Blue and Herbert Hoover came to the white house is trained geologists, an experience world travelers who were successful in both the private and public sectors. But just months into hoovers term, the market crashed. First Lady Lou Hoover used her office to advocate volunteer is a man charity, but as the Great Depression deep into, theyre one term and it amidst great public frustration. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies influence an image. Tonight the story of Lou Henri Hoover the. Hoover administration in 1929 to 1933 and what an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about her years before the white house as we get started tonight is annette dunn lap. Historian author first ladies biographer scholar with the Hoover Institution and working on a biography of Lou Henri Hoover. What is to just interested you to dispensable years of your life looking into this one. I got interested in her with talking with a friend of mine through the library up in canton ohio and when i started
Of citigroup, although Tobias Levkovich will join us later. On a serious note, things deteriorate in hong kong in the last 24 hours. Francine a lot of the focus is on china. We have the National Peoples congress and the premier talking about targets being abandoned because it is too difficult to predict gdp and they want to create 9 million jobs, less than the 11 million jobs in 2019. We will have to see what happens with hong kong, the lobbying passing through. The u. S. Will weigh in and china is pushing back. I would focus on china all day today. Tom absolutely would. Jon ferro way out front on the tensions of washington and beijing. Here is ritika gupta. Ritika hong kong activists are calling for protests against a new china security role. The National Peoples congress is expected to pass the islation forcing hong kong acts of treason and subversion. President trump well react very strongly. China abandoned its practice of setting a target for Economic Growth and will shift its foc
And Boris Johnson out there clapping for carers britains streets are filled with the falls right night for the National Health Service Workers. For the economic devastation caused by the krona virus is becoming clearer with the u. S. Announcing a major rise in the Unemployment Rates a record 6600000 americans a point for Unemployment Benefits for the 1st time in the past week thats 3000000 more than the week before some 10000000 people in total in the u. S. Still benefits in march there was a similar story over in spain the locked down there has cause more than 800000 redundancies last month many of them Seasonal Workers such as those in the hard hit Tourism Industry and 3 and a half 1000000 spaniards dont have a job or toll and the number of british people applying for government benefits is 10 times higher than normal almost a 1000000 brits claimed universal credit in the last c. Weeks and thats despite a stimulus package aimed at preventing layoffs well lets get more now on the situ
And Boris Johnson clapping for british streets filled with applause for the National Health service workers. The economic devastation caused by the coronavirus is becoming clearer, the u. S. Announcing a major rise in the unemployment rate. A record 6. 6 million americans applied for unemployment and if its for the first time in the past week. That is 3 million more than the week before. 10 Million People in total in the u. S. Sought benefits in march. It was a similar story in spain. The lucked out there has caused more than 800,000 redundancies the lockdown there has caused more than 800,000 redundancies, many Seasonal Workers as the coronavirus hits the tourism industry. Many spaniards dont have a job at all. The number of people applying for government benefits is 10 times higher than normal. Britt claimed universal credits in the last two weeks despite to chromium despite a stimulus package aimed at preventing layoffs. Lets get more of the situation in the u. S. Our correspondent
Arrests where. Its and standing by for us president there talking about a number of topics lets start out with china it sounds like hes opening the door for some new possibilities. Brian in the past 2 days reporting here from the g 7 i already announced once that President Donald Trump had softened his stance on china when he said he had 2nd thoughts about escalating relations with china in other words requesting that came to this tit for tat trade war about then the white house clarified that actually what the president meant was in other words poor and more oil into the fire so he should have been tougher slapping tougher sanctions on china and what we have now is it began the exact opposite of the president saying were close to a deal so maybe we need to wait until the chinese authorities confirmed that they actually called trump and also maybe we need to wait for the white house to see what they made of the statement ok so time to stand back a little bit on this statement there was