Predetermined pass rather than any success in the senate. Would you agree with that opinion . In the success and not much for the election but it was part of the ad that he was going through the final rule. I do think the senate changed him and transformed him and i do think he developed expertise in areas he had not before and he did a kind of a deep dive on some complicated issues so it was like an advanced graduate school from kennedy and i think that he did use his senate years to learn more and he kind of form a political identity in which he presented himself as both a modern male politician, the young guest candidate but also someone who was very familiar with the American History and understood its traditions and was very steep in American History. So i think that he put together a very powerful political presence that was a force, but i think it does raise profound what are the kind of ironies about the political system seems to be that the times that you are most elected may not be the times that you are most ready to be president. Whether it was jfk or president obama or another four or six years in the senate might have done them good but i think they both realize, you know, clearly that additional time would not make them more politically viable, so they had to sort of decide this is my time. Kennedy often said i looker now that everyone else that this fighting and i am just as qualified as they are and so that was sort of his assessment. So, thank you. Thats fascinating can you order them on amazon . Anno salon. Com yes. My publisher is Paul Macmillian and you can purchase it from them. Thank you. [applause] thank you. You can you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. You are watching booktv. Atch. Next, Newt Gingrich argues thate we are at the dawn of the age on great breakthrough breakthroughn technology, medicine, transportation and other fields, ndt warns that this new age maya not be reached if we allow the a government and other gatekeepers to get in the way. This is about an hour and 10. Minutes. One thing i will give sandy, he knows how to have an entrance. Ve callista and i both want to wologize because we were on ane airplane which is going to land with plenty of time and they th learned this from the airplane wasnt going to leave. [laughter] w and i do want to say a brief commercial for American Airlines commercial for American Airlines. It was not fair airplane, but instead of flying direct from washington they have a plane through dallas and they went overboard to get us here, make the connections. We had a barely legal connection in dallas. They did everything they could to be helpful. Our luggage didnt make the connection so it is on the way here now. Then we had a few more complications. We apologize running late. For those of you in the reception, always enjoy having a chance to see and hope we can get a picture or Say Something out from later on. I dont think i realized it had been 12 times the we had been here. It is always meant a lot of me to come here. First president ial campaign i ever got involved in as a volunteer was the nixon lodge campaign in 1960 and for those who may sometimes despair of republicans in california i might point out in georgia in 1960 the number of people who were willing to publicly campaign for Richard Nixon or for any republican was a remarkably small number. We had no state legislative offices outside the mountains and the seats we had in the mountains were a function of the civil war. You can understand my whole career has been a series of climbing mountains and that was one of the longest political nights of my life, listening as the democrats stole texas and illinois, remarkably close election. I always come out here with a lot of different emotions. Talk about american exceptionalism, really intrigued i will talk a little bit about this is aimed at teaching 4 to 8yearolds about American History, something which we tragically find more young people are not learning in school, as they need help learning it. I will talk briefly about lincoln and the 150st anniversary, what may have been one of the most important speeches in American History and one of the most important speeches in American History, described a standard we should meet and talk about breakout which in some ways is the culmination of my 55 years going back to 1958. My dad was stationed in france, convinced me that somebody had to take responsibility from understanding what america had to do, and explain it to the American People to give you permission to do it and implement it if they gave you permission. It is a very important model and breakout is the most important book i have written because it says to adults and the children here is how we got to be an exceptional nation. I say to adults here is how we can continue to be an exceptional nation. If you do think it is important i hope you will use facebook and twitter and email addresses and what have you and try to spread the word. The more people telling each other, the better off they will be because the scale of this change i will describe can only come from the grass roots and never from sacramento, never from washington. It is impossible to ask bureaucrats and politicians and lobbyists to get together to voluntarily disarm and we wont do it. The only way to get change on that scale is to run over them by arousing the American People when they have no choice. And republican congressman fred upton had a terrific idea. [applause] we did a book and a movie about ronald reagan. A great line where reagan says his job was to shows light to the American People so it would turn up the heat on congress. At breakout is in that tradition, we get enough americans to decide this is the right direction with able get their political figures to follow. It