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Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. As joe mentioned, we are seeing green arrows today reversing a lot of the losses that we saw yesterday. Yesterday the dow was down by 317, this morning it picked up 272 points in the futures so far. Also the s p up by about 32 after it was country down by 1 yesterday. And nasdaq up by 95 this morning after it was down about 76 points yesterday yesterday was the worst day of the month, but there are crazy good numbers dow up by 10 for the honesty to da month to date and nasdaq is up 7 for the month of november so far too. Also lets take a look at the treasury market. The ten year note is sitting right at 0. 896 . So back below 0. 9 , we had flirted with the idea of seeing it finally hit 1 , but it is not there yet. Andrew thanks, becky as joe mentioned, president elect joe biden has nowofficially won the state of arizona, nbc making that call late last night. He is th ....
Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that ....
Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrot ....
Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im re ....