Download the iphone or android app for program and Schedule Information and pod cast of past programs. How is that for a lit ration. Now its my pleasure to intro introduce our speaker, columnist, and writer. Jonathan alter. A writer and a contributor to the bloomberg. Author of the new book well talk about the center holds obama and his enemies. As i hes an analyst and contributing correspondent. Youve seen him on nbc and msnbc. He worked for almost thirty years writing more than fifty cover story. Me wrote for the New York Times, the wall street, vanity fair, and the new republican. Hes the author of other books fkd he is a, in my judgment, probably one of the preimminent experts in this country on president obama. We are pleased and honored to have him here tonight to speak about his new book. Our thanks to Jonathan Alter for joining us. [applause] the floor is yours for twenty five to thirty five minutes. Great. Thank you very much, joe. Thank you to everybody for coming. This feels
At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to "the telephone is just a toy." (There is a story, probably apocryphal, that in 1876, the President of Western Union, William Orton, dismissed phones as a “toy” when Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell him the patent for $100,000).
At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to the telephone is just a toy.