a lot of people came out for adlai. two days after the election i was not allowed to communicate with the mayor because of the committee we had it up but i had dinner with at least after the election. we talked about, wait a minute, how do we keep the momentum with the tech community? i said, it was at that dinner we said, let's start an organization that all the tech companies joined and rally around making san francisco a better place. our first initiative is all about jobs. san francisco has a jobs board called hire sf. a lot of the tech companies did not know that. i did not know that. we have a majority sf city member companies which represent 90% of the tech population in san francisco. there are posting all their new jobs on hire sf. we're using the existing infrastructure. we want to get more companies in san francisco to hire san franciscans. and so we're going to develop initiatives around that. there is a big mismatch in the qualifications of those who are not employed in san francisco versus the jobs the tec

that goes back to theded a lie stevenson record, and there was a request whether adlai steven son was too support and talked of the citizens. when eisenhower would run we a status quo, and say, excuse me, i'm knock the educated candidate. this crazy thing that the democrats are this elite intellectual party and the republicans have this middle class sensibility started in 1952. certainly in mitt romney's came, you have the echo of a different campaign. the campaign of 1928. first roman catholic to be nominated for president. mitt romney may be the first mormon to be nominated for president. they have the same problem. romney doesn't like to talk about hit religion, neither dill al smith. so uncomfortable to talk about religion. let's just move on, and how do we move past the idea that religion is a qualifying factor for president? eventually al smith had to talk about religion because people kept saying i don't like the fact he is from new york, the fact he is against -- prohibition but when you look at the numbers and do the polls, it's unclear people were uncomfortable with if becom

and adlai stevenson, no conservative, gave a speech. to my senior class. he said the following. he said the power for good or evil of this american political organization is virtually beyond measurement. the decision it makes the uses to which it devotes its immense resources the leadership it provides on moral as well as material questions appear likely to determine the fate of the modern world. you dare not withhold your attention. if young americans do not participate to the fullest extent of their ability, america will stumble and if america stumbles, the world falls. it seems to me that those words are as true today as they were then. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> we'll be right back with a discussion and some questions and answers. this is conservative intellectual tradition here at the citadel in charleston, south carolina. >> we're here at the citadel in south carolina, back with secretary don rumsfeld. and we're talking about the bush doctrine, the war on terror. i'd like to start out by asking him, in what sense should the global military conflict with radical i

i went to my old neighborhood in the south bronx called adlai stephenson in the poorest district in the united states. i'm sitting with a young lady. and the first thing she did was she looked at me. i was dressed like this. and first of all, she didn't think we had anything in common because i was dressed like this. so we opened up yearbook from 1974. it was quite a stylish period. my god, what i looked like. it was frightening, okay? not to mention my nice moustache that i had in the day with the chains and the flared pants and the bad hair. oh, my goodness. but anyway, and i said that's me. and she goes you're kidding. that can't be you. and i go that's me. she said well how did you get from that picture to here and then we got into a conversation of hope and opportunity. and that's what philanthropic things we do are. to me that's where it comes from. >> i have a request though because you've made so many changes in terms of flexibility except have you guys noticed when a guy goes to his baseball match and leaves work early, it's like you're so amazing. oh, it's so great. and then i

thinking about your chapter on adlai stevenson and the time when intellectuals came to the point wherene was seeking office unsuccessfully. but in today's society where should intellectuals be welcomed and how should they be part of developing a governing philosophy? >> if you don't mind wanted discontent the definition of average well as intellectual. i think i actually. [inaudible] i think of myself as a 1950's liberal. i really couldn't find it very much to admire in him and all. he did not support civil-rights, the labor movement, he talked a big game. similar to eisenhower. he terms people with his ability use big words. better on the cold war, but presidents often are better on issues like that before they become presidents. it's a tough question. i haven't thought about it in the way that you ask me, the role of intellectuals. bad politics. to slick politicians are bad at thinking or bad ideas. it's actually a topic that interests me, the role of ideas in politics. when you put forth an idea, how does it get translated into people's actual lives? i've written ten books and eight

they're all the fourths and the fifths, adlai stevenson went there, and he was one of the first. the head master didn't particularly like the irish knew slow reach, but he had to put um with them. and joe kennedy got his kids in there. one day the old headmaster george st. john was giving a speech, a sermon about those kids are good, the right spirit. but some were muckers. they were troublemakers. they didn't have the right -- well, muckers had a couple meanings, and one was irish trash, the ones that cleaned up the horse manure from the wagons in boston. and kennedy heard that. he went back to his room and formed a club called the muckers. and the old man went up to see him when he got practically expelled for it. so there was the old man, and how would you like to have a swashbuckling father like that who comes in and takes your side? he bought him a couple film projectors at that school, and they let the kid off. by the way, only elected kids to the club of 12 who were wheels whose fathers had so much money they couldn't be kicked out. he was already thinking politically. >>

i mean, they were the fourth fourths and fifths in old yankee fan is like adlai stevenson went therend people like that. the headmaster didn't particularly like the irish people, but he had to put up with them because the chinese kids about the money. that's the way it works. the kids at the money you have to let in. joe kennedy got his kids in there. one day george st. john was giving a chapel speech sermon about those kids have the right we are, but some were troublemakers. mockers had a couple of meanings in one of them was irish trash. the ones who claim that a horse manure from the wagon in boston. kennedy heard that. so what did he do? they called the muck and did nothing but plan to travel. he was frankly expelled for it is that if you're really my son you would be in a nightclub. so there was the old man says he comes in and takes her side. he bought a couple film projectors that that school and they let him off. he only elected it who were wheeled, whose fathers had so much money they could be cake out. >> by the way, wherever the great line from his inaugural address. as th

he knows he is going into hostile territory because the people in dallas staff on adlai stevenson legal have ambassador to the u.n.. papers were filled with horrible kennedy is a trader adds. nixon was there the night before saying kennedy will dumped johnson and put somebody else--just to taunt him. not a chance but -- kennedy was in texas because he pushed for civil rights, cost himself any chance of getting mississippi or alabama. he was never going to get them. probably not south carolina. he was trying to hold on to texas and georgia. he is campaigning for money and reelection and as he is traveling from fort worth to the airport having had a good morning with union guys and good speech to the chamber he is talking to jim wright and john kyl and saying why is fort worth a good yellow dog democrat town and why is dallas right wing? what i like about my ability to get that is it shows jack kennedy chose a political career and was fighting and trying to be a good politician and get it done. the answer he got is a fascinating thing. jim wright blamed it all on the newspaper business. t