without boulware, no reagan. if you think that now i would like to raise a theoretical glass of wine. remember him doing this work that you may be wrong. i'm standing right here in manhattan in 2019 with you three decades after the death of that ge executive. and everyone in this room is raising a mental glass to reagan, the public policy work, and also most of all, we are raising our glass to the name of boulware. thank you very much. [applause] now raise your glass, really. >> it's time to take a few questions. >> yes sir. >> when i think of a great society there are twsociety thes that come to mind.o lbj and the revolution in america. the civil rights, the riots in the street, lbj the response to it was a great society. helping blacks get out of poverty, helping blacks overcome the suicidal that was donation -- societal discrimination. what i remember about the racial strife in society is that lbj was abandoned by people that opposed the vietnam war. the only people that stuck with him as the -- my question to

boulware was approaching retirement by 1960 or maybe 1965 he would be out. still he was determined to use his final hours to make his own long-term investment. he wanted to teach the gift, the nature, the precious gift of capitalism. he explained the value of gmarkets. they would leave one such town and he warned them grass will grow if they didn't wake up to the importance of the competitive prices and costs. he used to new media in his case to the television to reach the people creating a tv show some of you have seen called ge theater showcase traditional american values. he hired staff including the aging actor to pge spokesman. remember, the actor was the union men, a democrat that a buyeadmired franklin roosevelt d the new deal. still, i won't say his name yet, but the actor that was hired have potential. [laughter] we have our c-span on the. so what's with their story. for the actor to live in and boulware the actor who was ronald reagan and adam smith, john locke and tocqueville with essays by henry he gave little books like the manhattan institute d

he was a vice president/ labor relations and the name of this man was lemuel ricketts boulware.oulware believed it did it come with the board pay taxes to the federal government or when it met all together and wrote out big plans. he believed growth took place when a lonely scientist in a dumpy lab had an idea and flaunted the world. ideas like the light bulb. i ge idea. >> the high wages and prices would have ge were competitive nobody could quite imagine japan at this point that was the scope of the imagination of a pristine company like general electric to return to the old capitalism the quote is the rapid train trend are to be changed with everything that we cherish the younger executive at general electric found it ludicrous the superlative irritated them and in the public many agreed with the evaluation to describe this vice president the folksiness kentucky with the fervor of a washing machine salesman. [laughter] they did not worry they were the future but he was approaching retirement and then in his recliner from delray beach. with ge and america he spent millions of

boulware, tell us a little bit about this study.ign up 1,500 people who have already been exposed to the virus. tell us how it will work. >> yeah. so we're looking at people with high risk exposure. so health care workers who have been exposed to a known patient with coronavirus or a household contact, so someone in your household that's been diagnosed. we're looking at high-risk exposures and seeing if we can treat people in the first three days after their exposure to prevent them from going on and developing infection and disease. >> after his press conference yesterday the president said this drug could be available almost immediately. is that real right now? tell us exactly how far along you are, and what difference you hope this can eventually make. >> i think president trump is very excited about this as a potential game-changer, but there is a lot of work to be done. it's really important to determine, does the medicine work, or is it just something that works in a test tube in the laboratory setting but doesn't actually wor