US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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ROSE: As I said at the beginning, these arguments can go on and on and on and on. I want us to just go to Walter finally. Who will make this decision for "TIME Magazine?"
[Laughter]
ROSE: Is this a Lincoln kind of situation where there'll be nine votes against and one vote four and four wins? Is that what this is going to be?
ISAACSON: You the man, Rose.
ROSE: You the man; you the man.
[Laughter]
ISAACSON: No, no. First of all, we're doing a lot of panels like this. We're doing a lot of discussions. We're going to try to break things into categories, because it does help to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. I mean, I do think music, popular culture, culture in general has its own set of influences and we have to look at those a little bit separately from Churchill. But when the cen — when we look back on the century, what Louis Armstrong did is going to be as memorable and as influential as most leaders. He invented a new genre, a genre that broke totally from other genres in music.
So, I think we have to look at each of these categories. We're going to have panels of people on artists, scientists, builders.
ROSE: And when push comes to shove, Walter —
ISAACSON: And when push comes to shove, we're all going to sit around a room and we're going to form a consensus.
ROSE: On behalf of "TIME Magazine" and "CBS News" and all of the people who made this possible, especially the people who allowed us to do it here at the Kennedy Center, I thank you very much. This has been a wonderful experience for me.
For all the young people who came here to both join in the conversation and to listen to this conversation, I thank you.
This program will broadcast at some point in April. We look forward to having you watch it on PBS, on our program at that time.
Thank you for being here. We'll see you next time.
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