High but not dampening deal making at the dubai air show boeing gets off the way with 15 billion order while rifle airbus is left waiting. If we do order some more, we need to know that they will not cancel the program so getting them across the line with regard to the commitment they would have to make to support the line over the next 10 or 15 years is vital to us. Sterling stumbles on a report that 40 mps will sign a letter of no confidence in u. K. Prime minister theresa may eight votes short of triggering a leadership contest. And a double digit haul. Alibaba raking in 25 billion making the tiny festival the biggest shopping event trumping americas black friday and cyber monday combined. Good morning, everyone its monday. Glad youre with us once again want to show you how european markets are doing roughly on hour into the trading session. We are actually trading close to session lows were off by 0. 2 . Theres no Major Economic data to speak of. You have edf, disappointing. Well c
Thing you could ever do. Watch after words sunday night at nine eastern p. M. On cspan twos book tv two good afternoon. No one likes to sit in the front row but there are one, two, six, seven seats in the front row. Come out and see. I want to begin by thanking Peggy Mcdonald and all of those who have worked to make the madison, such a terrific source of support for gainesville authors and their book. Peggy, thank you so much. [applause] some of the best nonfiction writing allows us to see something we thought we knew well in an entirely different way. This has been the power of my friend, jack davis career as an environmental historian who examines the past not through the spy glasses of the sailors but through the curves of the land, the running of the tide in the rush of the wind and rain. This is also the power of jacks new book were here to celebrate, the gulf the making of an american city. The clear light of nature tells a truer story than the cloudy minds of men. Nature has bee
Of the sixday war the breaking of the middle east by doctor guy laron. To my right, its a great pleasure to welcome him and welcome all of you to this event. Im christian and i direct the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center. Its a program that tries to provide to bring Historical Context to current Public Policy issues. The discussion of Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with the subprojects of the history and Public Policy program, the program weve run here for 25 years almost more than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence fror communist world archives but the mission has sort of crept to now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today a series of activities, discussing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most import
Talking specifically about the sixday war, i came to the understanding or at least this is my argument that you should see the war in a global context because even before were starting to deal with what nasser did on the 13th of may and why he acted the way he did when he received that memo, webbed think about the fact we should think about the fact that the whole developing world was experiencing a severe economic crisis at the time, and all the countries that fought the sixday war were developing countries. Some were more developed than others, israel more than egypt, but they were all developing countries. And what happens in the mid 60s is basically the end of a business cycle. A decade beforehand, in the mid 50s, everybody looked, lets say, in places like the u. S. , in washington, in new york, even in moscow. They looked at the developing world like people looked at china until two years ago. Or beforehand the way people looked at japan and thought it would rule the world. They s
Doctor laron was a great pleasure to welcome you to this event. Im a christian and i directed the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center, a program that tries to provide Historical Context to current Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with one of the subprojects of the history of Public Policy, the program we have run here for 25 years. More than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, translating, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence from what used to be the former communist world archived but its crept to what now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today, a series of activities discussing, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most important new publication of International History to come out on the war. I thank you are all in for a treat. We are also doing