Audience Member : Mr. Rove, you spoke of the need for diversity of opinion in a healthy organization. I wonder if you could share with the audience an example of that in the current administration. Rove : I can not tell you the particulars, but I will tell you this. One of the greatest things is the high quality of people that this president has drawn into both his cabinet and into his White House staff. When I walk into the A. I look around this table and I see incredible people with enormous ability and intellectual firepower and integrity.
One of the great things is being able to discuss an issue, to be blunt about where you are coming from, and to have the confidence in your colleagues — a trust in your colleagues — that even if you have diametrically opposite points of view, there is a mutual respect. However it is resolved, everybody will sort of salute and march forward. This president insists upon it.
Franklin Roosevelt was Machiavellian. He encouraged open warfare among his cabinet and among his senior staff, pitting people against people. This president encourages straightforward candor. Let me give you one example. Of course, the head of the vice presidential selection committee was Dick Cheney. This showed I was a political genius.
And this is what this president encourages. As a result, you see a lot of it. We can have spirited disagreements. We can have spirited arguments. The president insists on those arguments being presented to him. Maybe it works because of the unusual chemistry, but I am absolutely convinced that this is one of the most difficult things a president can do and one of the most dangerous things not to do, because the office is so awe-inspiring.
I mean awe-inspiring to everybody. You walk into the Oval Office, and it causes you to get just a little haywire. Here is the leader of Russia, a great power. Because the office, in a way, is an expression of the American presidency.
A president who is successful, I am convinced, is a president who spends a lot of time figuring out how to cultivate this truth-telling, because you can get very isolated inside that bubble.
Sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue is 18 acres of sheer utopia, and like Utopia it can be isolated from reality quickly. Rove, in the context of presidential greatness, of the recent elections, and of the energy this White House expended to get Republicans elected all across the country, could you talk about what benefit it is to a president to have the entire government of one party at a time when the nation is relatively split along Democratic and Republican lines. Rove : It was closely split in I am not certain it is so closely split now.
Nothing stays in gridlock in American politics. Things move one direction or the other. To some degree we have evidence that things are beginning to move in one direction. For example, in the contests for the United States Senate, it was not simply that the Republicans picked up three seats, a net of two, it was that 52 percent of the votes cast in the U.
Senate races were cast for Republican candidates and 47 percent for Democrats. In races for the U. House, it was not simply that the Republicans picked up six or seven or eight seats depending on the outcome of two contests left undone. To me perhaps the leanest example that things are moving in a new direction is in the races for state legislatures. You can always make an explanation for why the Republicans won the Senate or did well in the House. But since when people began keeping good statistics on it, the White House party, Republican or Democrat, has lost an average of state legislative seats in its first off-year election.
In this election, the Republicans will have gained We are seats ahead of where we should if we were suffering the normal depredations of the first off-year election. Something is going on out there. Rove, it is a real privilege to have you here. One of George W. Perhaps you could maybe shed some light on why people seem to do that, and as one who truly knows the president, maybe you could just shed a little light on what makes the president such a great leader and such a good man.
Whatever the reason, I hope they keep doing it. I think it is because he is from Midland, Texas, and his idea of a vacation spot is Crawford, Texas, rather than Hyannisport. I have known him for 29 years. He is one of the best-read people I have ever met. He was a Yale undergraduate, a history major. He has a great sense of history and its forces. Bush as governor of Texas. The governorship of Texas is constitutionally a very weak office.
He defeated a very popular Democratic incumbent, faced a Democrat House and Democrat Senate, and yet pressed through his legislative program and won reelection with an historic margin for a Texas governor. I think a great deal of it is his personal characteristics. He knows who he is and is comfortable with who he is. I think he is also someone who is driven by a vision. He ran for governor, became a candidate in the first instance, because he wanted to help bring about a change in the culture of Texas.
He wanted to help bring about an education reform system. He was afraid that our system was leaving too many children behind. It was February of He was getting his first briefing from the Texas Education Agency. Last year on the minimum reading skills exam, 43, third grade students failed the minimum skills exam.
Now this is not the acceptable, nor the maximum, reading skills exam. What this said to him was that we had an education system in Texas but a bunch of kids are not learning. Maybe English was not the first language in their home. Maybe they are from the wrong side of town. But we are going to just shuffle them through the system. This was unacceptable to him. He was hot. Out of that was born the Texas education reform package [that was] then embodied in H.
