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You are watching book tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see online at booktv. Org. Sam daley harris talks about how citizens can come together to exert political power next. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We are delighted to introduce mr. Ketan. He also founded the microcredit Summer Campaign and most recently in 2012 he 2012 he founded the center for citizen empowerment and transformation. He has and a a great deal of recognition and respect for his work. No other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that it is used as a power. And one of the certified great social entrepreneurs of the last decade. We are thrilled to have you here and congratulate you on the 20th Anniversary Edition of your book reclaiming our democracy. Equally delighted to have former congressman Mickey Edwards join us here today, Vice President of the Aspen Institute and serves as director of the Aspen Institute rodale public leadership, a republican mem
Its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it be averill hairman after world war ii and you have a create a new world ordinary like nato and the world bank and the Marshall Plan 0 steve jobs who says were now in a digital revolution, we have to make it personal. These are people who to use steve jobs words, were able to think different, think out of the box. I want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of them themes themes in your book seems to be a connect to spirituality. Guest everybody believed they were part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you realize its not how much you get to take out of the river its what you put back into the r
Responsibilities it is important that this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress are able to receive testimony, briefings and other communication of information. Have you adhered to applicable laws and regulations governing restrictions . I have. Have you taken any actions for the process . No. Will you assure that your staff adhered to deadlines, including records for the hearings. I will. Will you cooperate with briefers in response to congressional questions . Yes. Will the witnesses be protected in reprisal from thur testimony or briefings . They will. Do you agree to appear and testify upon request before this committee. Yes. Do you agree to provide documents, including electronic forms of hearings or to consult with the committee for any good faith delay or denial in providing such documents . Yes. [ inaudible ]. That concludes our routine questions that we ask of the nominees. And so before the committee proceeds to the business before us today on behalf of
Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t