[applause] thank you so much. It is wonderful to be here with all of you. I loved being at an independent bookstore like this one as those who treat write books rely on places like this entirely not just for selling them but the injury should we hope. So i appreciate this opportunity and i always encourage people to patronize their independent bookstores their goal of mine to figure out what you want then come here to buy its. I shed as they as a minor correction i am now at the Watson Institute for International Studies which is a wonderful place to do research and work with wonderful professors and students. And they are, like everyone else have largely forgotten or never knew about the teeeighteen brothers for throat while i was immersing myself in the lives of these extraordinary brothers i came to realize how remarkable was there fall from public consciousness at the height of the cold war would never in power in the 1950s these were immensely powerful figures could make him break
And during this period one was immersing myself in the lives of these extraordinary brothers, i began to realize that cold war, when they were in power in the 1950s, these were immensely powerful figures and they could make and break government. And they certainly did. Probably every literate human being on the face of the earth knew the name dulles. And now the dulles brothers, its like we have forgotten him. I realize this while we were writing the book because several times when friends of mine asked me what you working on, and i said i would than writing a book about dulles, they would look at me and say the airport . [laughter] and the dulles approached the world did not work out well for the United States. I think that thats part of the reason that we have airbrush them out of our history. They tell us things about ourselves that we really dont like to see or feel or hear. As a result, we have allowed them to shrink from history. Nations like to think of themselves as good. We al
Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen
Cost our country 600,000 jobs . Yes. Moving discretionary funding backed up to the original cast and not having the sequester take effect. And that would take a half a point away from gross to mustek product . By the end of 2014. Florida, thein types of jobs we are talking about, we have seen some very harmful impact. Our premier Cancer Research center in tampa, before the sequester, they had 120 researchers working to find a cure for cancer. They are down to 100. The air force base is one of our Largest Community economic drivers. They are furloughing Mental Health counselors among others. That part of the budget is shrinking, but the sequester does not give us a lot of room to maneuver on where we want those cuts to take place. Law enforcement, job losses from cuts to the court, very significant cut accident education. Adopted republicans this cr last week, it became Crystal Clear that they intend to march forward with those sequester cuts. Report and at your those kind of expenditur
Was being built. President eisenhower announced that the airport would be named Dulles Airport. When kennedy took over, he didnt want to name it after a crusty old cold war era. The was pushed back and finally the decision was made to name it after dulles. You can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with eisenhower there and allen dulles there. He pulls back a curtain and behind the curtain is this giant bust of John Foster Dulles. That stands in the middle of this big airport. I went to see it while i was writing this book. I couldnt find it. I started asking security guards. Nobody had ever even heard of it. It was a long process and finally, thanks to the washington airport authority, i was able to discover that the bust had been taken away from its place in the middle of the airport and it is now in a closed Conference Room opposite baggage claim number three. I find this a wonderful metaphor for how the dulles brothers who at one time exercised earth shattering