowed to focus briefly on a lasting consequences of this disaster of the First World War not only the 9 million killed in battle the 50 billion permanently crippled in those who were under arms but the number of legacies we still deal with today the geopolitical legacy establishing an order in europe with a week germany and around russia turned out to be unstable and the thought that poland could be the independent country in it turns that it was not possible the two neighbors gobble up and unleashed a nationalism but in a very unstable way because too important nations were dismembered the germans and hungarians dont forget we still say the consequences of world war i the authentic fascist party because we stand with our brothers in ukraine and slovakia it is the unstable al, that we still deal with and in the middle east the book the peace to end all peace is the of standing study how the middle east was developed coming out of the Ottoman Empire and we just saw as isis was pulling up the border post it is the echo of world war i established dan carr died of provinces did not have a National Existence all those were clearly drawn to london or paris and elsewhere and we still pay the consequences of the unstable geopolitical impact. Second is the ideological outcome the idea is of 1914 collectivism and socialism. They havent seen the impact on europe and the consequence haunted the rest of the 20th century it is not an accident the movement was called the of archangel of death and that which she emerged fate of the s. S. Officers will pauls came from this horrific experience of murder and death. Including what of the most influential books of the 20th century not read in english so much but it made the experience of killing another human being into a great act far superior from the life of peace with the deep influence on political thinking especially in europe and also a deep institutional of come with the growth of the state it will be allocating scarce resources this persisted long after the war was over we still have elements today and very significantly such a controversial issue as robber as pointed out in case after Case Economic controls were justified semple perfectly logical argument if the state has the right and the power to take your freedom and the life surely it can take your business of course, it can take your land that was established before the court and we have paid the price for that ever since we also saw mainly after every great crisis the states balloons he nervously with a huge spike it falls down usually but not as low as before. Never lower than before until the next crisis then another spike up for then they have to recover from that. Finally as b. C. Elements of residue from world war i when i sought isis blowing up the border post this is a condemnation and stable now see the consequences of human suffering the idea to have of war to end all wars is the fantasy to put back in the george, 1913 asset question n already he said how was it to be stopped . By going to war . Is bloodsheds stopped by shedding blood . No. It is to stop going to war that is of very powerful lesson for today. Thank you. [applause] he brought up by a question to me as horrible as the war was wasnt the treaty of versailles and resulting actions after that , pounded the of problems what we deal with . With that have changed things sandy . Un like nelson and General Macarthur did exactly the same in japan by not imprisoning but using them emperor to bring about american control of japan day bills showed magnanimity in the First World War though horror was so great that political leaders were forced to seek revenge on an enemy they had not conquered rather than magnanimity i think correctly as has been alluded to already for that counter revenge of the unfair treaty and that is the problem when you do things on fair they will get you one day even if they have to wait 100 years to make you dump the girlfriend you dont think of her but did she dumps you she is in your mind for the rest of your life so remember that. [laughter] if you find yourself that as a peace conference you have to give the loser a stake to whenever settlement if they have no stake they will undermine the settlements as an is they can. This was compounded it ended as the armistice it became a surrender so there was no strong counterpart so allow them to indulge the worst excesses but the question with the middle east today have been different if the diplomats and paris were more clever tear job better boundaries . I suspect the middle east the matter what the diplomats did the problem with the middle east is not that the borders are wrong but i will use the term that lacks the imperial overlord what kept the peace centuries before was a Greater Authority to keep everyone else in mind. One of the things Woodrow Wilson pass to answer for is the idea that selfdetermination and democracy apply to everybody. East and ile have fought hard time believing if the border were slightly different there would be less trouble some of the border were different iraq and iran have been at each others throats 3,000 years there is no reason to think that would change if we get the boundaries right there is a reason empires existed today you would not colleted empire may be the Un Peacekeeping forces is but some times of Greater Authority has to come in to keep them killing each other sinecure actually short on time. I lived many years in south america and i thank you have underestimated the humiliation with the arab man slated culture. I remember reading machiavelli you could do anything to a man except humiliate him in front of his fellows. The british and French Occupation humiliated the arabs and they felt for trade betrayed i was with the man and his mother had complained where he grew up in egypt his mother complained of the egyptian taxi driver was flogged by british police. That is the thing that went on and so there is a lot of betrayal coming. I would like to add 1. Lets remember the loss of freedom establishing past increases to control everything and to we have had recently with the iraq war with the patriot act that the president alone can declare martial law to move the National Guard division to another state on his own authority . That reestablished under republicans many of the of laws in this country to curtail our freedom martial law means the president can send soldiers into your home and take what he wants. Never let a good cry ciscos. Not that the borders were just drawn differently but just to divide that area that was the fantasy and the notion of the nations state it was much worse a deficit the significant now isis has reestablished the colony. Even to recruit recruit against the kurds. This is the ideal conservative overlords they read u. S. Foreign policy they dont understand these are vastly different political cultures than they thank you can go in to the equilibrium states to find a the obstacle of pseudonymous hussain and paying him and