Let me tell you what happened in Texas. We put the accountability system in place, raised the standards, and said every child is going to be tested, every child is going to learn. We are going to disaggregate the data. I think he is successful because he is a person who is entirely comfortable in his own skin.
He knows what he believes. He is willing to listen to others. He knows that he is not always right. He has an ease in making decisions. A lot of people underestimate him.
Thank God they do. Audience Member : Hello, Mr. I like your tie a lot. My question for you. Audience Member: You hinted at that. But what I want to know is apparently, [you are] not paying a lot of attention to the , people who marched in Washington on April 26 and the hundreds of thousands who have marched all over the world, and there are one or two people here today.
Thank you. Rove : The way to do it is to do it the way that everybody else does, which is talk to your representatives and petition the Congress, and petition the President. You talk about , people. With all due respect, I worry about the 3, people killed on I would like to leave to my child a world that is peaceful, not a world that is threatened by transnational global terrorism.
Let me give you just one example. We need to see the world as it is, not as we would desire it to be. We have an organization that is sophisticated, well financed and dangerous.
It is not five guys in some cave someplace. Al Qaida—these people, have access to cash flow in the tens of billions of dollars. Do you know how many people went through those training camps in Afghanistan? One hundred thousand. Some of them, 15, or 20,, went through sophisticated training in electronics, spycraft, small weapons, explosives, biological and chemical weapons.
These people mounted a sophisticated operation aimed at the United States of America, and if anybody thinks they have now gone away or that they do not desire to hurt us and harm us, or to drive us back out of the world, you are kidding yourself. Every generation receives its challenge. This is our challenge. As a country, we had better understand that it is a challenge we must meet, or we will leave the world in a much more dangerous and much more difficult way.
I, for one, am not willing to leave that to my child. Audience Member : This has to do with comments you made about unsung heroes who were president. Rove : He led Texas into the Union. I left the University of Utah and never got my degree. So I continued in a desultory fashion to pile up credits at various colleges.
The great irony was that I got accepted into the Ph. Their only requirement was that I finish my undergraduate degree. I was teaching, at the time, a graduate course at the LBJ School, proving that God does have a sense of humor.
But I signed up for a course to fulfill my upperdivision writing requirement, because they needed evidence I could string two words together.
UT has one of the great History Departments, and Robert Divine is one of the great historians of modern diplomatic history. I listened to it on the radio as a young man. I found that literally every book written about the convention, with the exception of one, is incorrect. Every one of them was wrong, because they say [on] the sixth ballot, the Pennsylvania delegation was recognized, they switched their votes from Gov.
James to Wilkie, and this made Wilkie the presidential candidate. I was going through the minutes of the Republican convention, and had this little chart showing how Wilkie had this secret plan to win the nomination.
Lo and behold, I found out that on the sixth ballot they came to Virginia, which voted just before Pennsylvania, which [had] passed. Wilkie was put over the top by Virginia. But the convention was so chaotic it was in the morning that nobody knew that Wilkie had just gone over the top, so they then called on Pennsylvania. However, as luck would have it, between the time I signed up for the course it was the spring and when I turned in the paper in the fall, they had removed the course from the list of courses that you could take to fulfill the upperdivision writing requirement.
Go find another course. I looked again at the catalog the following spring. They had put it back on the list. I had decided I wanted to do a paper on Theodore Roosevelt and the campaign, because it was the turning point for his entire life. He had been made police commissioner in New York in , and he loved the job. He wrote his sister about how he donned a hat and a cape and was going out at night to find the drunk policemen and rouse them from their slumber and put them back to work.
He loved the job in But by , he hated the job. He was in a lawsuit with the other two police commissioners. The white t-shirt trend. I know this one was last years thing, but it would be cute. Grab a plain white short sleeve t-shirt and write something with a permanent marker that's the opposite of what you are.
So, for example, mine would say something along these lines: "I don't use VSCO to edit all of my pictures. Switch outfits. This one would only work if it's a boy and girl friendship. Or if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend. It's exactly what it sounds like. You switch outfits. The boy puts the girl's outfit on. And the girl puts the boys outfit on. Simple as that. And even better, you don't have to spend money on buying a costume that you'd only wear once.
A black and white angel. This one kinda goes with the angel and devil one. But one is black. Get black angel wings, a black dress, black shoes, spray paint a halo black. Cute and easy to do. I've seen this one all over TikTok recently. This one is super cute. I would have gone as this with Halle this year. But, I already have my cowboy fairy outfit picked out. But you can definitely go as this for halloween. Halle and I are doing this next year.
