Bradburn, traces the president s military career from french and indian war, through the American Revolution. Here we are again. Welcome back to mt. Vernon. My name is doug bradburn. Im the president and ceo of George Washingtons mt. Vernon. And its been my delight to have these opportunities to talk about the story of George Washington. Last wednesday we were in our museum, this is what we call our Education Center here at mt. Vernon. It focuses on the life of George Washington. Really, a grand sense of his biography and why he matters and how he impacted the age that he lived in and why his legacy Still Matters to us today. Last time we were looking at his youth, a youth that youll remember we said is oftentimes enwrapped in romance. Its wrapped in myth. Its hard to get at because its the period where its least documented. But it really is an interesting period to understand George Washington in the context of the 18th century. Of course, hes most known to americans and perhaps to fo
Deputy Campaign Manager announced two key members of the Pandemic Task force. For example launch the Coronavirus Task force. Tomorrow. Going to be led by a professor at ucsf. And the former Surgeon General of the united states. Both have been key medical advisers to bd throughout the pandemic. Theyll be joined by a team of top doctors from across lt country to form the task force. The coronavirus rampaging across the country. Were not in a good place. With 126,000 cases. Yesterday. Approaching were on a path for 2,000 deaths a day. Epidemiology expert says the task force will have three goals. Coordinate the cunning edge medical science. Having a government experience to get things done as quickly az possible and get the public to buy into the plan. A difficult challenge especially at the Trump White House doesnt cooperate. Everybody has to get on the same page. If we are hearing Different Things from different groups it will confuse everyone. Create more and were not going to on janua
Force pierce. After this big celebration on saturday night the team is during the transition process. One of the new Top Priorities is the creation of the covid19 task force that will heap the handling of the mandate. Repealing Trump Administration travel ban from several majority countries and putting new safeguards in place to play protect dreamers from deportation. He believes his job is to work with everybody. That is the message for the American People on thats how joe biden use governing. Trump wants to fight the results. The waiver result division, even when you dont get your way in an election is to count every legal pallet. Make sure illegal ballots do not reduce the civil rights and votes of those who voted legally. The attorney general says no evidence of fraud has been submitted to them. Releasing a statement sunday saying in part, our office takes allegations of voter fraud extremely seriously. Should anyone file this complaint with our office, we will conduct a thorough i
Everyone here is really waiting with baited breath on who the president of the United States is. We understand through the counting that joe biden could win it. It is razor thin, but we dont know for certain. The markets dont expect some kind of surprise, which is why they are stable and up. The other story is the bank of england, talking possibly about negative rates. Although, not for now. Guy johnson in the conversation with the governor talking about the Downside Risk. I think we have learned earlier this year with thoughts of covid, that we act both andkly and we do at clearly scale. We have a very substantial genocide risk on the forecast, and a lot of that relates to how covid itself will evolve. The bank ofernor of england. Extensive comments on this. Really important interview, mr. Johnson, with Nestor Bailey on the bank of england. I should note, sterling rallies nicely. Some of the headlines this morning are pretty shocking. Let me do a data check. Jonathan ferro just emaile
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the