As a longtime historian, what impact does it have on you that you were born in concord, massachusetts, grew up around boston . What has it done to your thinking of history . Gordon it made me a fan of john, just because he was a good old yankee. I am not sure that being a new englander has affected me onsciously, i do not like to think that i am letting the present influence my conception of the past. So i am not sure. But i am a new englander for sure. Brian can you remember when you first heard about john adams . Gordon probably not until high school. I did not know much about him, not until college. I had not gotten to see his home until after college. So it was a long time before i got to know him. Now, because i did three volumes in the library of america about his writings, i really got to know him. I think i got to know him better than i know most of my friends. He is really something. Brian you said in your book that he had a diary and Thomas Jefferson did not. Why do you think
I am thrilled tonight to have jim here because this is a great talk. I read it and finished it last night and thought oh my god why did i not read this book earlier . My mother was from georgia and she was a thirdgeneration graduate. She graduated in 1950. After leaving she went to sweet breyer college and a sweet breyer she had a friend of hers Exchange Student from saint interschool. One day she said ann arent you from america . Can you tell me about quanah nail . My mother said i had never heard of him. She had learned about him from scotland so when she came home she was a little bit upset and she asked my grandfather to take her there. My grandfather was a republican type and his First Cousins quoted his book is one of the leaders of our family. That person that banker who later tried to ask them to leave said that and sheffield sure was a quick thinking girl and she went to sleep our college in virginia but she came home and income so good for sweet breyer college and good for my
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John d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Additional support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The heisingsimons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Major support for this program is provided by the kendeda fund, investing in transformative leaders and ideas. Corporate support for frontline is provided by oooh us lives here. Where we can be surprised by others. And ourselves. The y, for a better us. President trump getting ready to take a major swipe at former president Barack Obamas legacy on Climate Change. The president s ex
Level thats needed to provide for new entrants in the labor market, we do have a strengthening economy. With policy accommodative all youre doing in raising rates is removing a bit of accommodation heading toward a neutral pace. And i see that is appropriate. Were not moving so aggressively as to put a break on continued improvement in the labor market. But i think that thats a prudent move to move in a gradual way with unemployment now. And not only the Unemployment Rate, but i think any indicator of labor Market Performance and tightness that you could look at whether its household perceptions of the availability of jobs, difficulty that firms report in hiring workers, the rate at which workers are quitting their jobs, the rate of job openings all of these indicators do signal a tight labor market. Now, with inflation below 2 , i think its appropriate that the labor market be that tight but on the other hand, i think we want to avoid the risk. We want to keep the expansion on sustain