next on history bookshelf, talks about his book, "the president is a sick david: hi, i'm david cowan, president of the museum of american finance. welcome back to our lunch and learn series. welcome to the university of central oklahoma and professor alan arnold. the okies are in the house. thank you for coming. please join us again, everyone, next week on the 26th we're going to continue the lunch and learn series. the director of the rothchild archive will be here, melanie. this is an historic banking house. again, a week from this thursday.

next on history bookshelf, talks about his book, "the president is a sick david: hi, i'm david cowan, president of the museum of american finance. welcome back to our lunch and learn series. welcome to the university of central oklahoma and professor alan arnold. the okies are in the house. thank you for coming. please join us again, everyone, next week on the 26th we're going to continue the lunch and learn series. the director of the rothchild archive will be here, melanie. this is an historic banking house. again, a week from this thursday. and then on the 24th, this is tuesday upcoming, we'll be screening the rediscovering alexander hamilton. this is the pbs documentary recently released, and all your questions about the movie can be answered because the producer/director, michael pack, will be in the house. now, turning our attention to today and matthew algeo, and the president is a sick man. this is matthew's third book. his second, harry truman's excellent adventure, which traced harry and bess truman's cross-country trip in 1953, got a lot of great press, and in 2009 "the was

. >> i was there with david seaberg when cowan helped bring these guys public on july 19th didn't buyt on the ipo, i couldn't get in. the thing was way over subscribed, it popped like 32, 33% that next day. bought it two days later i was still in it until yesterday, judge, at 220 that's why i was wearing that hat around i had the hat. >> where were you when you got into it? >> i got into it at 48 >> got out of it over 200 yesterday. >> thanks for sharing, doc. >> you're welcome. >> i could give awe bunch of these kind of stocks by the way. >> this one i think is completely different people miss the story when they say it's just like bitcoin it's not they're in 110 million buyers of stock there are only maybe 14 to 15 million people that have ever speculated with this crazy bit koi and a coyne and all the rest but i had to get out because that was ludicrous speed yesterday it cost you $20 per share, per day to borrow the stock. that's howstock. that's how expensive it is to short right now. >> now what are you going to do? >> i'm walking away from this one. i wouldn't get back in until

cowan: thank you very much. thank you, dr. david osborne, for allowing me the honor of addressing you here. it is an important reminder of the american revolution. thanks to the national parks service for preserving this church and to all of you for joining me today as we take time to remember one of our nations unsung, most forgotten heroines. i have no intention of singing. i will stick to talking. let's consider some front-page news from about three years ago. there we go. as you can see, here is the new york times reporting the pentagon has opened combat roles to women. no exceptions. there is ashton carter, the defense secretary, telling the country women will be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, they will be able to serve as army rangers and green berets. everything that was open only to men. and there in rare agreement is the wall street journal reporting the u.s. would be opening all military roles to women. every major news outlet from the wall street journal to mother jones was quick to jump on the news and herold the