Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Returned to the farm. Thats a theme that this country was founded on. If you go up to the rotunda in the capital and you look at the great painting of the tremble of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief and the Continental Army to the congress, the cincinnatus symbols are all do that painting because the Founding Fathers really believe this is what democracy entails. It meant that citizenship met any citizen should be called, could be called upon any time to serve his country or her country and any capacity including the greatest power. In the power belong to the people, therefore, power would be returned by those who held it for a time. Truman liked to say i try never to forget who i was, where he came from, and where would go back to. Thats the cincinnatus Team Obviously but it also shows that he knows who he was. He knew who he was and he was proud of who he was and the return to independence after he left the office of the presidency in 1953 was his way of
This week alone up 33 basis points. Tom this week alone, history made. I think you will see over the weekend, how do we go back. Maybe we go back to 1870. The summation of four weeks of moving his history making. Jonathan need to look at the curve as well how things involved evolved. Lisa that to me is what i looked at, the fact that it moved to the opposite direction of what people thought. The long and would move down to the front and the front and would move down to the long end and you would get a flat or lower curve. Yesterday fed jay powell said it does not seem to be inflation, it is something else. It doesnt seem like we are overly restrictive. There seems to be a fear in his not only in their control. That is sort of a people are pricing into the market but still theres a chance of another rate hike. I do not know whether that matters. You saw the yields go higher after that speech. Jonathan policy is not too tight. Tom yeah, it is getting restrictive. We look at the numbers 2
Theyre at half staff because of the death of justice Antonin Scalia. Your weather might be easier. We broke the high at 73 degrees in the metro. Lets find out whats happen nothing the metro and in denver. Pueblo and Colorado Springs did break their record. Temperatures got into the 80s for pueblo. Fort collins, winds heading into the foothills, black hawk, milesanhour. Breezy its going to get better in the later part of the day. 45 in boulder. 43 in fort collins. 33 in burr 3 in burlington. The western side of the state cool as this system eases up. The winds calm out west. Taking a look at our we dont have advisories or warnings in the state. We had a ton yesterday. Were going to be warm today. 64 degrees at noon. 67 by 2 00. And 60 degrees by 5 00. Were talk about the weekend in a moment. Lets check in check with joel. We have chain and passenger restrictions and over vail pass this morning, youve got us 6 over Loveland Pass which remains close. Heres the wind that lauren has been tr