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welcome former president bill clinton and senator cory booker. ♪ ♪ >> well, hello. i want to jump in, this is enact rah ordinary read, you were i thought vulnerable in it you opened your heart up and your spirit. and there is a lot of things that i think are really hit me hard and if you don't mind,mi i want to start with just reminding you the first time you and i had a conversation. it was 2006.

i just had been elected not sworn in as mayor of city of newark. someone said do you want to meet bill clinton, i said hell yeah. and so i -- >> you came too see me. >> i thought it was a formal thing, you would tell tall tales about your stories and experiences, you greeted me at the door, brought me in, sat me down, you had a mission, i came to me, i did an imitation of him. i try -- should i try it. >> you said to me, corey, i need to tell you something. you said, i want to talk to but earned income tax credit. you spent a half hour, talking to me about earned income tax credit, you said

it was. greatest thing that i did to fight poverty, and most cities are leaving millions none collected eitcmoney, i went back to my staff, i said we're one of the lowest income cities in america, former president told me about earned income tax credit, they leaned in to say, what we set up free tack centers in our city that brought millions back that was going uncollected. i didn't', you told me people could go back 3 years, and cloak -- collect theirir money, people would get $10 those, we started uped financial empowerment centers in newark people could realize they could be a down payment on a home it was most transformative advice i have ever gotten in politics and i want to say thank you. >> thank you. >> you know, the one thing that i wanted was to make it

self acuating but the republicans didn't like it the only tax cut they didn't like. and i loved it, because you couldn't get it unless you were working. you had to have a modest income. and so i discovered after i left office that we had 1 60 thousand people in new york city alone that issue eligible for the tax credit and were not getting it we started to work on that. in 2019, there were two articles in "new york times" analyzing the rapid drop in child poverty. since 1993. and said that -- guy said, one-third of it came from the ironed income tax credit. on first cut, we kept raising and doing things.

andu you did that, but, i was also trying to make the point that a lot of people tried and failed at doing various things. in your city. and then i thought everything knew you were smart. good looking, young. but if you proved you could do something, that it would fetch -- >> putting money in people's helping them keep their pay, i feel like that is one of the exciting thins about the book for me, that shows what i think is your super power. when you your post presidency, people have a vision of what they want to do in the world. you seem to have an ability to connect dots that i have never seen before in my life. and i want you to talk about that a little bit. because, you say it is

powerful, if you don't mind, that you have this understanding that drives your life. between two different stories of humanity. since the beginning of time two developop stories. one is us versus them. and the other is just us. and you spend a lot of time throughout the book talking about connecting people. creating community. letting people inform you, listening enough, that know what their needs are, if i could read this to you, you said you formed -- i asked myself, and view life through a simple screen. will this or that action increase the positives and decrease the negative forces of our interdependence or reverse, once i could answer that i could determine what i was

for and what i was against, you go on, you say this this speeches, the first speech i heard it blew plea away, you quote eo wilson, in argues, that since fall of dinosaur 66 million years ago, our planets most durable species are ants, termites, bees and people. because they proved to be the best at adapting the change circumstances, but also by developing life changing enhancing habits of cooperation. humans have been the best because we have a conscience and consciousness, seems that you are pushing in a time they were sheering forces dividing us, your post presidency is about trying to get people to wake up

that we belong to each other and need each other. >> i agree, that is what i believe. i think we may get away with some of this the game playing we're doing now. managing that all that matters are the differences. but if we keep on doing it, it will be our undoing. look at united states. i spend 3 billion dollars of your tax money to finish the sequentsing of the human genome. and so, what difference does it make? well we knew it had the capacity to if we could, really understand the differences in our biological make-ups, solve a lot of while problems that -- health problems that we've been deal work to me the most important political

results of sequencing the human genome is the fact that if you look at this crowd, every non-age related different you cann see, can longed in one half of 1% of our genome. now since there is you know, over 2 1/2 billion genomes in everyone's body, i think over 3 billion, that is a big number, but it is a half of a percent. and almost all of suspended our time focused on that half percent. and i don't mean just po polarize politics, but you walk by and see a picture of yourself reflected in a store mirror. you think, if i had lebron james' body, i would have gone in a different line of

