Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is partisan in washington by dont think it is so much among
he asked a very good question, sort of earlier, i don t know if you want if you would ask the same question or something else before you head out, that would be great. may be two quick questions. secretary lute, how long have you been to the agency? four years. having been there now and understand the complexity of the 22 different agencies, again this is all hindsight, monday morning quarterbacking, are there any of those agencies you think might ve been restructured better someplace else? maybe shouldn t be part of the department? is there any restructuring, just in hindsight, or do you think things are pretty well comprised here? thank you, senator. i ve been running organizations for a long time. i don t have too many organizational theologies. you can always do things generally to make improvements. if you ask any of the 20 to agencies, the legacies or the offices that have come together, can they find the
come out and don t intend to come out. professor gould, are you a follower a fan of tr s? very much so. i think with a certain loving perspective i would like to have, i think sometimes people go overboard with different aspects of his life. so i tried in this little book, it s very short, a hundred passionate under 100 pages. the point is to give you the gist of the president in an action rather than have to spend the entire summer at the beach reading a story, three volumes or 800 pages or something like that. in your theodore roosevelt book, he seems to enjoy and promote publicity about himself. one of the things about roosevelt, if anybody had charisma, roosevelt had. route also said rosa was only evident that when he walked into the room, he came the center of attention no matter who else was there. that quality, that star quality that brazil had impressed me from the beginning. and i begin to see him as the first presidential celebrity and the first post presi