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kennan is often regarded as one of the wise men and the walter isaacson book uses the title for a collective biography and kennan is one of the six but the actual term is from a group that was informing johnson and kennan was not part of that. >> host: last call from professor gaddis from lou in springfield, missouri. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i understand how homer's iliad would apply to containments but how does the odyssey apply to today's condition? >> guest: how does the odyssey of 5 to today's condition? the odyssey applies to everything. that is home. the genius of homer was to come up with characters so universal that they continue to have great relevance and salience. if you take this idea i was pitching earlier about foxes and hedgehogs and people who know just one thing and people who know all kinds of things, achilles and ulysses. achilles knows only one thing. what does he have to do to become famous for all time? get killed in troy. odysseus' for ulysses knows all kinds of things which center around surviving and getting home to ithaca and penelope. these great c

writing it, and it is humbling d and gratifying to see it wealth received, and to the following walter isaacson, walter caro and am tony horwitz. [applause] i came to develop a strong interest in paul jennings am i was the director of education and james madison of failure in virginia. i w as familiar with jennings memoir considered by the white house historical association to beof the first memoir of life in the white house. re itm was titled a colored man's reminiscence of james madison. and as the title implies, it's n more about the so-called brave man the author himself. my interest was in paul jennings. i set out to discover elements of his own biography to uncover the circumstances behind the original publication of the memoir in 1865 and to find an interview living direct descendents. a slave in the white house, paul jennings and the madisons is the story of paul jennings' unique journey from slavery to freedom. it played out in the highest circles of ideas and power. the white house, james madison's study. it's the story of paul jennings' complicated relationship with the father of the

but when you read walter isaacson's biography of jobs.e was a man, and everyone wanted to hang with him because he was the coolest man in the room. meanwhile, google is the logical heir to apple. google has all the monetizing momentum you could have on your cell phone and that is why the stock is going higher. the default go to tech name is google. it is the financial equivalent of a judgment over who is cool. google is and microsoft isn't. the gulf is growing, which is why google up here is the one to own. stay with cramer. >> reports after the bell. i tell you i do not comment or recommend stocks on a takeover basis. it is going to send sprint further down. jim, are you abandoning sprint?

walter isaacson probably knows more about steve jobs than anybody else. his perspective on the icon and his legacy a year later later. >> gavin: as you reflect a year after his death what is indelible in terms of the lessons you learned from steve? >> he had a real passion to making really great products. sometimes in america if you're in business you think about making a great product you have real pride but then you start thinking about making a profit and cutting corners. as steve jobs did we come and stand in the intersection of art and sciences creating creative creativity and technology. beauty and engineering. that's what steve jobs did and that's added value. that came from really caring, not just about profit, but what am i going to add to the flow of history that is really neat and really cool. >> cenk: he talked in those terms of adding to the flow of history? >> absolutely. he was deeply in his--in his whole mindset was now not how do i make the most money but how do i put things back in the flow of history considering all the cool things that

the plans and models of jobs' yacht are in walter isaacson's biography of him. >>> blue shield of california members will be getting a break on their monthly premiums. the not-for-profit insurer will return $50 million to its customers as part of a pledge to limit net income. the rebate should show up as a credit on your december billing statement. and the amount will average about 25 bucks for individuals and for families you're going to save $75. good news there. >>> up next, she weighs just two pounds and is 13 days old. a newborn rushed from a blacked out hospital during hurricane sandy. >> we had no choice but to go back home and just sit and wait for today to get here. [ crying ] >> the amazing race through streets of new york to save that little girl. coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,, >>> today we celebrate the world series champions. the parade of champions today at 11:00 should be mostly cloudy, dry, but cool. temperatures in the 60s. >> and we are expecting more traffic heading into the san francisco. the parade kicks off at 11 a.m. for right now, pretty quiet on bay area bridges. here's

be and to be following walter isaacson, robert caro, and tony horwitz. caro, [applause] dop i came to develop a strong interest in paul jennings when a was director of education at james madison's month bill yeare in virginia.viinia. i was familiar with jennings' f ore considered by the white house historical association tof be the first memoir of life in the white house.nocences of jams madison," and as the title implies, it's really more about the so-called great man than it was about the author himself. my interest was in paul jennings. i set out to discover elements of his own biography to uncover the circumstances behind the original publication of the memoir in 1865 and to find an interview living direct descendents. a slave in the white house, paul jennings and the madisons is the story of paul jennings' unique journey from slavery to freedom. it played out in the highest circles of ideas and power. the white house, james madison's study. it's the story of paul jennings' complicated relationship with the father of the constitution, james madison.

