another biography, walter isaacson on benjamin franklin and american life a wonderful biography. benjamin franklin comes through these pages as a very contemporary man. we would relate to him easily after the portrayal in this book. on balance this is a great man, great vision lived a long life, had many episodes to is this life, as a political figure in pennsylvania a political figure on behalf of the colonies in europe. as a political figure with the declaration of independence. and the confederacy of america during the revolutionary war, as a key figure in the constitutional convention helping to save the day really for the constitutional convention and arguing in what was a close thing in the constitutional convention in 13 states. benjamin franklin bigger than life figure, homespun, shrewd, smart, entrepreneurial, so much of the american figure, wonderful biography. finally, die every day. this book, it is all about the roman poets seneca, in the course of nero. the odd juxtaposition on this thoughtful man seneca and how he tried to survive in that time period while being on

our guest host is walter isaacson.or market selloff t. could happen. >> i do. i think we are in general in the market stocks incredibly expensive on cyclically valid historical measures. really only two times in history stocks have been this expensive. 2000 in 1929, most very temporary, we went down from there. so i think folks should be prepared for that. >> with regard to tech. >> broader markets. >> this is a broader market. >> and you're talking about a selloff. >> i have no idea near-term at all. but i think long-term the returns for stocks are very depressed, based on where prices are today. and a lot is going there. but a talk about tech in particular, i think we are in a tech boom. not a bubble. it's nothing like the 1990s. but tech has always been cyclical. go back to the early 1980s, three big tech cycles. eve time they have been followed by a bust. they last seven to ten years and then we go into a bust. everyone says tech was a huge hallucination, just wreckage everywhere. then you begin the next boom. and

in walter isaacson's biography of steve jobs they talk about , how rough this was.was the worst time in his life, he had a young family, he would go to pixar at 7:00 a.m., the kids would be in bed, i literally couldn't speak i was so exhausted. all he could do was watch a half-hour of tv and got vegetate. it got close to killing me. do you think he should be allowed to do both jobs? >> allowed is a vague word. what law is going to stop him? two have done it, elon and steve jobs. jack dorsey says, i want to make that play. it is an interesting challenge. he will be drawn into wanting to do it. the board will want to have a clear ceo. and if they want and as a candidate there could be a , dynamic going on. maybe they get an outside candidate. emily: the other factor is that chris sacca, when the biggest investors outside saying that this is what should happen, which we saw from suntrust, we see him repeating what was wanted. sarah: sacca has been very vocal about what his opinion are. he thinks jack can run both. he is showing that he can now. according to chris. he i

. >> host: and you work with walter isaacson. disco is husband mick edwards is our guest in the first call comes from joseph and mt. vernon new york. good afternoon you are on the air. >> caller: how are you? congressman i'm glad to hear you're a straight shooter as far as i can tell which are teaching should have been done in congress. what did you do to change what's going on when you are in it? >> guest: one of the things, it was different when i was there. we have strong disagreements. there were partyline votes even in those days but there was not the demonization. there were a lot of people to work together across the aisle and you would make your case and argue it as well as she could and at the end of the process you would hit a conference committee and you would say let's get together. we have got to keep the bridges from collapsing and keep the government running. that's what's missing today is people are unwilling to compromise but it was just different. the problems that exist today were not nearly the same. >> host:

i saw him give an interview to the aspen institute with walter isaacson, and he was asked about the obama foreign-policy and his opinion on it. as with jimmy carter said. he said, i cannot think of one country that we have a better relationship with today than the day he became president. that came from a president of his own party. the world has become a more complicated and difficult place because of the lack of american leadership as personified by this president and his conduct. so the need for accurate real-time intelligence in our country, it is now more acute. in this world of terrorist activity by groups like al qaeda, isis, has block hamas we need to interdict before then. it is not good enough to catch them afterwards. we have to catch them before they act. a big part of that is to active -- is an active, well-funded intelligence community. this president has damaged our intelligent community, and by the way, so ha=ve some embers of our congress. and the bush administration, it was awfully bipartisan in their waning days. it hurt morale. it contained outright falsehoods. the pre

aspen institute walter isaacson takes place at the national constitution center in philadelphia. >>> well, the immigrant sometimes is the one who best understands that concept of freedom and what america's all about. tell us about your experience as an immigrant. how did you get here? what did you feel? >> all right. good. thank you. first of all, for allow me to be here the conversations have been so unbelievable. i'm over the top already. doing something that is so we take for granted these discussions, these conversations. it's unbelievable. okay. so go back to 1958, back in c a cuba. i was at that time maybe 13, 14 years old. and i was fine. i was a teenager doing my thing, going to school, minding my own business. there was no thought of ever leaving cuba. my dad is a -- he owned the lumber mill, which he worked hard at. that's where i learned my work ethics from. get up at 5:00 in the morning and work until 5:00 in the evening. and so it was -- but it was a good comfortable life. then all the sudden things changed. it was kind of topsy turvy. all of what you thought was yours i

walter isaacson is your detail you'd more about those folks. r is president and ceo of the aspen institute, my boss. as media is also a subtle but a journalist and biographer. he has long been interest in leadership and creative people make things happen. benjamin franklin, henry kissinger, steve jobs and albert einstein are just some of the great thinkers and doers who have been the subject of this approach. walter, thanks for guiding us to the next panel. walter isaacson. [applause] >> then let me have the great honor and pleasure to introduce governor sebelius and governor leavitt. they've also both been sectors of health and human services, but we all agreed that if every job in america, especially of all jobs that lyndon johnson never actually held, the job of governor is the kind of you where the rest until it because you can't a whole lot accomplish. having said that as sectors of health and human services, both michael leavitt and kathleen sebelius also got an enormous amount accomplished. mike leavitt, george w. bush in 2005-2009 and, o

