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there's a great economics group. i work on energy subject, have been working a great deal on that and i've also been trying to reflect about my experiences and see if there is anything that can be learned from them. i wrote a book to try to do that. >> host: and that book is called "issues on my mind." what is the main issue on your mind today? >> guest: of the main issue is that the world that the united states had a great deal to do with constructing after world war ii, in fact we conducted a security and economic commons that served us and serve everybody well. that is being torn ...

that muslims, where muslims are enjoying western freedom that must be pulled back and they must be made to conform to a very very narrow authoritarian conservative interpretation of islam. the view that the west must be brought to heel for this vision, this interpretation of islam is also dominant and that is what i call islamism. there are people that say what you mean is islam and i understand what they mean. i use it for a particular reason because it's in order to allow for the fact that there are muslims who are not extreme who do want to sign up to western values and we must ac...

davis/bacon, but also concern about construction industry wage rates which were so high led to the white house conclusion that wage and price controls might work nationally. of course, they didn't. and shortly after wage and price controls were invoked, i was put on a committee with herb stein and jim lin to plan our exit of wage and price control. in the meantime, jim hodgson and other cabinet members seemed to spend -- and i occasionally replacing jim spent almost every day at the white house in cabinet-level meetings trying to ameliorate wage and price increases or come up with de...

the wine industry. >> it was truly bizarre. it was a nightmare. but one funny incident. the television networks came in to see me. i don't know why i was designated as the person to see on this, but the office of the legal counsel assistant attorney general, he had not yet been appointed to the supreme court, came in my office as well because the network ceos and their general counsels were asserting it was unconstitutional to impose price controls on the network. the first amendment protected their right to set prices. bill and i had a short conference in which we agreed that this w...

a separate body. the republicans supported that. democrats were opposed, and we ultimately compromised on that. also at issue of some controversy involved the development of the initial standards, and large industry had developed consensus standards. we provided in the legislation that the consensus standards would go into effect initially. it was probably now that i think back on it an example of a situation where large industry wants federal legislation that would reduce competition from smaller companies. since the consensus standards were agreed upon by large companies and impose...