The nominee on the other side ends up being donald trump, i think the potential is that he ends up making that case for her. And that certainly has been if you look at the polls in recent, like, the last sort of swing states, the last five states that voted last week, she won all five in a surprise sweep that even her own campaign wasnt expecting, and a lot of that was based off women moving much more towards hillary and away from the republican primaries, frankly. But, i dont know, well have to see if she can actually make that case. It hasnt been made yet. But i think the bottom line too is if you are willing to go for the jet ski, how are you going to pay for it in and theres nothing that, you know, outlines things from an Economic Policy standpoint that connect all those dots in bernies case. What about the macro, second part of the question, does the millennial expectation of equality have implications for the larger push for women, are they going to be giving up more than the older generation . Thats another interesting question. So they, this generation is actually frighteningly, doesnt run for office. They dont vote, they tend to vote less, they definitely do not get involved in running for office. They are a very civicminded generation, and that is a hallmark of my generation, but they dont get involved in Public Policies and Public Policy making, so theyll do a lot of nonprofit stuff, theyll do a lot of working for Green Companies or working for things like that, but they dont they really disdain washington. They disdain office. And i think thats a real problem for the gains that women have gotten in washington. Because if you dont have a next generation to leave that to, then you really will see, you know, those gains retreat. They are much stronger, frankly, in the private sector, the Millennial Women, than they are in the public sector. So practice they might represent on a macro level, although it remains to be seen, more gains in that sector. I think, certainly, they are much more vocal, much more up and coming. When you look at silicon valley, for example, hollywood, for example, taylor swift standing up at the grammys says i want my recognition or Jennifer Lawrence saying i want equal pay. There are women in those sectors finding their voices that are very powerful. But it is striking that there are so very few Millennial Women in public life. Or millennials in general. Thats true. And i think millennials in general, especially college students, have been anathema to go and vote. I think theres this fundamental shift right now look at all the ones that are actually interested, which i think is really encouraging. But i say, you know, stay involved. Stay tuned. Volunteer on campaigns, because if you get that bug especially early on in a campaign, youre going to be hooked. And you really can make a difference. I think any other questions, or should we call it a night . Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed being with all of you with. She is a great friend. Thank you so much, kay, for coming tonight. Yes. It was so great to have your insight. Thank you. [applause] and thank you, nyu. [applause] Michael Witmore, what is the Folger Shakespeare library . It was created in 1932 by Henry Clay Folger and his wife, emily jordan folger. They had a big idea, which was the original sources for shakespeare in his world would be a value to everyone in perpetuity, so they collected those materials, and they put them here, two blocks east of the u. S. Capitol, as a gift to the nation. Host why washington, d. C. . Guest well, they felt it was an international city, its our capital and that this was really a truly national and international asset. So in addition to putting this marvelous collection here, they created this remarkable building which has the First North American tudor theater, it has the beautiful great hall that a were in which is modeled on hampton court, and then another beautiful, almost medieval reading room. Host who were the folgers . Guest mr. Folger was president of standard oil, and he made his fortune as an oilman. He then, while he was running standard oil, very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world, bar none. Including 82 copies of the 1623 first foal e owe. Host okay. Were going to hear that term throughout this tour, first folio. Guest yes. Host what was that . Guest so its a collection of 36 shakespeare plays that were published by two of shakespeares friends who knew him. Without that book, which was published in 1623, we probably wouldnt have 18 of shakespeares plays including mcbeth and Twelfth Night and the winters tale. Its probably the most studied single edition of a book in the world. And its also a great connection to shakespeare, this writer that is still used by scholars today to understand his writings. Host so that was put together certain years after his death. Guest exactly right. Host and how many of those exist . How many were printed, how many exist in the world today . Guest there were probably 70 copies of the first folio printed, and there are 233 known copies of this book. One just with turned up last year in france. But the folger has 82 in its collection. Thats by far the largest number in any one place. And the folgers collected the book because they knew that every copy is different. The printers corrected this book as it was printed, and then when they put the books together, they just took from this pile and that pile. So mr. And mrs. Folger knew that if we wanted to get at the best version of shakespeares plays in this book, wed have to compare them. Host Michael Witmore here at the folger, are the items that you have displayed, are they open to the public . Guest yes, they are. Host such as the first folio . Guest anyone can come and see a first folio at the folger. We are free, and we are open to the public on holidays, but we were created in order to share this remarkable collection. And so thats what we do. Host and so do people come . How many people do you have come a year here . Guest so we have about 80,000 people come a year. And when you come here, you can see a first folio in the corner of our