Available in paperback, hardcover, or as an ebook. Nancy reagan, former first lady so, all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. Thank you. My hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever paths their talents and their Natures Point to. I think that the white house was so glamorous, and your role was so glamorous, your life was so glamorous. All they saw were the parties and the meetings. And i have to tell you, i never worked harder in my life. Nancy reagan served as longtime political partner, fiercest protector, and ultimately as the caretaker for president Ronald Reagan. And involved first, lady she was active in key staff decision and policymaking and in campaigning. Good evening and welcome to suspend series first ladies influence and image. Tonight what type of the story of any frances robins. Notice as nancy reagan. Let me introduce our two guests will be with us for the next 90 minutes. Judy is come alleging edito
Carotenuto is a professor at ste university with which we frankly Work Together on african issues which also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi that just celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni alone on the trigger and then finally joining the panel is jon temin from freedom house, works on their Africa Program and previous work in the Obama Administrations policy plans to use institute of peace. I want to thank jon for outstanding article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the new promising Democratic Movement in some of africas biggest countries which was largely aspiration for this event although we modified a little bit but we had kenya and tanzania to the list along with south africa, democratic republic of congo or as a peace corps volunteer 100 jews ago when it was still practically before Belgian Congo days, and also nigeria and ethiopia. So between the six countries with roughly half of africas popu
We are joined as well by matt guaranteed you know a professor at st. Lawrence university. We frequently Work Together on forgot issues. It also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi to celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on the trip. They had a great Semester Program in africa. From Freedom House the Relief Program in africa. I also want to thank john for an outstanding article that he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs. On some of the new promising democratic movements and some of africas biggest countries which was largely the inspiration for this email. We modified it a little bit. South africa democratic republic of the congo where i was a peace corps volunteer hundred years ago when it was practically before building congo days and also that nigeria so between these kids six countries we have nearly half of africas rep ovulation represented. A fair amount of helpful notes as well. No one is going to say is goi
Coming up next, a conference on the end of the civil war. Historians discussed the postwar political and cultural environment in the north. The virginia secretary organized this event. Our topic is the union cause in the war and in the framework of how americans remembered it from the wartime generation and later. Everybody is awake. Matt, john, and joan are our panel this time around. The first question i want us to talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. About is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. To begin, i would like all of you to discuss what loyal mea nt within the context of the u. S. Effort during the war. Joan i will start. One of the members of the audience came up to me and asked me to make sure there were more jokes in the session. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level, i think these concepts are very tied together, Union Loyalty and sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism. It meant loyalty or country, loyal to t
The deal he this number pivotal ahead of tomorrows opec meeting. P. M. , the twoyear had a did to cover ratios yesterday, the highest in a year so watch the option. , whent the fomc minutes it decides to leave rates on home. How does the Balance Sheet pay into that . Robert kaplan and Neel Kashkari will be speaking. David it turns out china has a lot of debt. We may have known that before, but it is official overnight. They downgraded chinese debt for the first time in 30 years. The Senior Vice President had this to say about the decision. Be a gradualto erosion of credit metrics. We are looking at the policies the government isnt lamenting. The authorities have recognized the risks with high leverage and have a very broad structural reform. We think that counts to the point where leverage will increase more slowly than it has in the past. Still, these measures will not be enough to reverse the increasing leverage. David joining us now is chief economics correspondent for bloomberg. It