Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and coll
Tonight we are very pleased to welcome back mark wilkinson. He has also been the director at the atwood house museum. Mr. Wilkins is a published auth author. He has a masters from Harvard University and he is currently working on several books related to world war one aviation. Mr. Will kins is also conservativing as producer of aerial effects documentary film. His new book, aeroneurosis. Due to unforeseen complications, we dont have any copies you can have signed tonight. The speaker graciously agreed to personalize some as well. Please join us in welcoming mark wilkins. Thank you for that very nice introduction, crystal. Im very happy to be here tonight. Thank you all for coming. I hope you find this topic as fascinating as i do. Basically the to give you a little background, the book was something i did for air and space magazine. Anyway, the research for that article sort of opened my eyes to the amount of material about how greatly about a a lot of these First World War pilots suf
Which prevent michiganders crossing the street to visit family members. No relaxation of the social distancing rules from President Trump. Hes considering extending the keep your distance regulations into the early summer. Then theres this. Antibody tests that show far more people have been through covid19, three million in new york state, 20 of new york citys residents have had it. That means the fatality rate, the number of people who died from the virus, comes way, way down. Interesting. Quickly to the markets. Not Much Movement at the open today. Orders for durable goods in march down 14 , yeah, thats bad but it was expected. The dow is going to be up 193. I call that little movement. How the times change. We will be back to 23,500, big gain modest gain for the dow, nice gain for the s p and for the nasdaq as well. Look at oil, staying at low levels. We are looking at 17 a barrel. In the absence of demand, we are still not driving very much, we are running out of places to store al
Expect to live with the coronavirus for months. The waiver of us continues when millions of americans fighting for benefits in the past week take your life to. Octets a quarantine maaco the russian Facebook Group is recruiting pets fatness household crops to leave much of the classics. Im sure to the program the e. U. Commission president the line has admitted that the bloc was unprepared when the coronavirus pandemic hit on that it failed to help basically when it needed it most with 21000 deaths a culvert 19 is it its really hard to been any other european country road has expressed dismay of the even. Initial response European Countries were slow to send medical aid some even ban the export of vital medical supplies addressing the European Parliament in brussels the Commission President apologized and said the block to now has to come together as never before to fight the pandemic yes it is true that no one was really ready for this. It is also true that too many were not there on t
Of midday here in moscow where you are in the wild thanks for your company. But lets jump in u. S. Stocks plunged on thursday to the lowest in decades the federal moved to pump in emergency loans to ease the strain as investors flooded over the impact of the coronavirus pandemic the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial average fell 10 percent in a single day marking the biggest decline since black monday and those all the way back in 1907 all the major american indexes also closed significant donald trump gave a rather Oval Office Address to the nation but failed to calm investors nubs about the economic damage cope at 19 is causing. This is not a financial crisis this is just a temporary moment of time that we will overcome together as a nation and as a world and todays boom boss here on r t weve got that x. But not assist china powwow the stock market to its heading as one is covered 19 another factor of course in play is oil which is seeing a price drop on supplies. This is the beginning