reporter: counted of course, he took notice of his superiors and his superiors brought henry ford 20 ompany to an event, kind of a luncheon one day in which thomas edison was present. the two men met so edison is established, an older rich and famous and ford is nobody. the two of them started conversation at this lunch, the young kid with machines and the other guy who understands inventions, they start talking and what they are talking about is an idea henry ford has building a new kind of automobile engine. ford has been playing around with thehe idea of powering an automobile gasoline and he's inventing improved gasoline engine in his kitchen in his garage putting together bits and pieces of stuff in his spare time trying to make this revolutionary gas engine edison is fascinated. he listens tods this young man d thinks why, he's gothi something going on. the two of them become friends but it was years later after ford built his engine and put his engine into an automobile was the most reliable least expensive automobile the world ever seen, he called model g. he converted the eve

and so it was quite a event when edison teamed up with henry ford. and tried to create this project, this enormous project that is the subject of my book. it happened like this. edison and ford knew each other and ford was a younger man , one of the first jobs forgot when he was a young man was not in automobiles but in electricity. he worked on electrical dynamos as a young man. one of the first jobs and re-forgot was working at thomas edison's electric company in detroit michigan. ford had grown up in michigan, he was a farmboy that he was a poor farmboy and he hated farm work. he hated the drudgery of farm work and he hated working in outside in all weather. the kind of stuff verse have to do to make a living in this world were things thomas , but henry ford didn't like red henry ford was a smart kid and he had a natural aptitude for machinery. and he loved tinkering with machines early machines. this was, he grew up sort of came of age in the 1880s and 1890s and during that period, the steam engines were all the thing. steam engines were huge plan

henry ford by then already said he would run for president. ok himself out of running for president prematurely and he never got the project but he also never got to be president. if he was president my idea he would be up president unlike any we had ever had. he would have been an autocrat. he would've been unable to deal effectively with groups like congress or the press. he just want his own way it would have been a very interesting four years. but it didn't happen. in fairness ford didn't really want to be president. he knew he was lucky to have the job he had as the world's richest one-man band this enormous profitable company and could do what he wanted and tell anybody what he wanted he did not have to make nice and kiss babies and he knew that. he was not built to be a politician. he knew it. especially his wife. she was dead set against ford being president and she was a powerful figure in his life. when she told him she didn't want him to be present - - president that had an effect. >> interesting about the press that he was a publici

he worked on electrical dynamo as a young man and one of the first jobs henry ford got was working at the thomas edison's electric company in detroit michigan. ford had grown up in michigan. he was a farmboy, he was a poor farm boy and he hated farm work. he hated the drudgery and working outside in all the weather's the kind of stuff farmers have to do to make a living in this world where things henry ford really didn't like. henry ford was a smart kid and he had a naturalas aptitude for machinery. he loved tinkering with machines, early machines. he grew up, sort of came of age in the 1880s and 1890s and during that period, steam engines were all the things. steam engines were huge and were used to power factories. on the farm they had steam engines on wheels that they could rule from farm to farm and fire up to help with the harvest to have an engine brought to your farm. these things were huge. they were like locomotives. they were called road locomotives as a matter of fact because they didn't need tracks to run. they had a big iron wheels but the engines themselves were the size

he was talented of course and his superiors thought henry ford ford -- brought henry ford to an edison company event of which thomas edison was present. edison is established and older, rich and famous and ford is a nobody. the two of them started a conversation with the young whiz kid who is adept with machines and the older guy who understands inventions and they start talking and what they start talking about is an idea that henry ford has four building a newld kind of automobile and ford has been playing around with the idea of powering an automobile with gasoline and he's inventing an improved gasoline engine. he's putting together bits and pieces in his spare time and trying to make this revolutionary new gas engine and edison assassinated. he listens to this young man ans he tanks boy he's really got something going on. the two of them become friends and it was years later after ford the assembly line is a way of making the model to cut down costs tremendously and ford put it together with his automobile. everybody wanted the model t. this was a revolution in america because up

