Roosevelt house presentation. During this particular dramatic period in history, it is especially troubling that we can together at our Historic House on 65th street to process events together in the tradition of Civic Engagement and civil discussion. In fact displayed in the auditorium where we would have done this meeting, the images on the wall about the audiences feature photographs from the very conference at the heart of tonights conversation, arguably the most important, perhaps the most consequential in world history. But of course i am pleased we can continue online with programs that span past and present from discussions and currenincurrent Public Policy to considerations of the history that shows shape the circumstances of the present day. I want to thank you that have responded. As we plan on a Spring Semester of programming online, we would be very grateful to your continued generous support and i would urge you to have a look at the messaging. Returning to tonights progr
Compelling presentation. These guys are money, as many of you know. And were so fortunate, so privileged to be associated with them. Tonight we welcome david mills and kayla westra of the Minnesota West Community and Technical College, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourth grader, i think, when hollywood released the great escape. The classic adventure drama. It pretty quickly became a tv staple and all of the guys in my class at st. Josephs Elementary School in missouri fell in love with it and wed play it out at recess. Each one of us would take one of the roles. Of course all of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i wound up with the attenborough role which is fine by me, though, i get executed at the end of the movie. Of course mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and officers from ger
The reopening of america. Take a look. Dow futures turning negative down 19 points but the nasdaq is up 9 and s p 500 is also negative down about 1 point, mixed story this morning, dow and s p 500 snapped 3day winning street yesterday turning negative by the close, dow down 170 points, nasdaq was up 14 but s p down 11 and a quarter. Secretary mike pompeo meeting with chinese top diplomats as issue on trade, human rights and coronavirus heat up, john boltons new bookmaking claims about President Trumps relationship and xi jinping. Protests in atlanta to report. Meanwhile an Capitol Hill Senate republicans unveiled Police Reform bill as House Democrats call for more action. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. Eastern this morning new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani will join me with his valuable insight on policing in america, the former mayor today telling us his reaction to all of this. Then cracking down on big tech, Justice Department looks to limit protections enjoyed by Technology Companies as c
One was a great compelling orator one was crude but good with tweeting nonetheless. But as soon as you start to drill a little deeper and the remarkable similarity. Both planes speakers and alpha males both had the acrimonious relationship with the media the establishment of their own Political Party. Both had predecessors that were considered very weak Winston Churchill had Neville Chamberlain and trump had barack obama. There are incredible parallels between the time and then and thats why i wrote the book. When we look back at churchill in history we picture him as beloved. It certainly wasnt that way. And then someone that decided to do things a different way. And those to be in the falls for a long time. And with those British National newspapers in the early 19 forties and if those are British National newspapers you may thank you are reading the Washington Post or New York Times so similar are the criticisms and the accusations that both man like judgment or dont listen to anybo
Loves to drink, the other is a 63 teetotaler and one famously napped in his pajamas almost every afternoon and the other would appear barely sleeps. One began their career by each reducing tariffs and the other by opposing them. One was this great soaring compelling orator and the other a rather crude but very effective tweet writer. On the service they prefer to be different but as soon as you start to drill deeper as i did in my book trump and churchill you find that the men had remarkable similarities, both intensely disliked and even hated [inaudible] but both love the country and playing speakers and clear thinkers. Both alpha males, both haddon acrimonious relationship with the media and both were in massive battles with the establishment in their own Political Party. Both had pre disasters that were considered very weak. Of course, Winston Churchill had Neville Chamberlain and donald trump had barack obama. There are actually incredible parallels between the times and the men an