Patients. The university of oxford saying they might have a vaccine as early as september. More than half of states have begun or will soon begin allowing more businesses to operate again according to strict safety guidelines that. s vital to get the economy moving. The initial reading of Gross Domestic Product in the first three months of this year showed that the economy sank at an annual rate of 4. 8 , the biggest quarterly decline since the big recession, and economists believe the numbers are going to get worse. Federal reserve chairman jay powell believes the unemployment will soar, saying that we cant worry about the massive amount of debt piling up on the federal ledger right now. This is not the time the act on those concerns. This is the time to use the great fiscal power of the university to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to longer run productive capacity of the economy as possible. Gerry even the most fiscally conserv
Patients. The university of oxford saying they might have a vaccine as early as september. More than half of states have begun or will soon begin allowing more businesses to operate again according to strict safety guidelines that. s vital to get the economy moving. The initial reading of Gross Domestic Product in the first three months of this year showed that the economy sank at an annual rate of 4. 8 , the biggest quarterly decline since the big recession, and economists believe the numbers are going to get worse. Federal reserve chairman jay powell believes the unemployment will soar, saying that we cant worry about the massive amount of debt piling up on the federal ledger right now. This is not the time the act on those concerns. This is the time to use the great fiscal power of the university to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to longer run productive capacity of the economy as possible. Gerry even the most fiscally conserv
Today, we areso going to be talking about the meaning of freedom. I wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north and south and how we came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom with a line through it, not quite freedom. Freedom to freedom, this question of freedom and what does it mean. We will talk about what did freedom mean and in particular what did freedom mean to the free people. January of 1865 edwin stanton, secretary of war, and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were pastors, lay church leaders. They wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people want from freedom . What did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . People who were ostensibly representatives of free black folks in the community selected one person, garrison frazier, a 60 sevenyearold man to be th
A powerful adam of which was a prominent advocate for liberal causes and a strong supporter of pro european sentiments and prior to his killing he come under massive pressure from a right Wing Hate Campaign so after his death his widow magdalena has taken up the fight against the hate speech that she says is having such a devastating impact in poland poisoning politics and threatening lifes. For a year magdalena has been visiting her husbands grave at St Marys Church in dansk. She says he stood for freedom and against polands right wing populist law and Justice Party that tramples on that freedom and that this cost him his life. He was killed by hate speech was averted by these troll factories. Were just information spread about pavel. The accusations in the defamation. Thats what killed him. In the 1980 s. Pavel adam ovitz was a student leader in the celadon issue led by les at the dance shipyard soli don helped put an end to communist rule in poland. Years later when the populist law
United states botanic garden, and jim mcdaniel, board of directors, like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. Pelle. Please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. Both of our other panelist our named jim and both worked on white house gardens. At the end am going to let you ask questions. We are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and modified since the kennedy administration. So from the Johnson Administration on. The last 50 years. In many different ways, the white house gardens have been inspired and used. Ill start off the panel the start out by talking about garden trends and movements that have inspired and influenced the development of the white house gardens and grounds. Im also going to talk a little more about first