So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Im yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Quite the risk on session. Lets get you the state of play. The signals were getting between the u. S. And china are encouraging. S p 500 many futures are higher. Quite a few gains in the european stocks story, as well. Tech and cyclical sectors, including autos, are leading those gains. Fund managers are overweight on 2018, according to the latest bank of america survey. Telling bonds standing out, paring middle of the gains. Treasury study in the United States. Eurodollar at 118. 16. Little upside, weaker dollar story weighing on broader g10 space. At a net long position, the least bullish in three weeks according to the latest data. Lets check in on your bloomberg first word news, will be get you some of the other stories were watching, starting off with president donald trump. He says a coronavirus treatment that involves blood plasma from recovered patients will be expanded to more sick americans. It adds to therapy even before researchers fully unde
Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Good afternoon, everybody. Im happy to welcome our audience members and our special guest speakers to the common good. We have an extremely fascinating guest today and one of our very favorite political analyst to operate as our moderator. So we will get right to the conversation. Got a very unusual phenomenon in the 2020 president ial campaign this year. Hugely influential slice of the Republican Party, including longtime conservatives and moderates, have broken with reelecting the leader of their of thety, the president united states, donald trump. This is part of the broader never trumped rebellion that began four years ago with the largely sidelined cadre of appalled republicans, but which has transformed in recent weeks into a potentially Disruptive Force in this years president ial race. Groups such as the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters against trump are using guerrilla tactics and clever ads and then they already be making a big difference this year. We are thrilled to ha
Project and Republican Voters against trump are using guerrilla tactics and clever ads and then they already be making a big difference this year. We are thrilled to have one of those leaders of these efforts, who has decades of experience as an active voice in republican politics, originally as the Vice President and Communications Director and later with her own Successful Communications firm. More recently, sarah has served on the board of all cabin republicans, but became a never trump her in 2016. She is now the executive director of Republican Voters against trump as well as republicans for the rule of law. She has also headed up defending democracy together, which advocated for trumps impeachment. To help us out, we are really honored, im so happy to have you, a very good friend, political analyst, susan to host and moderate this conversation. Susan is a new yorkbased republican strategist who has advised dozens of candidates in new york and elsewhere, including Rudy Giuliani fo