But dont ask me about weeping. Actually, i apologize for almost changing the subject. I am curious about the soviet women, the two soviet women. Right. The two soviet women. Lost track. No one written anything. The question is about the to the soviet cosmonaut, fee now cosmonauts to bid we dont know i huge amount about them. In particular who we dont know lot about hair. A very accomplished fire. And theyre is a wonderful story that i tell them the book. On just give you the bare outline. Sally, after her flight, is on a publicity tour, the post flight publicity tour that they all have to do. One of the places they go is budapest for International Aeronautics and astronautics federation meeting. Remember the Korean Airlines jet that was shot down by the russians and 1983 . This was right after that. A state Department Said to sally and the pilot and both of their spouses, no fraternizing with the enemy. We are cold war enemy at that moment was behaving very badly. We had terrible relat
Government agency her legacy is completely secure. In the course of writing this book more than 200 interviews with family and close friend and colleagues, i learned things about her i had no idea about. But i found the same extraordinary woman i had known when i covered her. She was a california girl who wanted to save the planet, an introvert his radiant spirit polder in the public service. An academic who could explain raindrops to a class full of College Students and the wonders of weightlessness to a room full of little girls. A purple heart in world war two. An eisenhower republican. Another was a complete lefty who love the fact that her left cancel the her has been servicing the time. They both believe in education. Sally was lucky because of the emphasis on science that this country adopted after this but make. Allegro and 1957. And shed been unfazed from all of that. I was in high school. Perhaps some of you did the same thing. I remember going outside in my backyard and look
I also took my mother to a launch. My mother was pushing 80 and loved it. Afterward she said it was perfect. She said i saw the horse and buggy. I saw the airplane and now this. I felt really good. When they landed a week later at Edwards Air Force base in california president reagan telephoned his congratulations and said to sally somebody said sometimes the best man for the job as a woman. You were there because you were the best person for the job which i think its absolutely true. Millions of people around the world agree particularly women particularly young women. They translated herbold journey into their own ticket to success and the thinking was if she could do that i can do anything. Weather was getting out of the typing pool are getting into medical school or whatever many women wanted to do this really opened the door. Sally had a wonderful time. She worked very hard. One of the things she did this with all astronauts do when things got a little slow which was rare. She wou
Of the afternoon before sally was her picture was on every magazine cover, the most famous person on the planet. Every reporter at the Kennedy Space center wanted to see her command of your. Astronauts are put in quarantine for a couple of days before they fly so that we dont give them any stray germs that could really screw up the mission. Sally was in quarantine. Everyone wanted to know how she was. There was just a lid on the whole thing. I am sitting in our abc news workspace which was a trailer. The day before working on my script. The phone rings. Someone picks it up and says its for you. This low voice of the other and says hi. What are you doing in five minutes. I dont know. What am i doing. Walk outside your trailer, turn left, it down the gravel path and stop. I did that, and there was sally in costa my tshirt, flipflops planning against a car 25 yards away and waving at me. When she was doing was saying she was number one pushing the envelope a little bit because of royals w
People simply couldnt come into force knocks metaphorically and say heres a hundred dollars i want to get the gold value and that was as a consequence of the big bad problems the american federal government got into with its debt in the vietnam war and also pay for the Great Society and it just didnt work out. There was a deficit from a trade deficit and people were coming to change the dollars into gold associate decided to stop that is interesting enough, the training and the Federal Reserve was very skeptical about that and was an oldschool balancedbudget kind of guy stopping the decoupling in that way. Host another moment later george in the house of commons. Guest the great thing about the British Public finance for the hundred years before the First World War essentially they ran a balancedbudget. Its difficult to imagine that amount but the whole of the Victorian Era host stable Interest Rates. Guest stable Interest Rates and fiscal policy and what happened in the First World Wa