Washington is the ceo and cofounder of Business Strategy from jti and a former daimler executive. And jamie butters, as well as lawrence ulrich, the former auto critic for the new york times. Gentlemen, welcome. I have been looking at the vw scandal and wondering, if it does not very quickly become the biggest auto scandal of all time. But it is easy to feel that way today. Lets put it into perspective. Lets rate the vws scandal on alets rate the vws scandal on the timeline of scandals over time. We have a lot to choose from. In the last five years, we have got g. M. , takata, toyota. Lawrence, lets start with you. Lawrence it is hard to get perspective at the moment. It is such a hot issue. I would put it somewhere in the low top 10. We are talking previous scandals from ford pinto to toyota, injuries and fatalities, and no one has died here. Perhaps a little lung congestion, and that is not a good thing. But right, its a bad scandal. It is corrupt. And unseemlyness is driving it home
Journal says the two were on a mission. We will begin with your thoughts on this. Host you can also send us a tweet or join the conversation email book, twitter or s at journal cspan. Org. Usa today front page story this morning, blood bath in San Bernardino. 14 killed, one person detained and two suspects dead in a police shootout. One of the Law Enforcement official its says the investigations are focusing on an incident, perhaps a workplace dispute in which one a on came angry and left gathering of employees. The person returned with two others. Nd a team of gunmen kills 14 and injured 17 at a holiday party. This is from the l. A. Times, he two guns recovered from the San Bernardino shooting were purchased legally. They are able to trace them automatic o semi scott, democrat . Caller my first name is stan. Host apologies caller thats ok. America, here we are again. 14 dead in an office building. You ask why . Because nobody has the ability to protect themselves. And no one was there
This 40minute event was hosted by the California Historical society. Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the panamapacific international exposition. Thank you so much to the California Historical society for hosting tonights event and especially ada jasonm, and the director and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to chs for copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If you like to hear about other events you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be pretty presenting a brief introduction to the great world fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you background on the fair, why and how he came to be built, and we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and
Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the panamapacific International Exposition. Thank you so much to the California Historical society for hosting tonights event and especially adam, jason, and the director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great worlds fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you a little background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and then we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwa
Director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great world fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwards, i will be happy to take questions. Here we have rueben brooks hale of the department stores. He first suggested San Francisco host 1915 worlds fair in january of 1904. He wrote the occasion could be adve