the passion of the voters and so forth. when you talk about a symbol of state, how important is that? very important to. having the presidency is all from the kingship and it s a two-pronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think it s the characteristic of the office. they have to be both, really. in your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didn t, you write that if great or near great presidents were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. that s correct and if you look at some of my failures, james buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. he waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. he conspired behind his wife s back to run for president. she did not even know he was o
two-pronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think it s the characteristic of the office. they have to be both, really. in your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didn t, you write that if great or near great presidents were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. that s correct and if you look at some of my failures, james buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. he waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. he conspired behind his wife s back to run for president. she did not even know he was one of the candidates and joshua was stunned when he received it. we think of others. daily or i often say brings a lot more out than success.as a so not a very good relationship with
close of trading for the day and we could let s go to the markets desk and check in with our own julie hyman. it is a real rally. we were talking about this delayed reaction to the ecb. mario draghi said there would be no interest rate cuts and investors were confused. they seem to result of confusion today. europe and thein u.s. rallying through the session and hovering near the highs. it has not been a super-volatile session. we see a steady uptrend here. stocks are continuing their winning streak. fourth week in a row we see stocks higher. you see the s&p 500 on a one-week basis. three quarters of 1% is enough to continue the street. one investor we re hearing from his someone who is already bullish on the stock. he has the highest target of the strategists we survey for the s&p for the year-end. one of the things he is looking at, if you take a look at bloomberg, is high-yield. this is the bank of america-merrill lynch u.s. high-yield index in white. s&p 500 total return
people have had to face justice. some of them all over old because some of the worst criminals have faced the world s most lenient penal system. so they will say it is very much half-full, but the idea that not having it all is unthinkable. some measure of justice was done. it will never be enough, the kind of scale of killing that took place. it is a bit like the u.n. is completely flawed. it falls over itself. it s at odds with itself but if you abolished it you have to reinvent it the next day. do you think they would be a similar manhunt one day for syrian war criminals? i really, really hope so. i know that some of the people who were involved in this manhunt are now building is occasion cases so that when they they will be able maybe to prosecute people in the assad regime, people in daesh. what they are doing very bravely is smuggling out documents that could one day prove these people are guilty, smuggling them out of syria and keeping them in europe and going thr
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