work. so, we all do that. in different ways. but it is close way to run a railroad, we should spend some time thinking about 99 1/2% we havehe in common, and understand that our differences are really important. they make all kinds of progress possible. and they make life more colorful and interesting. but only if they are embedded in our common humanity. and this is where people get in trouble because we're so arrogant sometime, in our intelligent, we think we're smartsm enough to cut the corners, we can get the benefits of our common humanity while emphasizing on our differences, sooner or later is will slap us in the face, hard.

so, that is how i analyze this stuff. you asked me what is your position onyo x, i'll try to run the probabilities on the factors in my mind and tell you what i'm for and against, but in the end, decrease the number of thoughts -- us and shrink the number of them or the other way. >> i would say, please applaud that. you know. you forget we come from more than a evangelical response, you can say amen. >> amen. >> and also obama of great, this might bes first black president right here. [ laughter ]

>> you know. when my son said that, -- >> if tony morrison said it, it is true. >> you know, it was about -- only half way serious and half way making fun of me, the way i talk. but, i took it as a great compliment. one that i owe to my ancestors, i grew up in a working class family, where my grandfather owned a country store and his customers were black. just about. he loved them, they loved him. and they couldn't afford food, there was no medicaid

or food stamps if they were working or looking ar a job, he told them to take whatever they needed. anyone was willing to work toch feed their children, he wrote it in a book, he said if you can come back and pay me some i day, you can do it. [applause] that -- amazing, we were talking about this he read a story of my stopping on the way in to a town in ohio, that had one of these famous barber shops like you have seen on the barber shop shows on tv, what goes on. >> anyway, i was going down to visit one. and on the way in to town thereon was this black minister standing on the side of the road in a nice suit, a big reddish vest

and a cross with big redstones, i said to the guy on the campaign us about bus, i said stop, i need to say hi to this guy, i had a filing, i shook hands he said, i'll safe you time, he said i'm for hillary. he said, i was for you. and i was for you in 2008, you ran against then senator obama because he said, i am the proud grandson of luther black of hope, arkansas, he told me a story about his grand father, being in the store one day, and my grandfather looking at him, and long looking at food he said luther you need to feed

your e kids and you don't have money, he said no, i work every week, and down get paid every week. and so he told him to take the food for his family and sign forai it my grandfather said he didn't just do that for me but for everyone. and he didn't have much more money than he did, did you he -- he had the food, he said, you have tof be for governor clinton if he is just half the man his grand father was, he will be a great president. that stayed with me. my whole life. andre so there i was, hillary was getting this guy's vote. 66 years after her then

4-year-old husband was sitting with his grandfather in his country store feeding this man's grand father. and we can't forget that. you cannot give up on people. you know, if you scratch anyone long enough there person down. and we overlooked the impact of things like that have. you had another one or two. >> i mean, i had a well laid plan to go through this y'all. and heis is jumping all over the place. so. i -- if you -- we were walking in, i was moved by that story in the book. it was not only example of you showing that no matter what is going on the world, forces you can't control, but one thing that you can control to be good to others. and you have story of story of story, that is county

store, a white man and a black man reaches across divide at the time but showing human dessens. >> you say in last few days we had begun a friendship to become one of the greatest blessings of my life. according to his biographer, the barriers between us beganid to break one night on a plane, you urged former president bush to sleep in the plane's only bed, at the time you didn't note it was an act of kindness, i thought it was no big deal, he was older. and he slept more. i used air mattress. and i slept on the floor. the friendship was -- that was easier for me. and you said, i liked him. you go on to talk about humanut decency between the

two of you, and my life, another great book, i had become a real fan of his in 1983 he hosted governors at kennebunkport, i introduced him to 3-year-old daughter chelsea said where tooo the bathroom, he took her by the hand and led her there. -- first after horrific tsunami, swept through asia during christmas holidays. and then another time, you two responded together to deal with another grievance storm within our own land. this seed of kindness between the two of you

across political parties, you were challenges remember you were in a tough race, you found a way to start withan human decency and build from there. >> -- [applause] >> it's a good story, it is true. but i always liked george h.w. bush. i later became friends with his son, of that a harder him to climb. because he -- because i disagreed with him on several times. and he welcome back to trickle down economics. and he was the mad at me because, i beat his dad.

