mind and next tuesday happened to be in london where he was having lunch with the -- with david lloyd george, who was the minister of munitions in the british war cabinet and lloyd george went on about their desperate state of things in the atlantic and how we couldn't fireg our countries because we didn't have any cordite because we run out of acetone and it was the second time this week he heard a word and his light won't in his head and he said this funny chap claims to produce acetone in large quantities and lord george came alive. is this true. does this man seem to be a crackpot, no he was a sensible gentleman and it was determined that he was not a nut case and so they said well, what do you need to make this acetone? and he said well, i need two things the first i need a large factory a with something like vs or stills or hoppers in it and they said, well, we think we can help you because the nicholson gin factory has gone bankrupt and we've taken control of the site and he said a gin factory and he said he needed something like cellulose and something like some, aize and he said wha

spokesman in britain lobbying at the very highest levels including the king and prime minister david lloyd george. eventually turning himself into a diplomat, he joined the colonial office at the personal request of winston churchill and played a major role in the creation of jordan and iraq. indeed, the frontiers of the middle east were part of lawrence's creation. he foresaw many of the problems that haunt us still in the middle east and tried to prevent them, almost succeeding in be getting the british to agree to a joint arab and zionist rule. but in the end the freed of the french for territory and of british for oil was too much for lawrence to overcome, and exhausted by the effort of writing his 400,000-word account of the arab revolt -- seven pillars of wisdom -- and at exactly the moment he was being made famous, lawrence tried to step out of the limelight by enlisting under a false name in the ranks of the infant air force. naturally, he did not succeed. his life became a succession of failed attempts to vanish from the headlines interrupted by tremendous bursts of publicity. each book

[laughter] and then we had a great primm minister and lloyd george who is probably the only prime minister of britain who has made the pages of playboy because his own behavior. churchill resounded in 1959. the resolution he made, winston churchill, never to drink before lunch time to read and when he retired he changed it that he would never drink alcohol before. we had a primm minister who would have a recent meeting clash with the biggest event of the political calendar he always chose a race meeting but when he retired he said it was nothing to the politics, it was his horse winning the greatest greasing politician in the grand national. so i decided i would do something far more productive. i would work with new york university. [laughter] so i am very privileged to be here today. [applause] when i was chairman of the international monetary we had meetings in washington, and this is what i want to speak about a very briefly before you are asked to free to ask any questions you wanted me to continue the discussion. we had a meeting a few years ago and there were demonstrators outside t

and then we had a great prime minister in lloyd george is probably doing the best primers have ever made the pages of playboy because of patty. churchill resigned in 1955 and he changed, the resolution he made to churchill, never to drink before lunchtime. and when he retired, he changed it that he would never drink alcohol before breakfast. [laughter] we have a prime minister called rosebury. a horse meeting clashed with a cabinet meeting. he always chose to go to the race. but when he retired he said the greatest thing that happened in his life was nothing to do with politics. it was his horse when he the greatest competition that took place in britain, the grand national but i decided i would do something far more productive. i would work with new york university. some very privileged to be here today. [applause] >> when i was chairman of the international monetary fund we had meetings in washington. this is what i want to speak very briefly before we have, you're free to ask any questions you want of me and to continue in that discussion. we had a meeting a few years ago and there we