The life of Wendell Willkie. I stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your costs and that your cause and that of democracy. [applause] i expect the republicans Wendell Willkie ran for president in 1940. These are some damages some images of him on the campaign trail. We are here with David Willkie. I want you to introduce the cabinet audiences of some of the fervor. Your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat Franklin Delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. Was seeking a third term. Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac. Grew up in elwood. When they married, this was the place they generally call home. In the family, my great great grandfather had lost his shirt during the depression. Instead of giving his father in law a handout, when the willkie and bought a farm land. He asked his fatherinlaw if he would manage it. How much time did he spend no ques
I, you know, i would like to talk to more people about the memoir, you know, i always say inevitability each time i talk to someone about it. Its the hardest book i have written and never want to write another memoir again. I laugh after i say it. But seriously when i say it but even though it was i dont know it even though it was very difficult, i still believe in i believe in the book, you know, like, i believe that it tells a story that is worth telling. And, you know, attempting to Say Something important. So, you know, even though it was very hard for me to, you know, i dont regret it. I just know that i will hopefully wont do it again. So i figured i would read a little bit from the prologue just to situate us, and then im going to skip thank you. Im going skip to the last chapter and read some bits from the last chapter. I dont want to confuse you, but in the last chapter, theres some statistics and that this is, you know, this book there are not many statistics show up. Numbers
Substantive, it doesnt have a lot of nutritional content to it and we are going to be right back in again and again. Markets will lose confidence. We will gradually lose our global credibility as an economic leader. We might see our Credit Rating damaged more over time. And it is the slow defense of the United States that is the real risk. The fiscal cliff is something that can be fixed fairly easily. Host finally, i would like to go back, David Rothkopf come to your comments about government. National government being neanderthal it. There was a throwaway line of sight while we are still organized as nation states economically. Again, where we going in the future. I think we will see the future. Because we live in geographic proximity to one another, we also have city governments, state governments in the United States, we have a federal government in the United States and its only natural that another layer of government that deals with issues of loss. But over the course of the next
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