Youre an easy crowd. On behalf of the board and the whole march for life team i would like to welcome you to the 45th annual march for life. [ cheers and applause ] you are part of the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. We will begin just as we should. I will welcome to the stage to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. He is from the knights of columbus of Catholic University of america. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. Now im absolutely delighted to introduce you to mckenna donahue, a ninth Grade Student who travelled from buzzards bay, massachusetts. She going to lead us in the national anthem. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched
But every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest and has spoken. The president unlike a lot of organizations, we give the president the last word of the evening. So in a matter what is said before, how much lampooning going on, the president gets the last word which is a very important attraction. And it is viewed as important enough that theyve all come. Some of them havent come every year. President obama hasnt. Richard nixon didnt come every year. And so i say at the end especially at the end. Or carter. And Ronald Reagan was here every year and his wife performed famously singing secondhand clothes to the tune of secondhand rose and turned her image around. Everybody had her as a big stuffy and standoffish and everybody agrees that america appreciated her more afterwards. And that was one case where motos did photos did leak out somehow, we think through the white house. And president of the Gridiron Club this year, thank you for your insights. And thank
Through formal invitation, prodding and cajoling, find people who know the president well and get to them and to put in a good word for you, et cetera. President s, since Grover Cleveland, who was in office when the club was founded, nobody could convince him to come. He didnt get along that well with the media. But does any president . But every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest and has spoken. The president unlike a lot of organizations, we give the president the last word of the evening. So in a matter what is said before, how much lampooning going on, the president gets the last word which is a very important attraction. And it is viewed as important enough that theyve all come. Some of them havent come every year. President obama hasnt. Richard nixon didnt come every year. And so i say at the end especially at the end. Or carter. And Ronald Reagan was here every year and his wife performed famously singing secondhand clothes to the tune of secondhan
Where did the time go . We recap the last decade. This is daybreak asia, live from u. S. And asian headquarters. Betty i am betty liu in new york, it is just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong. I am yvonne man. When itte dance we see comes to communications. We saw a little choreography over many different reasons. You have yellen, mark carney, the bank of canada, all signaling rate hikes are coming. Take a look at market moves on my bloomberg terminal. Doing damage control after the many taper tantrum tuesday. Markets not buying it. On the move, but not recovering the strike in yields. The euro taking a dip. We have the pound and the loony surging. Betty global tightening is just around the corner. Not more than three months ago we were talking about, what about the reflation trade . It seems it is losing momentum. Here we are, all sparked by these comments from the Central Banks. When will theis, markets be convinced and how long will that last . Yv
Know weve a younger audience, thats wikipedia without the internet. Thats where he was introduced to Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. After the short time in the navy, he began his higher educati education, excuse me, earning his bachelors of science in physics and mathematics and a miner chemistry, by the way. A masters degree in physics and ph. D. Would follow from stanford. Summing it up like that makes it sound easy. In interviews he points out the hardships and rewards for his perseverance, fueled by the drive to silence his doubters. Through that perseverance, his resume now includes eight u. S. Patents, a professorship in the physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of technology, being named the chief science officer for discovery communications, you might have seen him from a show called outrageous acts of science, a Research Position at mit, and most recently a position at nasa in washington, dc. His research focuses on the development of instrumentation f