iraq will become or again. That will not happen and these people all should be ashamed to and driven from National Discourse in my opinion. [applause] i will be blind how dare they continue to say lets not fight the of course, what do we do now . This is not the time for fingerpointing. Yes it is. They screwed up really a big way and we should remind these people they got us into a disastrous war and lets not do that icahn. [inaudible conversations] [applause] anybody want to name the neocons . Anybody have questions . Didnt wilson just screw this all up and be feel the effects of his policies and actions 100 years later . I will put the question back so why is it that wilsons ideas are so attractive . Because pretty much every president with the exception of the 1920s has been a wilsonian george w. Bush in did fact the first president arguing not able sodium is barack obama who has resisted efforts by the neocons to get him into syria and deeper into libya. It is of a tough sell. Why . With the statistics of destruction and death of world war xi of the things that strikes me is to put the question to you because i suspect you have a greater personal experience world war ii was vastly more destructive than world war war i. But world war ii is the good war and they are the greatest generation. There is war in part because at times warwick is positively appealing it gives a sense that you did a and a sense of purpose. Almost to a person they consider this the greatest experience of their lives. Because in many cases it lives from beyond the ordinary to be heroic there is the elder of war. We will have a very hard time countering this is why president s are pressured to do something a problem in syria and iraq do something about it is much harder for a president to say no. In fact, we will screwed up more than we will do good there has to be an exit strategy. They have to work very hard to resist the pressure those that like the idea ameritech is number one and they can make the world better. Can i had with syria at the polling from Kato Institute wrote an article about the talk shows in washington, eight out of 10 of the speakers who took a position wanted them to attack syria when 75 percent of that population opposed it they had a vast structure that favors mores any time that will bring on mccain or any spokesmen to wants to start a war American People have not supported these there is a choice and abominate people of such wastes vote for it then they would back off and chicken out so washington is separate from the rest of the country. One thing that professor raised is the natural instinct with that invasion but it is usually seen from Foreign Invasion and secondly almost every war is popular if you win if you lose there very unpopular the American Revolution is not very popular in england. [laughter] some response i dont believe terminate surrendered as the allies take as a surrender with that arms race with imperialism and one final promoter with the causes of world war i. We dont need the imperial overlord particularly in a free country like america or the national overlord. Why they ocher i believe if we ever had capitalism free market capitalism but what we had was john stossel mentioned one is crapitalism there were the generation that accepted the permanent welfare and warfare state. [applause] a question for the panel in light of their remarks just made would have been better if the u. S. Had not intervened in an world war i . To have meaningful peace or to exhaust themselves . If america had not entered world war i and British Secret services did not recognize the assassination of a rasputin she would have inherited france and italy and Great Britain and that included canada. In 1915 or 16 america was totally unprepared that had 12 airplanes and in the air force while other countries had thousand solar germany could very easily using former soldiers to renovate the United States through canada us of they would not have undoubtedly one though war and we would be living under german rule in no chewing gum on the streets and they knew it would have the trains running on time. It began before eric 1975 United States had chosen to remain fully alert it would have required the government to forbid american individuals and banks to lend money. That is so light that was crossed that lead to Everything Else once your economically involved with belligerence then all sorts of gimmicks are set in motion. Dynamics are set in motion with that dictatorial attitude to say saree you cannot engage in the commerce americans have been engaging in for a century so the problem was not lets go to war but the United States was deeply enmeshed economically with the countries that were at war would it have been better . May be but that was impossible it was involved from august 1914 it was time before they became involved militarily. Were out of time. Go quickly. History is the interest that had i been around at that time and i find it impossible britain would have been invaded with almost total destruction of the german fleet so bread was liable life finding it impossible and canada would not have been occupied. We will take one more question. The guy here at the end. Thank you. One of the most interesting statements during the work period would have to be period would have to be bismarck the chancellor of germany and i was kind of wondering if any of you could comment on some of this Foreign Policy. Although while at home he was certainly nowhere near libertarian theory monarchist against constitutionalism and implementing on socialism domestically it does seem like in certain respects he was very conscious of the costs of war and pursuing more than what is seen as absolutely necessary in terms of the use of force regarding colonialism as well as regional opponent so i was wondering if any of you could comment. Would want to be like to take that . I would have that he was out early cynical and his willingness to use were in the ends that didnt require work. One of the disasters of the 19th century i would say, one of the most catastrophic figures of european history was bismarck. Socialism militarism and the unification of germany through iron and blood rather than petitions and referenda. He defeated liberalism in europe. He was a disaster. Would that he had never been born. [applause] lets give the panel a big hand. [applause] enjoy lunch. A panel on technology with david brent author of the Transparent Society and Michael Shermer the author of the believing brain from freedom fest 2014. Hello everyone and welcome to this fascinating panel. I have to say im incredibly excited about our topic. We generally find ourselves at the crossroads of the internet and privacy. We live in unprecedented times in which the vast majority of our private information, the medications and even our movements physical movements are being stored on line. Silicon valley and author all the information was released last year it really shape the industry. The