henry ford was there, on a bicycle, 20 feet behind, chasing them. in the 1880s people started to understand you could take a steam engine or a naphtha engine and apply it to an automobile. electricity was also used to do that, electric cars existed before gasoline engines. a gentleman from grand rapids named sintz developed a gasoline-powered engine and took it to the columbia exposition in chicago in 1893. a lot of guys from detroit, lansing, chicago, milwaukee, saw this and all of a sudden the gasoline engine became the most popular way of powering cars. probably the biggest problem these early vehicles ran into was the lack of decent roads. the bicycle folk, people who enjoyed riding bicycles, had started a movement called the good roads movement to make the roads better. so the bicyclists kind of got some of the roads paved. but once you got out of the city center, which here in downtown detroit would have been just a mile or two outside of the real core of the city, you were back on country roads and in detroit, it's mostly clay. if it rains, y

and henry ford's observation that's absolutely true. and essentially, because it is a realization of that dream. yeah. and it's important to remember, you know, i was really, it's kind of off topic of the energy story. but the fact is that this is so unique in history and that you've had oil or you've had gold, or you had central banks. and those were some countries were uniquely endowed with that. and some countries like with the central bank era, are uniquely endowed with huge amount of force and violence that they can inflict on everybody else to use their currency. but all of them were either centralized in some way. we see that with saudi arabia and the usaa relationship at the moment, but bitcoin is totally decentralized and totally distributed to anybody. because of the way it uses energy. it can capture that stranded energy and like places that were just left off the financial and banking in economic grid for centuries, decades, you know that they can be put back on that they don't need to now bag, washington d. c, for some hand

but everybody from buckminster fuller to henry ford to frederick hyatt. all pointed out that that would be the best sort of currency to have. now we cut to that money printer go broke and look what they have caused and look how they are able to control gold. and you could see that in this m to money goes for, here's the charts for bitcoin stock box and gold adjusted for money supply expansion. and you say money supply that the huge surge last year than this is a bit coin. and this is the s and p 500 and there is gold has been declining at lock stop as m 2 is going up. now a lot of people say that's because of manipulation that, that obviously this is what central banks look at the gold price. alan greenspan had admitted that in f m. c minutes that were released. you know, everybody knows that they look at the price, the goal to see if people are going to keep on buying into that scheme and accept the money printer go better. and, and this is that adjusted the growth trajectory on the same scale. this is bitcoin, this is the s a p 500 and the gold versus t

now, back to henry ford, he said, one of the greatest businessman's ever walked. the earth said hunter, and below is a snapshot from the actual front page of the new york tribune newspaper on december, 4th, 921. he said ford would replace gold with energy currency and stop wars follow up on the tweet. ambrey ford offers up the idea that all wars would be prevented with a currency based on energy usage. quote, the essential evil of gold and its relation to war is the fact that it can be controlled. he said this in 1921, break the control and you stop the war. yeah, that's right. for the raisins. so we've been talking about. it's not back by violence. it's backed by the monetization of peace. actually, when it comes to bitcoin and with energy, it is decentralized. buckminster. father said that planet earth gets about a 1000 times more energy every day that uses, right, there's a lot of energy around. the question is, how do you harness it? what do you do with it? and with big coin you're converting electricity into the hardest one ever known, then the history of the

charles brady king, not henry ford, charles brady king designed this car. he designed the engine that went inside of it. oliver who helped him with the engine drove him down detroit. he was about 25 feet behind chasing him. people started to understand that you could take a steam engine and apply it to an automobile. eventually electricity was used too that. electricity cars existed before gasoline engine. a gentleman developed a gasoline powered engine and took it to the columbian exhibition in 1893 in chicago. he showed it off to everybody. a lot of guys from detroit, from lansing, chicago, milwaukee, all of these people saw this engine and the gasoline engine became the most popular way of powering cars. probably the biggest problem that these early vehicles ran into was the lack of decent roads. the bicycle folk, people who enjoyed riding bicycles started a movement to make the roads better. they were constantly getting stuck many the mud. charles brady king went on and starpted the king automobile company. the king car company and put out a number of c

