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then upon her death left. it was opened as a public museum in 1963. we are now more than 50 years as an institution in washington, d.c. it is good to see all of you here tonight. our program is entitled smile while you kiss me sad adieu. world war i songs. let me introduce our speaker quickly. we like to remind people here that president wilson imagines a world at peace and proposed a plan to achieve that vision. that is a remarkable accomplishment when we take about it from the vantage point of our lives 100 years later. it is more remarkable if we transport ourselves back to his time and think about the world in which he lived and the ideas that were abroad at the time and the remarkable accomplishment that it was for him in the middle of a world war to imagine what the world ought to look like at peace and propose that that should be our default position, that there ought to be a league of nations and nations ought not to engage in aggressive war. this house allows ....
morning. our top stories for 2013. 26% said it was the 2010 implementation and overhaul of health care in general, eight percent said it was the death of nelson mandela and another eight percent was the federal government s budget troubles. six or sent that it was a national debate over gun laws and mass shootings and four was the boston marathon bombing. that the the top five associated press found as a top stories of 2013. what is your pick for the top story? could be president obama s presidency in 2013? your pick for new story of the year. lillian in pacifica, california. you re up first, lillian. go ahead. i think the approval rating for obama is low, but i think he is doing the best for the people. i think that he that the people do need health care and i know so many that are so happy that they have obamacare right now. lily, what do you think about his agenda, his congressional agenda, what he wants to see past, legislation in 2014. should he be accommodating ....
the dow futures are up 23 points above fair value. the s&p futures are up by 2.5 points and the nasdaq is up 5.5 points. as for the markets in europe, you can see things are decidedly worse with the cac down .70%. the dax in germany is down .60 and the ftse is off .30%. in the meantime, the russian micex indicated slightly higher trading higher this morning, but this comes after steep drops over recent weeks because of what was building up in the situation in ukraine. and the dollar at this point, at least in the morning, you ll see this stronger across the board. euro trading at 137.73. and the yen is at 102.456789 andrew, over to you. we have big business news with apple tv a little closer to actually happening. apple now reportedly in talks with nbc universal parent comcast about a streaming television service that would allow apple to bypass congestion on the web. the wall street journal reporting that discussions are in the early stage and there are many hurdles ....
hello. great to be back with you all. i hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. so many wonderful places here in alexandria. i want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to historic alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. i also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. thank you for joining us. and of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. i m very, very happy and very honored to be here today. i learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their global impact. so just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. our george george mason, ....
hello. great to be back with you all. i hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. so many wonderful places here in alexandria. i want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to historic alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. i also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. thank you for joining us. and of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. i m very, very happy and very honored to be here today. i learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their global impact. so just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. our george george mason, ....