History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. God day i am a Andrea Mitchell from nsnbc and welcome is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 20th anniversary of a National Book festival present by library of congress. And we are thrilled to have today our office David Rubenstein who has produced author a new book and new book is how to lead. And it is an extraordinary combination of conversations on leadership and the qualities that make people believers especially these very special people. These unique individuals that david has assembled in his book. David rubenstein, welcome youre a lawyer. Youre former white house founder of the World Largest private equity firm youre a history buff restored Washington Monument you saved of the National Zoo Pandas brought magna carta and having saying nothing of a Television Show in bloomberg, and on pbs how do you do it all tell us about your leadership. Well, i didnt feel i was as good a leader as people i interviewed so in the book i tal
When it gets way more advanced when we have more of a mash 5 g. Network around the world that could basically secure you know and produce deeper realities and i think the point being that youre making there is that you had that sense of intimacy that you have a physical space you had in a Digital Space so i guess thats was the unexpected and that. Kind of like youre thinking now that the you could see this really taking off and this whole sense of fear kind of disappears because i was in the middle of a conversation with the nurse who actually and my avatar took off and just started flying away and it went over the virtual ocean and at 1st i was like i was scared i was like wow like what if i drop from here in like a way over the ocean and it was kind of scary and i was like oh no and i was trying to hold on well like you know to what and then i just relax and its like well i wonder where im going to end up and i did go through the edge of a. This virtual universe and then like weird d
Affordable housing for a living minimum wage give many people no choice you know theres been a problem with the city knows turn every turn and call the state will always. Be different. Because you have the required resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible clerks. Oh hi im max keiser this is the kaiser report well lets talk about tea and crumpets and scones and London Bridge and the crowd. Stacy well max we are going to get into some details about the queen and compare her and the whole royal system to wall street the 1st i want to say you know anybody could essentially now live with the view say of London Bridge or tower bridge or you know right along the thames or see the Buckingham Palace or live in Buckingham Palace because theres Virtual Reality now last episode we spoke to bryan rama only about that this episode were going to continue some of that conversation but one thing i want to say is we spent this past weekend in Virtual Reality at t
Their children and for their families and for their nation itself. No one could make that choice for them. They had to that themselves. Today, the world sees they are choosing cooperation over conflict, friendship over enmity, prosperity over poverty, hope over despair. They are choosing a future in which arabs and israelis, muslims, jews, christians can live together, pray together, and dream together sidebyside in harmony, community in peace. Me congratulate the people of israel, the people of the United Arab Emirates, and the people of the kingdom of bahrain. God bless you all. This is an incredible day for the world. This is a wonderful and beautiful occasion. I want to thank all of the members of congress for being congressmen,s, congresswomen, we appreciate it so much. Everybody wanted to be here. Important day for the world, important day for peace. Before the parties signed the accord, i want to ask Prime Minister netanyahu to say a few words, followed by the foreign minister o
This. That was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three residential debates in 1992 talking about the u. S. Debt. The alexion biz the taxes businessmen won 19 of the vote. He ran a second independent president ial campaign in 1986. Tonight, he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series as a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in their quest for the white house but had an impact on American History. Ross perot is our final 14 people we are profiling. Tonight, joining us for our discussion is historian and biographer Doug Brinkley. As a person who has done a number of powder fees on 20thcentury political figures, what interest you about ross perot . He has a pioneer spirit in him. He harkens back to the 19th century. He is not politics as usual. He cares about the country. Patriotism has become a cheap word. Ross perot is a super patriot. He is less interested in money and polit