I will give david a moment. Thank you all for coming. Thank you for your patience. What a beautiful day. I am the executive director of the Library Association and on behalf of of our board of trustees and first lady, we welcome you to this wonderful day, this gorgeous day of what will be a truly memorable hour with one of greatest authors and historians David Mccullough. [applause] for those of you who may not be familiar founded in 1929 by ohio firstnd lady. Ms. Cooper an avid reader who. There should be a collection of books of ohio writers of ohio books from that idea the library was born in today the book awards and book festivals to connect readers and writers to promote our state as one of the truly great literary centers of the united states. 2019 marks the 90th anniversary and can you think of anyone who is more perfect to add luster to your 90th celebration and then David Mccullough. [applause] three years ago in this very room he attended the awards for the Wright Brothers.
National standards and significant training. You should be accredited to be a police officer. Any profession that allows you to use lethal force, there should be very significant training. Rep. Clyburn nobody is going to defund the police. We can restructure the Police Forces restructure, reimagine policing. That is what we are going to do. The fact of the matter is the police have a role to play. What we have got to do is make sure that that role is one that meets the times. One that responds to these communities that they operate in. I did not grow up in fear of police, even in a segregated environment. We never feared the police. Now, i do a sudden, fear the police. Young blacks fear the police. Why . Because we have built in a is responding, once again, to brown v. Board of education and Everything Else with it. When i was growing up, we did not have black policemen. I remember when the first black i wouldnt say defund, deconstruct our police. Washington journal cspans washington j
The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
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Implemented. This class was film on march 10th, 2020, during the easterly zwrajs of the coronavirus outbreak in the u. S. She compares the symptom, Economic Impact and National Response between 1918 and today. So what are we going to do today . I promise you all that that i would do a little show and tell from my own research work. And the timing of this turned out that doing something Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like a really interesting topic for us to discuss. And i think i mentioned to you all that i have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately and its kind of like why in the middle of an an going pandemic are they calling up people like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. Its about how you become i went too fast there. How you become a historian and what you do for a living. The first week of class we talked about the reaction. Sometimes you may get from family members when they hea