user trust has never been that low. The Inquiry Trust within the companies were one of the Biggest Tech Companies in the world has never been that well. Government has been issuing secrets left and right and over the course of a few years we have voluntarily released an astonishing amount of information about our private lives. And unfortunately this is most likely the best thing that ever happened to governments all over the world. The level of access that government has to our most dear and private information processes in a credible threat to our liberty. Did we just walk into our own chains of slavery . I truly hope david can shed some light on what the future holds and what we can do to preserve our liberty while staying connected. Julian assange not so long ago wrote a book that is entitled and he defines it as the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. He says within a few years global civilization will be an escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact we may r. D. Be there so now i want to turn it to our panel and ask, are we there . You go first. I think its terribly important that we put this in some deep context and that is what my job tends to be. I started as an astrophysicist looking out there and i would like to give you a few background ways of looking at this. Lets start gigantic. How many of you have heard of this affair may paradoxically ask that is the notion that we should have seen aliens by now but we havent so where the hill is everybody . Is one of the most interesting things possible questions to ask and if you just google fare may paradoxically will find a lot of interesting discussions about it. Its related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. I am sure all of you remember jody foster in contact and all that. Its a fundamental question because we have been discovering 15 years ago we knew of no planets outside our solar system. Now we know of thousands because together we set out spacecraft that have discovered this about the universe, this fundamental thing. So planets are not rare, so where is everybody . There are lots of theories and we dont know enough to answer it the one is that intelligence is difficult. Maybe there are a lot of planets out there that have life. Earth had live for very long time but only developed intelligence once or did it . The perspective of the animals that dont have tools but yet are very smart and maybe you have seen some of these nature shows where ravens can call solve all sorts of problems apparently discussed the color of a sweater that a human researcher was worried while she was walking to the prairie dog village. Dolphins and apes. Turns out that there are lots and lots of creatures that are bumped up against the Glass Ceiling and all at about the same level. Now we shattered through this Glass Ceiling a half a million years ago and boy did we shattered through. All we needed to be gods on this planet to control this planet was what primitive huntergatherers had, a couple hundred words in the vocabulary, fire, stone tools. Now you see him getting to the technology part. Open need a break those things and we controlled the planet so why did we overshoot so far beyond back . To the civilization in which we are so rich and so technologically empowered, that we are afraid that the thing that we created may consume us. This is a very very basic, big picture and the big picture gets a little smaller but its still very very big. And that is the 6000 years that we have the technology to be able to record our thoughts. The 6000 years in which we have had metals and agriculture and every single time human beings got medals and agriculture. The big man picked up metal implements and other mens and womens wheat every single time. This is what we fear. This is why freedom loving people of the left and the right share the fundamental american mythos, mythology and that is suspicion of authority. You see in every single movie, every novel that you have enjoyed, every movie that you have enjoyed is always rebellion against some authority figure. Suspicion of authority. So this is the underpinning of this question and we have to put it in that context. Why is it that we fear the glass thats half full being empty and our freedom going away . Why dont we ever asked the question, how did we get the glass halffull . I after 6000 years of the glass of freedom almost always being empty. The answer to your question will technology and slave us or not i think is an analytical question. The technology is not going to go away. It will just keep expanding short of a totalitarian state saying no more technology but i think we are too far past that for that to actually happen. The laws that would be imposed would be on its use for the development i think. In the long run, yesterday i spoke about my next book the moral arc of moral progress and how things are changing rapidly over the last 500 years to allow for more and more freedom. The curve is pretty strong in that direction and technology has been one of the driving forces always. Science technology and reason, to push the moral arc forward. My last chapter which i call protovia i make some projections based on essentially her question that is is an elitism going to buy modern magazine that writes these questions. His ideas protopia versus utopia is just a small incremental improvements, just tiny little changes day by day that make life a little bit better for a few more people in a few more places progressively into the longterm future appeared i like that idea because instead of thinking of going from automobiles in the 1950s to flying cars, which is what people were talking about in the 1950s, instead of that kind of leap just think of how cars have improved incrementally every year come every model. Disc brakes, power steering, airconditioning, radio, satellite radio, computers. Before you know what you have a super smart car but not in some utopian way. Just incrementally stepbystep. With the rules kind of adjusting for it so the big test will be the google selfdriving car. 40,000 people die every year on highways of america from human driven cars and the moment a selfdriving car kill somebody there is going to be a human cry about this. We have to keep reminding everybody but what about the 40,000 that died due to human error . Thats always the tension. Im fairly optimistic about this pretty think if we look in the longterm technologies have always enabled totalitarian states to do bad things but they have also enabled us to defeat totalitarian states of autocracys and theocracies. I think the answer is to just keep going forward. Turn the cameras back on on the authorities. You mention legislation. Lets talk a little bit about that. How many of you here know what 2703d is . This is the secret. Its note this 2703d that come how please let google yahoo and microsoft receive all the time. If they speak out about it they could go to prison. Its lower than a the search