Impact of paying those banks billions of dollars . Thank you. A lot of turmoil in china. There was an earlier discussion about foreign markets being part of how we judge our growth. Devaluing their currency. I could go on on things you know better than i. You see as the stability of the Chinese Market and how does that impact us . Yellen china has grown rapidly for a long period of time. Years, they have been for reasons trend that are entirely understandable. Growth,abor force reduction in the case of investment growth, a desire that they have which is in their own interest and one that we share that their economy rebounds from the heavy dependence on the source of trade. As they have moved toward the technological frontier, further progress in adopting technological changes. Blacks are they truly attempting to increase the mystic consumption domestic consumption . Rhetorics are saying they are attempting to increase domestic consumption. The policies dont seem to reflect the readily
At the marriage and Political Partnership between lady bird and Lyndon Johnson. Brian betty boyd caroli, your new book about lady bird and lyndon, you started in the prologue this way. At exactly 4 00 p. M. On december 9, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson started a slow, dignified descent down the wide stairway from the residential quarters of the white house to the state floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking ab
From the residential quarters of the white house state or, where guests were0 waiting. Betty it was a very important day for the johns. Johnsons. Her daughter was getting married. The first two years were wine and roses, and the last were pure hell. This was the middle of what was a devastating. Devastating period. I want to get the reader into her story, before talking about her troubled childhood. Brian what else was there about the wedding, you said, that was important . Betty for me, what stood out was she said in her unpublished diaries that as lyndon walked birdthe aisle, lady was not looking at her daughter, but lyndon. She noticed his hair was grayer. Patent forenormous her to make, that her eyes were not on the daughter, but the husband. Brian what was the symbolism that is a johnson left the reception the flight to texas fly to texas . Betty i found that very hard to explain, how a father could leave her daughters reception at his daughters reception a few minutes after it fi
Put in place to assure peoples privacy and to make sure that government is not abusing these powers, and on the other hand there are times when Law Enforcement and those of us whose job it is to protect the public are not thinking about those problems because we are trying to track and prevent the a particular terrorist event from happening. It is useful to have civil libertarians and others tapping us on the shoulder in the midst of this process and reminding us that there are values at stake as well and we welcome that kind of debate. The technologies are evolving in ways that potentially make this trickier. If we get into a situation which the technologies do not allow us at all to track somebody that we are confident is a terrorist, if we find evidence of a terrorist plot somewhere in the middle east that traces directly back to london or new york, we have specific information, we are confident that this individual or this network is about to activate a plot, and despite knowing th
You can also make a comment via social media http twitter. Com cspanwj at. You can also send an email. Record of a 3 of political independence 43 of political independence. Democrats continue to hold a modest edge over republicans 30 226 . Since 2008, the percentage of political independence has steadily climbed from 35 to the current 43 . The recent rise has come at the expense of both parties, but more along democrats than republicans over the last six years. Democratic identification has fallen from 36 to 30 . Republican identification isnt down from 28 in 2008 2 26 last year. You can see this chart at 43 of americans identified as independent. 26 identify as republicans and 30 of democrats. 202748 84,000 is the number four eastern and 202748 8001 four mountain and pacific time zones. Rich will be out here. The partisan divide congress in crisis. There is a chapter on the role of independence in the book. Here is a little bit of what they write. A few fundamentals are important in u