Doctor wright is going to be interviewed by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, the National Book festival cochair and a very generous supporter of mr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. [applause] and thank you and enjoy. Thank you to everybody and thanks for being here. [applause] you have been out of the government for nine years. To tell us what youve been doing other than writing three best selling doughnuts but other than that you are teaching at stanford. It is what i consider to be my profession i started as an assistant professor and returned to stanford and my appointment is in the Business School that i teach both business and undergraduates and a course in American Foreign policy. Ive been able to do a little bit of work in the private sector and i am spending a lot more time practicing piano because that is a great love and im trying to improve my golf handicap. Speaking of the golf handicap you are one of the first few women
Probably a net good thing. Host at the same time its not going to change back to what it was before. Weare where we are so the question is really , there are companies now that in recent comes months, Big Companies and at t was one of them that says were not going to give quarterly updates. We will tell you where we are going, you want to join us, join us but were not going to give you every quarter guidance and predictions. Thats no way to make good, healthy longterm decisionmaking. Host next call comes from symphony cynthia, oak ridge new jersey, you are on tv, please go ahead. Caller mister friedman, i had heard you speak and you talk about Lifelong Learning and i agree with that completely. But i am 63 years old and i have a lot of trouble dealing with the computers and i live on a fixed income of less than 1100 a month and i have tried to teach myself and i just dont have anyone to help me. So how do you direct people like me with fixed incomes and not, who grew up with the techno
Now four former national. Ecurity advisers susan rice and Tom Donnellan and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley talk about threats posed by russia, china, and north korea. Welcome, everybody, and this is pretty much what the essence of the Aspen Institute has been and should always be about, and what our nation should be about, a notion of very dedicated people of both parties coming together and trying to find common ground. It is under the auspices of the Aspen Strategy Group. I want to thank joe nye, who is cochair with secretary Condoleezza Rice, with her first year on the job. [applause] isaacson we also have Stephen Hadley and tom donlon, the first time four national have beendvisers together. It shows what aspen can do. You notice that susan rice is missing. She will be here in seven minutes. She is just on her way from the airport. Just like bob gates last year, always a buddy who wants to make a dramatic enters. Let me turn it over to a person everybody knows, nick burns, the
Now four former national. Ecurity advisers susan rice and Tom Donnellan and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley talk about threats posed by russia, china, and north korea. Welcome, everybody, and this is pretty much what the essence of the Aspen Institute has been and should always be about, and what our nation should be about, a notion of very dedicated people of both parties coming together and trying to find common ground. It is under the auspices of the Aspen Strategy Group. I want to thank joe nye, who is cochair with secretary Condoleezza Rice, with her first year on the job. [applause] isaacson we also have Stephen Hadley and tom donlon, the first time four national have beendvisers together. It shows what aspen can do. You notice that susan rice is missing. She will be here in seven minutes. She is just on her way from the airport. Just like bob gates last year, always a buddy who wants to make a dramatic enters. Let me turn it over to a person everybody knows, nick burns, the
Now four former national. Ecurity advisers susan rice and Tom Donnellan and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley talk about threats posed by russia, china, and north korea. Welcome, everybody, and this is pretty much what the essence of the Aspen Institute has been and should always be about, and what our nation should be about, a notion of very dedicated people of both parties coming together and trying to find common ground. It is under the auspices of the Aspen Strategy Group. I want to thank joe nye, who is cochair with secretary Condoleezza Rice, with her first year on the job. [applause] isaacson we also have Stephen Hadley and tom donlon, the first time four national have beendvisers together. It shows what aspen can do. You notice that susan rice is missing. She will be here in seven minutes. She is just on her way from the airport. Just like bob gates last year, always a buddy who wants to make a dramatic enters. Let me turn it over to a person everybody knows, nick burns, the