Then upon her death left. It was opened as a Public Museum in 1963. We are now more than 50 years as an institution in washington, d. C. It is good to see all of you here tonight. Our program is entitled smile while you kiss me sad adieu. World war i songs. Let me introduce our speaker quickly. We like to remind people here that president wilson imagines a world at peace and proposed a plan to achieve that vision. That is a remarkable accomplishment when we take about it from the Vantage Point of our lives 100 years later. It is more remarkable if we transport ourselves back to his time and think about the world in which he lived and the ideas that were abroad at the time and the remarkable accomplishment that it was for him in the middle of a world war to imagine what the world ought to look like at peace and propose that that should be our default position, that there ought to be a league of nations and nations ought not to engage in aggressive war. This house allows us to take that
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Growth in g. D. P. For the u. S. In more than a decade, since 2003. Will that spill over to the rest of the Global Economy . Next year, dow jones, hitting 18,000 points. A record high. Stocks have been rallying since the middle of last week, since the Federal Reserve said dont worry about it. Well keep Interest Rates near zero for at least the first quarter. All of this good news could get tongues wagging in terms of Interest Rates will come down. Coming off that high dollar index. It has been a phenomenal performance that we have seen in the dollar index. Check that out. More than 12 . Clearly that is pretty Phenomenal Growth that we have seen in the dollar index. The best in a decade as well. If youre looking at the euro, clearly they have been seeing the flip side of that. The euro down 11 against the dollar year to date. Today a little bit of a pickup, about. 10 . They are heading for six month s of losses. Speculation the e. C. B. Might start to unveil quantitative easing. Keep in
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The trip back in time. Were surrounded in this room by gifts of state that president wilson received. One of the reasons he received so many spectacular gifts, frankly, is first, because he was the First American president to go to europe while he was in office. But secondly, because the world so fervently hoped for him to succeed in the mission he had taken on, of ending the catastrophe that was world war i. I think its hard for us to think now about how shocking world war i was to the people who had to live through it. And so the music of that era, to that time. I think as youll see this afternoon, hearing from michael, a lot of sense of music that existed and the america that existed before the war, and the muse that i can reveals to us the america that came out of that war. Youll see something of a transformation there. Michael lasser is a lecturer, writer, broadcaster, critic, and teacher about american music. Ive written it down, because hes written two books that i want to share