so, i wonderful relationship with george h.w. bush we did things that i wrote about at ledge in the book about fighting to help people start their lives again after the tsunami, his son. asked us to head an american effort there, u.n. asked me to stay on as coordinate or for tsunami relief. i did it then we did can the same thing av katrina. and we had an amazing time and we worked together hand in glove. and it was very important because even in the united states if a natural disaster is big enough, there will be needs, that will not be

filled by the existing government relief programs. that was important. and then my friendship with george w.us bush things that brought his father and me together and his mother. i just loved her. she would lock at you with these steely eyes, i got your number, boy. but i like you anyway. so we had a good relationship, then, when haiti was struck by an earthquake in 2010, president biden asked me and george w. bush to try to help haiti. and i had that working thereby then already for a

year, again on an know voy, an envoy, we got together and raised this money and decide we could best help the small businesses reconstitute themselves because they were wiped out, we did a really good job of it. i think. then, later i was able to raise almost 500 million for just on my own, for the initiative in addition too money that americans had given. by the billions. if you forget about whatever we were fighting about and you agree onut the same goal, then it is amazing how often you come to consensus.

>> youse say that, and you -- i don't want to trivialize the numbers, put them in detail here whether the tsunami in asia or haiti, or whether it katrina. you teaming up with the other presidents and clinton global foundation, billions of dollars, you went to the sites andpl met people had deep connecttions, i love story in sri lanka, that is stunning to me, the mother comes up to you says, would you please name my child. >> well, they brought her this mother, brought the youngest child in the village there. after the earthquake. after the tsunami.

and said, you know, we want you to name this child, i said, do you have a name that means new beginning. and young woman who was my interpreter said lucky for you in our language dawn, is a boy'sn name not a girl a name. it was a young boy. and we will name this boy dawn, he will symbolize our new beginning. later -- a decade later, i went back to the same spot, i met the boy. he was there with his family. and he didn't have a clue. he was a day old when

i met him, i was just another gray haired old white guy. i thought it was the great, that is the way it ought to be, what you dealing with a disaster like, that you want to put people a lives back together, and let them get on with it and live it. and not live in the -- something that happened. they can never remember. and indicted to escape. >> it was a marvel too me, live that you detailed the stories. i knew that pep far is credited one of great achievement of american president. george w. bush one of his great legacies, his biographyer tills great stories, one of my favorite stories in book were

doing work on dealing with aids virus through your foundation, because you didn't do what temptationol is for a lot of us in political arena to demonize the opposition, so badly you can't have a conversation with them. and people often ask how do you deal with ted cruz or lindsey graham, i say have gotten some of my best things done in congress with people on thatside side of the aisle because i keep the door open toward shared humanity. george w. bush and you talk about building trust, he of the president, w and i would talk once or twice a year, when a he had time to call. he was busier than i was, and when i needed to run something by whited house, i worked with the staff. today, when we do speeches together he remarks thing that bottom trust in our

relationship and i -- that built trust in our relationship is that never leaked our conversations, you talk about that rain, sets up your ability to make his legacy to take it to a whole 94 well -- another level, he was firmly rooted we should not use these drugs that are not the name-brand expensive ones, you tried to convince him to use alternatives that would drive down the cost and help more people. can you talk about that. >> the first, you may remember this, president bush had a brilliant slogan when we ran for president against the al gore in 2000. he said he would be a compassionate conservative. and it was really

effective, like the unspoken message to swing voters, was i will give you everything clinton did with a smaller government and a bigger tax cut, wouldn't you like that? that was real -- the political message. and then beneath it he had specifics which were -- he knew there is one thing he wanted to do, that would lay claim to, that do more than the democrats had been able to pass for with a republican congress. to help the over the age crisis. and people were dying like flies. i was thrilled when we pass that program. called president's merge plan forem agency relief -- aids relief, he got more

