they own john trumble's painting of the revolutionary war and trumble grew up in connecticut, his father was the governor of connecticut and one of his brothers also became the governor of connecticut. very political family. and he didn't go to yale. he went to harvard instead. and he wanted to be a painter. his father didn't like this idea. trumble said to his father, i want to record, you know, the greatness of america as athenian artists recorded the greatness of athens, and his father said, you are forgetting that connecticut is not athens. but he became a painter anyway. he went to england. he studied with benjamin west. but he was also a colonel in the revolution. he served in the war, and he might have done some spying while he was london. he went to london after his war service. the war was still going on, but they were more relaxed about letting foreign nationals go back and forth then. so, then, he did these paintings of the revolution after the war, and if you see them, it's inescapable that his message is the central figure in this story is george washington. >> yeah. >> ther

mark trumble of christian science monitor. >> in the economic report of the president, there is quite a bit about labor participation and how to improve it. the need to improve it. and now we have senator sanders and others on the left saying you know let's get a job for everyone, maybe a government-provided job. your -- i mean the economic report talks about work requirements. knows are two different approaches to the problem. but i wonder if you could comment on sort of is there at least some common ground in that both sides see a big need? and some of the same solutions around whether it's job training, or the opioid crisis, is there an opportunity? and how much could you maybe bend that curve of declining labor participation. >> right. i think that the curve that you rerch you've probably looked at it but i think virtually everyone here i'm sure with a slightly different angle could write a really interesting piece and what's happening to labor force participation right now. because if you look at the chart it was basically headed straight down. and you know if i look at the outlo

. >> thank you, mike trumble, christian science monitor. >> in the economic growth of the president there is quite a bit about labor participation and how to implement and the need to improve it and now we have senator sanders and others on the left is saying let's get a job for everyone and maybe the government provided jobs and an economic report talks about requirements so there are two very different approaches to the problem but i wonder if you could comment on is there at least some common ground and some of the same solutions whether or not there is drop training or the opioid crisis and is there an opportunity and how much could you been that curb of declining labor participation and -- >> virtually everyone here the slightly different anger could write an interesting piece on what happened to the labor force participation because if you look the chart was basically headed straight down and if i look at the outlook in previous economic then it was expected to continue in one of the reasons why we are in the new normal with low growth is didn't have the workers because the labor di