Thanks so much for joining us toda today. You have been interim chief since march. How would you describe these past few months . I would say this is one of the more transformational moments in policing. No doubt. For so many reasons. One in the spotlight, is, of course, the death of george floyd. Our heart broke. We seen a lot of protests, including in oakland. We saw it last week when people were out if your city for jacob blake, chofs shwho was shot by n police. You have discerned that theyre not. Right. Can you break down the different groups out there . You know, i think whats happened in the past several weeks, particularly, is that what were seeing now is the demonstrations are differentiating themselves and that those who are sincere and out there to demonstrate peacefully and carry their message forward of the pain, the hurt, the social injustice and the racial lens that is so much a part of the First Amendment activities weve seen in oakland and throughout the country, rightf
Press. Before we begin the program i would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who will be joining Virtual Program the first time. If your not familiar with the massachusetts historical society, we are the first historical site in america and have been collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing your history of 1791. We hold an amazing collection of 14 million pages including the papers of the first three president of the United States. Sorry three of the first six president of the United States. I misspoke. We are continuing to collect today and if you are interested, we are currently collecting material related to the covid19 experience, we have a special initiative who will record peoples experiences during this unusual time and preserve a standpoint firsthand accounts for future generations. In the date of social distancing, we have taken hosting Virtual Programs and online programs playing every week until the end of july. Even into the beginning of august. Next week we
Looking at the biggest weekly loss since late june the s p both with interday trading. The nasdaq is on track the fourth week in a row on higher prices dow futures indicated down at this poirchlnt looking at yields for the 10year. New this morning, china and the u. S. Have agreed to review the progress of the phase one part of the trade deal well do that in the coming days talks are scheduled from last saturday the review comes as u. S. china ties have deteriorated just summarizing you know that. Thats one of the reasons why. We knew that yes we have seen a series of things that show the relationship has deteriorated if you were to try to put the different segments of the rift, you are up at almost double digits how many Different Things have become bones of contention and the second largest, largest some days economy in the world. A global nightmare we need them, they need us on a certain way it is official taking advantage on what the administration would argue from the markets persp
And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury print culture, womens magazines on any period and radical or alternative press. Before we begin id like to extend a special welcome to anyone joining the Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society we are the first Historical Society in america and have been preserving publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold a collection of 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the unitedstates. Or im
I have a public plan, and as one whose heart has ached for the past eight years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of indochina on inaugural day. [applause] greta it was 1972, 2 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. A few months later, he would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. The contenders. The candidacy and legacy of George Mcgovern. We are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. Joining us from there is president ial author scott farris. Acceptance speech in miami. Why . Scott thank you, greta. Of the structure of the Mcgovern Campaign. Against the establishment. Senator mcgovern, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator mcgovern as one of the most who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. He spoke about that war in ways no president ial candidate had ever spoken about war before. It was la