The economys seen long term we look back obviously the one nine hundred thirty s. The one nine hundred early part of the sixtys the eightys the ninetys its very difficult to tell now if the president has a real impact unless hes a true visionary with a real plan you spent a lot of time. Studying president nixon did he have an Economic Policy that was. Approved by congress. They basically in it one of the three key things to talk about nixon is and everybody brings of watergate we make these associations with present there is that there is that the plan the nixon had people often say have watergate not occurred and had the book had the boom of the one nine hundred eighty s. Taken place in the seventys maybe nixon would have been perceived differently by history. Nixons often given bad marks because of the over regulation of control with price controls and that sort of thing so he had to deal with quite a few other issues in addition the economy in addition watergate the middle east what
Named after him is celebrated on the third one day of february but the day is also known as president today and honors all other president s including president Abraham Lincoln one whose birthday is just past february twelfth well talk some more about president today with president ial historian from Boston University professor walter month tunnels and while u. S. Markets are closed nationally banks looks like Global Markets plus we look at the japanese Steel Industries response to the u. S. Commerce Department Proposal to impose curbs on steel imports into the United States all of that coming up but first lets get to some headlines. As the olympics continue in south korea south korean president moon j. N. Said on monday that the General Motors Company Decision to shutter a plant south of seoul in the city of gun sin would be a big bust for the nation and as asked as admit. Astray ssion to take measures to increase Economic Activity in the region the plan is applied as employed two tho
Recall that innocent civilians are trapped in the in the middle as your report just showed so we should first remind that but i think that this situation now is precarious because the Syrian Government forces will have to move to our three and there is no other choice aphelion is part of syria so therefore if they let the african down and they do not actually interfere that shows that they. Lenient with their vision of the territory and that is not the position of the Syrian Government in fact this turkish escalation brings the city as together it creates more unity among the city and it makes them realize that in the end they will have to be under the authority of the government the legitimate government in syria and that is the legitimate force equating to International Law that is supposed to control all syrian territory including after now the the turkish incursion into africa and under the pretext the alleged pretext of eliminating terrorism is there you know this alleged pretext
Building canals over the over the mountains to get to get west but really when you think about moments where infrastructure was important were talking about a big infrastructure poll now president just put one out one point five trillion dollars proposal but lets go back to the civil war professor and talk about how infrastructure played a role in the civil war and really helped honest abe lincoln absolutely when you look at what was happening in washington back then it was a major metamorphosis between what was happening in the eight hundred fifty s. In the latter part of the eighteen sixtys washington is transformed almost as intensely as it is during World War Two the city just completely changes overnight lincoln having been a whig party member prior to being a republican was big on internal improvements as people may recall big infrastructure began setting the ground for what would eventually be the Trans Pacific railroad rail act that he would pass an eight hundred sixty three. S
You may have noticed the protesters outside, the group complained that he publishes his direct is too quickly, we can keep up with them. He started with charles dickens, he wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. He wrote a biography of thomas carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. Mark twain, John Quincy Adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about theght, lincoln and abolitionists. Historians want to tell you about what happened in the world and why it is important. This is from the carlisle biography one of the most famous librarians in history , he used to go there a lot. He did not do well. The library and a librarian where generating small antagonisms toward each other. This culminated in the public criticism during parliamentary hearings. That is when libraries were really important. On the future of the museum in of9, he was one more example the a