Museum in london. The lost world of James Smithson was her first book and she resides in new york. Please welcome heather ewing. [applause] heather thanks for having me. Can you all hear me . Wonderful. It is really a pleasure to be here. I very much look forward to speaking and meeting with you all afterwards. I just wanted to let you know i will be bowing to you and not shaking hands per our current instructions. I encourage you all to do the same. Anyway, i wanted to thank you all very much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here to talk about this topic that i care about so much. And so, here we go. You all know the smithsonian well as the keeper of many of the most iconic objects of american culture. And, i thought i would run through a bunch of them. Dorothys ruby slippers, of course. Charles lindberghs spirit of st. Louis. Abraham lincolns top hat. Since we are here in baltimore, this is the starspangled banner. Soon after it came to the smithsonian where it was conserved for
Policy conference. I am the director of the i amrch center and delighted to introduce the chairman and vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisors. In preparing for this session, i have a foundational commonality. He is originally from sweden. , am originally from minnesota the land of american swedes. Close enough. Currently on leave from the university of chicago, where he is a professor of public directs thees and program on Foundational Research and Health Care Markets and policies within the Health Economic initiatives. Severald in publicsector positions, including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of the food and Drug Administration and as the senior Economic Advisor to the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as the Health Care Advisor for senator john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joining us today. Start, it says on wikipedia that the chairman writes all 300 pages. If you would, please take
We did a bad job of acknowledging that. And i think many economists said, well, were creating a million and a half jobs a year, so if some jobs get lost by trade, even if its 20 or 25,000, thats nothing well, it is nothing unless youre one of those 25,000 people. And a lot of that was concentrated in places like ohio, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. Those are a very smart group. What do those states have in common every four years . Every four years they have something in common, and i think thats probably what kept nafta and trade very much in our american psyche for such a long time. And here we are in miami beach. It is not a surprise that a lot of the cuban population is in miami and in florida. Floridas been a battleground state, and our cuba policy a lot of it has to do with the geography of where i cubans live in this country. So geography has a lot to do with the trade issue and a lot of our politics. Many people on both coasts have enjoyed all the benefits of trade. We have
Right now it is breezy out there though so be mindful of this. As you do take to the roads this Early Morning now we do have a few light showers to talk about that have already descended into the bay area that includes on the peninsula right here and then just a couple of sprinkles right along the coastline that we zoom out just a little bit not instead of a little bit this is where youre seeing that line of showers really making its way in right is sitting offshore but very northern Sonoma County is right on the. Cusp of this line of shower activity you can see snow widespread for Northern California and this line of cloud cover is something thats going to stay with us for much of the morning once we do see the showers arriving in now what is the timing of all this. Lets plotted out free right here so we are going to see this rain coming through and really. Excuse me working its way into the bay area right around 08 00am its looking like a before 08 00am you could see some isolated sh
I have asked questions of each president , the same question except for one, of each president over the last 21 years. But asking questions now has me fearing for my life. Which is real, and im not going to get into that. But its real. I think about the vision of those Founding Fathers hundreds of years ago who talked about who we were as a people. They came up with something, and i think about schoolhouse rock. If you dont know this, google it or youtube it, because it was in schoolhouse rock. We the people, in order to form what . A more perfect union. Im scared to go further than that. [laughter] some of us need to go back to schoolhouse rock, but its all right. We are still forming a more perfect union. Were still going through growing pains. This is growing painings. Its tough. Its growing gains. Think about that, im one of those people who are crazy to believe that im part of we the people. I believe what you tell me. John, am i telling the truth . Thank you. [laughter] im one of