Selected highlights of Day 2
It was a long but fruitful day. Some of the highlights included ...
Eisenhower Executive Office Building meetings and everyone seeming to single out Pete Davies for "special treatment". We had some great meetings with Ed Lazear, Keith Hennessey, Rob Portman and Susan Schwab - as well as the aides to the Democratic Senator to North Dakota - bringing us some special insights into how policy is formed, how progress is made - as well as who the next presidential candidates might be?!!
Interestingly, every single meeting today seemed to have an interesting remark about the effect of the press (after Pete Davies had introduced himself as being from the BBC). My favorite remark was "Careful ... journalist in the room". (!) Some of these actually left Pete speechless ...!
Here's us walking down the EEOB building hallways ...
Visiting the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Whilst this museum DOES look like it is kind of time-frozen in the 1970s, it has some very cool exhibits - the best one being THE SIMULATOR.
What is the simulator? 5 minutes of you and a friend (one playing pilot, the other shooter) going around in a fully rotatable (and fast!) capsule simulating G-forces. And, if like me and Steve, if you can't figure out how to control the thing, you spend most of the time in simulated free fall, going round and round, screaming "Arghhhhhh!" ...
... it was NOT a good idea to do that after lunch.
Meeting with Ed Lazear, former Stanford GSB Professor, and present Chief Economic Advisor to the president. He spends a lot of time in the Whitehouse and with the President, and was able to give us some extremely insightful, um, insights into the mechanics of policy creation and 1-on-1 debate with Bush. After that meeting, we saw the White House in a whole new light ...
(note: this may have been because it was now early evening, not the afternoon ...!)
Karaoke. I have never laughed so hard in my life! More details to come about Zahaan's unforgettable birthday performance of "Wonderwall", which had the other non-GSB patrons in the bar extremely excited! In second place, John and Zach with a rap song from the 1990s which shall remain nameless ...
Eisenhower Executive Office Building meetings and everyone seeming to single out Pete Davies for "special treatment". We had some great meetings with Ed Lazear, Keith Hennessey, Rob Portman and Susan Schwab - as well as the aides to the Democratic Senator to North Dakota - bringing us some special insights into how policy is formed, how progress is made - as well as who the next presidential candidates might be?!!
Interestingly, every single meeting today seemed to have an interesting remark about the effect of the press (after Pete Davies had introduced himself as being from the BBC). My favorite remark was "Careful ... journalist in the room". (!) Some of these actually left Pete speechless ...!
Here's us walking down the EEOB building hallways ...
Visiting the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Whilst this museum DOES look like it is kind of time-frozen in the 1970s, it has some very cool exhibits - the best one being THE SIMULATOR.
What is the simulator? 5 minutes of you and a friend (one playing pilot, the other shooter) going around in a fully rotatable (and fast!) capsule simulating G-forces. And, if like me and Steve, if you can't figure out how to control the thing, you spend most of the time in simulated free fall, going round and round, screaming "Arghhhhhh!" ...
... it was NOT a good idea to do that after lunch.
Meeting with Ed Lazear, former Stanford GSB Professor, and present Chief Economic Advisor to the president. He spends a lot of time in the Whitehouse and with the President, and was able to give us some extremely insightful, um, insights into the mechanics of policy creation and 1-on-1 debate with Bush. After that meeting, we saw the White House in a whole new light ...
(note: this may have been because it was now early evening, not the afternoon ...!)
Karaoke. I have never laughed so hard in my life! More details to come about Zahaan's unforgettable birthday performance of "Wonderwall", which had the other non-GSB patrons in the bar extremely excited! In second place, John and Zach with a rap song from the 1990s which shall remain nameless ...
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