You have confident consumers. You have consumers that are spending. Now they have got even more reason to be optimistic with tax reform and i think you say see a bump here. As you know a lot of our media brethren were telling people how this tax deal was so terrible and essentially only the Koch Brothers will benefit. Now that it is enacted people see you get tax cuts across the income ladder. I think that could be another driver for more optimism. David cabot, before we jump right into politics as james wanted us to, we tend to focus always on amazon and online stores. Incredible thing about this, this is still the stores that people walked into. Real Stores People walked into that led this growth. I dont think that will be a long term thing. I think amazon will continue to take over that space but david their growth is much greater than the growth of stores. Exactly. It is interesting to see how to go back to politics a year ago a lot of people were saying take everything out of mark
Historian mark moyar chronicles the rise of special Operation Forces in his book, pozen a full. You watching book tv in prime time on cspan2. Since he left the white house, president george w. Bush has taken up painting. Creating portraits of military veterans. They have been published in the book, portraits of courage. President bush talked about why he decided to paint these veterans and his time in office. Good evening. I have the honor of being the executive director. I thank you for joining us. In honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Now that we have said the pledges that are fake, like it if all of those who are with the armed forces here today whether active, or retired as well as their familie
Has taken up painting. Creating portraits of military veterans. They have been published in the book, portraits of courage. President bush talked about why he decided to paint these veterans and his time in office. Good evening. I have the honor of being the executive director. I thank you for joining us. In honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Now that we have said the pledges that are fake, like it if all of those who are with the armed forces here today whether active, or retired as well as their families, they stand so we may show you our appreciation. [applause] [applause] we thank you so very much. On that note, there are a few other people i like to recognize. Start their board of trustees, pre
Steve two daughters. You met your wife during the bush campaign. How did that come about . Sen. Cruz i was doing domestic policy and she was doing Economic Policy and we were both in our late 20s and she came along and she was beautiful, vivacious, a blonde Southern California girl. She was in her second year of Harvard Business school and i was completely smitten from day one. I took her out to dinner to a place called the bitter end. We had a four our dinner. I said, tell me the history of your family starting with the birth of your grandparents. And i listened and got to know her. Heidi is an extraordinary woman. She is the daughter of missionaries. She lived in africa. A couple of different times. Her parents were christian missionaries, her dad is a dentist and a dental hygienist. Her grandfather had been a missionary in africa for over 30 years. She is exceptionally strongwilled. It is interesting. One of the things that resonated with me her family is seventh day adventists. The
They just would eat colossal amounts. His weight ballooned and it caused eventually by the mid 60s Severe Health issues so that he had diabetes. Eventually going blind and then he lost his kidneys said he would be on dialysis she and quite frequently for a long period of time where he would have people come and read the new yorker, the economist, the New York Times to him. So its a tough story from the 1950s on. There was a rumor that he did it for an election debt that there was a bet the weekend before that chaplain would win so much of a in Bourbon County coming to hedge his bet he wanted to help himself out so thats why 200 ballots in a statewide election might make a difference. Then there are others who say prichard had not paid his dues and begging you to show that he was still one of the local courthouse gang that washington had not made into much of an elitist, that he still understood the ways of local politics, and that it was something very common richardson. His father had