When whittling down the list. There was so much to choose from. The way we did it was first we discussed the medium of the object we wanted. Photograph, painting, documents, relics. Then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First the year leading up to it, then 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865. By the time we went through the criteria, we had more than 50, but when we had 50 that represented both of those requirements. It was truly an embarrassment of riches. It was hard to whittle them down. That is definitely true. Tonight, we will be discussing two objects considered technology in the civil war. We can see the images of those. From circaipher key 1861. And a half model of the uss monitor from 1862. Lets consider the cipher key. Ofs is in the papers Alexander Robert chisholm, born in 1834, died in 1810. He was a stockbroker, a merchant, railroad investor. He died during the gilded age in new york city, where he had also grown up. Theis equally glamorous on confederate side
Held in brooklyn, this is 45 minutes. Mayor de blasio all right. It is a very Beautiful Day today. It is a Beautiful Day for this city. This is a powerful day. Day 100 of the coronavirus thats, and it is the day we start to liberate ourselves from this disease. Beginsne of the restart in new york city. All new yorkers should be proud that you got us to this day. This was a lot of hard work. Everyone who stayed home, everybody who socially distanced and put on face coverings, you got us to this day, a date to celebrate hundreds of thousands of new yorkers. Just the beginning of the restart. Every single new yorker worked so hard to get us here. We have been the epicenter of this crisis. This is the place where it was going to be the hardest to make a comeback, yet new york city is so strong and resilient. We will always remember the heroes of this crisis. The first responders, health care heroes, everybody chipped in and the everyday people who made this possible. The most important thi
After yesterdays midsession rebound, the dow initially fell more than 750 points from the trading session before that striking turn around and finished higher more than 750 points s p 500 went from more than down 1,500 and nasdaq went to close up by 1. 4 these moves came after the fed said it would buy individual Corporate Bonds, not just the etf. President powell trading these today not only on what jay powell said but this idea that the administration will be looking for a 1 trillion package it just seems like the federal government is doing the best in their economy. S p indicated up by 41 and the nasdaq indicated up by 73. Looks like this morning, the 10year is yielding 7. 43 . Watching this stuff how it played out yesterday was kind of phenomenal i couldnt believe what we were watching at the close. It was quite unbelievable you are right houj part is the government stimulus unless that leaked out watching the market. It was down. I dont like mondays anyway. Then i saw 400 and bas
Mayor de blasio all right. It is a very Beautiful Day today. It is a Beautiful Day for this city. This is a powerful day. Day 100 of the coronavirus crisis, and it is the day that we start to liberate ourselves from this disease. The day we move forward with phase one of the restart, it against in new york city. Begins in new york city. All new yorkers should be proud that you got us to this day. This was a lot of hard work. Everyone who stayed home, everyone who socially distance and put on face coverings, you got us to this day, a date to celebrate hundreds of thousands of new yorkers coming back to work today. Just the beginning of the restart. Of everyerally because single new yorker worked so hard to get us here. We have been the epicenter of this crisis. This is the place where it was going to be the hardest to make a comeback, yet new york city is so strong and resilient. We are making that come back. We will always remember the heroes of this crisis. The first responders, healt
Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu