Part of a twoday symposium hosted by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. I would like to introduce our next speaker of the day, dr. An associate, professor of history at the United States army command and general Staff College at Fort Leavenworth kansas. Prior to this position, he was an active duty marine Corps Officer and retired in 2009 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years of service. Today, we have the honor to welcome his welcome him for his talk that will explain how forces battled for air superiority during world war i. Listen truly for how he will how skyfought battles lead to the modern development of the concept of total war. Welcomeoin me in a warm for dr. John curatola. Thank you. I appreciate the introduction. If you notice when she went down my biography, im a marine officer who works at an army school who studies airpower, so i have kind of a schizophrenic background on that. Today, we will look at airpower as it pertains to 1916. Fir
Very unlikely they settle up from here. Pretty flat, and that is because it has been a good place for a equity investors. Talking about j. P. Morgan, wells fargo, this group has done poorly today. Not bad, but all things considered, earnings were lackluster in terms of being down, but beating estimates. Morgan in the green, citigroup down, wells fargo hurting quite a bit. Day after reporting earnings earlier today. Finally, i like to look at the vix, dropping 6 today. Here of the hours market did not hold up, vix went down again. Under 13 there. We have been watching the bond trade all week as well. Yields, well,ow yields turned around this week. Yield rising0 year 23 basis points. Every day except wednesday we saw yields climb this week. I think it hit a record low of 1. 31, the lowest since the New York Stock Exchange was founded . To look at the spread to see where we are in regards to the 2007 low we hid in the middle of july. We are climbing back from that. This is a one month at
Tonight, dker henriques lectures widely on subjects related to George Washington and has recorded at least five other lectures for cspan and we greatly appreciate they are being here this evening. He is the author of realistic visionary a portrait of George Washington. Please join me in welcoming professor peter henriques. [applause] peter i do not think i can top that, thank you very much. There is a touch of sadness coming to this presentation because we have been going through the different stages of washingtons life, i have enjoyed the opportunity to speak to you at this particular chapter. Says, i hope to be back in the fall with a different lecture. Lifenow, its been a great that wed seen washington live that even heroes grow old and even heroes go somewhat downhill. Ike all of us we know how quickly time goes by. The older you get, the faster time seems to go by. I look at the audience and see almost all of us are exactly the same age, between 50 and death. Of course, one sign o
Nomination, and Adlai Stevenson accepted the nomination. In 1948 the first televised conventions where president harry truman accepted his partys nomination. The failure to do anything about high prices and the failure to do anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get to laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency. And at 6 00 on american artifacts, well take an early look at the new Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture with its director, lonnie bunch. The museum opens its doors to the public in september this year. Were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. Thats an early movie poster from the 1920s. And that is part of our job to help people relearn the history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams. He is known by most people playing amos andy. Yet he was one of the most important black film directors in the 30s and 40s.
Ways about the war. And so its very hard to its very hard to pin that down. But i really think that the kinds of evidence that im looking at, it is not just data. These are the words that the participants used, and everyone says nothing but slavery. Now you mentioned in passing, reconstruction. Thats a whole nother book and whole nother field. But basically my take on reconstruction, very subjective. Just like Everything Else ive been saying. Reconstruction would not have been so bad if the southerners had done had responded appropriately to what the war was about, and that, in good faith, ended slavery and truly ended slavery, and slavery relate practices and provided blacks with the right to participate in politics, to vote, and to have representatives in government which was only allowed for the short time while the north was there to enforce it. So the stories about all the economic ravages on the south, there wasnt much left to ravage. And what the south was really concerned about