Legislative advisor and lobbyist for kissinger really by default because there was no such thing on the National Security council at the time. And when dick, and i was assistant to dick, when he took over the overall, that was all full of congressional relations because the subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee was holding a series of hearings, a major series of hearings on foreign commitments and overseas commitments of which the bases were a central part. So i became by default when dick left, the base study was my portfolio. I spent half of my time on the hell on what became a hill on what became a major onslaught on the vietnam policy. This was theforum for the end the war group at the time. And gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that ended up coming ended up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. Dick kaegel big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when he
Left, the base study was my portfolio. So i found myself spending half of my time on the hill on what became a major onslaught against the administrations the vietnam policy. This was sort of the forum for the end the war group at the time. And so gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that came up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. It was an opportunity for me because dick kaegel had a big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when dick departed i was the only guy there with the inbox. So i ended up working on all of the classified issues, the war powers amendment and the european troop level reductions initiatives. It became a very busy time. It was a great experience for me. It was a great opportunity because by default i was the congressional relations person. And i stayed as henrys hill advisor for, until he left the white house, basically. You mentioned that you
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And from the nsa Prison Program to facebooks acquisition of story of but our lead the day, Caroline Hyde sat down today in chen barcelona. They talked about the value of blackberrys messaging service in light of the whatsapp acquisition. Cory johnson is hereto well. One of their biggest assets. I was surprised when i started to do more research on whatsapp. M ist of people said bb dominant. U. S. , butnot in the wherea Strong Service people want that business. It is an asset to blackberry. In general messaging is such a basic need, its was interesting talking to Allison Rosenthal the acid Allison Rosenthal. In users. Aw a spike people want it when they want it. What is going to happen, we are going to move away from the carriers for texting, whatever you want to collect, to other applications, over the top. It is very interesting but it does not mean the dollars are going to transfer. One study said 35 billion worth of Text Messages did not happen. That does not mean it is spent over t
108. The current continues index, 111. 3 in october. Again, versus the reuters consensus of 111. 6. Ifo expected index, 103. 6, a little below the expected forecast of 104. 5. There are no revisions to the september indices. The ifo index is probably the years most important sentiment index, slightly lower than what we might have thought. Not by much, but by a little bit. Joining us in the studio for the first part of the show today, moo moodys analytics. Frank, thanks very much for joining us. Thats the ifo sentiment index. Slightly lower than we might have thought. Yesterday we saw from the pmis, as well, slightly weaker than we might have thought. Is the economy, are things just softening slightly . I dont think so. The German Economy is doing very well. The pmi did slow down a little bit. They came weaker, but they still point to expansion this year. The Unemployment Rate in germany is 6. 9 based on the National Statistics and it grew strongly in the Second Quarter. It is likely to