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earth the board friendship 7 welcome to the miller center forum. i'm barbara perry and i'm the director of presidential studies at the miller center where i also co-chair with russell riley the presidential oral history program. it's great to have you with us today to join us for what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of john glenn john kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing bus...

Fabulous book. Guest thank you. Host ive known Alan Greenspan for many, many years, and we worked together closely when i was his vice chair, and hes a complicated man, and these were complicated times, and i think you got it about right. But lets start at the beginning. You wrote interestingly about the influence of his parents. Could you talk a little bitt about that on his career choices . Guest yeah. Alan greenspan had an unusual upbringing in the sense that raised in the 1930s, he was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when alan was only 3 and then was this sort of dist...

Fabulous book. Guest thank you. Host ive known Alan Greenspan for many, many years, and we worked together closely when i was his vice chair, and hes a complicated man, and these were complicated times, and i think you got it about right. But lets start at the beginning. You wrote interestingly about the influence of his parents. Could you talk a little bitt about that on his career choices . Guest yeah. Alan greenspan had an unusual upbringing in the sense that raised in the 1930s, he was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when alan was only 3 and then was this sort of dist...

And the inspired action you took to come to the aid of the veteran in crisis. Thank you all for the work that you do day in and day out on behalf of those who have served. A few weeks ago i had the honor of meeting with robert mcdonald, the secretary of the va. Secretary mcdonald is a man who has time and again answered the call of duty to his and our nation. He graduated from the United States military academy at west point in the top 2 of his class in 1975. An army veteran. Mr. Mcdonald served with the 82nd airborne division, completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare training, earned the rang...

Becky will be back tomorrow. Traders returning from the holiday. Weekly jobless claims are set to hit the tape at 8 30 eastern time. Economist expect first time filing to decline. Many International Markets are closing to do boxing day holiday. Its boxing like the presence of boxing. Anyway, just in case you didnt know. U. S. Equity futures taking a look, setting itself up on this post christmas day. Nasdaq, up about 5 points, the s p 500 up 3 points. Also, a lot of obviously great news for investors to be happy about this Holiday Season. Data showing its been the best year for stocks since 20...