gregory downes explains how they navigated those challenges. this is a portion of the 2014 civil war symposium, hosted by the u.s. capital historical society. it is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker is gregory downs who is an associate professor of history at the city college and graduate center of the city university of new york and his first book was :declarations of the pendants the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south,

gregory downes explains how they navigated those challenges. this is a portion of the 2014 civil war symposium, hosted by the u.s. capital historical society. it is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker is gregory downs who is an associate professor of history at the city college and graduate center of the city university of new york and his first book was :declarations of the pendants the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south, 1861-1908." his next book will be on the ends of the war, fighting the civil war after the end of appomattox. i am happy to have professor downs join us. >> i am going to talk about something that is overlooked in all kinds of narratives which is the importance of doing nothing. when congress came back in december of 1865 for many people it looked like they don't find a solution to address reconstruction until march of 1867. despite things like the 14th amendment, this session can seem like and was critiqued at the time as a do-nothing session precisely because it didn't determine the end of the war. that

gregory campbell. >> the 8-year-old has downs syndrome. he's a cancer survivor.e loves teams, but the bruins are at the top of the list. >> love it. >> cool picks. >>> and taylor swift could be channelling 1989 in the new album pnl. >> this is fit in with an aerobic dance video from what else, 1989. ♪ shake it off ♪ i think you're gonna break, break, break ♪ ♪ and i think you're gonna fake, fake, fake, baby ♪ ♪ shake it off >> this makes me a bigger fan of the song now. seeing it with this. >> with the leg warmers and leotards. >> we have got to bring these back. this video is from -- this is the crystal light national aerobic championship, actually. >> shiny body suits, big socks. the highlight of one of america's most embarrassing moments in history. >> no. this is when things -- >> some people wish we could shake that off. >> i love that. let that play it out. let me have that back. let's get out of here with shake it off. >> i would like you to do moves from shake it off. >> see that blue outfit? >> you're going to wear it next friday? >> let's not get the da

this man is not supposed to be stepping down node and gregory hayes come in.hey think we're a private company. >> something out of another era. we've remarked on the fact with ceos you've started to get straight change from companies saying he was fired. >> right. >> or whatever it may be. >> how about -- give us -- >> having an affair. any number of things. by the way, not saying any of that is at play. it does raise questions. >> if i were the s.e.c. i would call and say, you guys mind putting out a release? where's the obligatory spend more time with his family, it's thanksgiving, that would work. >> it's the immediacy -- >> come on. >> it's out. they obviously had a plan, you assume, in place. but i am curious, i'm hoping perhaps to speak to people close to see if there's another story here. many wonder whether that's the case. i don't know what he's go on to do at 57. that's young. >> they did the buyback, talking about doing a better job, the stock was starting to catch up. and then he's gone? he's just gone. like, hey, you know, here's your hat, don't l

down. everybody felt like they were part of it. they all banned together and try to create something positive out of it. >> nice, clean and fresh. >>> guess what? gregory is our latest winner in the ipad mini give away. congratulations. he says he is stunned and can't believe he is our latest winner. you could be one of our winners if you get the buzz word in just a few. >> you are going to need friday's buzz word, be at least 18 yearsf age or older and a legal u.s. resident. >> beike winner. stand by for the rtm ipad mini give away. >>> as this video picks up, you see a large fire truck pull into this neighborhood and a firefighter walking toward this home. this is a fire drill. this firefighter walks up the steps of this beautiful home. you see toby keith "american soldier" playing in the background. >> he needs some help. >> you hear mom behind the camera saying this firefighter need help. >> watch. they help him get his backpack, oxygen tank. removing that helmet. they start to take off his jacket. >> as this firefighter is getting his uniform off, watch what happens. >> that's dad. that's staff sergeant brian hessler. he had been deployed overseas