is a function of figuring out where it is going and try to get in it. As opposed to reading it. Alice the elephant is a time traveling pachyderm who is not a republican pachyderm. He is a 4 to 8yearold universal pachyderm at costco saturday signing books and if you had seen these little kids, somebody who plays at us, seen those little kids running up to as you would understand exactly why she invented this character but her goal has been first, to talk about all of American History and then to talk about the colonial period andean Yankee Doodle dandy to talk about the American Revolution and is already beginning to work on a book for next year which will be called from sea to shining sea, helping lewis and clark go to the pacific. Her goal, this is by the way very hard, breakout is my 27th book, watching her right the yellow ceres, have to take facts, we want our history books to be factual, we have a very useful model. Take a set of facts, 4 to 8yearolds, when you have to describe them in rhyme cities easy for them to remember and with the help of her terrific artist, you have got to have the scene which explains what the rhyme is describing. Each of her page sections is the equivalent of one of my chapters. I didnt know this. It turned out to be really important but it is extraordinarily important that Young Americans learn why we are in fact an exceptional nation. [applause] it is interesting and very appropriate to talk about Yankee Doodle dandy for a second. The American Revolution, describing the declaration of independence and what makes tomorrows anniversary of lincolns speech so special is it is at gettysburg in a two minutes speech, lincoln really reunites the country with the declaration of independence. For most of our first hundred years or 80 years of history the constitution had been the dominant document, the document which framed our law and people looked at in terms of what does it mean to be an american and how to restructure this complex country . Lincoln comes along, and lincoln says the constitution defines the structure of who we are but the declaration of independence describes the spirit of who we are. It is important in the current presidency, and president obama did not go because theres almost nothing in his current pattern which would be worthy of being near abraham lincoln. [applause] i dont want to be partisan but i do think it is very important to look in context, lincoln was all about the rule of law. Somebody who had grown up very poor who had only had a yearandahalf of schooling, literally learned how to read by the light of a fireplace because his family couldnt afford candles and lincoln understood it is the rule of law which protect the weak. It is the rule of law which protects the average person. Without the rule of law it is the predators, the vicious and a powerful. So he saw what we were fighting over, as the very essence of freedom. Whether or not freedom would survive. Egos the war had gotten much longer, much bloodier, much more difficult than anybody expected. It was a 30 to 90 day war, people thought. And lincoln is having to explain to the north, why is it worth the struggle and pain . Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the war, three days, enormous number of casualties on both sides and lincoln is having to talk to be bland in virtually every village in america a family lost somebody. He is going to run for reelection. Nobody had been reelected since andrew jackson. Lincoln is going to run for reelection having failed to win the war. Go back and read the gettysburg address as a Campaign Document because he is having to reach out to people and say to them do not let your son or your cousin or your nephew have died in vain. Dont flinch, dont back off because this is central to the future of the human race. It is an important thing. This is what candidly made the stunning dishonesty of president obama about yes, you can keep your policy with which we now know he said at least 39 times on video tape commack least 39 times. You cant have a government of the people, lincoln is clever with this. Supposedly talking with Great Lincoln experts and i have written a novel on gettysburg, jackson got dressed up in an 1860s outfit, i was a congressman, the congressmans wife, appeared at one of the others as a housewife whose house has become a hospital, she says some hostile things to the soldiers about having brought these 4 dying guys into her home but spent a lot of time looking at gettysburg and being in gettysburg. You have to understand that lincoln apparently said government of the people, by the people, for the people and to him it meant the very heart of american exceptionalism. That we are endow by our creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is why if you cant have an honest debate and honest conversation you cant have an executive officer who you can believe in you begin to undermine the whole system. We were teetering right at the edge of a pattern of such an ending lawlessness, waving laws, waiving rules, picking winners and losers, fundamentally antithetical to the entire american experience. Every american tomorrow taking a minute to read the gettysburg address, and hopefully that will lead them to go back and read the preamble to the declaration of independence, to be reminded what does it mean to be an american, and it is in that context that i set out to write breakout because it struck me we are mired down in sacramento, frankly most of the city and county governments, most of our school boards, and washington d. C. We are mired down in such petty, destructive, negative politics, surrounded by campaigns of such an ending viciousness and dishonesty, the entire fabric of our system is at stake. We need to break out from this moment of American History. This is truly what makes this to me one of the most extraordinary periods in American History. Everywhere you go, there are hardworking, intelligent people who were pioneers of the future, inventing things in energy, inventing things in transportation, inventing things in learning, inventing things in going into space, inventing things in beam dramatically more effective, and you go around and say show me the most interesting things that are happening right here in california. A self driving car which covered over 600,000 miles given where we came down today i am not sure how many hours that took. [laughter] 600,000 miles it has been in one accident and was remanded by human him. Truck. 