so i said to betsy, what was i doing when i read about einstein?she said you were writing about your father. which is true, my father was an engineer, lead science, sort of a secular jewish humanist, wonderful person and just as einstein was his hero, my father has been my hero. as i said yeah, that makes sense. was i doing when i was writing about kissinger? she said well done, you were writing about your dark side. [laughter] all of my careers i've always been interested in the world of tech knowledge a. i was once -- and technology is changing the way we do narrative storytelling. it was a wonderful, wonderful to knowledge e4 narratives. electronic media is a great for narrative. you hop around, it's a web. you jump around and gather information like a hunter and gatherer as opposed to sitting around the fireplace saying, let me make a narrative. that is why, i think, in the future, electronic media will always coexist with paper. i think we will someday realize that paper is an awesomely good technology and as much as we admire electronic ways

one i remember the occasion of albert einstein's death. he had this magnificent cartoon.he showed the earth and the memorial tablet albert einstein lived here. >> you're absolutely right. >> that was a beautiful cartoon. >> herb had a range of things. he had one with the apollo shot. it's beautiful. a hand is reaching up in the globe in the stars. and he did that kind of thing regularly. so it wasn't just a political cartoon on politicians of the moment. >> then there was one cartoon that i heard spoken of but i was told it was so explosive and the "post" would never publish it. this was after eisenhower had his heart attack. and the story goes that -- i read a description of the cartoon. it showed nixon and eisenhower at the bottom of a long flight of stairs leading to the second inaugural platform and nixon turns to him and says i race you to the top. is that a true story? >> if it is, i don't know it. i never come across that before. and never heard it from tonight and i thought i knew a lot about herb. there was one time -- only once in all of his time at the "washing

when he met einstein, he would explain the theory of relativity to him.t was the boyishness that was always with him. >> let me ask you about your work on this book. when did you get down to writing? what year? >> it was written over such a long period. i would have to look at my own diaries to tell. i think it must have been in about 1996 or something like that. >> when did you finish? >> not many months ago, actually. i finished the main body of the book just over a year ago. >> you said you did 200 interviews. >> yes. >> did you capture all that on tape except for dorothy's interview? >> sometimes people explicitly do not like paper recorders. >> you say you were venturing into a new idea. >> yes, this book was not as big as one of my earlier books. a lot of my time, towards the end, was spent cutting. i cut probably close to 80,000 to 100,000 words. i had a long correspondence arthur koestler enthusiasts. i know that there are people that are interested in the material, but they are a minority. i plan to put a lot of that on my website. i want to save

albert einstein is very famous for having made this statement. he's famous for a lot of things, of course. one of them is making this statement. the atom has changed everything, expect our way of thinking. in my view, he has it exactly wrong. atom has changed everything but our way of thinking. they have had a very limited substantive impact, and they have a tremendous influence on our agonies, obsessions, inspiring desperate rhetoric extravagant theorizing, and in that aspect, i don't think they've been important. and my favorite quote is from dwight eisenhower. he said we are piling up because we do not know what else stood to provide for our security. in other words, he basically didn't think that russians were very likely to do anything that would involve the world war iii type thing. he went along with the massive increases of expenditures. they continue to spend. the -- someone has calculated that during the cold war, the united states alone spent enough money on nuclear weapons and the ways to deliver them to purchase everything in the cou

the spy stuff, well, they published early a statement, they interviewed einstein ended yuri and oppenheimerand pointed out what they were saying which was that despite what american politicians were saying there was no such thing as a secret that, in other words, there was no secrets in atomic energy, it was a matter of applied guesswork. you kept on going. i can't say i remember them actually commenting on the arrests of the late '40's of the

the spy stuff, well, they published early a stage -- they interviewed einstein and oppenheimer, and pointedout what they were saying, which was despite what american politicians were saying there was no thing as a secret. in other words, there was no secret of atomic energy, that it was just a matter of applied guesswork. you kept on going. i can't say i remember them actually commenting on the arrests of the late 40s of the initial spies, the initial accused spies. by the time the rosenbergs were arrested, "pm" didn't exist anymore. but mcmanus who was the film critic the death of "pm," was a cofounder of the national guardian, and the guardian cut its teeth in the late '40s and early '50s in proclaiming the innocents of the rosenbergs. so my guess would be that if "pm" had been rounded probably would have said the same thing. although, i don't know that. >> if you look in the book, you'll see a number of cartoons by "pm" against the martin dies investigations. and also when the common turn dissolved itself and became common form, they were more or less saying, well, that shows the end of

institute, a think tank in washington and has written biographies of two creative geniuses: albert einstein and benjamin franklin. >> you see at the founding of our republic you've seen that great industrial revolution where people were inventing the telephone, the telegraph, the light bulb and everything else, the phone owegraph. you've seen the push that came because of the internet and the digital revolution. now we're looking for what is going to be the engine or the driver of the new creativity. >> reporter: the challenge for the u.s. now, how to keep up that momentum. >> you can kind of feel it in our society that there's no new burst of innovation or imagination happening. >> reporter: is it an attitudinal thing? are we too greedy? >> i think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. they decided to go to wall street with the great derivatives and hedge fund. didn't really help our economy and i think may have hurt the economy. >> reporter: they were creative. >> they were very creative. when the fpk s