great hall. You can also see one of our exhibitions, you can see a shakespeare play performed in the first elizabethan theater in north america, and you can come into our reading rooms and request item withs from the hundreds of thousands items from the hundreds of thousands of items that we have in our rare collection downstairs. Host is the reading room restricted to scholars . Guest its restricted to people who have a good reason to use the collection. So often thats scholars. But if youre not a professional scholar and you need to consult manager for a book youre writing something for a book youre writing, we would open our materials to you. Host is the folger czechs online . Guest collection online . Guest about 60,000 items, we would call them page openings from the collection, are online in these beautiful, high quality digital images. So one of our missions is to open that collection to people who want to visit us virtually. Were also starting a project to make searchable about 130,000 pages of our manuscript collection. So manuscript is handwritten material. Its hard to decipher, and were inviting others to join in a crowdsourcing initiative to look at some of those pages online, and then we will teach you thousand to decipher the writing. Youll decipher it, and then youre going to add to our collection. Host Michael Witmore, was William Shakespeare well known . First of all, when did he live, when did he die, and was he well known . Guest he was born in the mid 16th century, and he died in 1616. Thats why this year were celebrating the 400th anniversary of his death. He was well known. There are hundreds of references to shakespeare that occurred during his lifetime. And one of the things weve done this year is to gather the documents that really connect us to shakespeare, the man, the talk of people about shakespeare whether its in print or whether its gossip that theyve noted on a piece of paper. We wanted to get that all in one place. And so this year our show, called life of an icon, is our attempt to bring that together so that people really can see what an impact this writer had on the people around him. Host well, we are in the display hall right now guest we are. Host whats the architecture of this hall, and then lets walk through the display. Guest what youre looking at is tudor great hall. Its the kind of room put in a large family estate. Its actually something you would use for exercise, thats why its long. Usually windows would be open to a garden, and you would put your painting collection in this room. That was actually what this room was designed to look like. But after 1932 we realized that full daylight is not good for rare materials. And so we decided to limit the amount of light in this space. And so its different from what you would see in england, but its still grand. Youve got this very high ceiling, its a city block length. Its also got tudors trapwork on the plaster above. So its a real host would William Shakespeare have been comfortable in this room, or would it have been familiar to him . Guest yes, he would. He would have known exactly what kind of room this is. And one thing were learning about him, he did purchase a home in stratford called new place which is quite a fancy, quite a fancy pile in his hometown. And one of the things the archaeologists suspect that he did was knock down some of the bedrooms so that he could create a long gallery or a great hall. And he must have liked rooms like this. It was either he who did it or it was a member of his family. But he would have recognized this kind of room. Host well, lets look at some of the display items you have here. Guest sure. Host what have you got . Guest were going to walk over first, i just mentioned new place which was this grand house in stratford. Shakespeare actually needed to do something that we would call today i think a title search, which is to make sure that he had clear title to this property that he bought with the earnings he had from his theater career. And so were going to go over here. These are two halves of something that is called an indenture. And when this document was executed, the two sides of the deal or agreement looked at either side which has the identical terms on each side. One is realize out aloud, and the others checked to make sure that the terms of the deal are identical. And then the indenture is cut with a wavy line so that if theres ever a dispute, you say show me the other side of this, and well check it. But it was a fascinating early modern antifraud device that was used when shakespeare decided to check whether he had clear title to this property. And here is a third piece that was these two were kept by shakespeare and the other party in the agreement. Shakespeare would have held one of these pieces of vellum in his hands. He would have kept it in his home with all of his other important host basically a title to the house, in a sense. Guest an important document. And this is one of the things that he saved. Host did he sign it . Guest he didnt sign this because he didnt need to. The scribes had to create this other counterfoil which is probably in 400 years has probably in 400 years never been next to the original piece of vellum that it was a part of. This came over to us from london, and were bringing these pieces together for the first time. And its a nice symbol for what this exhibition is, because never have so many documents directly connected to shakespeare ever been in one place. And this is in centuries. And i doubt they will ever be gathered together again. So the ability to bring together a kind of congregation or fellowship of documents is this remarkable moment of connection with this writer. And thats why we really want to share it, because its so precious to have this ability to show them. The other thing i would say is weve chosen to create online resource with the assistance and permission of our partners, almost 30 other institutions, so that we can show 400 of these documents in high quality digital images, and weve actually transcribed them so that you can search them. Its called shakespeare documented, and i think it will be the first and