Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined by brian lamb, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating and esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is as you know a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. In the constitution, theres not as much said about it as you might imagine. Article i is quite long, ii much shorter and the key phrase is about as short as you can imagine. The executive power should be vested in a president of the United States of america.
Tax cut extension. And if republicans and here to that position, it is very likely they would then be taking us over the cliff. The keys to the car are now in their hands on this particular issue. You might be able to put off the spending cuts and then fight about the taxes . I am not sure yet. I think theres broad agreement that the acrosstheboard sequester cuts are bad for the country. Democrats to not like the cut to the fence and nondefense. We are together on the fact that would be bad for the country, but for the economy. I hope we could proceed on that track. We would love to be able to address the tax issue. But again, you have 98 of the House Republicans signed the Grover Norquist pledged that does not one additional penny of revenue from wealthy people for the purpose of reducing the deficit. We believe you ought to take a balanced approach. The approach Bipartisan Groups have recommended. That would be the question. In the lameduck session, will you have enough republicans g
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