spent most of the afternoon in positive territory. the s&p gained 0.14% and the nasdaq rose 0.08%. isn t that why we came back strong? the price at the pump keeps spiking. i paid $3.90 this weekend. it s got to be killing someone, doesn t it? at one time this would have sent this market plummeting. these are real bad ones out of some mexican meeting. and everyone stayed down in anticipation of a terrible european market tomorrow. instead we ignore oil. we turned our noses up at the europeans and we just keep plowing higher. okay, europe is easy to excuse these days. they may not have a lot of growth over there. they may not have much in the way of unit. without it you can see why the g-20 doesn t want to get behind europe until the germans rangle everyone. for the stock market, we ll do fine as long as there isn t a huge blowup in europe. it sure doesn t look like there be one. and that s a major change. that s color of all of 2012. but this gasoline thing. and yeah, i m from
in 1956 the suez crisis broke out 9 days before the presidential election. in his book eisenhower 1956, nichols writes about how president eisenhower reacted to the crisis. mr. nichols discussed his book at the atlanta history center. center. good evening. welcome to the atlanta history center. i m president and ceo of the i am sal cilella, president and ceo of the center. this the lecture is made possible through the support of the livingston foundation of atlanta and we re grateful to them for their continued support. our next lecture will be held may 16th and will feature james b. stewart, author of tangled web, false statements undermining america from martha stewart to bernie madoff. i have seen some of the previews of this book and you would be well advised to be here. it is fascinating. also in may join us for a lecture featuring best selling author of devil in the white city, eric larsen will be here discussing his new book in the garden of beasts, lovely girl
design. welcome to the atlanta history center. i m the president and ceo of the history center. this is another livingston letcher which is made possible through the generous support of the livingston foundation, and we are ever so grateful to them for their continued support. our next lecture will be held may 16th and will feature james b. stewart come author of tangled webs, how false statements are undermining america from martha stewart to bernie madoff. i ve seen some of the previews of this book, and you would be well edify is to be here. it s fascinating. also joining us for the featuring best-selling author of deval in the white city eric larsen who will be here. who will be discussing his new book in the garden of peace, love, terror and american family in hitler s berlin. tonight s lecture is being recorded by c-span and check your local listings for the broadcast state you can see it again. at this time i would like to ask you to please turn off all of yourself p
this summer. send us a tweet at book tv. next, david nichols presents the history of the suez canal crisis that occurred nine days prior to the 1956 presidential election and resulted in president dwight eisenhower s decision to place american military forces on high alert, condemned the attacks on egypt and alternately lead to a cease-fire announced on election day, november 6th, 1956. it s about an hour. good evening. welcome to the atlanta history center. i m sal cilella. this is another livingston lecture, which is made possible through a dead generous support of the livingston foundation of atlanta, and we are ever so grateful to them to do their support our next lecture will be held may 16th and will feature james b. stewart, author of tangled webs, how false statements are undermining america from martha stewart to bernie madoff. i have seen some of the previews of this book, and you would be well advised to be here. it s fascinating. also, join us for a lecture fe
here on the grounds of his old family estate in 1940. and who i am a great fan of presidential libraries around the country and have made it my lifelong task to visit each one so i patiently await the george w. bush one in dallas which is supposed to open in the next year or two and a friend of mine is an official soy keep hinting theresi must be a panel discussion. [laughter] . . is that i think that they reflect in some ways what i call the civic protestantism of america. and by that i mean we don t as a culture, we don t revere religious relics so much anymore. we don t, we don t bow before the fragment of the true cross and that sort of thing. but because america is a nation founded on an idea, we ve sort of substituted that human instinct and transferred it to our political founders. so you go to the archives in washington where i live, and there s the declaration of independence and the constitution, and they re housed in the these brass and glass helium-filled rell squ