most important stop for people trying to understand shakespeares biography. Weve made this freely available with the help of our partners, and thats going to be one of the surviving kind of legacies of this particular initiative. Host what do some of your british partners think about the fact that the Folger Shakespeare library in washington, d. C. Has the largest shakespeare collection in the world . Guest well, i think its a mixture of feeling because this is their writer, but shakespeare is probably one of the most important if not the most important cultural export from great britain. Shakespeare is a global phenomenon. There are more films made about shakespeare in india than there are in the United States and britain combined. So the ability to make the connection with the United States and to its a way of embodying this ongoing relationship between the two countries turns out to be important. So we do have regularly diplomatic gatherings here at the folger; the British Ambassador is often here, the ambassadors spouse customarity learns on our serves on our board. But its important because it shows this ongoing cultural connection. The other thing i would say is that americans really discovered shakespeare in the 18th and 19th centuries and made this writer their own. He was like someone you could turn to when you were in uncertain times. Youre trying to think about your aspirations or these tough decisions that americans were making after the civil war or during civil rights. And theres something about this writer, the way he tells stories, the way his characters are so vivid, the powerful language that meant that americans felt like they could just grab that and and use it themselves. And i think of shakespeare as the kind of uncle that we turn to when we need to have a conversation that we cant have with family, with our closest family. Theres something good about the fact that shakespeare budget an american. He never came to this country. And that gives us a lot more latitude when we want to say i think this reminds me of macbeth or when we watch, say, the house of cards, and we think, oh, thats macbeth, lady macbeth married to richard iii. Or when a member of Congress Like senator byrd used to do will quote shakespeare on the floor of the senate. Host who was king or queen during shakespeares life, and did that influence his writing . Guest shakespeare was a alive during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the reign of king james i. And when those reigns kind of when the succession happened, a scottish king came. He used to be james vi, and shakespeare had to change his theatrical practice. Now there was a different monarch on the throne, and he needed to flatter that monarch. For example, in the play macbeth theres a procession of kings, and when james watched that performance and we believe he did he would have been seeing his own ancestors in this play, and they would have reflected well on him. So shakespeare was really aware of his political audience. And thats interesting because we live in washington, and washington is a political city which you know so well. Shakespeare was careful as a writer. He didnt want to offend his noble patrons or the monarch, but he also was such a good storyteller that he could get himself into territory that might have been uncomfortable for someone who was directly addressing the king or the queen. Theres some things you just cant say to a monarch. But shakespeare wrote a play called richard ii about a monarch who has to give over his crown to someone who has forced him to be deposed. Now, talk about a controversial idea. You couldnt suggest that about a sitting monarch, but you could show it in a play. And so shakespeare had a way of getting into that tricky territory by using storytelling and theater. Host what else do you want to show us here in the exhibit . Guest ing let me show you host by the way, its open to the public until march 27th. Now, this may air after march 27th, but if people wanted to come and see this after march 27th guest well, thats why we created shakespeare documented because that is an even more comprehensive record of this exhibition. There are 50 very rare documents in this exhibition physically, but there are 4 to 00 items on shakespeare documented, so if you go to shakespearedocumented. Org, youll be able to see all of this material. Host great. Guest let me show you another item which i think is very interesting. Over here were going to have to watch out for the light here. This is a page of what many believe to be shakespeares handwriting. Its called the sir thomas moore manuscript. Its written in something called secretary hand which is a particular type of scribal handwriting that shakespeare knew. Its also difficult to decipher if you havent had experience looking at that type of writing. Its part of a play called sir thomas moore that we think shakespeare wrote because of style, and there have been computer tests to ask how much does this particular style resemble shakespeare or other candidates. But whats remarkable about it is it is a beautiful passage about refugees. And its so timely. As you think about the e. U. Struggling to accommodate all of these people who put their lives and their children on the seas in the hopes of fleeing a very dangerous place. The speech from sir thomas moore asks the question why would you put your family at risk and bet on the seas . When it turns out that staying on land might even be more dangerous. So weve got this marvelous, really powerful passage that was written by shakespeare on a piece of vellum that is possibly written in his own hand. It is one of the most valuable documents in the world. And were very lucky to have this document here in the United States. It has never traveled out of the u. K. , and its here until the end of march. Host and now you say this document may have been written. Guest right. Host by William Shakespeare himself. Guest yeah. Host why dont you know . Does his writing exist anywhere . Guest thats a really good question. We have confidence that we have six signatures of shakespeare. Host in the world. Guest in the world. Host not at