[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders. Im part of the event staff. Politics and prose, and its her honor just on behalf of the staff and the owners to welcome here for this event for brad snyder and his book house of truth a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. A fe housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devices so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention if you are a regular come sometimes you know we ask you to put up the chairs. We will have an event following this one so after the event is over you can just leave the chairs as they are. We are honored to have cspans booktv who comes out to many of our events, so this is being recorded. But as a part of that we would really like to have come up whenever you ask a question because it will b
Halfway through the first volume of the landmark history of the Federal Reserve. Not only having worked at the Federal Reserve, but having had lunch many, many times talking about his history, i have followed closely over time the massive transformations that has occurred at the fed, just since the financial crisis but over my lifetime. And before, and to think that the first 10 years of my life we were on the Gold Standard, you know, it suggests that things have changed a lot. And so when a friend at the wall street journal called up to ask if i would review a new book by a university of pennsylvania professor named peter contibrown called that are independent of the Federal Reserve, i jumped at the chance because of two things. One, i really do love that they. I think it had a big positive impact on my professional life at its a very important place in washington filled with people who want to do the right thing. They sometimes fail but i love the spirit of the food. The second thing
Logan was very well known the veterans vote was a very powerful force in the postcivil war period in america. Blaine because he was very much involved in an emerging political career when the civil war broke out he was speaker of the house in maine, the maine house of representatives and he was about to run for congress so he did what many men did at the time and he actually bought a substitute. It cost about 300 to have someone else go in your said the. Cleveland had done the same thing so it was a very interesting situation that prior to the 1884 campaign you always had someone in office in the presidency, grant and hayes and garfield who had been civil war officers. But blaine and cleveland were not. So which ever one of them had one it would have been the first generation it would have been a break in that generation, yes. We had a viewer who asked about his death so will you now tell us the story of his death . Yes, well, as has been mentioned, he was a man who was prone to illnes
Our profile of president ial candidates continues thursday night on American History tv with a look at labor leader and socialist Party President ial candidate eugene debs. He ran for office five times in the early 20th century. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3, the life and legacy of alexander hamilton. Hamiltons argument was that the war had been a common struggle. All the states were fighting together for the liberty of all, for the whole country. So he assumed the debts of the 13 states along with the federal debt. They would all be treated as one debt. They would be paid off at the same time. Saturday evening, a little after 7 00 eastern. Author and National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser on the economic achievements of alexander hamilton. And then at 10 00 on real america, the 1945 War Department film the last bomb documents the final months of the b29 super fortress air campaign against japan, inclu
Receptor. Marijuana works we tested it at the cancer society. It was a fun time to walk down the halls. [laughter] it worked in making people eat and having less nausea and vomiting. Now theres other ways of doing it then using marijuana. Two questions. Why does all the research all have to happen within the confines of the u. S. System . And how fast, wheres it going and the other part of my question which is, we all look at things in technology is such a massive part of this and we think literally timewise and we have been pushing for 40 years since the one cancer began. Now here we are, what what do you think the timeframe is . The next five years can be much faster than the last 40 combined. I think we are going at an accelerated rate. Its worse if you pick up a medical journal. Every issue there something new and exciting. I think the timeframe has accelerated. We are doing two things, and then i dont want want to take up too much time. Converting some cancers and chronic diseases