portrait of albert einstein, 1879 to 1955. 76 years of age. t in those photographs that we can cue off and discuss, but before we do that, did einstein make any commercial endorsements to allow his likeness to be used for marketing purposesthat you are aware of? alice? by the way, alice, i should point out that you've done the quotable einstein? you also have a volume here of albert einstein's letters to and from children. tell us about@that a little bit. >> well, it's a coection of letters that children had written to einstein. there are@about 50 or 60 letters on all kinds of topics. they also included the answers to some of the letters. he wasn't able to swer all of the letters. some of them are fairly trivial and requi"e no answer, but he did his best. >> you also produced the einstein almanac which goes year by year right up to 1955, is that correct? >> yes. >> and you also point out in 1955 early in the year russell approached einstein asking him to issue a joint statement declaring thata nuclear war there there would be no winners or lose

i get all my historical information from wikipedia, just as beach volleyball inventor albert einstein did. now unfortunately, unfortunately the hard-core fact addicts at wikipedia have undone the changes and locked paul revere's page. which is why i want all of you to go to the wikipedia page for bells and make sure it reads, bells, used by paul revere to warn the british that hey, you're not going to succeed in taking our guns, usa, usa! (cheers and applause) usa! usa! usa lam usa! >> stephen: all right. i hope we can capture that in print. in fact, in fact, folks, bells and warning shots have been kept out of our history books for far too long. we're neglecting to teach our children about the great american tradition of warning our enemies that we are about to attack them. (laughter) >> stephen: who can forget when general eisenhower knocked on hitler's door and said hey, adolf we're landing at normandy, here's a warning shot, ding dong you bastard. and then our boys stormed the beach at normandy with bells around their necks. (laughter) >> stephen: didn't see that in saving private

>> he said -- he said, you know, i have said that my mother raised me to be a combination of albert einstein, mahatma gandhi and harry belafonte. >> what questions do you still have about her? >> i would like to understand their relationship better. she sat down on january 1985, she is in her 40's, in hawaii, and she moved back with her daughter and she wrote a list o long-term goals. and they start off with,ou know, finish your ph.d. which she was logging in her 15th year or so, you know, lose weight, some interesting things i had not expected, remarry another culture, raise amaya well, her daughter, and further down the list, continue constructive dialogue with barry. he was in his early 20's then and any mother would want a constructive dial with their son but there are other indications that suggest that she was aware of a distance between them that bothered her. now, whether that was inevitable or whether that was the product of the way she raised him, allowing large distances to occur and he grew up partly in hawaii with her parents wh she was working in indonesia and i would like to u

we have a great opportunity, you have all heard me say before, "albert einstein.dversity births opportunity. a great opportunity for us and for the rest of the world to learn what they did wrong so we will not make the same mistake in this instance. we have worked, as a bunch of you know, on this committee. we worked a lot of years before that to try to establish what we call a cultural -- a culture of safety. we want to not only establish the culture of safety. we want to strengthen it. we want to make sure that it is not perfect we make it better. this but all the protections we have in place for nuclear reactors, the tragedy in fukushima is a clear warning we cannot get complacent it when it comes to nuclear safety. a disaster could happen here as well. we have asked for a comprehensive review, senator boxer and i. i am glad we are getting that. we need to safeguard our people from nuclear incidents similar to that of japan. i am anxious to hear the first readouts from the commission on this review. we look forward with working with you to find the right lesson

we have a great opportunity, you have all heard me say before, "albert einstein. adversity births opportunity. a great opportunity for us and for the rest of the world to learn what they did wrong so we will not make the same mistake in this instance. we have worked, as a bunch of you know, on this committee. we worked a lot of years before that to try to establish what we call a cultural -- a culture of safety. we want to not only establish the culture of safety. we want to strengthen it. we want to make sure that it is not perfect we make it better. this but all the protections we have in place for nuclear reactors, the tragedy in fukushima is a clear warning we cannot get complacent it when it comes to nuclear safety. a disaster could happen here as well. we have asked for a comprehensive review, senator boxer and i. i am glad we are getting that. we need to safeguard our people from nuclear incidents similar to that of japan. i am anxious to hear the first readouts from the commission on this review. we look forward with working with you to find the right less

albert einstein said once, the world is a dangerous place, not because of people who do evil, but because of those who look and do absolutely nothing. we talk about the termination, resilience, excitement and admiration, and the last one and, mentorship. i have been mentored my whole life. there was a beautiful fall day in her rent 2006, and i wake up in a beautiful sunday morning, and i walk with my son david. i turned to my son as we were walking, the leaves are falling, 7:00 in the morning, it is a little chilly, and i say, david, you are the man. he looks up to me from his little tricycle and says, that, i am not the man. i was quiet for few seconds and said, i am a brain surgeon, i am going to teach my son made his lesson. david, i want you to believe in yourself. the little tricycle again, he looks up and says to me, dad, i do believe in myself. i just know i am not the man. [laughter] at age 5. a lesson. [applause] at age 5, a lesson about humility and self awareness. regarding my wife and three children, my parents and siblings, my mentors, how can i thank him? i am sure you feel

albert einstein said once, the world is a dangerous place, not because of people who do evil, but because of those who look and do absolutely nothing. we talk about the termination, resilience, excitement and admiration, and the last one and, mentorship. i have been mentored my whole life. there was a beautiful fall day in her rent 2006, and i wake up in a beautiful sunday morning, and i walk with my son david. i turned to my son as we were walking, the leaves are falling, 7:00 in the morning, it is a little chilly, and i say, david, you are the man. he looks up to me from his little tricycle and says, that, i am not the man. i was quiet for few seconds and said, i am a brain surgeon, i am going to teach my son made his lesson. david, i want you to believe in yourself. the little tricycle again, he looks up and says to me, dad, i do believe in myself. i just know i am not the man. [laughter] at age 5. a lesson. [applause] at age 5, a lesson about humility and self awareness. regarding my wife and three children, my parents and siblings, my mentors, how can i thank him? i am sure you feel

. >> staff often either meet " all but einstein, who said, "-- he ar me quote albert einstein, who said, "enough diversity lies opportunity." you have shown it in the work you have that. -- you have done. >> we appreciate your invitation to share our views. our views, and my personal views, are found by nearly 25 years of experience, through five rounds starting in 1988. our support to dvd includes development of tools and space requirements in concert with -- to dod includes development of tools and space requirement and a concert with missions. these proven methodologies continue to result in major savings and cost avoidances to dot. we recently helped the army avoid more than half a billion dollars in new costs for medical and parking facilities. we examine other government agency practices, applicable industry standards, analogous private sector benchmarks to help the army adopted new criteria. the result was cost avoidance of $220 million for medical facilities, $310 million for parking. the result in elimination of these 500 square feet of medical and 8 million square yards of par

. >> albert einstein once said in adversity lies opportunity to record thank you for being with us today-- lies opportunity. thank you for being with us today. >> i certainly want to say on behalf of the employees we sincerely appreciate your invitation to share our views. our views are owned by nearly 25 years of experience through five rounds starting in 1988. this has included development of tools to determine space requirements. we have also determined excess properties for a specific type and location. these proven methodologies continue to result in savings in cost avoidances. we recently helped the army avoid half a million dollars in parking. we have examined other standards and analogous private sector benchmarks to help the army to develop new criteria. the result was cost avoidance of $220 million for medical facilities, $310 million for parking. the result of this allowed the army to avoid sense of millions of dollars in additional costs of -- avoid tens of millions of dollars in additional costs. these are the types of thinking that should take place as civilian agencies cha