You chose to be with us. I would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife. Sophia and theodore are at home. Wonderful kids. I would like to also welcome are members of the board of directors who are with us. Ann stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and two are en route, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council on white house history. He and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most important groups here at the White House Historical association. Their support, their encouragement, their inspiration and their wisdom really puts the wind in the sales of so much of what we do. We are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. The program tonight, dr. Matt costello, is going to share with us about his brandnew book hot off the presses. This is the first time we are making it
The association. I would like to welcome our friends who are joining us by cspan and those who are here with us tonight who are the really smart people in washington because you have chosen to be here above the National Baseball game and above the televised president ial debate tonight so we think that weve got the best thing going and we are glad that you chose to be with us tonight. I would like to acknowledge some very important people. Who are with us this evening. Mats appearance, tim and Debbie Costello who are here with us tonight. And his wife christian, who is here. Tonight and of course in my book the two most important costellos or sofia and theodore and they are at home, i guess. They can come next time they are mad and christians wonderful little kids. Id also like to welcome the members of our board of directors who are with us tonight. We have and stop, lets give and a hand. applause and bob mcgee. applause and we have two that are in route Anita Mcbride and gayle west.
Us. I would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife, kristen. And the two most important, his two little wonderful kids, i guess they are at home, sophia and theodore. Welcomealso like to some members of the board of directors who are with us tonight. Nan stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and we have two that are coming, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council on white house history. He and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most important groups here at the White House Historical association. Their support, their encouragement, their inspiration and their wisdom really puts the wind in the sails of so much of what we do. We are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. The program tonight, dr. Matt costello, is going to share with us about his brandnew book hot
Lets begin with the record run for stocks, wall street eyeing new highs as we cook off the busiest week of the quarter. President trump standing by the 401 k , this is considering contribution caps as i away to ease the tax plan chuck robins will join us live to talk about the deal. Stocks are looking to make more history after the s p closed at a record high every day last week, marking it the first socalled perfect week in almost 20 years. Meantime, nearly 190 members of the s p are out this week, including amazon, microsoft. Thursday night will be a barn burner jim, whats important . I think one thing people have to know, were coming in hot its very rare we come in this hot to the biggest week there is whats going to happen, there are going to be some that do not hold up under close scrutiny this morning, the ones that did come out are setting the tone to make it so theres a way to be able to justify it, whether it be a little thing like or big thing like a tmobile. I come back and