History written by the i like to say to the winners go the history. Theyre the ones telling the story. All right . Unless theyre doing this in war. But this is the way it usually works. So you usually get their perspective. All right. Were going to see that a lot in this war where youve got a lot of patriots, American Revolution stuff. Had you read the spring chapter to get the british perspective. Their version is a little different. What other challenges do you run into . Kate . Uncertainty who won what battle and all that stuff. You do run into some uncertainties. Again, lots of different perspectives here. You may have some bias. Generals like to make themselves look good. Wars are nice for promotion. So, yeah. Got to be really careful about your sources. As historians you know not to take everything at face value and military guys, generals, officers doesnt mean theyre always right. Anything else . Other things . Okay. Also you have issues with, like, how, trying to reconstruct a
Images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank . Nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes itll be lincoln, sometimes washington, sometimes f. D. R. But the interesting thing about this is that we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. We have photograph images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. And of course we have images of f. D. R. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. And generally the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair. But with George Washington, he was there before photography so we dont have photographs of him. What we have instead are artists representations and those are not always very accurate. I mean, you look at
Lets take a look at what is been helping foment further gains across the asiapacific. That is the futures contract for the s p up to tens, hang seng three tens of 1 . And the nikkei has buoyed a bit. Also the topix doing rather well. We have a cna a tad week. Looking at that as we do. Also the yen, and the boj. 41 day since the boj came in and bought a sizable chunk of stocks in the japanese market. Someat stealth tapering, people are arguing because the yield on the 10 years unchanged. The yield has been lurching lower eight basis points. Weekhas been put less a and see what is going on in regard to the haven stages. The learn not willing to look at and take on risk right now. This is of course after the Election Results or we saw the landslide victory when it comes to democratic camp. She was talking about how she is ready to listen and stands by previous stances on protest demands. People who felt that our government has not handled, deadly the legislative exercise and its aftermath
Confidence today, will add to the debate. Nejra welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The market moves we have seen overnight in asia have certainly faded on that brief optimism in terms of the u. S. And China Holding a phone call that we hear went well. They are continuing to talk about phase i. Msci asia pacific index still integrate. Hong kong underperforming still in the green. Hong kong underperforming. Gold unchanged. We saw all three u. S. Benchmarks hit record highs in yesterdays sessions, s p 500 index, dow jones, and nasdaq. Futures not giving us a lot of direction. The 10year gilts continues to edge up 10 year yields continue to edge up. The yen hit a two week low but dollaryen steady now. Onto the top story. The u. S. And china have agreed to stay in touch to resolve remaining issues to get a deal. Incomes after a phone call early this morning during which the vice premier, robert lighthizer, and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin discussed core concerns. Meanwhile, Goldman
Interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. Professor smith today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. If you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the story intermittently throughout, whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. One of the things i try to get across whenever i talk about washington is that washington is a bit of an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Nonetheless. Whenever those rankings come out, these t