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You are just singing and dancing to taylor swift. Shake it off. Its so catchy. I will play it during the show. Lets get you the top Global Business stories of the morning. The big prize in todays Midterm Election is who will end up in control of the senate. Republicans need to pick up six seats to recapture the chamber. Calls it agton post near certainty. We know that this election will send a clearcut message that the republican way is the way we will create jobs in this country. House,rama abo...

Bring more and more people into, at least contact with some of these issues. That doesnt mean they will learn the right things but it opens doors. I think back all to what moved the needle. What changed the course of Human History here in our country and its always been popular movements. The civil rights movement, the womens movement, lgbt. Thats just national. Americans linked with people in west africa and even angola during the blood diamond years to help bring about change there. Popular mo...

I am here in nantucket. Later on throughout the weekend, you wont be hearing from them, but i hopefully will be giving you news on monday. Chris matthews, they are all here in nantucket talking big ideas. So we will bring you that throughout the next couple of hours. Becky, back to you. Looking forward to it. Andrew, well talk more in just a moment. But in the meantime, lets get everybody caught up on wall street. It is waking up to green arrows this morning, a welcomed sight for the bulls after...

Then upon her death left. It was opened as a Public Museum in 1963. We are now more than 50 years as an institution in washington, d. C. It is good to see all of you here tonight. Our program is entitled smile while you kiss me sad adieu. World war i songs. Let me introduce our speaker quickly. We like to remind people here that president wilson imagines a world at peace and proposed a plan to achieve that vision. That is a remarkable accomplishment when we take about it from the Vantage Point o...

Global economy and what about the threat of cyber security. The morning, everybody. You are watching Market Makers. Do we need to tell you where we are . We are at the World Economic forum in davos switzerland. We have to talk for a moment about the ecb. Mario draghi is going big all in. The ecb president announced a 2. 3 trillion asset purchase plan, better known as qe. Bigger than expected. Investors have responded by selling off the euro. Hans nichols was at the News Conference in frankfurt, ...

The trip back in time. Were surrounded in this room by gifts of state that president wilson received. One of the reasons he received so many spectacular gifts, frankly, is first, because he was the First American president to go to europe while he was in office. But secondly, because the world so fervently hoped for him to succeed in the mission he had taken on, of ending the catastrophe that was world war i. I think its hard for us to think now about how shocking world war i was to the people w...

And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from ma skokie. Iraq and afghanistan dont produce a lot of songs. Again, because in a way they were invisible, and in a way, we know about them, were not as a nation engaged in it. We dont have a citizen army anymore. That gets in the way of that. So in world war...

So a more tip skal song is when you start getting into the intense, personal emotions. In the civil war, young men going off to war never having been away from home before. And the country was young. A lot of them farm boys. A lot of them immigrants. Arn awful lot of the union army spoke with an irish accent during the civil war. They really did fight a good parlt of that war. There are some sentimental ballots like aura lee which are songs of praise for an idealized young women. But thats as cl...

In that those who didnt participate, meaning the civilians left at home, especially in the u. S. Where the war didnt come here, so the civilians didnt have a context of this ultimate suffering that the soldiers went through. And so to the people at home who were waiting for their men to come home, they came back. It was a sensationalism in the sense that you guys were heros in the war. Now lets get on with our lives because ive been waiting for you. And i think that that idea of civilians wait i...

Tv and sunday on American History tv on cspan3. He discussed how song writers contributed to the war effort by writing patriotic music. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening to all of you. Im bob enholm, the executive director of the Woodrow Wilson house. Were a private charity supported by donations of supporters, including many of you. For that i thank you. Thanks for being here this evening. This home is the home to which president and mrs. Wilson moved the very day they left the white...