policy report. this was her first appearance before a congressional committee since being sworn in as head of the federal reserve. this committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized any time. this hearing is for the purpose of hearing the semiannual testimony of the chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve on monetary policy. and the state of the economy. before we get started, i m not sure if i called this a personal privilege or not, but i would draw the attention of the committee that we are blessed again with the appearance of the gentle lady from new york, carolyn mccarthy and what a blessing it is to have her back with us. [ applause ] the chair will now recognize himself for six minutes to give an opening statement. we welcome chair yellen for her first of many semiannual humphrey-hawkins appearances before our committee. chair yellen, you may recall that just two months after allen greenspan became fed chairman in 1987, the
there to find their way into the site. but i am keenly aware when i write about china now i am being read not but just by my mother-in-law but by chinese. and i think that does raise your game. again, i hope by it takes me back to a that you question ducked earlier on new technology and the effect that has. the new york times benefited from the wikileaks story. the new york times decided that it would send a team of reporters to another newspaper in england where the information already was, so it was no act of journalistic genius to go over there and pick up that information and then put it into the times. so what does that mean about the times and a fitting from wikileaks? is that a good thing? are they to be proud of the fact that they made that decision? you should really ask arthur sulzberger that. bill keller. he was seated here, and i did ask him. what did he say? he made an effort to answer it, which is more than you are doing. [laughter] you see, i
called us in and said that they needed some bombs on gunners. we rolled into do that and there were two of us on the f-four phantom. airplane came off the at 4000 or 5000 feet. burstlly, the airplane into several pieces. we were tumbling, end over end. there was smoke in the cockpit and i could not commute it with my partner. communicate with my partner. i knew i had to get out and i was well trained. i was about to eject over enemy territory that we had to bombing for a couple of years. there was no other choice and i pulled a handle. everything worked automatically and perfectly. it blew the canopy and blew me 50 feet in the air. me,eparated the seats from which automatically pulled the d-ring. it was less than 2.5 seconds from when i pulled the handle. there was a lot of shooting going on at the ground and they were shooting at our wing man with a nest of guns. there was a good number of militia down there that were protecting a strategic target. a lot of shooting going
this survey sometimes is when there is new historical work and/or new work of popular culture that open up the book a little bit and tell the story of a first lady. that first lady s moves a little bit. mary lincoln portray by sally field in the film about lincoln and some of the literature on lincoln of late has told, given a wider perspective on mary lincoln. she does not rise to the top. she remains near the bottom, about 10 places from the bottom, but her stature increased a little bit with more understanding of the difficult situation she was placed in. and no longer just thinking of mary lincoln as someone who was mentally unstable, as she had been portrayed for a long time. the other first ladies near the bottom, in many cases, are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and that they added little to it. one notable first lady, florence harding, i think stands out near the bottom because it is more and more been saying that she played some role in s
we were tumbling, end over end. there was smoke in the cockpit and i could not communicate with my partner. i knew i had to get out and i was well trained. i was about to eject over enemy territory that we had to bombing for a couple of years. there was no other choice and i pulled a handle. everything worked automatically and perfectly. it blew the canopy and blew me 50 feet in the air. it separated the seats from me, which automatically pulled the d-ring. it was less than 2.5 seconds from when i pulled the handle. there was a lot of shooting going on at the ground and they were shooting at our wing man with a nest of guns. there was a good number of militia down there that were protecting a strategic target. a lot of shooting going on. the wonderful training that i had in the air force and the military, they do a great job of training, i was unfazed by the fact that i was in enemy territory and i had bullets going by my parachute. what was on my mind was even eating capture