i happen to be with walter isaacson this weekend.t into apple, is that something you have to give away just to get exposure? >> i think we have a very good relationship with apple wheth. weather is an important part of the mobile experience. it has been from the launch of the smartphone. i'm happy with the partnership the there. we work with android and microsoft. >> you can always tell by the tenure of our questions, the kind of things we want to talk about on a day when the market is cl >> on that, of course, understanding safety is paramount. we are curious about your business, david, in the sense of the way people access it. do you get more hits to twitter and online than you do to the tv product? is that simply normal course of business or does it change in terms of the mix during periods like this? >> well, listen, the reason we have all these different ways of reaching people is that people do have different ways they want to reach. mobile is the fastest growing part of our business and all of the studies of smartphones say we

i wanted to ask our president, walter isaacson, just to say a few words. it's always dangerous when your boss knows as much or more than you about the subject matter. >> this is -- that is definitely untrue, and that's why it's such a pleasure to have tom here. the one thing we know about the issue of manufacturing is how important it is to america's economy and how ridiculous to think of a great economy that doesn't have a healthy manufacturing sector so when we were looking at the aspen institute and all the thing wes do in terms of the creation of jobs and the economy, we felt that there was a huge gap because people kind of understood the reduction of manufacturing jobs in america that was happening, but nobody was as focused as they should be, even though there's a presidential commission and call for this. so when tom and i and elliott and others talked, it was with a realization that understanding how to make a healthy manufacturing sector in america was key to our economy, and to the 21st century. so that's why it's great to have tom in this progra

we're going to talk to walter isaacson the author of the best-selling biography about steve jobs, jack6:00 a.m. really ominous music. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. >>> he's been a critic of the accommodative monetary policy. he's also the author of five books. five books including mr. market, miscalculation, here's how i would argue this. and not me. but here's if i was trying to debate the point, i'd say, do a mandate. number one for jobs, it's a no-brainer so they can do something so they can hide behind that. two, if it's price stability, they're below their inflation target, so even on the second mandate, they could justify what they're doing. so on both mandates, they've got total political cover they're doing the right thing. and you'd actually have to think about whether what's going to happen in the future to not do

i wanted to ask our president, walter isaacson, just to say a few words. it's always dangerous when your boss knows as much or more about the subject matter. >> that is definitely not true and that is why it is a pleasure to have tom here at the aspen institute because the one thing we do know about the issue of manufacturing is how important it is to america's economy and how ridiculous it is to try to think of a great economy that doesn't always have a healthy manufacturing sector. and so, when we were looking at the aspen institute and all the things we do in terms of the creation of jobs and the economy, we felt there was a huge gap because people kind of understood the reduction of manufacturing jobs in america that was happening, but nobody was as focused as they should be even though they had been on the call for this and many other things. so, when tom and i and others talk, it was with a realization understanding how to make a healthy manufacturing sector in america was key to our economy and to the 21st century so that's why it's great to have to

i find when i listen to her, i realize that steve jobs was very right when he told walter isaacson that, what a disaster. what's left of that company that those two great men built is nothing. >> the problem for a lot of investors who hung on to hewlett-packard saying there's value in this company and the valuation looks good, the dividend yield at 3.5% or so looks good. the free cash flow estimate went down. the dividend is still there. and with this guidance, we basically know that things are going to be worse until at least 2013. so what is the near-term reason to be an investor in this stock? >> bunch. >> for 2016. you want to buy it now for the payoff in 2016? >> burrows, univac, ncr, controlled data and honeywell. honeywell found its way out of the wilderness by becoming a different company. controlled data became ceridian, and cr became a cash register company again, chose to get out of hardware. she needs to get out of hardware. all those companies that survived got out of hardware. >> every remark she made reinforced their commitment to hardware, jim. >> new hardware products.

i wanted to ask our president, walter isaacson, just to say a few words. it is dangerous when your boss knows as much or as more as you about the subject matter. >> that is definitely on true. the one thing that we do know about the issue of manufactured is how important it is to america's economy and how ridiculous is it to think of an economy that does not have a healthy manufacturing sector. when we were looking at all the things we do in terms of the creation of jobs and the economy, we felt there was a huge gap because people kind of understood the reduction of manufacturing jobs in america, that was happening. nobody was as focused as they should be even though there had been a presidential commission. when tom and i and others talked, it was with the realization that understanding how to make a healthy manufacturing sector in america was key to our economy and to the 21st century. that is why it is great to have tom and this program here. [applause] >> this is the seventh of a series of programs we have been doing. our next one will be on november 2