And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
Begin with some working news. Lisa Moderna Vaccine information has come out. Rate is what we saw, i higher efficacy rate then pfizer. Last week, people were talking about pfizer and how it had to be kept at ultracold to birchers until a couple of days before it was distributed ultracold temperatures until a couple of days before it was distributed. This one has a 30 day shelf life at standard refrigeration. This is very promising, and we are seeing a reaction in markets. Jonathan they are the headlines. Lets plug them into the financial markets. There is the pop on what irna. Equity futures in the United States, on the s p 500 come on the nasdaq, and on the russell as well. Futures, up russell by a little more than 2 . A record high at the close on friday in the russell, and we advance once again. I want to check in on the bond market. Yields higher, curve steeper. Switch of the board. Bonds lower, yields higher, up three basis points on tens. On 30s, we advance three basis points. In
We now come to questions for the Prime Minister. And we start with andrew jones. The whole house is talking about the result of the heavily contested election. It is a year ago to the day that you were elected speaker. I wish you a happy anniversary and thanks to you for making this great again. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and will have further meetings later today. In liverpool friday the tests cut to get results, cut the spread of the virus by identifying people who were infected but not showing symptoms and the number of people and time involved, the benefits to the nhs, when does the Prime Minister think the results will be available in the benefits extended across the uk . The plans will last approximately two weeks and we will keep the house updated on the results they are evaluating. Leader of the opposition. Will the Prime Minister join me, what votes do or dont count or when to stop counting. The next must be the fair choice of the americ
I wish you a happy anniversary and thanks to you for making this great again. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and will have further meetings later today. In liverpool friday the tests cut to get results, cut the spread of the virus by identifying people who were infected but not showing symptoms and the number of people and time involved, the benefits to the nhs, when does the Prime Minister think the results will be available in the benefits extended across the uk . The plans will last approximately two weeks and we will keep the house updated on the results they are evaluating. Leader of the opposition. Will the Prime Minister join me, what votes do or dont count or when to stop counting. The next must be the fair choice of the american people. The terrorist attacks in vienna, i am sure i speak for the whole house, our thoughts are with those who are affected and congratulations on your one year anniversary. Turning from covid19, the 21st of septemb
Emory university provided this video. Prof. Allitt todays class is about president Richard Nixon and his National Security advisor, Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people ever to occupy the white house and had incredible political gifts. And on the other hand, hes one of the worst people to ever occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of paranoia. He was mistrustful, sometimes against the instruments of government like the state department. In the end, ruined himself by bringing about his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 19721974. We are going to look at the good and the bad side of the nixon presidency and nixons partnership with National Security advisor kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we could look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born in 1913. In whittier, california. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He