book you talk about the golden triangle of freedom. your leaping right in, aren t you? i have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book i m talking about america and at the very heart of it is the golden triangle of freedom. but what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no one s ever heard of it. a number of years ago dear friend of mine alec guinness wrote a book calleda free people s philistine . again all founders understood this. quickly it s that freedom requires virtue. when we say freedom we mean self-government requires a virtue. virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. to explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. you can t have self-government or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you c
more regulations, no drilling, war on coal, everything you saw from obama hillary clinton would have done on steroids, at least that s what she ran on. neil: she would probably ram that through republican congress. would have been tough. you have a republican congress. neil: you re absolutely right. you literally have a stopgap on everything, marginally upside surprises which is health care maybe some day. who knows. neil: they don t give that up do they? taxes. taxes should be cut. neil: it is getting later and later. here is the other positive for the market. a lot of people are telling me tax cuts are not really priced into this thing. what it is working on essentially decent to middling economic growth like obamaesque economic growth between one and two, somewhere in that ballpark. low inflation, low interest rates and decent corporate earnings, put all that together and some marginal optimism that donald trump is not a socialist, thus he won t regulate the econom
senate rules will be changed because the gorsuch vote was blocked, 60 votes necessary blocked. republicans say they have no other choice, simple majority, changing the rules, going nuclear, as it were. a development behind the scenes could have you going nuclear. talk about bodies agreement not only to proceed on health care, by greater extension with the tax cuts. we re getting late word the president is very keen on marrying infrastructure, talking of building more roads and bridges what he can do elsewhere when it comes to getting health care reworked through. mitch mcconnell in the meantime talking about this measure, to get a simple majority vote goingnd soo neil gorsuch. i raised a point of order vote on cloture on precedent set on november 21st, 2013, is majority vote on all nominations. the precedent of november 21st, 2013, did not apply to nominations to the supreme court. those nominations are considered under the plain language, rule 22. the point of order is n
when they first went to talkie movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system put in the oval office that recorded. i am going to try a very quick sample. oops, let me go back. a quick sample of roosevelt taping. [indiscernible] prof. dean: you get a sample there. that is amazing when you think of somebody today, that we have cell phones, just talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkie-talkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. anyway, and got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson during the transition between the two presidencies. he said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. he said, i strongly recommend you do the same. nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. but this is the first time he had heard of presidents recording. so what were the reasons that he doesn t install>? back in the nixon white house, as we
let me go back. pres. roosevelt: [indiscernible] prof. dean: you get a sample there. let me give you that is amazing when you think of somebody today, that we have cell phones, just talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkie-talkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. anyway, nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson predecessor, during the transition between the two presidencies. he said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. he said, i strongly recommend you do the same. nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. but this is the first time he had heard of presidents recording. so what were the reasons that he does install? back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed in prior lectures, there was a pretty efficient management system, except in the instances like watergate and a few others where the management system did not come into play. but the managemen