else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people that worked there. >> my name is ed gregory father was an employee of the draft mill, as was my grandfather. >> during the heyday, there were three paper mills, cotton mill, a beehive of activity here. >> back then, a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools, the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. >> the heyday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the town just kind of died during the '80s. >> when the folks came to work, they were immigrants -- >> attracted by the manufacturing here. >> correct. made it a possibility of owning a home in a decent part of the county here. ♪ >> so my father was here, millwright, millwright's job is a jack of all trades if you will. if there was something to be repaired. >> you could work in a mill and live in a nice home, send your kids to school, make a living all on a mill salary. >> you bet. >> it's unthinkable now. what happened to the business? >> things are go

gregory lane. this freeway is just terrible from near highway 4 all the way down to walnut creek and 580 is very sloweading west. bay bridge toll plaza, that's backed up for about a 25, 30- minute drive into san francisco all the freeways in the south bay are slow. let's go to 280 now. northbound 280 traffic is slow. 101 had a crash and 85 is also slow. so all of those freeways are slow getting to sunnyvale and cupertino. let's go to steve in the weather center to talk about today's forecast. >> thank you, sir. we have a lot of high clouds over the north bay, especially marin county, sonoma county and some fog that wants to hang out in la fayette. that seems to be the focus of the clouds. hardly any breeze. what breeze i have seen is slightly north to east. but it's less than 5 miles per hour. i just stepped outside, dave, just like you. it's a little crisp out there. it's nice out there. we do have some low clouds. but most locations are mostly sunny. it's going to be the forecast for today. a little warmer as well. as far as rain goes, up, up, up. over it goes. that's the ridge of high pressure bui

down hard. >> peaceful protesting is a luxury, for people who don't have a voice, they have to riot. >> if i hadn't done so much history on the civil rights movement, i wouldn't laugh, gregory, but that is ridiculous, that is a stupid piece, i read it in all seriousness. the boston tea party was a riot. oh, gee whiz, so let me get this straight, so when you go and stray the government's property, belonging to the king of a distant place who was trying to control you and say, this is an 5k9 of rewholon. that's the equivalent of burning your own neighborhood? how stupid is that? and i'm not one to use that kind of language. >> i want to see the other 20,000 residents of ferguson, tell these criminals, a lot of them are your neighbors, your sons, your daughters, they know who's breaking into these stores. >> a lot of people from ferguson, don't want these riots, white, black, african-americans, come up to us and say these are our businesses, we see them bussing in these professional protesters, the unions are bussing in people, they don't want any of it because they're too intimidated to stand up to the rioters because they're afraid. >> a 90-year-old black woman, she and her

down? thank you for now, though. >> thank you. good to be here. >> thank you, to gregory an jacob, as well here.organ brennan back here on a quick earnings alert. >> check out williams and sonoma higher in the after hours. home products specialty retailer better than expected third quarter results. fourth quarter outlook a bit below street forecast. that stock is trading up more than 7.5% right now. back to you. >> wow. nice pop. thank you, morgan. >>> up next, first on cnbc interview with qualcomm ceo steve mollenkopf and seeing big opportunities in the server market. later, tv producer norman lear here at the new york stock exchange. you may want to find out why the man that created "all in the family," the jeffersons" and other hits can't get a network to touch a comedy he's pitching. we'll be right back. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and yo

gregory deputy chief economist. welcome to the program. >> morning. >> it seems to be such a mood of pessimism about what the holiday season may bring. you are taking a different stance. a top downh, i guess. >> absolutely. first and foremost, we've got decent job growth. nothing like creating a million jobs every four or five months to get consumers into a buying mood. add in lower gasoline prices, lower heating oil costs, stronger dollar pulling down import prices, you've got solid consumer spending. >> why do you think so many people are negative at the moment? a lot of retail analysts seem down beat. how do you kind of square your thoughts with theirs? >> another factor that will likely get consumers spending, continue aggressive discounting by retailers. that's where the retail analysts have a little bit different than our view. consumers are going to be spending more. will retailers profit from that? that's the uncertainty. >> i have a question on the link between the labor market improvement we've been seeing and retail sales. why isn't there a stronger correlation there? we've seen 200,000 jobs created each and every month. more americans are quitting, a good sign they a