May have your attention, please . Thank you. Were very pleased to have today as our special guest wes bush, who is the chairman, ceo and president of Northrop Grumman. Northrop grumman as many of you may know is based in falls church, virginia, and its a company that is the fourth Largest Aerospace defense contractor in the United States. Its a company with about 26 billion market cap, and revenues approaching about 25 billiondollars and more than 65,000 employees and when our guest became the ceo in january of 2010, the stock was at a certain level. It is now up 116 since he became the ceo. So, very good. [applause] wes is, grew up in various places in the United States. Went to high school in West Virginia. He went to undergraduate mit. Got a degree in Electrical Engineering and got a masters degree in Electrical Engineering and joined the Aerospace Corporation which was entity affiliated with the u. S. Government. Later he went to trw where he rose up quickly and ultimately ran thei
Behalf of the center and the new york office i would like to welcome you all here for what i think is a momentous and landmark event for us, an evening honoring the launch of david brion daviss new book. I have a couple of acknowledgments and a brief introduction and then we will start the program an alternate over to the speaker. I would like to begin first of all but sending my thanks to my colleague and friend dr. Bragman who is the person who arranged or this event that brought dr. Davis in the center together i would also like to thank michelle from the publishers of the book. She is the gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. I also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. Thank you for that. A few brief words of introduction. One of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and the work o
Communities was corn as well as vegetables like squash and peas. Growing rice requires a kind of hydraulic system with canals and guides and gates and its probably not something maroons would have been in a position to construct. They were small plots. That was one of the things also. They were rather small so again when you grow rice it has to be even more extended. The final question. I havent read your work but im looking forward to it. I have a question. In relationship to the maroons looking at louisiana want to focus on that before the Louisiana Purchase and being in haiti there was a lot of transfer between slaves from haiti and louisiana to this through the French Connection and also being that in 1793 the first refugee crisis in america when the french planters came to louisiana and their words a lot of interconnections and in haiti there is a Large Population of maroons. So being there would you think that is also something that could have led to the spread of the marans . Im
Cacophony in washington and the point scoring. Our allies, recently, the impasse and governments and the difficulty we have passing a budget. It does cause some concern. President obama himself is pretty popular in asia. He is considered a president who gets the region. There are, however, concerns frankly, his toughness. What was devastating was the serious crisis. When the white house put down a redline. The philippines looking at a theing chinese navy, american president drawing a redline and walking away from it is a very unnerving thing. It is something president obama is going to have to compensate for. His popularity will help him, but likely, some of the dysfunction raises questions abroad about our competence. Republicansing the and democrats have to work on. On his way heading to asia shortly, a number of republican lawmakers already there. The special delegation is visiting the Prime Minister there. A quote from paul ryan in the wall street journal, he writes, howant to unde
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