24 from a self driving trucks to a mine in Western Australia which is saving a Million Dollars a year kirkuk. Because it goes down into the mind, gets filled up, goes up, drops the material off, goes back down into the mind. The truck goes 24 7 minus maintenance and filling up with diesel fuel. Different world. The army is actually in oshkosh, wisconsin, working with the manufacture to design army trucks that would be self driving because then if you hit a roadside bomb you dont hurt anybody. One more effort to try to figur out how can we risk fewer americans on the battlefield. Peacings a but these things are coming down the road. Ough on energy, of course with a breakthrough in hydraulic fracturing and then placli horizontally, you take a place like north dakota which went from 800 Million Barrels of2 to reserves in 2002, to over 24 billion today, and rising. As north dakota has such a high goe unemployment rate, wages have gone up 50 in the last eight pa years. And mcdonalds now pays a bonus if youll sign up to work. Conservative answer to income and equality. We would like everybody to rise up. Were not in the business of tearing down. We should be in the business of helping every person rise up. And north dakota is a pretty good case study. If the federal government were actually encouraging it. We would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. We are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 well be the Largest Oil Producer in the world. Thats an enormous shift of power away from russia and the middle east. It increase our National Security. But creates hundreds of thousand of new jobs. It lowers the price of energy. Natural gas today is three times as expensive in china as in the United States. And that just affects all the manufacturing cost, you see also Ripple Effect are pretty remarkable. The system called Regenerative Medicine, which is almost like science fiction. Regenerative medicine when they take your cells and they grow a large number of them. And they then take 3d prints in the most recent version and they print out the organ you need. If you need a kidney, they can print out a heart. If you need a heart print out a heart. Doctor whose specialty is growing hearts. Youll see in a few years. Remember the young lay i did who had a hard time getting a Lung Transplant because she was too young. Ten years from now, if were smart. If we encourage this. Ten years from now there will be no waiting lines. Youll retransplant. You dont reject you. So the knelt effect its important. What it means is if you dont take any of the antirejection medicines. You increase the likelihood of success, eliminate waiting lists. Its a different world. Number one problem food and drug administration. Virtually every regenerative scientist i talk to almost certainly have to take their product to singapore, china, or europe because the fda is hopeless. If give use a sense what we talk about the pioneer of the future. Then we talk about Prison Guards of the past. And imagine the 1840s and we had government in the modern format. The stage coaches pass a law to say that railroad could not go faster than a horse. [laughter] because its an unfair competitive advantage. [laughter] you think im exaggerating. In the 1920s the newspaper got it illegal to have radio news. There was a brief period when you could not legally have radio news. Because we have people protect their own selfinterest. Very few people go out voluntarily and give their interest up for the greater good. I hear a constant tension of the pioneer of the future and the Prison Guards of the past. One of the areas is going to become the most fascinating is Online Learning. This is being streamed on youtube, for example, tonight. Well, one of my favorite examples is here in california. Again, when you talk about pioneer of the future. Just as henry ford was amazing and edison was amazing, the Wright Brothers were amazing. The people wandering around today were amazing. One is a guy named intan shan. Hes german but now an american. He wanted to come to an entrepreneurial, open society where he could do exciting things but he thought you couldnt it was too stuffy, too closed to new ideas. He started working on Artificial Intelligence at carnegie. He participated in the earliest experiments that building a selfdriving car as a project that Research Project agency set up a prize. They didnt go very far. They were in the mo vaf mohave cease earth. He moved to google. He decided he would teach a course on advanced computing. And he and the Vice President of research for google announced they were going to hold the future course at stanford and make it available online. They had 400 students in the classroom. They had 151,000 sign up. Drove the Stanford Administration crazy, was how do you regulate it . And how do you know they are getting a stanfordquality course. Why arent they paying tuition . [laughter] they had i dont know the exact number. I think it was 43,000 completed the course. On the final exam, the highestrated student in the course, in the stanford class, was number 441. That is 440 peo