money than i could get was 600 thousand dollars a year. so, program that was -- people were dying by the millions. because the republicans found it easy to vote for him. andis congress -- and i didn't care, i just wanted people to live. by then, i was out trying to raise money. pope john paul, and president -- asked if i would like to join his father and other members of the administration and official funeral delegation, i was too happy to do, i met several times with the point pope

and i really liked him, it is interesting w met with him 3 times, he would disagree with me on women'se reproductive rights and disagree with bush on the iraq war and talk about things we could work together ohe was a very impressive man. we went to his funeral. on the way back, the president sent for me, said let's talk about your aids program, what did you do how did you get the people. i said, i convinced the people involved, who are donating money to let me try to establish a grocery store

model. low profit m margins and you make the money on huge volumes it was me -- like a jewelry store. model. if you run a jewelry store, you have to get people a lot of a choices, and watches and engagement rings and stuff like that. you have to carry a heavy inventory, then you have to know that the sales are not all 100%, because, someone is likely to break off the engagement and bring the the -- ring back, that is what we were dealing with, they don't know if sales were predictable, i let's make a grocery store model work, i got 5 country to give my a hundred million over 5 years, and with drug sales sell us

generic drugs at less and less of money, at 500 a person a year, what generics cost made in india, that of too much for the poor countries. their annual income wasn't even 500 a year. we cut the price, to 169 to 160 to 139. all way down to 90 dollars. a person a year. and alwayss making money. because we' always helping them improveve their product productions and paid them promptly. and increased their volume, i told this to bush, my guys said they not add good, big drug companies that supported him overall

gore, they didn't like gore or me pause we tried to use generic s drugs, i told him, i know they said that, first of all there if you ask for more help, how effective are the generic drugs, they are 60%. as our drugs. i remember first time one of those guys made this argument to my. >> -- your drugs are still 10 or 15 times more expensive. if you save more lives, you. we'll still buy generics that made him mad. i didn't think talking about math would make anyone mad. i asked george w. bush keep in mind, you have to raise

money. a campaign, you don't like to useg -- big donors or make powerful interest groups mad. i said, to bush, i said, i want you have to respect these people. what about if i take every drug that i found -- put in human body anywhere on earth and submit to food and drug administration, if they say they are safe and affect of will you tell country that you give funding it is okay with you if they buy generics. and he said, that is a fair deal. i'm sure a lot of his staff members -- he didn't blink. hhe did want to save as many lives as he

could. sure enough. we submitted and fda done slow walk it, and pretty soon 22 of 24 drugs were approved. and today in the poor countries, funded by u.s. government, 95 percent of the drugs are generic drugs, immediately, after george w. bush okayed presentation, and the an the analysis was done, there were 14 countries, alliance not 7. they immediately more than doubled number of people whose lives would be saved without without

spending one more red cent. if elon musk is serious well his job he will allegedly do for president-elect trump, that is kind of thing we should be doing. and i think -- anyway that is what happened. we were so interested in this, we set up a leadership program together. in which our library's cosponsor the program with his father's library and lbj library, we pick 30 people a year, he picks 30, and i pick 30, they are middle career professionals, a lotth of involved in health

care, a lot of veterans, involved in veteran support programs. ... come to his library in mine and the other two and they study some aspect of presidential decision and then they break into smaller groups again 5050 and they agree some problem that would be good to solve and they go off meet for the remainder of the three month period and then 70% of the cases they reach other places it was complete consensus. starting about five years ago, i knowki it's bad for the republin seeking me out in the democrats were seeking him out the other republicans did not know there was anybody like the democrats.

