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Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrot ....
Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im re ....
The watson come here quick moment of the internet happened on october 29th, 1969 at 10 00 p. M. At night. It was a message sent between node one and node zero, in los angeles at ucla. It involved it was actually the cloud, it was not electronic mail message it was remote login to a machine. A young hacker by the name of bill due val typed l and o and g. On g the system crashed and it crashed because of a buffer overflow problem. A very straightforward programming error, design error and i checked today. And here we are 45 years later and there were announcements both by the chrome team at google and firefox team that they patched buffer overflow errors. Its quite remarkable that the system that we built is still that kind of fragile system. And this final note before we start on metaphors, were charged with the notion of discussing the rules of the road. This notion of a data highway is perhaps one of the worst metaphors we could possibly pick for the world were living in. Maybe if thi ....
Epa administrator talks about a recent proposal to reduce Carbon Emissions from power plants hosted by the Group Resources for the future tomorrow at 12 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. I cspan2, credit card security. An october 1 to record to replace credit cards with computer chips. We will hear from the head of consumer issues. Our coverage begins at noon eastern. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton land laid out a 10 year plan about u. S. Loan debt. And then she spoke to reporters about the proposal and a 2016 rates. Hillary clinton welcome to exeter. I want to say my thoughts are once again with the people of ferguson as of a mark this painful anniversary. And in light of the continuing ,iolence that we saw last night violence has no place in our streets. And we should all be working for peace and justi ....