Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals on the third circuit. Welcome. On monday the constitution of the United States turned 225. Tonights program is one of several that the National Archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. Tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of United States constitution. Our
Time zones. You can also contact us via social media on twitter or facebook or by email. Before we get an update on the fiscal cliff, two articles to show you. This is from the houston chronicle. Thats from the houston chronicle. If there are updates, we will get those throughout this mornings program. One other article and we want to show you according to one article, the nominee has flown back from hawaii with the president on air force one. Most of the papers are filled with articles about the fiscal cliff issue. Joining us now is merideth shiner of cq roll call. Ms. Shiner. Guest ms. Shiner seem so formal. Were having a recession in between christmas and new years. That has not happened since the 1970s. Maybe we should play disco or maybe they should just finished their work so they can stop making terrible jokes. I think you are a point to see some push in the next few days to try to get some sort of small deal done. You have to remember and your viewers will notice, because they
Debt. The debt is a huge problem just like a cancer patient has a problem with pain. But it isnt healthy to be but it is analytically unhelpful to be thinking in terms of the debt crisis. We might as well refer to the crisis we are going through as the savings crisis, a crisis caused by too much savings. You have never heard anyone from bloomberg refer to it as a crisis of a glut of money with nowhere to go, but it is, just as much as it is a crisis of debt. Lets begin at the beginning. Lets talk about debt. Reading the mainstream outlets, newspapers, or listening to the idiotic stations like fox, hyou would think that it is possible to have capitalism without debt. Recall of feudalism. Well, it isnt. Once, it was possible to have an economy with debt that is marginal. Recall feudalism. What was the process that led to the accumulation of wealth . It began with production. Peasants work on the land. They produce wheat, corn, so production came first. Then came distribution. That would
10 episodes appeared on showtime. Oliver stone Work Together with historian untold history of the United States. Peter kuznick. It is a multipart documentary that features a companion book with the name, untold history of the United States. It draws on archival findings recently declassified documents from the atomic bombing of japan to the cold war to the fall of communism and continuing all the way through to president obama. I want to go back to my interview with oliver stone and Peter Kuznick from when the showtime series first aired. First, this is the trailer of oliver stones, untold history of the United States. Exciting and i want to make it as exciting as it can be. We take a history subject and make it not only dramatic, but we are compassionate. There was a disconnect about what is officially reported and what actually happened. You cant accept that something is just handed down. This is the key to the whole series, the find out how we got to where we are and who we are. It
10 episodes appeared on showtime. Oliver stone Work Together with historian untold history of the United States. Peter kuznick. It is a multipart documentary that features a companion book with the name, untold history of the United States. It draws on archival findings recently declassified documents from the atomic bombing of japan to the cold war to the fall of communism and continuing all the way through to president obama. I want to go back to my interview with oliver stone and Peter Kuznick from when the showtime series first aired. First, this is the trailer of oliver stones, untold history of the United States. Exciting and i want to make it as exciting as it can be. We take a history subject and make it not only dramatic, but we are compassionate. There was a disconnect about what is officially reported and what actually happened. You cant accept that something is just handed down. This is the key to the whole series, the find out how we got to where we are and who we are. It