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You have this innovation creativity. So i looks into what happens, what sparks, whats the catalyst. So its not only athens, its not only Silicon Valley but different places across dispeople different cities and different continents and that is interesting to me. You focus on reading history books or any other interests when you read . I love history. I love also selfimprovement. Im also i have to say im a scifi fan. So im reading the princess of mars, many years ago, to, of course, not only reading the book but also ive southeastern all the prisons of marz, turned into a movie, john carter, and then star trek and other science fix. So thats my readings but im always i love history. I know that in in high school and back in even in college, my classmates didnt like history but to me its important because if you look out it, the wheel has been reinvented. Its all matter of rearranging things. If you look at discoveries and things, its all a matter of rearranging things. Look at history, theres a lot of ideas that you can look now, create a new niche, come up with a new idea and therefore you spark a new innovation or creativity, whatever the area might be. And finally, congressman, what some tools you could so you can add reading into your schedule . I love the ipad. Theres just an app so i always look at what is out there. One of them is called blake list, an app that will give you smears books and you can either take the option of reading or do it by audio, and then if you are interested in looking at the whole book, then you buy the whole the book itself. But it will give you snapshot and at the very end give you the key message, the takeaway from the book. The other is you get an email every day and it has Different Things from humanities to music to science, whatever the area might be in. So every day give you something in one of those areas. So those are the ways you got to keep your mind active, and especially like somebody like myself, where i have to go from Foreign Affairs to appropriations to name the issues, and then we you get on the airplane from laredo to houston, from hewitt houston to washington you spained lot of time on the planes and you use the app to keep your mind active but at the same time youre constantly learning. Book tv wants to know what youre reading. Send us your Summer Reading list via twit twitter, instagram, or post it to our facebook page. Heres a look at the bestselling nonfix books according to amazon some authors have or will we appearing on booktv. As jack said, to me, enemy blue, jimmy carter was arguably the most intelligent president of the 20th century. Katherine graham said so, tip opeel oneill said he was the most intelligent president. Jack said he could consume amazing quantitieses of information and assimilate them and use them. But i was having a conversation with Brent Scowcroft at one point, bush 41st Amazing National security adviser, and he said, you know, zbig and i were talking one day and the said, love this guy. Can give him a 50page enemy know in the afternoon and i get it back the nest e next morning with notes in the margin on every page and scowcroft told him, thats the worst thing you can do. Hi doesnt have time for that. Jimmy carter issue think, got bogged down in the minutiae. In fairness, as stew will give you chapter and verse and im a jack could, too on all the legislation that was passed early in the carter more legislation than any president since lbj, but he couldnt prioritize. You need a chief of staff to prioritize, to make sure that the narrative is consistent, make sure that everybody is on the same page. None of that is happening clearly in the present day, but he suffered from not having a white house chief from day one, and in my opinion, jack would have been a great one. Well, one of thing, when you start your book you talk about what seems like just most logical kind of meeting in advance of an administration taking office, and that is bringing former chiefs of staff together and in this case it was to mcdaniel. Yeah to bring him up to speed and had most of the chiefs another staff there to give him advice. Jack, what was it like . Thats funny. December 5, 2008. Dem 5, 2008, josh bolton, who was the president s chief of staff, outgoing president s chief of staff, george w. , had gathered this group and there were 13 or 14 of us there, think, sat around the table in the chief of staffs office, having breakfast and talking. Rahm was sitting knowns me at the meeting, and next to me at the meeting and we went around the table, and each one of us made a brief, very brief statement of some little piece of advice we thought was helpful or that would give some guidance, some of it humorous, a lot of it human, humorous. When it got around to dick cheney he was the Vice President , youll remember and for and a hell of a chief of staff. Did the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives. He is interviewed by jennifer, Law School Professor and Law School Professor and author of other peoples houses. Host it is my great pleasure to be here today with jesse the pulitzer prizewinning reporter to talk about the book that came out this week, the