Our beloved former trustee who was with us through some really rough times at the museum and had showed great leadership and compassion for the museum. So were very happy to be able to honor him in this way. And now i want to introduce our guests. Peter sokolowski is editor at large for miriam webster, and hes just a delight. Weve had an interactions with him before and i know youre going to enjoy his company and hes going to be in conversation with jess mchugh author of americannon. Shes a writer and researcher whose work has appeared across a variety of national and International Publications including the New York Times the wall street journal the washington posts and many many others. Shes reported stories from four continents on a range of cultural and historical topics from presentday. Liverpool punks to the history of 1960s activists in greenwich village, and i have spent some time with both of our guests in the green room and just now early in a techron, and i know youre going
Industry standard now a Pulitzer Prize winner dominic gates covers the Aerospace Industry for the Seattle Times. Hes had this beat since 2003. Theyre here tonight to discuss peters book flying blind, the 737 max tragedy in the fall of boeing. Please join me in welcoming dominic gates and peter robinson. Okay. Well, first of all, thank you all for coming. Im dominic gates. This is peter robison. And before i start throwing questions adam, let me just say a a few things about the book. And id like to begin by since the subtitle of the book is includes the fall of boeing. Id like to begin by recalling the great legacy of boeing. And what it means to this region and to the world. Boeing give the puget puget sound region a great part of its social fabric all those bluecollar jobs, very highly paid. Engineering work that was world class. Was all here for a hundred years and generations of families have grown up with boeing and its created the economy of the Pacific Northwest and of course it
Him before and i know youre going to enjoy his company and hes going to be in conversation with jess mchugh author of americannon. Shes a writer and researcher whose work has appeared across a variety of national and International Publications including the New York Times the wall street journal the washington posts and many many others. Shes reported stories from four continents on a range of cultural and historical topics from presentday. Liverpool punks to the history of 1960s activists in greenwich village, and i have spent some time with both of our guests in the green room and just now early in a techron, and i know youre going to enjoy their company, so im welcoming now to the screen jess mchugh. Hi, jess. Hi, so happy to be here. And i will tell our listeners too. That what time is it where you both are one oclock in the morning. That is correct. Were doubly glad to have you here and i cant wait to hear what you have to say. So peter, will you let me know when its time to come
Industry standard now a Pulitzer Prize winner dominic gates covers the Aerospace Industry for the Seattle Times. Hes had this beat since 2003. Theyre here tonight to discuss peters book flying blind, the 737 max tragedy in the fall of boeing. Please join me in welcoming dominic gates and peter robinson. Okay. Well, first of all, thank you all for coming. Im dominic gates. This is peter robison. And before i start throwing questions adam, let me just say a a few things about the book. And id like to begin by since the subtitle of the book is includes the fall of boeing. Id like to begin by recalling the great legacy of boeing. And what it means to this region and to the world. Boeing give the puget puget sound region a great part of its social fabric all those bluecollar jobs, very highly paid. Engineering work that was world class. Was all here for a hundred years and generations of families have grown up with boeing and its created the economy of the Pacific Northwest and of course it
Ethics, the office of government ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual position because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect basically ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in american politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are actually having confirmation hearings before they have been complet