To honor the work we are doing. Our country and our company runs throughout our veins and when the crisis began, we all wanted to find a way to create the equipment that the country needed. Our team has stepped up and worked tirelessly for a common cause. Our workers both hourly and salaried have done their very best to put safety first. To stay safe, strong, and on the job. I do want to take a moment to ask our team members to remember all of our health care workers, first responders, a central workforce that have given their lives in order to serve and protect the public during this extraordinary challenge in our country. It has been a privilege leading this team and i am so proud to be part of the ford motor led effortlessly by bill ford. Without further ado, please help me give a standing ovation from introducing our executive chairman of lord Motor Company, bill ford. [cheering and applause] bill ford hello, everybody and thank you so much angela and thank you for your tireless le
Cause. Our workers both hourly and salaried have done their very best to put safety first. To stay safe, strong, and on the job. I want to take a moment to ask our team members to remember all of our health care workers, first responders, essential workforce who have given their lives in order to serve and protect you and your team represent the very best afford. Welcome, mr. President , to the rossville plant and welcome all of those employees joining us today. Today is a big day for ford and a bigtime for our country. At this plant, we normally assemble components and hybrid batteries for ford cars and trucks. For the past six weeks, our employees have been assembling machines to save lives. As everyone here knows, for it has always been a family business. It is not just my family. Employees have punched in building for america. We take that trust precisely. In world war ii, many of our workers went to fight overseas. Those who could not stated to build war machines of all types need
Discussion and theres a lot to do so please stick around. I believe time for questions at the end so please think of some and if anything occurs to you we will give at least we 10 minutes. This will run very quickly because i had a chance to meet a. J. Baime, author of the arsenal of democracy fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war. I had a chance to read it and i recommend it to you. It is a topic that covers politics, business, even some art design, incredible personalities. I learned a lot from reading it. I am a world war ii buff. Do we have any other world war ii buff . I am a history buff for sure. A. J. Baime writing about a subject from the 30s and 40s. How did you do it and what does the young guy like you know about world war ii . It is wonderful to be here. My wife rochelle is here and my son clayton running the arsenal writing the arsenal of democracy fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war. I was born in 1971. My last book took place in t
Pressing issues facing the world during this difficult time. As we confront the challenges brought on by covid19, conversations like this have never been more important. Hope you enjoy and find value in these discussions which will now begin. As reminder we will be taking audience questions and when could you just met yours at the button located at the bottom of your screen. Type in your questionable try to get to it toward the end of the broadcast. Todays briefing is from Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. Is focus that his focus is been military history. He has written or edited 24 books, the most recent is determined. Hes been awarded both the passion amenities metal and the prize, i would have it hanging around my neck 24 7. How how are you today . Very good. Thank you for having me. An interesting question before get into the policy side of things, a lot of us are watching this from Population Centers around the country, around the globe, cities and subu
At work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. But well talk about that. But well talk about these different parts of women american women during world war ii. Were just hitting the survey, theres so much we can talk about throughout the entire semester, and we do all of u. S. And world war ii, except we cant do all of it so we do our bits and pieces. Weve already talked about some of these. Some will be familiar. Especially when we get to women at work part. But then well go from there. Be sure to stop me if you have any questions and well do our thing. So women at home. So when we think about this one of the biggest things i want you to do today is think about this reality for the homefront, which is mainly what were talking about, and the reality of what life meant for women in the war. With one of the first that we often think about is all the men going away to war. The men are going off. That means who is left behind . The women. Right . The women.