First going tohe jackson bodegas life. When she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children, one or two had almost been teenagers. At the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he
Announcer up next, Carl Sferrazza anthony, author of Florence Harding the first lady, the jazz age, and the death of americas most scandalous president , discusses the life of the woman married to president warren g. Harding. Dispels some myths around her time in the white house. The White House Historical association hosted this event and provided the video. Ms. Mann today we are welcoming Carl Sferrazza anthony, the author of several books on president ial families including four biographies and a conference of overview of all the first families. He wrote a two volume history, an inside view of 200 years inside the white house. He served as a consultant to the first ladys exhibit and was the National First ladys historian in 2017. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding in the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent
down. we knew that to succeed in highly competitive low-margin business we had to develop a business model differ from that of our larger competitors. our vision was to create a unique alliance with cattle producers and link them with our customers who wanted a consistent supply of high-quality beef. at the time cattle were bought and sold in the cash market and brought the same price regardless of quality. there was an economic incentive for cattle producers to invest in genetics or to improve their feeding regimen to enhance the taste and tenderness of beef. we developed a pricing grid that pay premiums to cattle producers who could deliver higher quality animal than what we could buy in the cash market. our business model works. although we were a smaller company with high operating costs we could compete effectively with the larger hacker spirit in 1987 we were approached by by the u.s. pr, a group that today represents a network of 2400 cattle ranchers, ranchers, farmers
And not many places can say they have both an old and a new capitol. My name is bill parks. Welcome into the State Capitol of oklahoma. Spend a little bit of time taking a look at a beautiful building. Start here with solomon layton who was the principle ah, tekt on the capitol. This is a 1915 drawing of the capitol. And i show this to folks so they understand the dome was a part of the plan in the beginning. The building was built without the dome between 1914 and 1917. Did not build the dome then, they ran out of money. They built all the substructure for the dome. When we got around to building the dome, beginning in 2001, we were able to start at the roofline and go up the base of the building is covered with pink and black grahn et that comes from oklahoma, white Indiana Limestone on the main part. The dome is covered with a man made stone and thats how they were able to match the building as well as they did. Chosen for its durability youll see vermont marble in the baseboards, y
Potential impact it has on the United States and global markets. This is about an hour. [inaudible] thank you all for joining today. Happy new year. Have you here at aei. With the clock running, i want to kind of moved into a broader discussion. We had the opec deal reached in november, and this comes after watching the price go up and down over the year. 2017, the question is will the price hold . The newon for president elect donald trump and his administration, and also for you producers and nonopec producers. It is an interesting moment. I thought of looking at the price of oil before coming to the event, and it is at about 55. That is about the range they were hoping for back in november. It is an interesting moment to watch. Discussion,t with we will give a few moments for opening remarks, and then we e the full that one moment moment. The full one i believe you also served at one point in the Bush Administration in the white house. The reagan administration. And we have the coor