Life, i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He really is an interesting person. And not that i didnt know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. And it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. Theres something about it that is just maddening to me, and i think what it is is that it was a moment of opportunity. When i think of the people in the 17th and 18th century who have very primitive ideas about many, many things in the world, and you know there are lots of things they dont know, i can not totally forgive them, but its not as irritating to me, exasperating to me as a period of time when you have photographs,
President lincolns assassination. This was recorded at the Philadelphia Free library in 2011. Its about an hour. Thank you very much. Its wonderful to be here again. I love this venue. Get lots of good questions which we will save time for at the end. This is an interesting occasion for me. This is actually the first time ive been up in front of an audience talking about Andrew Johnson. Forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. I had to write that when i was writing, i did a spell check in there. Because it was the temptation was quite great. If somebody had told me a number of years ago or any point in my life that i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He is an interesting person. For most of my career as a historian ive tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. It sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easi
Guy the university of michigan giving indicators of consumer confidence, pretty much in line with that except for the Current Conditions number, which looks a little light. It is up in terms of where we would expected to be normally, but nevertheless, you have an 82 print there but and citation of 85. 84 last time. At headline number coming in 72. 5, little lighter than the 72. 9. To 10ion 2. 6 five years years out. Basically everything in linux of the current number. Alix we are a little worried about what is going on. Underwaye call is right now, started at 10 00 a. M. They are reporting some good news in guyana. It has been a huge boon for hess is hard tobut it emphasize how bad this quarter was four at chevron and exxon, particularly with exxon not writing down any assets. Joining us is mark stoeckle, adams funds ceo and senior portfolio manager. It is always good to see you. I want to start on tech. Numbers were amazing. Companies made made billions of dollars. On the flipside, pe
Present your oral testimony. Secretary mnuchin thank you very much. Mr. Barr. Let me express my condolences for your loss. Of the committee, i am pleased to join you today to discuss how the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are working together to provide liquidity to the credit households,iness, as well as state and municipal governments. We remain committed to making sure every american gets back to possible. Ickly as americas economy continues to recover from the challenges posed by the covid19 pandemic. The jobs report for the month of may best we exceeded expectations with a record gain of 2. 5 million jobs after experts had predicted nearly 8 million lost. Ae Unemployment Rate is still high but we are seeing additional signs the conditions will improve significantly in the third and fourth quarters of this year. Is bluechip report forecasting our gdp will grow by 17 annualized in the Third Quarter and by 9 in the fourth quarter. The u. S. Chamber of commerce reported t
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