warrants so that designate a and you also can talk about that. As all of those parties consider third parties theres no constitutional ground for them to fight against the release of this information. So when we talk about laws and figuring it out legislatively whos going to be drawing the line clicked with politicians who will be drawing a line. Are they going to be knowledgeable enough . Chances are not so where and how do we draw that line . Well, look we have been told a lot as part of the suspicion of authority notion that there is no such thing as a politician. Do you see an exception here and there. A politician is fundamentally someone who is supposed to be answerable to the will of the people and therefore negotiates changes in the social contract bit by bit incrementally under our will. So what is it that make the the policy . I maghreb there are terrible things that are being done by the political cast today. What is it that makes a politician are enemy taxes at the very nature of being a politician . Or is it the fact that the politician is inadequately controlled, inadequately supervised by the sovereign will of the people according to the social contract made by the american founders. Im going to step back and give you one more piece of big perspective. Around 500 years ago we got glass lens lenses of the removable type. These transformed, these technologies transformed human society. All of a sudden we could see more and we could no more. This was a revolution that happened 4000 years earlier with the discovery of writing. Suddenly we could no more. And when we got these removal type Printing Press glass lenses there were crutches who said human beings would not be able to deal with the influx of information, that they would have to be protected by skilled arbiters, priests who would judge you can have this but the other stuff will drive you crazy. And that is called toxic means, the notion that ideas are toxic and therefore have to be protecting people. In and the notion that all human cultures was that they were inherently toxic and the cast had to protect the masses except ours. In addition to suspicion of authority you were also raised with a few other messages and that is let the people be exposed coming even children at a graduated level be exposed to all ideas because then they will learn and get tough skinned and learn how to separate the good from the bad. Now what happened was after we got the glass lenses in the removable type of grouches were proven right. Religious wars in europe were horribly exacerbated by the Printing Press but over the long run the optimists were right and people got better. People got smarter. People were able to deal with the fact that they had a lot of knowledge outside of their head on their bookshelf and they could see better and then they saw better with television and learned about the empathy of people who are suffering overseas and that changed our whole way of looking at the world. As a result of that Steven Pinker pointed out in the better angels of our nature rising out of the nature of human civilization in 1943 and getting less and less and less violence around the world every decade. Since 1943 and having a wealthier world. Every generation has had to deal with these Disruptive Technologies that present us with challenges. Always in the shortterm the grouches proved right but always in the longterm the optimists prove right and right now we are trying to drink drink from this fire hose that is so fantastically huge that its on believable that these creatures in default on the savannah could possibly deal with all this information. If you look at the jpeg that people are sharing with each other and facebook instead of engaging in political discourse maybe. Maybe we have finally reached the limit or maybe its just another case of the grouches being right in the shortterm and the optimists perhaps being right in the longterm. Well i hadnt heard of the measure you mentioned. How can we find out more about this . It almost sounds like conspiracy. Is actually a book about Julian Assange that he wrote. Its basically his conversation with friends and i think its very very informative as he talks about things like that and was the one who was the first to try to fight the government when the government asked information about assanges friends in their twitter accounts. That is how that all came to public and whats also interesting is that from julians perspective he mentions that people talk about the internet a lot but they havent met the enemy and he did. Its impossible for him to get any money from any Bank Accounts or block everything. They play a dirty game with him. Who is they . The government. The government to . I believe the United States government were the ones that were targeting him specifically. How the Terrorism Law that you were responding to as many fingers to it and one of them is that the Internet Service providers are supposed to provide metainformation to the government and not report that to the user of the information that has been provided because of course the rationalization is the terrorist would then change their communication protocols. The detachment of the security information state from accountability is something that is of great concern and i talk about in my nonfiction book, the Transparent Society and i dont just write nonfiction novels. One aspect of it is that we are getting obsessed with the wrong thing. Can any of you name a single month. Do it as a homework assignment. A single month in last 25 years where the news media wasnt filled with reports about some major leak of information. Ill bet you cant even if your life depended on it and he would lose your house. You couldnt come up with a single month. Usually every third or fourth month if some big thing like target or Julian Assange horse Edward Snowden and no one in 25 years ever draws the conclusion that everything leaks and that deciding to identify your freedom with secrecy is not the approach that god is our glass half full. Its not what brought us to this party. Its not what got us our freedom and its only serving the interests of the mighty if we have sessile map. And i will get back to that but it definitely is michaels turn. Just the i. D. Of the free press. The fact that we have people like Julian Assange leaking information is and that the answer to the question that we stop them from doing these various things who every day is. We can find out who they is through these leaks and was your point that nothing happens after that . Now, my point is if the reflex is oh no they are looking at me, how can i that is not going to protect freedom. There is not one example in the history of our species in which that approach has ever worked. It has worked to hide a few resistance fighters here and there and if we get big brother, if we truly get big brother then fine. Let some rats in the maze do their thing, their cyberthing thing and god bless him i hope they succeed. But