and they would offer these invitations to marconi, eisenberg, einstein, and they would say, here's a first-class ticket. we'll pick you up in a rolls. you will come to this fabulous mansion, and you will be hosted at a fabulous scientific conference, and black-tie dinners every night, and april haraman will drop by for drinks. and then we will do physics during the day in this state-of-the-art laboratory. and the europeans understood this concept, because it was very common in europe for famous scientists to have laboratories in mansions next to their manor houses. darwin had had one. very famous british physicist named lord raleigh had had one, thomas merton, another famous physicist, had an enormous laboratory built in a mansion right across the river from his estate. so this was a concept that was very familiar to europeans. it was also very common in france. and they would come -- they would accept his invitation, and one by one they came to tuxedo park throughout the 30's -- these are the depression years. american universities had no money, and they would be sort of on a lectur

threaten not to fly to them in order to send a strong message, adding "you do not have to be albert einstein to realize that flights from foreign countries pose a greater danger." cincinnati, good morning. gregg, republican line. the role of the fed in financial markets. go ahead. good morning. caller: i wanted to make a couple of comments. regulation in the financial sector and in the united states is well known. typically the problem is some kind of oversight, even the attempted bomber on christmas and the national security problems we have had for the last few years. regulation that is required or needed to be overlooked -- needed could be overlooked. thank you. host: the vice chairman of the fed spoke at the conference in atlanta. in "the financial times" they reported, "the fed has been working internally for months on how, when the time comes, they would put an end to the exceptionally loose monetary policy adopted since 2008. that exit strategy is delicate for economic reasons, not least the $100 billion in excess reserves formed by the fed's massive increase to the size of its balanc

end when you actually identified the attacker and i commend to people privacy impact assessment of einstein ii which the durham and homeland security issue describes how the government does intrusion detection because it is a very educational peace i think. .. >> and i will turn to you first. >> a real good question for me personal but i am looking for ways to train law enforcement, the first i want to find an investigator. that is so important. with a good investigator, he is still with the issues for court orders and search warrants and arrest warrants and has been cross-examined by a good defense attorney. his mind said going into a cyber e-mail search warrant is different with somebody who has no investigative background. first, who i want to find the best investigator. it even the technology is getting better it is getting easier for folks to use. everyone here carries a blackberry today 12 years old through 70 years old art that sending instant message, texting, technology is getting better. i want someone who understands technology but more importantly somebody who can't learn that t

albert einstein once against without changing our patterns of thoughts we will not be able to solve ourterns of thought to current patterns of thought. so we can solve the problems we can create with our current patterns of thoughts. mr. chairman, you should be commented for having this hearing today to talk about weep passenger rail. your leadership demonstrates the change is in washington, d.c., and it is right here in this committee. passenger rail is the future of moving americans and now is the time to make that investment. we need to restore hope and performance in our transportation system. our fellow citizens are counting on us to get it done. thank you. >> thank you all very much for your excellent testimony. i'm going to start -- i think what we'll do is allow 6 minutes for each person. and i would ask governor rendell a question, and that is -- president obama has made high-speed rail a priority. he started with $8 billion in the recovery act. the president also proposed a billion dollars for each of the next five years for high-speed rail. now, what sources of funding might

threaten not to fly to them in order to send a strong message, adding "you do not have to be albert einstein to realize that flights from foreign countries pose a greater danger." cincinnati, good morning. gregg, republican line. the role of the fed in financial markets. go ahead. good morning. caller: i wanted to make a couple of comments. regulation in the financial sector and in the united states is well known. typically the problem is some kind of oversight, even the attempted bomber on christmas and the national security problems we have had for the last few years. regulation that is required or needed to be overlooked -- needed could be overlooked. thank you. host: the vice chairman of the fed spoke at the conference in atlanta. in "the financial times" they reported, "the fed has been working internally for months on how, when the time comes, they would put an end to the exceptionally loose monetary policy adopted since 2008. that exit strategy is delicate for economic reasons, not least the $100 billion in excess reserves formed by the fed's massive increase to the size of its balanc

to really tighten their belts that i apologize i'm a little late, but right now i'm serving as an einstein hear at the national science foundation so it's given me a chance to kind of look back at may the sixth or seventh talk in the last four months where i've heard people talk about new york city and what's happening in new york city as a model. and i'm concerned about a couple of things. one question i have is what this kind of institutional memory because i think that teachers provide a really great basis of institutional memory. and that there is not a real line for teachers to go to once they have been designated as a really great teacher. so once that teachers us know how to use data or was that teacher does not have to make results or does create an innovative project or program that works, often the next poll is gobi and administered. go work for the district. and there's not really a good program to keep teachers in the school, in the school sites as maybe a middle manager level, because the option usually propose to teachers much like myself is, why don't you leave the classroom