Host author and also, was september 1, 1939 a surprise . Spirit. Guest a surprise to everyone but nazi germany. The day hitler marched into poland and it was a surprise attack. I think most of the world expected but hoped it would not happen but it did. And that really it launched world war ii. Host was poland prepare . Guest it thought it was but it wasnt. Nazi germany was the mightiest military up to that point. Poland has a sizable army, small air force and navy. It is basically a poor country. It did not have the financial wherewithal that germany did. It did thing it could hold off germany for a while but the germans went right over them. Host you say it wasnt really a surprise. Was the rest of your preparing for war at this point . They suspected war was coming. Was countries hoped it wouldnt happen. At least half were neutral. Some prepared for war to a certain extent. But none were ready for what was about to happen. They all hope somehow something would happen to prevent germa
I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was ringing. I thought are going to want to stay in bed and read. Here you are. Thank you and good morning. Welcome to the 2017th National Book festival. I am carla hayden. I am so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of congress. As you can see pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. It is wonderful to see a full house here. Not only will we have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions and millions of people joining us live on facebook. Thanks to everyone for joining us. Now, we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage authors this year. What better way to kick off a festival than with one of our nations most beloved historian historians, mr. David mcculloug mccullough. [applause] he is here for his sixth National Book festival appearance, and we hope you will continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana. [applause] she is the author of the
Im Brian Sullivan your money beginning this year like it ended last year with a nice pop dow, s p and nasdaq with their biggest one day gains in two weeks. Tech and nasdaq flying high. It is up more than 1 . For those of you keeping score at home, heres an interesting stat the dow has not fallen for three Straight Days in more than three months some of the individual movers, Weight Watchers shares rallying. The Company Announcing their new social media ambassador. That stock nearly tripling last year more on that story ahead and individual retailers on the move advanced auto parts and jc penney rallying. Im Michelle Carusocabrera heres what else is happening. You heard brian spotlighting brick and mortar retailers amazon says it shipped more than five billion items to prime members in 2017 and that more people signed up for the service than in any other year wall street journal reporting alibabas mobile browser is beating googles chrome in some of asias Fastest Growing markets. After a
An hour or two off makes a difference . Its like a new jet lag every week think about that the three day weekends yesterday kaley was up early. That kept me on track. If you go to bed early ben franklin. 7 to 8 hours, instead of getting fancy i thought you were going with the early to bed, early to rise. It sounds like youre getting a little bit too how does this guy know . If you get 7 or 8, youre great. God bless you if youre getting 7 to 8 now youre saying it has to be this time i can call you early on weekends if youd like lets look at u. S. Equity futures. Its been a huge year already, just two trading weeks in. Look at this this morning, futures are surging, dow indicated up by 267 points s p futures up by 17 nasdaq up by 14. This comes after last week where the dow was up 507 points. Nasdaq up by 1. 7 . Gains across the board with the dow, nasdaq, s p 500 and many other indices result ending at alltime highs its continuing again this morning. Hard to try to get your arms around
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to get started with our third and final installment of todays event on oversight and accountability and Security Sector assistance. Again, i am melissa dalton, director of the sbashl Security Program here at csis. I am delighted to welcome to this panel a selection of colleagues and fellow travelers on the road of ssa reform who either currently serve in government, or have very recently departed Government Service at various nodes of the community. Starting on my far left is mr. Adam barker who is a professional staff member on the Senate Committee on armed services. Where he provides budgetary and policy oversight of department and defense programs, including Security Cooperation. To his right is dr. Dafna rand. She previously served as Deputy Assistant secretary in the bureau of democracy and human rights and labor, also served in other positions at the department of state and the National Security council. To her right is mr. Tommy ross