jeff frank is an accomplish it writer, those of you who buy the book today will be blessed in reading the prose. jeff spent 13 years at the "washington post." i'm not sure that's where you learned how to write well but that where is you learned how to get a good story, and by the end he was winning the outlook section, and then he went to "the new yorker," and was a senior edit for 30 years, and that's where you learn to write well and help others write well. besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written four works of fiction. so this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and a good story and he brought those talents for some reason to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon, and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage? toe be the focus? >> because it was a great story. it began with two people who really didn't know each other. one was an american hero of the sort we don't have anymore, five-star general. the man given credit for leading the allies to victory in europe. 62 years old, and a 39-year-old orange county congre

i have, it is my pleasure to introduce jeff frank. jeff frank is accomplished writer. those of you who buy the book today, will be blessed in reading the prose. jeff spent 13 years at "the washington post." i'm not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a senior editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. besides writing non-fiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. so this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. he brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage? >> because -- >> as to be focus of this -- >> because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesn't know each other. one was american hero of sort we don't have anymore. f

jeff saying, my job market in phoenix is decent. ready to buy @kellyevans home for $1 billion. it's not for sale. but every time i watch robert frankkes me think about the places we've gone. >> the answers speak to the fact that job creation in this country is still bumpy. it's so long to get back to trend. the unemployment rate has fallen. the interesting thing to watch in tomorrow's job report will be whether last month gets revised up. and whether this month or january got hit with the weather. >> and earnings. >> it's all about the weather. >> if you see another bad number in january, that's going to be hard to explain it away, as problems with snow, problems with cold weather. i talked to the former commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics. and he told me if we see another bad number in january, the short-term economic outlook is going to have to change. i think that has implications for the fed. >> don't forget about silicon valley at the same time. it's not just one story across the board. we say some of this growth isn't as big as expected. if you're a pretty good software engineer, you can still get -- >> those aren'

frank. we made it illegal for them to do the stuff they did before. just in case that wasn't enough we created a consumer financial protection bureau. finally, consumers have some protection by jeff fisher, people with badges where they can go in and find people who do bad things. so actually we cleaned up a lot. it doesn't mean people are degraded and mortgage lenders and others are not going to do things to try to mess things up. but the truth is it's not the same environment. remember again, fannie and freddie followed the free market. the free market was free to abuse and fraud and all the other things they did. they followed them. they didn't leave that. after losing a trillion dollars of the marketshare. we are about to throw the baby out with the bathwater along with the plumbing, the top the whole bit. what i'm saying is let's fix what was wrong with fannie and freddie, keep the system that was once -- i remember being in south africa and people were talking of fannie and freddie, what a great system. notwithstanding the problems you might have had. other governments looking at it as a model to we're about to put in the private sector which played a major role in the kind

i have, it is my pleasure to introduce jeff frank. jeff frank is accomplished writer. those of you who buy the book today, will be blessed in reading the