thats not how we got general freedom. The way we got general freedom is by reversing the light. Its called surveillance. You answer surveillance from above with surveillance from below. We stripped the mighty in the way we stripped the mighty is by separating them into blocks that are mutually competitive with each other. One of the new methods we have god for creating these additional blocks is something fantastic. The late 20th century and thats the Nongovernmental Organization like the frontier foundation. You can send them your dues every year and then they will hire top lawyers and top technical people to fight big brother for you. The problem always happens when the powerful start colluding with each other. When Government Agencies are captured by the rich or the corporations. When they stop pushing against each other and say look what i cant. People, im on your site. I caught him. When they stop doing that than we are in really big trouble. You will notice what i just described is a process of transparency. Its not a process of hiding. But heres the biggest problem. Never in history did we ever record everything. We dont target specific people and find out information about them anymore. The government records everything. Google has their user data and facebook as their user data and twitter has their user data. The government has access to all that. And you are doing exactly what i described. You are saying dont look, you know so much about me, dont look any and cannot prescribe one conceivable measure that would stop it. All you are doing is complaining. That is why we are here. So how do we stop that . You dont stop it. 25 years and am i saying give up. [inaudible question] , i am militant. Im ferocious. I am radical. I am radical for freedom, getting it the way we got it. And the way we got it is by caring less about what others can see of us because you cant stop that. As robert, as Robert Heinlein said the thing achieved by privacy laws is to make the spy bug smaller. How many of you remember something called total information awareness . Tiaa . Thousand three was discovered and this was after 9 11. It was discovered that a program had come up to try to give information about everybody. John poindexter at darpa and the people got mad and it was banished. It was closed down and nobody knew where it went. Where did it go . An essay. It went to nsa. It returned as all those buzzword names we got from Edward Snowden. Have any of you been to an arcade and play the game whackamole . You whackamole and it comes up somewhere else so it becomes a little better at being seen. The world whack town nsa and pass laws and it will go someplace else or secret. This is not how you stay free. What you stay free is you get people angry enough to march into nsa and say you look all you want but i want you. You are speedo centers my camera and the nsa control room. We have a choke chain on the watchlist. Who will watch the watchmen . Our radicalism has got to be us radically demanding it back. That can work. The proof of that is us. That is what has worked. Do you think Angela Merkel should listen to the cell phonecalls of president obama . Is it that the interim principle . I dont care what the hill the hill that they spy on each other quite frankly. What i care about is what they can do to me. And what they can do to me as opposed to what they know about me is controlled by us being able to look back. You have on the cover of a wonderful magazine, spectacular magazine. Making up for the fact that im talking too much, in fact the important magazine. Skeptic shows the tsarnaev brothers delivering their bombs to the boston marathon. That evening the fbi went to all the places in the neighborhood knocked on the doors and said do you have a video camera looking out here quick and we please look at the footage and what everybody say . Here, because they agreed in this case the government was doing an acceptable job. In britain there was no choice. All the cameras are pointed directly to the police and there were no cameras watching the camera watchers in a patrol room. There is big brother for you. Most of the cameras in america are privatelyowned and if it he about what happened in brooklyn with the pepper spray . The police went to people it said can we look at your footage and people said no. As long as we have the power to be able to make that distinction there is still hope. Yes, i agree. More technology. More technology but sharing. You actually think if 100 of us were to walk into nsa we would stay outside . We have to fight for it. The nsa in the free press is under siege too. Perhaps its falling apart. Its falling apart financially. Big moguls are taking over large parts of the press. There are always crises. Im not saying there arent crises. There was a commission, very sincere commission that purported to president obama reforms to be made as a result of snowden. One third of them are cosmetic, one third of them most of the rest were modifications or procedures. Now there will be an ombudsman in the fisa court who will say wait a minute, thats too much and turn it into a court instead of the star chamber in which it was. Almost nothing of the list, there were only two items on the list of 40 that actually increased our ability to supervise. And that made me furious. And i went at some of these on the committee. I said, unless you are increasing our ability to supervise you are not restoring the trust that you lost. It wasnt edmund stone who lost your trust. You lost it. If you want to get it back youll have to let a supervise you more. And we are going to have to forget the word let. We have to be radical about it. This year Edward Snowden appeared and gave a talk on a computer screen via a link from an undisclosed location in moscow and none of us knew what to think of this guy. He came off completely trustworthy, open. He seemed honest and he seemed like he really intended to do the right thing and amazingly the next day ahead of the nsa or the number two guy at the nsa also appeared via link from the fbi headquarters. This spread like a viral video. There he was. Anybody could watch it anywhere in the world than anybody did. I guess the nsa felt the need, well i guess we have to Say Something in this guy did his best to respond to things that snowden said. You could tell he felt like ive got to Say Something. To your point of this social pressure to reveal what it is you are doing and what your motives are, thats the part of a free society that i think does work. Thats where the technology is definitely elevating our power to try to hold a conversation. Thats an example. Look, Michael Creighton, all of Michael Creightons books war against technology is always the same moral and every single book. Heres an example of guys who are trying some new technology and its going to kill them and bite us also dont do that. And we eat it out. We gobble it up. But you will notice in every single Michael Creighton story, the