Particular course, but the sea will come, the wind will come, youll lose, ultimately youll move, ultimately, in a differentic direction. More prosaically, it comes from a period in my career when i was a fourstar admiral. I was finishing up down in u. S. Southern command, peter, and i was in charge of all military activity south of the United States. Andi i was very hopeful of going to the pacific next as the end of u. S. Pacific command which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. Gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career . Guest somewhat. So, lets go way back. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father, george stavridis, proud colone
Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
Straight to the senior economics reporter for this. Steve, what are some of the reasons why we might not trust this data . I guess im starting off with a bias, because this seems like really good news when were just off a huge pandemic. I think a reason not to trust it is were in the middle of an historic economic shutdown and apparently on the upside of that shutdown and nobody has ever seen this kind of thing before we hadnt seen 20 Million People lose their jobs in a single month, and we really have no idea how the jobs would come back all of the other indicators we were looking at suggested there would be massive job losses. And it is well to put that into perspective. Remember the forecast was for minus 8. 3, came in 2. 5, so folks, you can do the math at home on both sides of the zero line it is nearly 11 million jobs is the number that the consensus was off by and wall street was off by it a bit too, if you dont mind my saying, they had a nice rally when they realized maybe we w
Fauci says we are headed in the right direction. Every day this seems to be a record of number of deaths. At the same time we see the increase in deaths we are seeing rather dramatic decrease in the need for hospitalization, that is going in the right direction. I say that and i always remind myself when i say that, that means what we are doing is working. Therefore we need to continue to do it. Ashley what we are doing is working says Anthony Fauci, voters seem to like how the president is handling the crisis. His Approval Rating hitting a high of 49 in the latest poll and by the way he has tied joe biden in the president ial race. Just last month he trailed biden in the same poll by nine points. Still there is work to do in america remains worried about their money in 79 say they all worry that the virus will lead to Economic Hardship for the family. The Chip Administration still targeting the reopening of the economy and for 8 weeks and heres what Vice President mike pence says need