the basic idea of the cosmos and the mate led-- late middle ages was something like this. there was a sphere. this idea that people before columbus thought the world was flat it is a myth that actually was largely created by washington irving in the 19th century. he wrote a biography of columbus and really sort of play that up because he was a good fiction writer as well. people knit the world was round and had known the world was round for centuries and even millennia. they imagine the earth was a sphere and moving at the center of the cosmos and it was at the center of the whole collection of concentric spheres, each of which had a celestial body attached to it so there was a sphere of the men, there was a sphere of the sun, there was a sphere of the planets and outside there was once feared that held all of the stars. thale rotated around the earth in their own way and that created the motions that you see in they have and when you look up. it wasn't a bad way of explaining that everything appeared to move if you assume that the earth just sat still. and that is what we

is as the world would be imagined in antiquity and in the middle ages and this basics idea of the cosmos in the late middle ages was something like this. the earth was a sphere. the idea that people before columbus thought the world was flat is a mate that actually was largely created by washington irving in the 19th century, wrote a biography of columbus and played it up because he was a good fiction writer as well. people new the world was round and knew the world was round for centuries, even millennia and imagined that the earth was a sphere, unmoving at the center of the cosmos and it was at the center of a whole collection of concentric spheres, each of whip had a celestial body attached to it and so there was a sphere of the moon and a sphere of the sun and all the planets and outside, there was one sphere that held the stores and they rotated around the world in their own way and that created the motions that you see in the heavens when you look up. it is -- it wasn't a bad way of explaining how everything appeared to move, if you assumed the earth just sat still. and that is wha

when my husband don and i were married at the cosmo club, we brought our generation here for dinner after the wedding and spent the wedding night at the willard. but my story is about my great, great, great grandfather, william bradley. i tooked it up to make sure that three greats were correct. he was here at the willard visiting his granddaughter sara bradley willard who was married to henry willard. well, it turned out when lincoln came here to stay before he could move into the white house, he suddenly realized he had forgetten his bedroom slippers. sara bradley willard remembered that her grandfather who was visiting had very large feet and approached him and indeed he had a pair of bedroom slipsers. and he loaned them to lincoln. i thought you might like to see a picture of the slippers. [laughter] >> this is your prize for the evening. well, lincoln wore those slippers while he was visiting at the willard hotel. but when he left for the white house, he returned them with a little note saying, thank you for the very comfortable slippers. a. lincoln. now that pair of slippers used to

she wrote a very famous column in "the los angeles times" about -- i think maybe it was cosmo, about how a woman should not be president. because women should be man worshipers. and by that she didn't mean they should subjugate themselves to men. but that they should look up at the values that men have in comparison to women. and if they weren't looking up, then they were missing something. >> yeah, i would just add that rand, dennis have addressed a. susan brownell called her a traitor to her sex. [laughter] >> and there's a lot of difficulty moving past the rape scene in "the fountainhead." that doesn't mean you couldn't talk about rand as someone who expresses may be proto- feminism and a very retrograde ideas of gender. it hasn't happened yet. maybe it will. >> all right here i will take a question from a well-known randian feminist here on the corner. >> follow-up to that question, two things. one is one of the founder of the national women's history museum, in fact we talk today that rand will be going in. really what it comes down to is that most women's studies, most women hi

. >> i think again is because of the cosmos of my sitting here at the end that i can hear the same conversation over and over and over again. spirit as you can imagine i've heard it many times. >> i know. and i think would be useful for everybody if we were able to agree upon a set of metrics going forward. and again, i would offer to help. you mentioned something earlier in your testimony this morning about the importance of withdrawing from this economy in a way that creates jobs. i may be putting language in your, i think i wrote down, in a manner that promotes job creation, something like that. can you talk a little bit about that? >> the policy accommodation, using? >> i just want to know -- know, draw your balance sheet from our economy. >> right. so as part of a normalization monetary policy, right now monetary policy is quite supportive of economic growth. we have near zero interest rates it would've a large balance sheet. we have a number programs to try to keep interest rates to improve functioning and create credit markets. as i was describing to senator johanns we will have to unwin