real problem wasnt that somebody tried to do something cool and new. Rebuild dinosaurs . I excuse me, thats kind of cool. The problem was that in every single one of his novels it was always done in secret. Therefore the obvious plot stupidity that makes everything go wrong happens because when you have a limited number of deciders they are free from criticism and criticism is the only known antidote to air. Criticism is the only known antidote to air and that is what this is all about. Scientific skepticism. The exchange because we are delusional. Human beings are delusional and can never catch our own mistakes. If you are lucky you can have someone who will catch her mistakes and that is the biggest reason to get married. [laughter] which by the way this fellow finally had the wisdom to do. Just last month. Congratulations. [applause] thank you. So what about privacy . I grew up in belarus and i had no expectation of privacy. You know you are listened to and anything you say you can be killed for so you are very careful in your life. Moving here i was excited. I heard this word privacy and it took me a couple of months understand what it means. I got so excited about that and by definition, thats part of it. Hear somebodys telling you that your information is private and then at the end of the day its not because its released to the government without your knowledge so wheres the privacy they are . That is what the constitution is for which is a social contract. You can modify it to guarantee certain privacies. Privacy is not mentioned in the constitution. Referred to in the Fourth Amendment but privacy and property were discussed by madison and the other founders and they were pretty clearly delineated as what were called contingent rights and that is each generation of americans could to liberate amongst themselves to the findwhat privacy and property is. There are what are called primary rights and white is the right to speak into no, player b. So fiercely and repeatedly protected . And purely protective. There are primary rights and heres the reason why. Because they ensure your ability to back out if you made a mistake. Lets say our children 20 years from now declare that they dont like clothing and clothing are forgiven forbidden everywhere in United States of america. You have a little belt and that sort of thing but clothing is against the law. If you are free, then you can stand on the Street Corner and make it with a sign saying this is really. Do you really want to look at this . And you can try to persuade people to change their minds. As we are now changing our minds thank god about the war on dru drugs, it took a long time for people to stand on the Street Corners, getting people to change their minds about it that it has change their minds. What is your definition of privacy . What is my definition of privacy . And chapter 4 the Transparent Society i talk about how important privacy is. Privacy is essential for human beings but each generation defines it differently. We cant afford ever to be defined, the freedom to know, the freedom to speak, the freedom to argue. If you need to find them at all they are gone. What about corporations . I find this to be part of the great attempt to turn our diamond shaped social structure that the atom smith and founders worked hard to give us in the peer of 6000 years, i do not mind corporations but i think in and the limited liability thing has to have a limit limit. In the end it has to come down to people. The 60 minutes peace they interview the same guy. He was talking about how much information we have which he said was nothing compared to a google and facebook app. Thats not an offense. That is oh gee i am eating almost everything and they are eating everything. Excuse me. Look, my position is a little bit deliberately provocative and radical because you have got to see the other possibility and that is that you are not going to stop them from seeing you. Its not going to happen and all the people who say dont look, they never have a pragmatic suggestion about how you are going to stop them from looking. The european approach is to pass laws so that a protective government Privacy Agency can then stop companies from looki looking. That might work this year and it might work next year but quite frankly i dont trust that agency. Over the long run our only protection is to care less about what google knows about us and care a hill of a lot about what the government will do to us and also to demand that they pay us. If they are using our information we have an interest. If they are getting money out of the massaging of my purchasing data i want to get a check. That sounds good. Do you think google would go for that . There are companies that do. The principle has been established and jarod lanier has been doing important work discussing how we can retain our interest in how there could be a law that says if you are using information about people to sell things that they have better benefit from it and have the ability to control their environment. Remember the movie with tom cruise . Minority report, where he is walking down the street and he has someone elses eyeballs. The scanners are reading his eyeballs in pushing ads at him. Thats not going to happen because we are going to have our goggles and it will be pulled. You are not going to be able to answer. Nobody is going to be able to answer your goggles space unless they hack you. Lets talk a little bit about the internet of things. A couple of weeks ago google released you connect to your phone. You connect your phone to your car and basically your phone controls the car. The phone today is nothing more than a tracking device that can also make calls and everyone knows the government can switch off your phones or cameras if they can do anything. There are so many secret technologies that the government is working on that we are not aware of. If we talk about the internet of things in the development i know everything is connected but everything also can be controlled by someone else and interfering into your life. So with the government grows and from my experience what i see in the United States today is basically a strong wish to build a soviet union. Im sorry but it has never been that bad i think in terms of freedom to socialism. The government grows and they have this technology and they can intersect and cross your c car. Do you think of something that can happen . I hope you will write a sciencefiction novel because that sounds like a good story. I would be skeptical that the government is working on that. Googles next project may be. They are not working on it obviously but they can use it. We can project any kind of scenarios like that in which the totalitarians take, gives the power to do that but that doesnt mean we should stop the development of the technology or try to control it in a way other than beyond what we were talking about just privacy laws and certain protections that are already in