4 trillion in debt. Going into debt, an additional million in an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault, of course, and its not the democrats fault, and what im looking for is who did it. Now, theyre the two folks involved, so maybe if you put them together, they did it. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there there is an extraterrestrial doing this to us, i guess. Everybody said they will take responsibility. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during three separate debates in 1992 talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In that election the texas businessman won 90 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate sin since. Good night and thank you for being with us. Were doing this series as a way of looking at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in the white house but had an influence on American History. Ross perot is one of 12
This event. Mr. Graybill good evening. Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is if there is anything that can depress the turnout, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you this evening. Raybill. Is andy g i am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the rhonda andpecially ruthanne who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of gover
Grasso is back welcome, steve. Thanks for having me. Technology making a move higher thanks in part to the semis. First you have that semi upgrade from Goldman Sachs thats put a flame underneath the whole space. Theyre leading and also have the f. A. N. G. Stocks reporting. Thats what is driving the market action. Does it tell you something about the cyclical leaning. It tells you it gives you the impetus of, hey, what got us there . What is going to be the mainstay people like to keep riding the horse thats delivered the returns and that horse has been tech. Horses are scary. Lets drill down on the big stories were watching a meeting with chip executives will take place. Phil lebeau, a credit warning or boeing and bob pisani are looking at the other moves and seema mody looking at the impact on oil and iran. Ylan, lets start with you. Its expected to get under way in a half hour several of the executives are already here my colleague Kayla Tausche and i have confirmed some companies a
You want to hear about the drop in normandy . Airfield infrom an britain. We had been briefed and we knew exactly what conditions were in normandy and where the drop zones were located. Weetime during the fight theived aircraft fire from right side of the planes. We were not aware that some of the midChannel Islands were occupied by the germans. That confused us because we thought we were approaching normandy. Cause we to the turned north parallel to the coast of normandy. The jump master was watching the door. As soon as they could see landfall he ordered the troops to stand up and hook up. The plate was hit plane was hit by aircraft fire. The right side was knocked out. Troopers had the hooked their signs up. Everybody in. Of course there was a mad. Cramble to get to the door the plane was listing to the right and nobody could climb the incline to get to the door. I was able to get to the door first. A jump master was in the tail of the plane. Togetherwo of us interlocked arms to hol
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