Price tag. Since i took office we have cut our deficits by about 2 3. That is the fastest period of sustained deficit reduction since after the demobilization at the end of world war ii. So we can afford to make these invests while remaining fiscally responsible. Melissa hmmm. Interesting considering the white house expects it to add 6 trillion to the National Debt over the next decade. Lets bring in todays panel. James freeman wall street journal, todd starnes, fox news radio. John lonski, moodys chief economist. Can we afford this, no problem. Maybe you can afford it today but as you look forward for funding demands with forthcoming retirement of baby boomers pressure being placed on medicare along with us, the unknown costs of the Affordable Care act, never mind the possibility of another recession, no, you can not afford it longer term. Melissa james, i dont even think we can afford it today. Just to be clear, this white house math you need to translate a little. What weve done a g
Page. Hispanic from politics and prose bookstore in dc mark and timothy xm and the tall choice relationship between the first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her first cousin alice who was Theodore Roosevelts daughter. The report is that the two women born eight months and 20 blocks apart in new york city were social and political opposites who publicly debated the issues of the day. First thank you all of you for being here this evening. We are delighted to be here in a very big thank you to the crew at politics and prose for making us feel so welcome. I want to give a big thank you to the publisher. In answering the most common question that weekend which is who was Alice Roosevelt and i realize in this crowd a lot of you were her neighbors. Nonetheless, what i am going to do is try to set a little bit of the context for the reading is going to do in a few minutes. Make sure they cover up some of these details. What we do you will see behind me a family tree. Its a simplified version of t
And growing up with seeing dont mess with texas signs everywhere and the appreciation for the bluebonnets there and just what that means into no that she and her world as first lady influenced all of that in a way that was quite subtle and not necessarily understood at the time but that we now do understand. Now carl im going to ask you because you are a scholar of the full breadth of first ladies. Dolley madison because she was one of the first who had a real sense of duty to his constituency meaning the country. It was unusual for a woman back then too perceived as part of her proper role a sense of duty and connection to the general public to people she didnt know. Shackling candidate very strongly because of her sense of where the u. S. Was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadnt and in a sense america had come of age and have as much dignity and had a right to maintain that dignity on the world stage. And betty ford by taking very personal and reall
President trump was asked about his Vice President remaining on the trail, and this is what he said. Reporter should the Vice President come off the campaign trail . In a few hours pence will hold a rally in North Carolina, a state seeing its own spike in new cases. President trump has not slowed down, either. Hes had more Campaign Stops today. Right now hes actually in maine. Lets turn to john harwood. Some of these aides in the Vice President s office who tested work very closely with him, yet again the Vice President is not going to quarantine for 14 days, which is a cdc recommendation . It includes had socalled body man, the person closest to the Vice President as he moves around the country. Just think of what a blow this is to the Trump Administration and the trump campaign. They are losing this campaign badly to joe biden at the moment. The top issue is coronavirus. Voters judge him harshly for failing to have controlled the virus, yet we now have a fresh democrat stwragz that t
Former Research Professor of history and International Affairs at george, washington university. Professor black is recognized as a leading expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and the universal declaration of human rights and is ridden and edited to 10 books as well as a variety of articles on women politics in human rights policy. She has also curated exhibits on human rights for president ial libraries and other renowned repositories and has received awards from three universities for her commitment to students and her teaching she currently also serves as a Senior Advisor to former secretary of state Hillary Rodham clinton. The spark for this evenings forum is a new biography of David Nicholas titled simply eleanor, which is now out in paperback. This is the perfect biography for our times rights walter isaacson, the story of a determined woman who willed herself to become the voice for the voiceless a fighter for freedom and a tribute to the nobility of americas true values this comprehens