Iran hostage crisis. On november 4, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of iranian students who stormed the u. S. Embassy, the combination of worsening relations between this country and iran in the wake of the iranian revolution in february 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the 20, 1981,n january after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 444 days, it has had a lasting influence on the relationship between the two countries. Images of iranian students breaching the u. S. Embassy, shouting antiamerican slogans, detaining Embassy Officials and burning the american flag, traumatized a nation and a presidency. They live on in popular consciousness here with such movies as the 2012 movie argo and they continue to weigh on the public discourse. Here today, we want to explore the Lasting Impact of the hostage crisis a bit further, and we have convened a panel of distinguished experts which will be moderated by my colleague. Im very ple
And everything we loved buy, buy, buy. Sell, sell, sell we now hate. Some stocks, the cyclicals and especially the oils were laid to waste while others, the Consumer Product stocks roared higher almost regardless of how theyre doing. All this action is masked by the averages. The dow sank 54 points and the nasdaq declined 5. 47 and underneath the market is seething and roiling and you know what . Its begging for prognostication. So what is going . Why are we tossing out the Natural Resource stocks and embracing stocks that do well in the slowdown . Three reasons, the United States, europe and china. Big reasons. All of the three legs are developing some chinks and theyre showing in a way thats freaking out owners of stocks that we havent seen since Interest Rates started to soar in the spring. First, as has been the case all year, everything comes down to this darn bond market. Interest rates which seemed to be on the brink of busting out of levels we havent seen in ages are on retreat
Buy, buy, buy. Sell, sell, sell we now hate. Some stocks, the cyclicals and especially the oils were laid to waste while others and the Consumer Product stocks roared higher almost regardless of how theyre doing. The dow sank 54 points and the nasdaq declined 5. 47 and underneath the market is seething and rolling and you know what . Its begging for prognosticat n prognostication. So what is going . Why are we tossing out the Natural Resource stocks that do well in the slowdown . Three reasons, the United States, europe and china. Big reasons. All of the three legs are developing some chinks and theyre showing in a way thats freaking out owners of stocks that we havent seen since Interest Rates started to soar in the spring. First, as has been the case all year, everything has come down to the darn bond market. Interest rates which seemed to be on the brink of busting out of levels we havent seen in ages are at a pace that we only see when the economy is going into a real slowdown, if
Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, sought a better relationship with the soviet union, and presented his doubts on the u. S. Involvement in the non. This is about one hour. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be back at politics and prose, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, not just in washington, d. C. Id like to ask you, who here has seen the portrait of kennedy in the National Portrait gallery in the halls of kennedy . Thats great. You know its quite unlike any of the other portraits. It was painted by the estranged wife of the story behind how the portrait happened to be there i think is a kind of interesting one and, in fact, i opened my book with it. Id like to share it with you just briefly. She was supposed to paint one portrait for the Truman Library in independence, missouri, and she was chosen because everybody knew that john f. Kennedy was too restless to sit for portrait painter. So William Weldon thought lets get elaine it was not as the fastest brush in
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