in the weisman he and walter isaacson told the stories of a handful of outside u.s. government personalities who shaped the post-cold war period. and in the best selling sea of thunder, he caught up the conflict in the pacific, report to. in "being nixon," his newest books, evan provides a well researched updated view of her controversial 37th president who's very mixed legacy, many of us are still wrestling with. evan himself notes in the acknowledgment that as a creature of the east coast media establishment, which nixon despised, he may not have it considered especially bifold nixon hands as inclined to approach a subject with objectivity and fairness. by evan is to enforce balanced reporting and knack for glory articulating complex topics. he set out to try to get past what he calls the cartoon version of nixon and explained with evenhandedness and insight is deeply flawed and infamous but also complicated and intriguing political figure. judging from a number of favorable reviews so far, he succeeded. so ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming evan tho

another biography, walter isaacson on benjamin franklin, an american life. a wonderful biography. benjamin franklin comes to these pages as a very contemporary mentored we would relate to and easily based on the portrayal in this book. and unbalanced this is a great man, great vision lived a long life, had many episodes to that life as a political figure in pennsylvania, as a political figure on behalf of of the colonies in europe, as a political figure back with a declaration of independence, back to europe are representing now that insiders say of america during the revolutionary war. then comes back and actually serves as a key figure in the constitutional convention helping to save the day really for the constitutional convention, and arguing for it in the was a very close thing in the approval of the constitutional convention in the 13 state. benjamin frankel, bigger than life quintessential american homespun shrewd, smart onto prendeville, represents so much of the american character. this is a wonderful biography. and, finally "dying every day." i have a love of ancient rom

thank you to walter isaacson, a native of new orleans, who has given us good perspective over the yearsley, he has an agenda in jackson hole. to follow your agenda, that was a transformative moment in america in a city that i have lived in. my agenda is talking to fed president's all day. tomorrow morning, we will have the st. louis fed. he given interview earlier this week where he said when we talk about a path to lift off and leaving zero downs, think about changing what banks are in their excess reserves at the fed. 5 trillion dollars in excess reserves right now. that may be a different path to tightening policy to get them to do something with that money. tom: an important conversation with raghuram rajan of india. brendan: the only central bank governor has to worry about the price of onions, important when you are talking about inflation in india. speaking to him tomorrow afternoon. india, largely unscathed. they do not sell things to china. very unique. tom: thank you so much. look for coverage on bloomberg television and radio. bob profusek with jones day. we continue on radio

walter isaacson, the aspen institute ceo echoed her comments. george w. bush gets a bum rap.t took a while to get tg started. it was a little slow but he cared about the city deeply and so did laura bush. both president george w. and laura bush are in new orleans today visiting one of the schools. and they'll be going to the gulf coast a little later. where hailey barbour will be meeting them on the gulf cst. now joining susformer mayor of new orleans and national urban league president marc morial. mayor morial -- >> good morning. >> good morning. you are quoted this morning in "the washington post" as saying with regard to new orleans and the rebuilding, we're at halftime. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean by that is the city has not been fully populated. all neighborhoods have not yet fully come back. they're still pending reimbursement claims the city has with fema. the rebuilding, the renaissance and resurgence of the city has still quite a distance to go. and we at the urban league applaud progress that's been made but we've also pointed out by way of a report by

new orleans and the gulf coast. " panelk to "the atlantic from monday, it is crushed and with walter isaacsonalking about the state of public education in new orleans. to get the facts -- there are a couple of things out there, but if you really need the facts, details, and figures, tulane has come out with the numbers. there is a lot of misinformation floating around, and they are very credible source. i also saw arthur davis, and it is one of those great things about how high schools get saved in new orleans. we have on the panel, john white, from the louisiana state department of education, who was a head of the recovery school district. for --ange jones, runs runs teach for america. he isperry, tells me doing something in michigan, but i do not believe him because he ran four charter schools in new orleans. an old friend of mine. a parent in new orleans who has been able to navigate the system and have five kids go through the system. there is one other person on the panel who is not listed, and she is backstage with us. .hat is victoria york she was there with her mother, and she is so m

in early 2006 i got a call from a dear friend walter isaacson who spoke this morning. son of new orleans and on behalf of the louisiana recovery authority. he asked if we could come in and start the planning process which is broken down to the lack of trust and such high levels of frustration and uncertainty. we knew it was not the kind of invitation you turn down. the work became the precursor for the strategy that would define our approach has a foundation for the next decade. by building resilience on the front end, cities will need less emergency aid on the backend. lives and property will be scared -- spared in cities will rebound faster and more effectively. new orleans in some ways was the hotbed, the testbed for all these ideas. it was the springboard for more than half $1 billion we have invested in resilience-building in cities of all sizes around the world in the last 10 years. it inspired us to create a network to help asian cities repair for climate impacts and gave us the expertise to help new york think it's own resilience after super self and the. sandy

walter isaacson, who served with brazile echoed her comments. "george w.ush, i think, gets a bum rap," he told the traveling press corps. "it took a wild to get things started, it was a little bit slow. but he cared about the city deeply and so did laura bush." andact, president bush laura bush will visit some of the schools on the gulf coast later. joining us now is former mayor of new orleans and national urban league president, marc morial. morial, good morning. you are coded in the "washington post" are studying, with regard to new orleans and the rebuilding, we are at halftime. what do you mean? nott: i mean the city has been fully populated. all neighborhoods have not fully combat. they are still pending reimbursement claims the city has with fema. rebuilding, the renaissance, the research into the city still has a distance to go. applaude urban league progress that has been made. but we also pointed out -- we have a report released by the urban league of greater new orleans this week -- about the continuing challenges of poverty, jobs, income, and e

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