merger man, here in a first on fox business interview. he is t-mobile s outside counsel on whether there s any credibility to this report from bloomberg which would stop the creation of the third largest wooil wi wireless operator in the u.s. at this hour, several major american tech giants who do business with huawei are slamming the door on president trump s blacklist order from google to momentum and a huge number of u.s. chip makers, there are all kinds of reports they can no longer do business and it s going to hurt their revenues. we have the latest chapter in the huawei saga. speaking of slamming, the nasdaq bulls are slamming into a wall and it s bigger than just huawei. the tech-heavy index is down 121 points or a loss of 1.5% because this overall trade war with china shows no obvious signs yet of any resolution. with exposure to china, you know apple s a big story. we are about to show you shares of that. but there is good news here. with summer just days away,
not seem to be having an influence on the major averages come even though it s well above the survey. the dow,l moves for s&p 500, and nasdaq. mixed rating with the nasdaq down slight the. no longer on pace for a record close. on the week, big gains. s&p 500 and nasdaq on pace for their best week since middle july. despite the uncertainty in the real world about geopolitical tensions, debt ceiling, potential government shutdown, we are mainly looking at stocks trading higher in a bullish manner. the dow right now for and s&p 500, trading higher. let s see if the nasdaq can turn higher, in the way it opened. ,et s take a look at carmakers ford, gm, fiat chrysler, all gaining. ford and fiat chrysler posted declines in sales for the month of august. ford came in down 2.1%, but beating the estimate of down 3.5%. fiat chrysler sales fell 11%. gm sales grew by 7.5%, beating estimates. investors seem to be pretty pleased. it will be interesting to see in the month of september a tol
first historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. he first edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the university press of kansas. it is still in print. report, on its fourth printing. of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. in the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting presidents had been taken. thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bob s scholarship. while ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the country after the travails of watergate, bob argues there s a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who performed a credible job as a national .aretaker locally, we should also recall that he was here in kansas city in 1976. somehow, i have a feeling we ll be commemorating that in about tito years. the library s good friend, who was in the audience tonight with a young city then
i m harry fortanado drk tore of public affairs. i want to thank you for joining us in the latest it ration of the hail to the chief s lecture series co-presented by our partners a the trueman library institute the foundation arm of the harry s. truman library museum and independence. here at the library, we just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries. and such as the case tonight, 40 years ago. well technically, 39 years and 363 days ago. but work with me on this gerald ford became the first and to date the only unelected president of the united states. an outcome that would have been beyond conception just two years earlier when richard nixon was cruising to his landslide victory over george mcgovern. to tell us more about that in the administration that ensued we ve brought back for the third time dr. john robert green. but you can call him bob. who among many claims to fame ranks as the first historian to perform a serious scholarly study on the administration.
hyannisport with the kennedy compound, it seemed like a summer camp. compared to what other presidents have done on their vacations, what sort of activities did john f. kennedy do? time magazine in august, 1962, said that not since the days of theodore roosevelt had the nation witnessed what the magazine called such a hard pounding, muscle-aching round of activities. and hyannisport, which was besieged by tourists, the president, his children, his nephews, his nieces scrambled on the lawn, splashed in the water. at times, when i read about it, i thought it resembled the olympics. time described it this way sitting down is somehow considered that form. touch football has rest periods. between tennis, swimming, water skiing, sailing and dragging. dragging as an attempt to avoid drowning while being towed by a life preserver tied to the president s schooner. look magazine put a picture of the president on a golf cart loaded down with nieces and nephews. what did