the democrats did know there's nothing like the republicans i know i gone on too long about this because it's important. [applause] i had to iraq and afghan war veterans. both of whom had lost a leg one of whom had not had all the shrapnel removed from his face. who would start a veterans group. and they thanked me because of one of the people we've put in was 5-foot 10 or 11-inch woman who ran the gay rights movement in arkansas. she's got all the skills we need

to do what we are trying to do and we just want to thank you. i will never forget. when they began with the end in mind they stop worrying about who she went home with that night. in stead what skills she had that good health is a veterans who had been so badly wounded. [applause] >> that's great. that's great. two of my favorite parts in this book. you tell the story about getting an apology from far right republican. one was a congressperson. this monk came at a time you make yourself vulnerable in the 911 commission you opened up and said, you said it was a mistake .talked about the mistakes you made being president before 911 happened. he started out by saying you want to welcome the commission's questions. all the members asked good ones. the first exchange was the most

memorable, jon lehman and a strong conservative thanked me for being so candid and open to criticism very start of a thing i made mistakes we are all here to learn. and then said something hard to imagine today's polarized political climate this is quoting him now. since you have been so open, i want to start by saying that iou an apology. i have a republican i believe everything my party's critics said about you. i've now reviewed about 1000 pages of terrorism related d security lockman's you received. your hand written comments and questions are all over them. you cared a lot about this. learned a lot and m wanted to me the right decisions. he also wanted to do more against al qaeda but were poorly served by unintended consequence of the cold water at nichols act which you got one. he asked if i specifically asked the chairman joint chief of

staff where the special forces commanders whether they agreed with the recommendations. i said i hadn't sprayed lehman said you should not have too. but over time the pentagon had grown so comfortable with the new system it stops considering this potential downside depriving of informed dissenting opinions that deserve to be heard. lehman said if i had been told i might have made the same decision. but at least i would have been better informed. i am telling you this, you write to make a larger point. no matter how smart you are and on the level you are, if you make enough decisions some of them will roll in light of subsequent events. those errors will happen more often o when you base those decisions are unwarranted assumptions or fail to follow up on troubling leads that's a big

reason why if they share a common goal, diverse groups with different backgrounds and knowledge make better decisions in homogeneous ones or lone geniuses there on that day jon lehman was a patriot and recognizing we share a common goal. 911 does not but if you're republican or democrat, we need to make a contribution to that. [applause] got that at great relevance. mr. president i'm a little worried about a guy who doesn't read his daily briefing. what you showed there is your immense curiosity, sir. you are one of the most curious wanting to learn people i have known. this republic got to know you and saw that through thousands of pages of documents was a real

testament to the truth of who you are. [applause] thank you. but that should not be a party issue. dwight eisenhower became very famous about the dominance of the military-industrial complex. when they are being taught that the same school. very few people at least when i was taught other great warning morningwhich has more relevance. it was so concerned about what senator jon mccarthy was doing accusing everybody that would disagree with him of being a communist and trying to keep people torn up and upset.

hee said i am not sure we can preserve our democracy. there is a reason we were closing in on being the oldest democracy in human history. a lot of mental discipline to learn what the facts are in different circumstances. and to try to think through them other people are trying to do the same thing and deal with the differences.nd the thing i had to worry that most about in the current environment is that it seems the people running the transition equate unquestioned loyalty with patriotism and questions.

and with lack of patriotism. when i became president of all the young people who supported me to the office and i said if any of you ever comes and tells me what you think i want to hear on any of these issues i might as will shut this place down and run it with a computer. [applause] because those groups make better decisions. you're in your because you know a lot about the job and i may not agree with you. but nobody's ever going to get fired or demoted or whatever for disagreeing with me. your job is to say, what you

think is best under the circumstances. and at the time comes you can't live with the decision i make, the honorable thing would be is to resign and if you do i will praise you and recommend you for any job you want. [applause' that is what i think works better. i got the chills when people tell me were going to have one set of rules for one crowd another set for another i have no use for people, i want to be surrounded by people who always say yes. that's a bigth difference we hae now and it's something we're going up to work our way through. i hope will be someone like jon lehman on the other party who will say look, let's get off our

