Private study at his mount vernon, virginia estate. Doug bradburn, the estates president and ceo, talks about the artifact there and how washington used the room, and what that tells us about his life and work. This program originally live streamed on Mount Vernons Facebook Page and youtube channel. It is part of a series of Online Events intended to keep visitors connected with mount vernon during its closure to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. Im once again hear from mount vernon. Im doug bradburn, president and ceo of George Washingtons mount vernon. Today, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you inside the mansion, into George Washingtons study. This is what i like to call his man cave. In some ways it is almost the opposite of the place we visited last time. Newook at the room, which was a state room, where George Washington was showing off to the public his ideas of what the Young Country should emulate, also his history. Also, his own emphasis on agriculture. Th
I was the one that was drafted because i was a senior. I ended up being the boss man in the initial phase of this and we can get into hour it was done shortly. One of the benefits to writing this book was it allowed me to think back. I do a come pparison with what know today, and i compare what i saw and what i see in writing about the navy at it existed today, and i think it did a pretty fair job i started in 1953, two jobs going to college, and everyone was breathing on my nec, and we went in the reserves. So there is a squadron. And i worked here is the first good one. I was working for a chief named brown and he was my mentor. Mentor is a keyword you will hear a lot from me. I carried his tool box and i got his coffee when i wanted and he spent an inordinate amount of time teaching me how to maintain those airplanes. We went on and it was right down here. Im in dc tonight, forgive me i make mistakes. But we had the first jet squadron. A young lieutenant. A twin compact. And they sa
Discussing his book top gun an american story, Aerial Combat and how his book inspired the 1986 movie to the gun. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. Welcome to tonights program. To our members, im so glad youre here. Its your support that makes events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at naval station miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the
In the United States nears 50,000 the moves comes as the president pushes to reopen the country for business by easter well have more on that in a minute lets get right over to bob for more on what is leading this rally. Hi, bob. This has been a very powerful rally. We are off of our highs. We had some tremendous volume moves early in the morning as we kept hitting new highs thats a good sign were offer the highs. The most beaten up sectors are the leaders. Industries down 27, 28 . We were 80 on the vxxix a short while ago. You keep seeing it going down. That was over 50 a few day ago my favorite quote of the day, joseph walk, those of you trying to figure out what the earnings will be like, he was asked what his earnings would be like he said i know well be 100 precisely wrong. A little bit of welcome humility there. In next two weeks well hear earnings coming in and a lot of companies will decide not to provide guidance a frinend said that dude had some really cool posters he referen
Skype today. You have a big day for the dow admittedly, were talking a lot about numbers in the last 15 minutes or so listening to Governor Cuomo go through troubling numbers in new york sta state. 37,000 total cases deaths up 100 in the past 24 hours. Lets keep everything into perspective as were talking about all this and thinking about the folk who is are hurting as a result of this virus. Tell me what youre thinking about today. Youre in the midst of a big day. Could be the best week for stocks since the 1930s yeah, my plan to take trades where i can get them super size core positions. On the show yesterday probably light exposure as the day went on when the market popped 5 yesterday, i found it troubling on top of the big move we had the day before i did take some exposure off late yesterday afternoon still, extremely well invested at this point where it was a week ago in terms of cash. Today were having another 5 day and im a little perplexed the vix is telling us, if its an accu