Connell mcshane on the washingtonall. Reporter we are watching every movement of the president elect since he made his way to the nations capital. It did look very president ial, a military jet, not trumps own private train that let him hear from new york to washington coming down those steps like it would look after tomorrow when he is sworn in. It would be designated air force one blues not today but it would be after tomorrow. From there it was to his hotel. He is on his way to Arlington National cemetery later today, at his hotel in washington dc he made some remarks. It wasnt that we didnt know he was going there, but we didnt know if we would get a shot at those remarks, he thanked members of his team and cabinet for all that has got him to this point and he is having downtime with the family before this appearance at arlington. The president elect will be joined in the next hour by the Vice President elect mike pence for a wreathlaying ceremony. It was pence who spoke earlier at
This is his first book and we are very fortunate to have him here today because he is soon to become a firsttime dads though the timing was just right. Please welcome daniel schulman. [applause] thanks for having me here today it is an honor to be with you. I thought i would give you a picture of the political evolution of the koch family and you can grill me as much or as little as you want it seems that they exploded onto the seat following the election of broccoli, but many, many decades and of making i will take you back on the journey i went to through. I found that to understand charles and david coke the place day cannes from ideologically requires me to understand their father. Fred is the patriarch growing up in the panhandle of texas his dad was the newspaperman and a democrat. And ends up going to m. I. T. Majoring in chemical engineering. Into balance around the United States with Oil Refineries and in the mid 1920s to forms a partnership which is eventually called winkler
Liberals are in it human nature. If you take is, if you realize people are living in Family Structures and why religious truth has been selling during is the reason we have every reason to believe those political conditions or social conditions we may face the need and desire will endure because that is ingrained in who we are. It is just a formal break down living together as if they stayed for life for the approximations allied counteroffensive just the way out is the breakdown is more than formal here. Is the formal problems that the consequence is better not be as catastrophic as we fear. On a more positive note the cuties thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] they were desperate for business is sang battle for whatever misgivings they had and entered into a 5 million deal to modernize the industry representative rating 50 refineries to train dozens of oil engineers. To be on the superpower that it would become eventually spending three months of the soviet union in 1938
The bridge and they share with the bridge endurance, and they love fact that the bridge was so beautiful and to work on something thats beautiful. Im sure in the time of the renaissance, probably some of those anonymous cathedral builders, those laborers who put the stones to some church or the coliseum. I mean, we knew who were the people who built the coliseum but they did something and a heavenly sense of living in that hereafter. These people work on something its finished and it goes on and on and they die or their have a lot of my age and they still look with wonderment at this bridge that gap no older. The bridge is as young as it was as and 64 and the rest of us age. What didnt age is the glory and the achievement. Thank you, joe spratt. A. Q. , gay talese. Thank you all for coming. And gay will be happy to sign copies of the bridge. [applause] would like to invite everybody to join us at the front of the museum where you can speak more with gay and joe and sam and will be sign
By a former candidate executive by the name of robert welch also is known as the anticommunist views at that point. They were brought there under the strictest secrecy. They didnt even know why theyre going to indianapolis. They were told not to even stay at the same hotel, less attract suspicion about why all these prominent businessmen are in one place. This ends up being the founding beanie of the John Birch Society and fred koch is literate in the room at the birth of this organization and goes on to play for palmer rolled with it. He becomes a National Council member and wichita, kansas becomes a real hotbed, wichita kansas which is where the koch feminist becomes a real hotbed of Birch Society organizing. I was speaking with eugene earlier who mentioned as a School Teacher in texas, the Birch Society really targeted her for some the things that were said in her classroom at that time and it really brought back a lot of memories for me about researching this book especially what w