Pick me girl and pick me boy. Pick me girl and boys are still trending even though, they came up a long time ago. It would be really funny to see someone do this idea. If you're a girl and boy duo, you could go as Dracula and a girl vampire. But this one is super basic, too. To be honest, I'm gonna force my boyfriend to do this one with me. Butterflies as super cute and super cheap and easy to put together a costume.
Plus, you could draw some wings as you're eyeliner in different colored eyeliner. This one is a great duo costume halloween idea. Regardless, of what you choose to go as for halloween this year, remember to be safe and have fun. Enjoy it while it lasts. Residing in New Jersey enables you to participate in various activities, and everyone has a favorite.
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However, these are the scariest houses in New Jersey for those brave individuals who like being scared. The Brighton Asylum is an immersive interior scariest house with performers, Cinematic sets, visual effects, and more.
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It's simple to get an on-time car service to New Jersey. Because you can get daily car service in NYC. This year, there's a new spooky home titled "The Dark Side of the Hayden House," a tunnel that's entirely black and doesn't allow torches or smartphone lighting. In New Jersey, there are some terrifying haunted houses for Halloween celebrations.
These places have a reputation for being scary. These haunted places are an excellent way to extend your Halloween experiences while traveling with your family and friends. As a college student, my backpack is an extension of myself in many ways.
It contains my notes, pens, and computer vital for my success in college. It contains the snacks and water bottle I need to survive long days on campus. It also contains the "in-case" items that help put my mind at rest if I forgot something from home: extra hair ties, masks, and that backup-backup snack. With so much in my backpack important to me and my life on campus, it is no wonder that I can get apprehensive about it when it is not with me or in my line of sight.
And that makes me wonder. I can be a little cynical of society. It is not so much that I distrust anyone in particular, but I realize that a lot of trouble and hassle can come from one person who just doesn't care about others. It is not that I think that everyone is going to steal my backpack or its contents, but one person sure could. I did not think about it too much until I found myself leaving my things in the university library while going to the restroom last week.
I hurried along so that I could get back to my things, but in the process, I realized that perhaps I was not as distrustful as I thought I was. Admittedly, one of the reasons I left my things and backpack at a table while using the restroom instead of taking it all with me was laziness. I did not want to have to put everything in my backpack, lug it all to the restroom, only to have to set everything back up a few minutes later.
Yet, I found another reason to leave my things behind: the stranger across the table from me. I never said a word to the man. I don't even think we made eye contact. However, I had been sitting across him for over an hour, so in some strange way, I trusted him. When I got back and everything was just as I left it, I mentally approved of the man who had "watched" my things.
Again, I never said anything to him. I realized later that this strange relationship was reciprocal. When the man left his things on the table later that afternoon to leave the room, I mentally charged myself with the duty to make sure his things were safe. It was almost as if I was saying, "Don't worry, sir.
You watched my stuff; I will watch your stuff. The whole thing puzzles me. Even the thought of "long enough" puzzles me. Would I have trusted the stranger if I had only sat at the same table as him for half an hour? Would I be more inclined to leave my backpack for longer if we had sat in each other's presence for longer? I don't know. Maybe one day a psychologist or sociologist will answer my questions.
In the meantime, I am bewildered by the general distrust I have of society, and yet the unusual trust I have of a stranger. Don't let this stop you from making your car smart. You can change the one you have using smart gadgets that transform your car into a smart car. Cars are no longer just a mode of transport, where you only worry about the engine and how beautiful its interior is.
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And just like with anything, the more you can do with it, the more value you get from it. Here are five excellent gadgets that will help you make your car more valuable and efficient.
Dashcams are cameras that you mount on the dashboard of your vehicle, typically looking out through the windshield. It is one of the best ways to keep your car and yourself safe. You can use it to capture video or take pictures. It can help you monitor your driving habits or those of people who drive your car.
You may also use them for recording road safety and other road-related incidents. If you want accessories, consider the land rover defender accessories And if you want to mount your camera outside your car buy go pro roof rack mounting brackets, You can then rotate your camera so that it takes photos from different angles and directions.
They also come with sensors that will detect and notify you of a crash that might happen. It also goes into an emergency protocol to help save your life. Betsy: Do you want to canvass? Travis: Yeah, I'll canvass. Rate this quote: 0. Share your thoughts on this Taxi Driver's quote with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Submit.
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