Coming up next on the presidency, author Warren Bingham talks about his book George Washington 1791 southern tour 689 he discusses the newly election to the southern states, and promote the constitution. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this hour and 20 minute event. All right. Good evening, everybody. Its great to see such a full house tonight. Im rob shenk. I want to welcome you all this evening to the ford evening book talk. Weve got a great topic for tonight. The Washington Library is proud to offer free monthly book talks as part of our mission to disseminate knowledge about the colonial revolutionary and founding eras. I want to pause to thank ford motor company. Ford has been a supporter of mount vernon for more than 90 years. [ applause ] tonights guest is Warren Bingham. Hes a speaker, broadcaster, free lance writer, and author. He earned a b. A. In history from the university of North Carolina. Go heels. An m. A. From hollins university. His career includes nearly 25 ye
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Ahead. Cisco sees the light. The Company Topped its earnings targets after the close. Cisco ceo John Chambers notes that 2013 is off to a slow start but sees early signs of improvement in europe. And democrats are working on a new bill that could replace the 85 billion in automatic spending cuts that take effect march 1st if there is no deal. Time now for a look at what traders have to say about the day. Joe cusik joins us for that. He is from options express. Good morning joe. We had earnings after the close coming in from cisco. What is your first thought . You know what, cisco came in, they did what they expected. The thing is that they diversified their revenues from the switching and routing, and now they are looking at that i. T. Infrastructure. So, that actually could bring revenues a little bit more rapidly, even though there was a dropoff. Obviously the hard part is that while the macroeconomic trend has been positive, they are heavily saturated in europe. We want to see that