high horses is not about powders and things on the bipartisan thing we have got to fix it. >> and one people to buy this book because it has this moment i do want to spoil the second apology about which reminded me of john lewis when the person who beat him and think it was during his freedom ride would later come to his office to apologize. that second apology reminded me of that is not physical violence but someone involved in your worst tormenting. and then came to you to apologize. it's really beautiful vision yet but i want to use that as a bridge to talkk about, we were joking before about you being the first black president. i think the reason black folks

to feel a connection to his african-american unfortunate country is facing all of this unearned wretchedness from the world becomes more communities, has mass incarcerated our children. how is run blind us in neighborhood hoods pushes into forced poverty. and yet somehow the african-american keeps his spiritual resilience but does not just help them but helps move the whole country forward. this book you are unflinchingly laying it out there from your own mistakes she said i made the mistake numerous times painful you talk about rwanda and your regrets there. you also talk about what your wife went through which i would think is almost harder than going through it yourself. >> it was a nightmare. >> and nightmare pretty spell it out in ways that may be feeling as taking gut punch after got punch to see how unfair it all was.

you are interesting to me when you said in your campaign when i was young man i was in oxford when he ran fores president. were all a bunch of rhodes road scholarsn who came to visit usn the presidency of ralph bryce you are the man from hope that we were so excited. then i move into newark, new jersey in a community below the poverty line a block community majority black city. my definition of hope was changed a little bit but reading this book it makes me think that you are, have the same definitionom of jones whose son was murdered in those buildings and yet never stopped ever stop fighting for this building sit up without chat enough money to do so she taught me andhi it echoeses throughout this book is this understanding that real hope is scarred.

real hope is wounded. real hope has to be resurrected time and time again. real hope is saying every day i'm going to decide that despair will not have the last word. you can this really beautiful moment that made me smile because i remember these toys. when the going got rough i tried toto imagine i was one of those big inflatable toys are cartoon figures like baby huey or casper the friendly ghost. big favorites of kids when i was in elementary school. they would always bounce right back up. to survive in politics, that is what you have to do over and over and over again maybe we should start producing those biopsy figures again of the representatives of happy warriors still reaching across

the great divide people could keep them at home and work starting and finishing every workday by knocking them down and smiling when they bounce backig up. it might clear our heads help us to get back into building and cooperating business. you are so raw and time of the times, forgive me you been knocked on your a. in every instance you tell stories about how you got back up and kept going. your beautiful speech, sir that clinton global initiative was closing. horrific things are being said about you. looks like clinton cash and shoot document clearly here, so unfair. yet you still have this extraordinary resiliency of

spirit, that just to me is amazing i don't keep reading your words are you pretty well better read this book. i just want to read this it's a pretty lowow moment 2016 your we is going through but you're being attacked already. and that you stand up but what you think is a close of the clinton l initiative having been through a lot you look at everybody and you say these words that i read after this election and it really helpp me. don't be disheartened, don't be deterred. or in the wonderful words of my tradition, do not growdo weary n doing good. deal with the headlines, but never forget the trend lines. they are better than the headlines. good news about what is going right to sell today but look to the trend lines. don't ever give up on what brought you here.

the next 30 years could be the time of greatest discoveries and possibilities andnd creates word to know. only if we get up tomorrow knowing that if we just get caught trying they got to go someone else chances are it will work out better than we dreamed. [applause]me because i still think the united states is the greatest country in the world and the 21st century. [applause] we are living in a type of particularly savage political conflict where people will say anything and a lot of people will believe it are songs that s

the designated target. since you were kind enough to read those things and need to give credit where credit is due. nelson mandela give me more help to manage the effort to drive me from office to my second term thanny anybody. we just became friends and liked each other and i asked him questions. and so i'd been going through a fairly tough time and i said you are a great man in all of that. you're also a shrewd politician it was really smart to put your jailers in the inauguration and the people they work for in their cabinet. so tell me the truth, when you're marketing to freedoms and

shoot hate them all over again? he said i absolutely did for about a second then i realized that if i still hated them, and i would still be there prisoner. and i wanted to be free. and so i let it go. and hee said so should you. >> wow. >> and then i asked him, we started talking about sacrifice and loss. and i said when did you quit hatin' people? ial should have been a little me than halfway27 into my 27 yearsn confinement. i was 14 years and knows breaking rocks i was in great

shape i was strong as an ox. it's a look what they did to me. debby is me physically. per theabuse meet mentally. the destroyed mite family and never got to see my children grow up and eventually claimed my marriage. i knew every day if they wantedto kill me they could witt any cup consequence whatsoever. one day when i was breaking those rocks i realized they could take everything except my mind and my heart. he said those things i would have to give away. i decided not to give them away. he looked at me and smile and said and neither should you.

