in other words even when you read tony morrison's beloved tony morrison was choosing my children over my husband. i say that because would you believe i'm going to mention my memoir? that is one of the hardest things for me in my memoir. my mother loved her husband more than she loved her children. i felt always that my mother, my mother's choice if she had to make one was always for her husband. i recall a scene in my memoir that my mother at this point had six children ranging from ages nine to two. my father got a fellowship. i remember, i was five years old and i remember seeing my mother crying and crying every single day. she was useless. she couldn't take care of us. she couldn't do anything. she was just upset. she couldn't hold it together just waiting for letters from my father and eventually my mother took that ship from trinidad to england talking about long-ago days and stayed with them for quite a few months. it was something that stayed with me for the rest of my life. i would envy my friends who didn't have that situation. there were 11 and my family but i can tell you

and tony morrison's beloved that was the passage that tony morrison's beloved that got th the -- when soffa says that her husband, he fell apart when he saw what was happening to her. she said i went on and the reason i went on as i had two children and a baby needing my milk. i couldn't just wait there so in other words even when you read tony morrison's beloved, i'm choosing my children over my husband. i say that because would you believe i'm going to mention my memoir? that is one of the hardest things for me in my memoir. i think my mother loved her husband more than she loved her children. i felt always that my mother, my mother's choice if she had to make one was always with her husband and i recall a scene and then memoir that my mother at this point had six children ranging from ages nine to two and my father got a fellowship in london. .. y father eventually my mother took that ship from trinidad to england. i am talking long ago. and stayed with him for quite a few months. it just was something that stayed with me for the rest of my life. my friends who didn't have that sit

we've got toni morrison and david remnick, editor of "the new yorker," skip gates from harvard, and people who come from all different industries and academics. george stephanopoulos and anthony of higher, previously of princeton, major scholar coming in, and why you, when the most recent additions to the board. i mean, it's a great mix which is what you wanted to be. let's put it this way. what makes new york amazing? what makes america amazing? it's the mix of people. the mix of background, talent, experience us. the library is the place where the mix of people comes together with all the information and ideas of the world. it has always been the most explosive of combinations. it's where creativity comes from. a library is the foundation of that. it's where everyone can do that and does do that. in new york as an elsewhere in the country, and the trustees similarly are this great mix of experience and bring their ideas to provide the stewardship and leadership of this institution. >> you talked about nuke city being the apex for use consider. and was it not? when was it at its lowest? >

panel at csis yesterday, and the panelists -- tim evans from the world bank and tony fauci and, of course, steve morrison was there -- talked about this epidemic now being out of control. while there was a rise in cases, now it's exponential, going straight up. it will take us many, many months, probably six months to get it under control, and and if we're lucky, we won't then have an endemic situation in west africa. so we're talking about a really horrible crisis. now, why do i say that it should be averted? there's, i have an article in the lancet coming out tomorrow morning, it's embargoed for the morning, but essentially what it talks about is the fact that this has been a perfect storm because ebola which is a horrible, horrible way to be sick and to die, has engulfed the region which has two post-conflict states, very, very fragile health systems. the doctors and nurses to begin with were just a minuscule number of what was needed to have even a basic, bare minimum. and now well over a hundred health care workers have been taken by this disease, and more have been sickened, and some are frightened

also christina bell tony, ed tor in chief for roll ball and matt morrison, with working america, a groupengaminges working class voters. so is hillary likeable enough for iowa? >> she is likeable enough. when i was at the dnc during the 2008 cycle, i think there's a couple of things that happened. number one, president obama's team went in with a strategy. they were very meticulous about the iowa caucuses. they didn't take anything for granted because, remember, he knew that if he as an african-american could win iowa, that would set him on a path that would be, you know, unstoppable almost, right? and i think with hillary's team, you know, remember their whole message was i'm in it to win it. and i think what people, particularly in iowa needed to see is i'm here to do the hard work, which is how she ran her senate campaign which i worked with her on. >> every county in the state. >> all 62 counties, i can tell you. but also we put extra time on her schedule so that she could stay for like an hour afterwards and just shake hands and talk to people. so i think part of it, obama to his cr