Described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership Survey and James Buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american president ial history. How would you characterize his leadership skill
Villages as a result of 3 oil spills up until this morning dutch multinationals could act with impunity in developing countries trading their the rights of people bought food. And this is james no from this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions are developing countries and thats an enormous victory for. All the right of more globally. The European Union is expected to give us a. Vaccine emergency approval in the coming hours despite a growing dispute between the block and the company over a shortage of supplies astra zeneca reduce their commitment a week ago blaming manufacturing issues. Experts from the World Health Organization have met chinese scientists in the as they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city said researches would visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus china wi
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Want action to stop the virus fallout. Nato calls for International Cohesion on security. Consumer Price Inflation breaking out of south korea. We are seeing month on month deceleration of. 1 . The deceleration, though, is easing from the previous month when we had been pulled down and undershooting Inflation Numbers because of subsidies from the government. Also we are seeing acceleration of 0. 6 when it comes to the euro. Slightly missing estimates, but when you seek out fresh food and look at the core cpi numbers, it is still growth of 1 . Of course, we still have some spare economic capacity in south korea, but remember the Third Quarter final gdp numbers actually beat expectations, and still, Inflation Numbers are very much away from that target coronavirus pandemic raging across the world. Haidi we have just had the beginning of the testimony of the rba governor, appearing before the Economics Committee today, so be watching out for some of those, particularly regarding news on t