>> wow. you know, one of the reasons i love this sport was on the last 24 years as i'm always seeing people who've overcome staggering but read the story about the guy who lost his face in thehe earthquake. and the woman, whose husband. [inaudible] all the stories. and i always try to remember that there is somebody somewhere right around the corner that has it worse than you do or your loved one. and they still go on. they treat every day like a gift. they still go on and t that's wt all of us have to do now.

if we think we know something their adversaries don't we share it with them ignore, just go on. >> it is interesting i felt like this was a free man. a free man you wrote this in a way you did not flinch from talking about chapters that to me i wish american history gone a different way. i g wondered how you could get over that. at this passage spoke to me when you have more yesterdays then tomorrow, living in the present and for the future requires nurturing good memories and making peace with the less happy ones. but, forgetting some things that are also imported a couple years ago i read scott's most brilliant book forgetting the benefits of not remembering which explains why as we age we need to free space and our minds to make better decisions. likewh many older people i forgt

where i put things. and i still remember things clearly that i need to let go on.that i'm working it seems like you are. this is a meditation in truth telling and vulnerability. but also a loving those who hate you. >> it is. it is. i find every time a little effort i made is paid off in some way. even though sometimes i once at the end of my presidency, i was in struggleca with the republicn leadership in congress and the senate and joining me it was trent lott of mississippi.

he and i had a remarkably similar childhood. domestic violence in trouble. grip in a working-class home in the sort of thing. while it being a conservative republican. so one day, one of the sunday morning talk shows he called me a spoiled brat was into my second term and so many young people working for were so upset i said call up it got on the phone he said is called chew me out? i said i certainly did but not for what you think he said what you mean? i sent you worked hard all week. your staff talked you into believing you had to go on all the structures.

i try to keep my people from watching them. they rated you with me and you took debate. is exactly what happened. [laughter] i said you need better sleep on the weekends. we had three incredible weeks were made all these agreements and got things done. it's amazing. i try to put myself in his position. when you're really good atu thi. that's one reason you get all those republicans feel better about themselves. and that's okay. that's okay. john lewis was a genius.

he and i were friends from the 1970s until the day he passed. i remember he just kept being nice and decent to people. even his most vicious apartment that they respected him. he was always on the level. she was never responding to interest groups for justice and homeless. rose up every time he took a breath of air. we should all try to bring that out and people marsh the global initiatives. we've got 500 million people.

the aids work i've done and all the other healthcare work that saved millions of lives. and had a good time doing it. happy doing something is productive. but if we are not careful we can start keeping score along the way.ul i keep saying it, we all keep score. whether you all admit it or not right now, every one of you is keeping score of your life in some way. i'mm sorry i can't eat is much s a steward gain weight. [laughter] i have three choices. i can eat less, exercise more, do both, or just whine about it. we've got to keep score all the

time. i think one of things i would urge you to do throughout this whole book as i had to decide when i got out of the white house whether i was going to keepli score the way i had in my public life. but as a urge you to think about when you go home. how do you keep score? i have three wonderful grandkids. my daughter and son-in-law, my daughter just ran her third new york marathon a lesson four hours. and i've got these three

fabulous grandkids. i adore my son-in-law. which is kind of patronizing old-fashioned thing to say. but half my words were over once i realized how much he loves her and the kids. they're all going to take care of each other. but i think the best way to keep score whatever effort you've got. people are better off when you quit that when you started? consider being torn apart. so i keep score. other people keep score totally differently in politics in other ways. if you canst say yes to those three questions, it does not matter nearly as much if you lost a few elections.

