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As a tourist, as a former resident of washington, d. C. And a resident of other parts of the United States, and its just such an honor and a pleasure to be here as a speaker and to talk about my book pivotal tuesdays. Im also so pleased that you all exhibited this interest in a such an obscure subject that no one seems to pay any attention to, president ial elections. Why cant we get the papers to write about president ial candidates, i dont know. But more seriously, were more than a year away from election day. 2016. Or maybe less than a year now, arent we . But we have already seen some rema...

War games that were waged, you know, between allied commanders, nato warsaw pact, the exchange of Nuclear Weapons was off the charts. The tactical Nuclear Weapons would be expanded to the point where in three or four days hundreds of them would be fired by both sides. So what were seeing in these kind of books i met hackett before he died, a great officer, captured at arnham, et cetera. But here hes writing a book about conventionally stopping the soviets. And i think there was sort of a fantasy about that, that we frankly still live with. We still have Nuclear Weapons in the world. We still a...

And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next ...

And so cold. Meanwhile jeff bezos is at amazon selling 7 million worth of his shares. That stock has reached a 3 trillion market kapp. Were going to have a stock brawl on what to do with amazon coming up. Everybody loves to debate amazon. Then theres the jobs report coming in this morning coming in below expectations. Does this guarantee a summer without a rate hike. Thats also coming up. But lets start, though, with the nasdaq on pace for its first threeweek losing streak since midjanuary. Bertha coombs running down some of the biggest losers for us, bertha. One of the biggest losers is apple...

Officers in their universities, officers in their colleges, officers in their departments, and when we were all in graduate school, no one ever said anything about that. None of us were trained to be department chairs, to be s, to be, to be dean president s. We thought this would be an interesting panel that you would like because we have a number of distinguished president s who are itians, and most of us is slightly awkward because most of us are greeting each other because we know each other as historians. We have seen drew and earl and ed on panels, giving papers. We have read their books....