Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
Leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. Its a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of Abraham Lincoln, volume i, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And Richard Brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. Grant but the author of a. Lincoln and an expert in lincolns writings, ronald a. White. Welcome to you all. So our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. We will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. In fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. The first person i want to talk to in relation to lincolns inspiration are the three sets of parents, really, not one person but three, the three sets of parents in his life. You have all written about them. By the three, i mean the woman he r
Might have the bear buying the stock. Cramer will be here in moments. First we start off with a Surprising Development with the trump trade, with the quarter about to end, check out the winners of 2017, tech is up 12 . Health care is up 8 . These were the two sectors that wall street thought could suffer under President Trump, on the full size, energy, financials, go sectors people thought would flourish. They are trailing the s p 500, as the trade seems to be morphing. You stick with whats working or buy the trump laggers. Pete najerian, kick it off. I continue to like the financials, even though i know they lagged this year. They had a big huge run. I think when they come out, its going to be fantastic. I think there is a trump agenda that will be very beneficial for them on top of everything else. I look at the Technology Side of it. Thats going to continue to perform in my opinion. Tech, all of that i think has plenty of room to the upside. If you look at the laquers, i think energ
Thank you. Glory, golory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on my good friend and great republican dick nixon and your charming wife pat, my running mate, that wonderful republican who served us so well for so long, bill miller, and his wife stephanie, to thureston martin who has done such a commendable job in chairing this convention, to mr. Herbert hoover who i hope is watching, and to that that Great American and his wife general and mrs. Eisenhower. To my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans here assembled and americans across this great nation, from this moment united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. Together together we will win. I accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. I accept too the responsibility