corey had a couple of setbacks. or somebody's amount you, or whatever. i think that ultimately that's what this book is about. how i try to organize my life to make the most positive difference i could. solve his many problems as i could. and leave things in rather shape than i found them. talked about how her family had the most under sink meals ensure six years old she started reading the newspapers. i was in a very tough donor's race. the people i were running as were saying terrible things about me. she rented also we explained and i said okay, tomorrow we are all going to play these guys.

one of us is going to be me. and one of us is going to be each of them. i said chelsea, you're going to have to play my opponent. she is it no dad, i want to play at you. i can beat them bad. [laughter] >> six years old. >> let me say something but we talked about this right offstage we came upit awaiting and i know his daughter she's one of the more extraordinary human beings that i've ever met and just who she is. my mom has a saying about me a highly successful child is an astonished parent. but my favorite quote. [laughter] what my favorite quote comes from james baldwin who said children are never good at listening to their elders.

but they never failed to imitate them clear. your daughter, the story we were before weer there came in was a moment i was humbled by her humility and that she was considering going to oxford. you and i had a great procedure's experience. we were road scholars and people encouraging her to apply for the roads. and in a reflection of the values that she had grown up in, what did she say to you? quick she called me one day, late at night because she was at stanford i was at washington and the whiteho house. she said dad, got some good news and some bad news. i sit with the good news? she said stanford wants to nominate me for rhodes scholarship. i said that is wonderful, what could be bad?

she said i'm not going to do it. i don't want to do it and i said, do not want to go to oxford anymore said no i really do. can you afford to send me? [laughter] i said well, not today but i will. [laughter] i said by the time you're done i will be able to. and i would be honored to. she said that is what i want to do as it widens the dead that rhodes scholarship changed your life your kid from arkansas and never would have had a chance to do a thing like that. i said you think you will when questioned she said i probablyy will i said do you think you

would just win because of your parents are? she saido, no i would win becaue of thepe life i've had the experiences of had the people i met the things i did because of you and mom. people should not get this award for the life they've already lived. they should get it for the life they couldn't live. [applause] so if you can afford to send me i would like to go because somebody's life will be change deserves to have the slots and i've never been more proud of her in my life. [applause] but, she teaches her kids that they should be brave and be kind andet family amount get caught

trying. that's what you have to do get caught trying. life is totally unpredictable. it passes in a flash. this little planet of ours is 4 billion years old. people have been hanging around on it probably 200,000 or so years. our pre-human ancestors would take us back to have a 3 million years old. we are just passing through. we have to make the most of it. the good and the bad. we have to keep ourselves in perspective. i talked in the book about going

to hawaii. going up to one of the telescopes. you can see from their outside our own galaxy of the milky way galaxy. we did that in january is 88 degrees on the ground in 18 degrees throughout the telescope. we look back and started drinking coffee with the american scientists who were there in the german person who was in charge. i said do you guys ever argued about the likelihood of life on other planets? he said all the time message of big differences? he said huge. i said what are they? he's at some of us think it's 85% likely others think it's 95% likely. [laughter] and he said it with a straight

face. this is there's a billion galaxies in the universe and they are getting bigger all the time. so 10% difference in terms of all the probability even in our solar systems as far as little ones. but clearly have the right atmospheric conditions. we just think it's highly unlikely there is no life out there somewhere. once you start thinking about that, it's hard to believe what matters on mount rushmore. any other human pretense. it's the life itself, it is the gift. it is the chance to be something kind and good and constructive.

live up to your fullest capacity. knowing it will pass in a moment when to i woke up i was the oldest man in the room. [laughter] and i have no idea how it happened. [laughter] i'm pretty sure it is something during the process that none of us can turn back. so we need to embrace it. that is what the book talks about. >> mr. president, a part of your family motto sue brave and kind i can say right now this is a brave book. it truly does inspire kindness, indecency and relentless love. thank you. >> thank you. [applause]

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