but the guts of kay graham is a totally different thing and it's something i tried to restore. i did my best, but one of the things that i think don graham, add small, liz hilton and all the people around k. grants to states and legacy and they gave me full of dense correspondence. and i mean, it was revolutionary to my understanding of the relationship among the most exciting things you could ever read. i'm not moment at the pentagon papers as an indicative moments. then had a lot of courage. i try to find some way for some of their relationship in the book and they go back and forth and i saw that i talk about all that. ultimately nobody knew him as their compact and it works and that is what is important about it. but in 1995, a book party when his number came out, it will make you see how much you had to leave for in the 475 page book. but at the end of the party, he realized he had given to the boat, his boss, the one who paid him in meeting the wealthy man, everything. he wrote her a note and at the end of the note he wrote this. catherine coming up in the most important f

so actually, kay graham, i, rollie evans, maybe one or two others went out there and visited meg and meg knew the senior gates so she called up bill senior and mary gates and said i've got this crew out here. could we drop down. mary said fine. mary called up bill and said warren buffett is coming down. would you like to come. he said hell no. what do i have in common with that guy. he doesn't understand technology. he's hopeless. mary was very determined and said you know, you're going to come, bill so. they negotiated a while. finally they got down to where he said he would come for an hour and 27 minutes or something. he came down and we hit it off. we're still talking 10 hours later and became friends. >> he never convinced you to buy microsoft stock. >> he tried to get me to use a computer. >> that work? >> eventually. when i learned to play bridge on it i got interested. i still don't understand what happens with it though. >> i thought he said i'll get the most beautiful woman working at microsoft. >> that's what he did. he was engaged to her. pla malinda. >> did he influence

actually, kay graham, i, rolly evans, maybe one or two others went out there and visited meg. and then meg new the senior. so she called up bill sr. and mary gates and said i've got this crew out here, could we drop down? mary said fine. mary called up bill and said warren buffett's coming down and would you like to come down? he said hell no. what do i have in common with that guy? he doesn't understand technology. he's hopeless. and mary was very determined. and she said you're going to come, bill. so they negotiated a while, and finally they got down to where he said he'd come down for, i don't know, an hour and 27 minutes or something like that. and he came down and we hit it off, and we were still talk ten hours later and we became good friends. >> but he never convinced you to buy mikcrosoft stock or buy technology companies? >> he didn't try to. he tried to get me to use a computer. >> did that work? >> eventually. when i learned i could play bridge on it i got interested. i still don't understand what happens with it. >> i thought he originally said i'll get the most b

the guts of bradlee and he has used that can be in for one second a you feel it but the guts of kay graham is a different thing and something that tried to explore. can i capture somebody else in this book? one of the things and i thank don graham and lose hilton and all the people around and they gave me a box full of ben's correspondence and it was revolutionary to my understanding of their relationship and one of the most exciting things you could ever read. it was their real time back and forth and that moment with the pentagon papers is an indicative moment and ben have a lot of courage but so did kate. i tried to find a way to sum up their relationship. they go back and forth and people speculate about love between them and i talk about that but nobody really knows and it was their compact and it worked and that was what was important about it but in 1995 a book party when his memoir came out that you should read will make you see how much i had to leave out but at the end of the party he realized he hadn't given her a book. she made him a wealthy man. everything so he wrote her a no

kay graham, wally evans and two others went out there. and then meg knew bill sr and mary gates and said i have the screw out here. can we drop by? mary called up bill and said warren buffett is coming down and we do like to come down? and he said, hell no. what do i have in common with that guy? he does not understand technology. mary was a very determined. then negotiated a while. they got to where he said he would come down for an hour 27 minutes. we hit it off and we were still talking 10 hours later and became good friends. >> he never convince you to buy microsoft stock or technology companies? >> he did not try to. he tried to get me to use the computer. >> did it work? >> eventually. when i learned i could play bridge on it, i got into it. >> i thought he originally said i have the most beautiful woman working at microsoft. >> that is what he did. he was engaged to her. it didn't work. >> as you got to know bill better, did he influence your views on how to make investments philanthropy. >> we have a group of people that started g