Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business. And wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his f
Three categories. Despite tariffs and trade uncertainty business is still optimistic about the outlook. Not a whole lot of evidence of inflation in this report, which is interesting in light what we see of feds inflation page. In new york, manufacturers say input prices at a moderate pace. Selling prices flattened out. Reports of impact of pricing as it relates to tariffs were a bit mixed. Respondents feel like it will take a couple month to shake out to see the evidence there. Now i should note that this report does come before the president decided to enact a new tranche of tariffs on chinese imports that mostly target consumers. So take that as you may but bottom line here manufacturers continue to take it in the chin due to trade uncertainty but the Services Sector right now appears to remain intact. Back to you. Deirdre jennifer, thanks so much. Jennifer schoenberger there. President trump speaking moments ago on the trade tensions with china. The president says china wants to mak
Its a prolonged one. Markets are down across the deirdre yo, thank you for your board. Insight. Youve been covering hurricanes between the u. S. China trade war for a long time, joe bastardi. And disappointing manufacturing report. Tariffs on 112 billion on thank you. Deirdre hurricaneforce winds will be getting dangerously close to the coast today through chinese goods take aeffect on tomorrow night. Officials are urging people to stay off the beaches, obviously monday. Due to possible storm surge. Our souths say the u. S. Rejected Rick Leventhal live in chinas request for a tariff delay. Hillary vaughn is at the jacksonville, florida with more. Rick, what are conditions like white house. Reporter china says they will there now . I can tell it is really windy . Formally file a lawsuit against the United States through the reporter it is blustery but not World Trade Organization in direct response to the latest anywhere near Tropical Storm round of tariffs that took force yet. We could
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