place to implement. The fundamental thing is th this. If the government is working on something that nefarious, how many people do they need in the program . For instance loose change raid we have a lot of terribly loony paranoid nonsense coming from the right but believe me its all easily matched by a bit paranoid lunacy from the left. Loose change, okay so lets see the government broadband 2000 estimated it would have taken 2000 skilled demolition experts and professionals to spend three months mining these buildings macworld trade centers with mine so that an incredibly perfectly timed, perfectly executed event better timed and better executed than anything the government has ever done before, you can collide planes with the buildings and set off explosions just so you can rob a bank at the bottom. Even the angle of the wings. Now of all of the preposterous aspects of that the one that is the most preposterous is that you could have a henchman effect, that you could get 2000 skilled professional american agents, Civil Servants to betray their country knowing, and kill people, knowing that if anyone of them were to blow the whistle with evidence that person would be the hero of the age and the rest of them would be put against a wall and shot. Its called called the prisoners dilemma. What we need to do is create a situation in our culture in which if there is an agency trying to develop im going to crash everybodys wall into the car probe and you are describing then the incentives are there that if you have enough people to actually make that program work you have way pastor whistleblower level of henchman. We need to have henchman laws in this country that reward whistleblowing sufficiently so that plots like this can never hire enough guys without people going against the wall and getting shot. Its a little markup located then dont look at me. I think part of our biggest protection is the incompetency of bureaucracies and their inability to keep secrets. And the fact that most guys who are skilled dont want to be evil. And if you give them an excuse to get on television and sell book rights and movie rights by being good. Or just exposing something. Not one person has come forward from the 9 11 movement. None of the insiders have come forward on 60 minutes to expose what happened and that would have surely happened. And why havent they come from the kennedy assassination . Cassette was below the henchman level. You can have conspiracies, sure but if you bear in mind this whole henchman threshold all we have to do is create a society thats open enough and that has large enough for awards for whistleblowers. This is where im militant. This is where the government is screwed. This is where the political cast has led us down and that is there have been whistleblower protections on proposed proper for congress for years and they have not passed. There have been some increments and thereve been some improvements. Maybe we could do another thought experiment with the audience that they did earlier. Can you recall him up for for there wasnt a reporter that corrupt politicians being busted for doing something illegal . Apparently even with whistleblower laws still people find out than areas nefarious things politicians are up to. Does happen. But its our only chance, our only chance is that your neighbors are not in the sales than they are not evil. And if they are not mostly, they are mostly not evil and that the Civil Servants are mostly sincere even as as in the nsa they are doing something bad, they sincerely believe they are doing it to protect us. Theres nothing to do is to just find a way legally to bust down the doors and say we know you are sincere and now we are going to be watching you. And maybe we will be all right but if the method that has worked. The problem with this is it doesnt fit our sanctimony. It doesnt fit our outrage. This suspicion of authority. You know the difference between a decent conservative and a decent libertarian and a decent liberal in Attitude Towards Authority . The decent liberal is concerned that we are going to get big brother from conniving oligarchs and faceless corporations. The decent conservative is concerned that we are going to get big brother from snooty academics and faceless government bureaucrats. The decent libertarian says, screw it, you are both right. [laughter] what the hill . By doing this and saying my guys are all right all you are doing is empowering me that there would be big brothers on both sides. Why do you think i came here . Because you guys get it. They are all after us. Without we can conclude our panel. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. [applause] by the way can you repeat that dont be evil every morning at the coffee break quick how do you do that . Have the slogan dont be evil . I didnt know if you had to repeat that every morning. Dont be evil. Dont be evil. Then that dont start going away. Thank you. [applause] that was just a few of the events from this years freedom fest 2014. Watch for more from this annual libertarian conference tomorrow. Now from the nixon president ial library in california former california congressman james rogan talks about his drive as a child to meet and get advice from famous people. He discusses his runins with harry truman, john f. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, ronald reagan, billy graham and a host of famous entertainers. This is a little under an hour. Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls club come. I am sandy quinn former president of the Richard Nixon foundation. Thank you. Now a member of the board and i want you to meet my successor who just started this week so give him a big welcome. Bill, where are you . [applause] he is in the back. [applause] you see bill we always had full houses so you will have to get used is just standing in the back. I want you to say hello to jim rogans wife christine. [applause] and to welcome her and to his own important motherinlaw charity. [applause] i want you to know that on jul july 21 and save the date, mark this down. Going to be a great program. We have pat buchanan who joined candidate Richard Nixon right after he lost the two big elections of the presidency and the gubernatorial hearing california. And he joined him from the st. Louis globe dispatch where he was the chief editorial writer. He traveled with Richard Nixon throughout those Wilderness Years and wrote a book just recently called the greatest comeback which is a story of how Richard Nixon went from the depths of those two defeats to the white house, not once but twice and pat buchanan was within the entire time. He will be joined by his wife shelly who they met in the white house or they are a great couple. They are great people. You have seen him as a talking head, a commentator on television frequently. He is on John Mclaughlin show. He is on fox frequently and he will be here on july 21 speaking at 7 00 and tickets are available in the gift