thank you for joining us for today s events. featuring doctors. this is your first time joining us, my i have the honor of serving as the dean of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for this school. it s our 100th anniversary were celebrating 100 years purpose driven business education. since our inception, we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. so very much would like to thank the cavalli center for global security analysis and her wonderful partners, the museum of american finance and cfa society of new york . is cosponsoring today s conversation. one of the goals of this centennial series is to shine the light on the important history place in shaping the future. in the latest book, thanking unfreedom, black woman in u.s. finance and for the new deal, she explores rich. of financial innovation and his transformative impact on u.s. capitalism. today s session will take place in three parts. first, my colleague and friend, david
jennet conant who was the granddaughter of administrative tractor the manhattan project and one of our nation s leading scientists of the 20th century century pages the author of new york times bestseller the regulars and tuxedo park a wall street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of world war ii. she will be speaking tonight about her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. thank you for joining us jennet. said thank you. i also want to thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. alas it s virtually but i m going to do my best. my first doom presentation so they are with me everyone. i ve had a lot of coffee and i m thinking right now should have had a lot of wine but anyway here we go. i m going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. he had a way with words. he once observed manic case only stumble across the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off a
war college in carlyle, pennsylvania. and these are legitimate questions. what would we have done or should we have done or both. i threw a lot of information at you tonight, but at least there were pictures, not totally words. but i must remind you that it is very complicated. i spent a long time trying to figure it out. it is a big puzzle, but a very interesting one. and there are several books, several blog sites and now we have the template from afghanistan being reproduced in iraq and syria. this is what osama bin laden wanted to do, take over afghanistan. i don t think he realized or believed this could happen. but now we have a caliphate deck lated in iraq and syria and it comes directly out of the model from afghanistan. so when we took our eye off the ball in 2003, on march 19th, went into iraq, that sent another signal to the world, that we weren t serious about afghanistan. and if you talk to a lot of many of you must have military friends or friends that are sti
alleged actions of certain lawyers as well as others in attempting to deny benefits to miners who are suffering from the debilitating effects of black lung disease. black lung disease is caused through the inhalation of coal mine dust, and it tends to i should say it leads to severe breathing complications and is found mostly in central appalachia, in particular the states of pennsylvania, west virginia, kentucky and virginia. according to the department of labor, black lung disease contributed to the death t deaths of over 75,000 minders from 1968 to 2007. that averages to over 1,900 miner death cans per year over deaths per year over a 39-year period. that s an extraordinary number. i m a not sure how widely reported that number is. and while overall rates have dropped since 1968, research conducted by the national institute for occupational safety and health shows that there has been a spike since the early 1990s particularly in the most severe, fast-progressing type
this is up. i m david gura. big, breaking news overnight. jeffrey epstein arrested at a new york airport for alleged sex trafficking. we ll tell you about the charges the billionaire faces. in south carolina, joe biden apologizes for a set of remarks he made a week ago. the vice president defends his record on civil rights. that misstep defined 50 years of my record, fighting for civil rights. racial justice in this country. i hope not. i don t think so. it s been more than two years since barack obama left the white house. but he s president trump s david foil. michelle obama does not shy away from criticizing the current president for being too cavalier. this is not a joke. this is not a game. the leader of a free world with a tweet can start a war. can crush an economy, can change the future of our children. it is sunday, july 7th. something we re going to get to later in the show, is if latino voters care if a presidential candidate speaks spanish. eithe