President ick with the this morning and begin with his comments yesterday as the wall street ceo council or he talked about how washington gridlock does not necessarily reflect divisions in our country. Republicans as well. Send us a tweet. Or post on facebook. You can also email us. Let me show you the president in his own words yesterday. He was interviewed by a columnist for the paper. Here is what he had to say about washington gridlock. When you go to other countries, the political divisions are so much more stark and wider. America, the difference between democrats and republicans, we are fighting inside the 40 yard line. You have fooled most people on that in the past couple of months i would say. Betweenld distinguish is rhetoric and tax experts differences. People calles me a socialist sometime, but you have to meet a real socialist to have a real sense of what it is. I am talking about lowering the Corporate Tax rate. My Health Care Reform is based on the private marketplace.
One of the most significant politicians in the country whose name is not remembered. Part of the problem is that in the nature. In 1954 there is enormous stigma and his widow made it her lifes work to make sure that the story of the suicide was never told. She went so far as to threaten the author of the history textbook that if he knew anything about the suicide in his textbook that she would sue him and so although he knew part of the story, he left it out and so for all these years students in history have read a book on page 521, but on page 521 of doctor larsons book it is overcome by personal and political problems he took his own life on june 19, 1953. He was enormously wellliked. Democrats democrats always have a hard time getting elected to the first time he ran for office, he was the top gogetter in his county and got elected to the legislature and people around the state asked him to run for state office when he became secretary of state and then governor. He was somebody th
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
To kick off todays book festival, we have Kay Bailey Hutchison kicking off her book, turn to. Live coverage on cspan2 of booktv. Designed to support childhood literacy and increase company volunteerism. Through the program, more than 1 million books have been bred and donated to prekindergarten through seventh grade classroom libraries across the country. The search has shown that these years provide a crucial window of opportunity to establish a foundation for future success. Were teaching them to read, we teach them to learn to love to read. In addition to our reading first program, we gave away 1500 books to children at last Years National book festival and we hope to give away even more this year. For more than 160 years, we have been working with our customers and our communities to help them succeed financially. In 2012, wells fargo invested a total of 315 million in overt 19,000 nonprofits. At wells fargo, we recognize the importance and the significance of supporting organizati
Impossible. Announcer when you open a book, you can explore new lands. [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. There are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log onto he library of Congress Website and let the journey begin. Good afternoon, welcome to the monday, october 22nd, 2012 Small Business commission meeting. The time is now 2 08 p. M. And the meeting is being called to order. At this time if you could please turnoff all your cell phones and electronic devices. Theres a signup sheet at the front table if youd like to be on our mailing list and speaker cards are also available. Item 1 is roll call. Commissioner adams . Here. Commissioner obrien . Present. Commissioner dooley . Here. Commissioner dwight . Here. Commissioner ortizcartagena . Mr. President , we have a quorum. Great. Next item. Item 2 is presentation of the Small Business Commission Certificate of honor recognizing a City Employee Jennifer Matz as part of th