Biggest electric Utility Company in america he was going to give lots of people to the electric system and what a great market it would be. Didnt work out. There are two more episodes and finally we are here today. It is challenging to write a book on the subject to write the book that levi tillemann, several requirements necessary. You have to know cars and need a sense of Automobile Technology you have to know chinese and japanese and 4, you have to have the sense of National Politics and international competition. You wont make people who meet those requirements that you do meet them. To get started remember when this was a originally an idea. Give us a sense of what made you think, when you started the book, we are going to run out of oil, it will be 500 a barrel the electric car has its energy, today oil is 50 a barrel but nevertheless last year 125 electric cars were sold in the United States so tell us how you got involved with this and what made you decide to write on the subje
Simple world to American Foreign policy since americas preeminence after the Second World War and based on a very simple binary. Who can we bomb . Who can retake out to lunch . So china is a unique country because they went from being a country that belonged on the two bomb list to take out to lunch list. And it has become a lunch so therefore it has become far more interesting. Before we get started with michaels comment and i am questionandanswer with him and then open it to questions and answers from all of you we have a message of some congressmen randy foltz, chairman of the china caucus in the house of representatives dared he could not join us in person, but his message to life in his comments will be read out by my colleague, carolyn stewart. As secretary of the hudson and two. [inaudible] its a pleasure to have an opportunity to share brief thought on the hundredyear marathon and the contributions of dr. Michael pillsbury to the internment is the important debate about the fut
Very resilient country, and i think a much stronger country than any other major economy. And if you look at the challenges we face the country they are pretty stark challenges in the politics are terrible but i think that he would rather have our challenges than the challenges of really developed economy in any major emerging economies around the world. Sheryl sandberg also talked with former treasury secretary paulson after the militant Institute Conference you can see the entire event at eight eight eastern overrun cspan. On cspan three next, former capitol hill staffers that worked on intelligence oversight for lawmakers look at expiring provisions of the patriot act. The u. S. Senate meet sunday to debate those provisions read from the center for justice in washington d. C. This is an outward and a half. We have two incredible panelists. I know that we covered a lot of the congressional oversight issue with the Vice President. So on this one we are going to try to go a little bit
One of the most significant politicians in the country whose name is not remembered. Part of the problem is that in the nature. In 1954 there is enormous stigma and his widow made it her lifes work to make sure that the story of the suicide was never told. She went so far as to threaten the author of the history textbook that if he knew anything about the suicide in his textbook that she would sue him and so although he knew part of the story, he left it out and so for all these years students in history have read a book on page 521, but on page 521 of doctor larsons book it is overcome by personal and political problems he took his own life on june 19, 1953. He was enormously wellliked. Democrats democrats always have a hard time getting elected to the first time he ran for office, he was the top gogetter in his county and got elected to the legislature and people around the state asked him to run for state office when he became secretary of state and then governor. He was somebody th
Graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, who is the forgotten man . Guest president roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man as the man at the bottom of the pyramid so that would be the homeless man. But they were aware of another forgotten man in school and that was the man who pays for the government projects. The third party. There is even algebra about the other forgotten man saying a wants to help x but b wants to help x, too, but the problem is when they coherce c into it. It is the taxpayer. That is the question also today. Host in your book, the forgotten man a new history of the Great Depression, you write the big question about the american depression is not whether war with germany and japan ended it. It is why it lasted from 19291940 from hoover to roosevelt Government Intervention helped to make the depression great. Guest thank you for quotes that introduction. This is a book i wrote about the 1930s because we all learned something about it in school and that was the new d