shop. Now, those of you who follow less frequently know that we have a tremendous schedule of speakers all the time and we do now. So i wanted to go to the web site www. Nixon vows nation foundation. Org because we have great speakers and interesting engagements with our friends in the peoples republic of chin china republic of china who will be here three times with interesting probe into including july 23 a program you are welcome to wear they will open an exhibit that the chinese have done thanking america for the country support during world war ii. It will be a great exhibit. We are going to display for 10 days and i hope you will come to the reception on the evening of july 23 at 7 00. I always want you to help us and to join us and to be with us all the time, yearround. Com i hold in my formerly nicotine stained hands an application to join our Associates Club. How many are numbers of Associates Club clinics good for you but shame on the rest of you. We need your help. You can join at 50, up to 5000 yes there are some slots left for the 5000dollar category. We welcome you at any category and you get free admission. You get discounts on days like today on merchandise but you get free admission all year. So its worth it, but you were helping a good cause. Jim rogan is one of the most fascinating and Diverse People in terms of background that any of us will ever meet. He has an amazing story, a hard to believe story. It began in the Mission District in san francisco, now a nice renaissance area of restaurants and shops. Then a decadent, rundown, tough, full of gang area. He was born to a mother who was a felon. She was a cocktail waitress on welfare. His father left him before he was born and thats a tough beginning. He had a very rough childhood. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. He had no purpose, had no mission, had no hope. But like a lot of people, he decided this isnt for me and he got up and he dusted himself off and he said im going to do something with my life. I dont like this life. I want to change. So he went to Community College and he was a great student. So he went to cal state berkeley and graduated. He went to ucla and got his law degree then he joined a firm, and practiced in a firm but he said i like Public Service so he became a District Attorney in los angeles. The d. A. Recognized early that he was an excellent prosecutor. He knew a little bit about gangs so he became in charge of that gang murder unit in the l. A. District attorneys office. He was exceptional in that. Governor deukmejian decided that he should be on the court, on the bench so he named him to the state court, the Municipal Court in glendale. He was the youngest at that time of judges in that system of municipal judges in the state of california. He was exceptional. California law review said he was one of the most effective of all of the judges in california. So a special election came along in his home district, so we said what the heck, ill try it. Well, he won. So as a freshman, a young freshman come he goes to sacramento and it becomes majority leader of the state assembly. There again California Law review said he was one of the most effective legislators in the state. So along comes an opportunity for congress and he runs for that and he wins and he goes to washington and he is named the all important judiciary committee. He then becomes involved as a floor manager and impeachment process for the president. He becomes a marked man because of that and loses his congressional seat later but then comes back to california where he is now a member of the superior court right here in Orange County so be careful, be nice to him. And hes an adjunct professor at Chapman University teaching law and Court Procedures and trial procedures. So, his early life was nothing but rough edges and does this book, which by the way purely coincidental we happen to have on sale in our museum store which is available to you. If you buy one the second will be sold to you at exactly no increase in price. He will autograph it for you later. From that rough edged life because too phenomenal success. I think thats the Great American dream lives to its absolute and its an example of what focus and persistence can do for any of us and all of us. An amazing man who comes here today to talk about his new book and then i met. So to go from rough edges where he is hanging out with gang people to and then i met. Where hes hanging out with the biggest celebrities political people senators and governors, World Leaders is an amazing career. To tell you more about it ladies and gentlemen please welcome jim world then. [applause] thank you. That was great. Thank you sandy. As we say in congress if youll allow me the personal privilege i just want to say about sandy quinn ive known him for 25 years. He was introduced to make many years ago by our mutual friend bob sanchez served in president nixons first cap and i watch sandy with his activity or the library and the foundation over the many years. The last several years as the Foundation President and retired a few weeks ago succeeded by bill who you met earlier. I just want to say sandy you have been an absolute great president. You have been a great member of our community and i want to salute you for all you have done here at the foundation and the library. [applause] my kind words for you are much shorter than your kind words for me and thats because i needed you to hop my book for me. This is also if you will allow me to say this is my third book and each one of my books i have kicked off here at the nixon library. This brandnew one is actually not published. It will be published in four days but it got copies of it here today. Im just grateful to the library and the staff here. I have visited a number of libraries and i must tell you from the volunteers and everybody here to library and the foundation staff, they are just wonderful. For those of you that live in Orange County especially north Orange County you know how many free free things they have going on here over time for her community. They are wonderful and dedicated people and i want to salute them and thank him also for all that they do for us here. [applause] we do have gifts for her part in contestants today. I brought to the library and turned them into the gift shop a stack of these brochures that are all signed and everybody will get one whether they have a book today or if they ordered on line. I want to tell you a quick story about this pressure. Its an impeachment memento and the reason is a president clinton vintage memento is this. I was one of the house prosecutors that try the case and i was one of the final guys do in the closing arguments of the impeachment trial and all the president s lawyer spoke. All the house managers spoke. We were down to the last couple and the impeachment trial was going to be history, done forever. Chief Justice Rehnquist looked at me to call on me and he said we will take a break. And i letme