Isnt the end the u. S. Plans to raise existing tariffs on 250000000000. 00 in chinese exports from currently 25 to 30 percent and in december a further 15 percent on tariffs on chinese cell phones laptops and clothes that will mean that virtually every product made in china will be subject to tariffs in the u. S. Heres was u. S. President on the trump had to say about this latest escalation. We are talking to china and the meeting is still long as you think that there that they havent we havent well see what happens but we cant allow china to require self anymore because we cant go out there to take 500000000000. 00 a year out of our country we cant do that. Speaking earlier lets bring in our financial correspondent frank only bots only new tires neutral troubles how the markets reacted to this. In a surprisingly benign way here in europe the dax for example where im standing in germany is basically treading water on the Positive Side if you will going up some points the footsie in lon
The painting is being exhibited under stringent security measures, particularly temperaturecontrolled case. Nearly 10,000 people filed by mona lisa the first day, making her by far the most popular hostess in washington. Everybody wants to meet the new girl in town. Next, stephen hood discusses his book on the military career, personal life, and legacy of general John Bell Hood. The author is a distant relative of the general. He analyzes his actions at divingauga and antietam, into records recently released by hood descendents. He said many controversial acts are clarified or redeemed through examination of the documents. Atlantant is from the cyclorama museum. It is about an hour and ordered five minutes. 45 minutes. For coming. I was in atlanta in january. I am going to be able to vote down here if i keep showing up. In West Virginia you could, probably. To mention a couple of people that are here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband, mark, are here. They are from hu
Author discusses the life of any davis. The daughter of confederate president Jefferson Davis. Up. Describes growing her postwar rise to popularity. Her writing career. Museum of the confederacy hosted this event. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. I am so pleased to be here. Today is june 28. The date after winnie daviss birthday. I am so thrilled to be here. After her birthday, to tell you her story. Before i began, i would like to thank the staff here at the museum of the confederacy. All of the staff here. And at the american war center. For all their help and support of this program. I especially want to thank my two friends penelope and sam for the wonderful work on publicity. My eternal gratitude and thanks go to the staff historian at museum of the confederacy. This book would not have been possible without the expertise and assistance. Since we are here on site, i want to set the scene at the white house of the confederacy next door. I want to make sure that you know the se
Minutes. Thank you all for coming. Will beny mentioned, i able to vote down here if i keep showing up. [laughter] in West Virginia, you could. Mention a couple people who were here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband mark are here. They are from huntington and moved to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter, mary hood perlman, and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I will embarrass her and make her raise her hand. [applause] her grandfather was oswald could hoodod, one of the 11 children who we will talk about later. As anthony mentioned, i wrote a was on hood, and it originally to be titled history vs. John bell hood. what i did, and i will be talking about this in a few minutes, i was a little bit distressed at a lot of things that have been written about hood, especially around the 1970s on. I decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myth and legends about him that you read about, and actually use
In West Virginia you could, probably. [laughter] coupleto mention a people who are here. My beloved cousin, barbra markns and her husband park here. They are from huntington and moved down to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I am going to embarrass her and make her raise her hand. So [applause] marys grandfather was oswald grbel, one of the 11 hood children we will talk about later. Wrote any mentioned, i hood, and it was originally to be titled history versus John Bell Hood. And what i did was and i will be talking about this here in a few minutes. I was a little bit distressed at a lot of the things that had been written about hood, especially from around the 1970s on. And i decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myths and the legends about him that you read about. And actually use primary Source Information to let the people, let the reader know exactly what that is a