He was followed by fred bremmer the bombadeer and myself. I was wondering what it was like on base just day to day when you werent out on missions . Are you talking about for the air commandos there . Yeah. Okay. Pat, do you want to take that. Well id like to accept it might not come as a surprise to you people that all three of us have hearing aides plugged in our ears. Unfortunately the day before i came up here the right one went on the fritz and i sent it in for repair. I dont know what the question was. My grandpa always does the same thing. I was wondering what it was like on base day to day when you werent out on missions. What it was like on what. On base day to day when you werent on missions. Can you describe what it was like when you werent flying missions . Yeah. It was a mad house. Our air strip when you think of c 47s and b 25s and the pursuit ships and all the planes taking off from there. You kind of think we have a paved air strip and it wasnt. As as i understood it, i
Markets now and we have a lot coming up. We have big issues in a few minutes, we start with stocks and the markets pulling back a little bit from record highs that were set yesterday hanging above 16,000 on the dow. Nicole petallides on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Nicole the Dow Jones Industrials pulling back, 16,008 holding at 16,000 mark to the s p holding 18 under market, a record close for the s p 500, down two points, squeezing out a gain in the ticketing nasdaq, worth noting the s p is coming off of its 49 food record high, a stellar year for stocks and we are seeing stocks on track to break two session win streak. Named leading the dow include Goldman Sachs, jpmorgan, chief financials doing well on the heels of what we heard from the volcker rule, that was a unanimous vote and microsoft, pfizer and cocacola weigh in on the Dow Jones Industrials. Connell you talkedabout the fdic vote on the volcker rule and that is the story, the first of five regulators voting on the new ru
Criticism from inside its been mostly in the vein of how dare he meaning how dare an insider give away the secret. How dare an insider talk about other insiders in a way that perhaps might not be in keeping with the code that we have a shinkman. People keep asking me why are people uncomfortable here . I welcome the discomfort but i also think this is what we do. We should invite discomfort. He next author paul reid talks about his book the last lion. They were kate coauthored with the late historian William Manchester. This threepart series on former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. From the printers row lit fest this is 50 minutes. Thank you very much and thank you all for turning out on a sunday morning for this event. Im excited to be here with paul reid. We had met before and we had talked before and we are both churchill buff so its a measure treasure to see him again and thanks for thank you for coming out to chicago. We will talk for 40 minutes and leave plenty of time for que
I think that the talent is it comes down to leadership. As you look at these guys, it took decades to emerge as leaders, and eventually they became public figures. We just reversed the model now and public figures first who later become leaders. That said, in any of the societies, if theres true leaders with the credibility to take their country forward, technology can find them, so in that sense, theres a level playing field, but you cant overnight. You talked about building up new leaders, but its different in the Virtual World than it is. Physical world. I think we came to the conclusion that its easy to Say Technology drives all the changes, but the essence of human leadership is very hard, very important, very person dependent, and very much dependent upon the charisma and ability to get people excited and motivated, and those are skills it will take a long time for computers to get to. Jen . Assuming youre right opposed to plato about assumptions, okay. [laughter] and anonymity s
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