now, is that document a true reflection of the way eddison thought about tobacco smoking? no. it's not. the biographer takes into account the fact that every document they scrutinize is going to have an agenda of some sort or other. when i was writing my biographies of roosevelt, who was one of the most articulate of writers. he was a gifted, perpetwait writing machine pouring out his soul, and in 150,000 letters in his short life, countless magazine articles, no one has tab bylated how much he wrote. i based all my biographies on this archive of authentic self-expression by an extremely honest literary person, but i notice time and time again that letters written to different people at different times gave totally different versions of different subjects because of his consciousness that he was addressing himself to the recipient. we, biographers, will base more contemporary biographies on recordings of interviews, presumably the transscript of an interview with ronald reagan or richard nixon is text, is the authentic words that the president spoke right there on the page, bl

they published emerson, thereau, and eddison. while working at putnams, he decided he wanted to become much more deeply involved in abolitionism. given the fact he traveled through a south on assignment for the new york new -- new"new york times," a cause he wanted to be involved in, so in 1955, -- 1855 a man traveled east from kansas who was the head of a militia and they were devoted to be sure if kansas entered as a state, they would be a free state rather than a slave state. he was headed east to raise money to purchase weapons for the militia. he went to connecticut and riled and raised enough money to purchase sharp rifles, then he went to new york city, and the person he wanted to connect was with olmstead. he had a deep well of contacts, and olmstead readily agreed, and so olmstead started reaching out to the various people he knew around new york city. one of the people he reached # out to was greely, the editor of the new york tribune. he managed to raise $300 through the various contacts in the literary community and e

[applause] in this town, henry ford started as an eddison supervisor who went home at night and builtirst car in the garage. was he the 99% or 1%. bill gates drops out of college to build microsoft. was he the 1% or the 99%. this is the richest country in the history of the world because corporations succeed in creating profits and jobs, and it's sad the news media doesn't report accurately how the economy works. [cheers and applause] >> [inaudible] i'm sorry, but what is the media reporting inaccurately about the economy? >> what? >> what is the media reporting inaccurately about the economy? [audience reacts] >> i like the reaction from the audience. i have yet to hear a single rational question about the economy that leads them to say, for example, who pays for the park you are occupying if there's no businesses making a profit? [cheers and applause] >> senator santorum, i want to talk about our country. i just came back from north dakota. we made the largest oil discovery in a generation there. not only is it a big step towards creating energy independence, but it can create 300,0