here is lake henry ford. luwann could you i did involved in the google suit, for those of you that know that. once you make a car better than the driver, it's almost irresponsible to have them there. coil voight who founded cruise automation part of general motors. part of what is driving him is the fact that some 33 million -- 33,000 americans are killed by highway accidents every year. 90% of the time by human error. they want to eliminate the driver because we are bad drivers. it's not true. this is the 94% fallacy. they all read this document which says 94% of accidents are caused -- no, sorry. the critical reason for crashes investigated in the national motor vehicle crash causation survey. it doesn't say who causes the crashes. you have to read the footnotes. nobody reads the footnotes. although the critical reason is an important part of the description of events leading up to the crash, it is not intended to be interpreted as the cause of the crash, nor the assignment of fault to the driver, vehicle o

this is henry ford racing alexander winton. the idea that henry ford who was pretty much a failed businessman at this point beat the best racer with the biggest car company in the country was a huge deal. winton's car kind of sputtered in the race and he lost, but people went wild. i love this line. one man threw his hat up in the air when it came down he stomped on t another man was so excited, i wanted to see this scene, so excited he hit his wife on the head to keep her from flying off the handle. that description, i don't know, you know that thing with the egg -- any way -- okay. another cyclist. this is barney oldfield, celebrity cyclist, much like major taylor. henry ford got him to do his next racer, this is a few years later, this is called the 999, 1902, just a year later, you saw those other cars. this thing is insane. he's sitting in what amounts to like a drawing room car -- a drawing room seat, they probably pulled the legs off and took it out of clara ford's bedroom and put it on there and he's steering with a fla

100 years ago, henry ford suggested that wars could for ever more be prevented if only there was a currency denominated. in kilowatt hours question, does this sound like something that now exists? hint, thank bit quain time for a thread. and this was from a guy who had, he is a co founder of galloway, which is like that wallet being used in el salvador. and he was responding to yet another piece, a fight from the new york times where they were like, bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries. and that this is a bad thing. but what the threat is going to show is that that's actually a good thing. and exactly as henry ford and others by the way, economists like me sees and hire and stuff like that. we're saying that energy back money as well as buckminster fuller.

but henry ford did not want to be a farmer.e was more interested in machinery and one of his heroes was thomas edison. so, he eventually got to detroit and started working for the edison illuminating company. in his spare time, he tinkered around with wanting to build his own motor and build his own car. personal transportation of the time when henry ford got started included the horse and buggy. we also had streetcars at that time that operated. there were things called interurbans which connected little city neighborhoods instead of just the large railways. it was not very well developed. bicycles, that was another form of transportation that gave people mobility. a number of other entrepreneurs in this area were building bicycles to give people mobility. typically in that time you did not go more than 50 miles from your home, maybe become in your lifetime. there was a big need, people wanted to move around. they just didn't have that ability until the car came out. henry ford's desire to build the model t starts with the ide

henry ford did not want to be a farmer. he was more interested in machinery and one of his heroes was thomas edison. he eventually got to detroit and started working for the edison illuminating company. in his spare time, he tinkered around with 22 build his own motor -- wanting to build his own motor. transportation at the time included the horse and buggy. we also had streetcars at that time that operated. there were things called turbines which were little -- enter urban's which were -- interurbans which connected neighborhoods. bicycles were another form of transportation. a member of -- number of entrepreneurs in this area were building bicycles. you do not go more than 50 miles from your home. maybe become in your lifetime. there was a big need, people wanted to move around. the did not have that ability until the car came about. henry ford's desire to build the model t starts with the idea of wanting to build cars for the masses. they started with a model, called the model a and you had a progression of different mod

. >> reporter: -- henry ford's great grandson, chairman bill ford, says this is ford's new model t moment>> because everything is changing. my great grandfather saw our industry five years ago, it would be very recognizable to him. now we're on the cusp of a revolution. >> reporter: and ford is betting big on the revolution. spending another $11 billion to build new plants in tennessee and kentucky and hiring 11,000 new workers. outside memphis, an all-new carbon neutral campu producing electric vehicles, their batteries and recycling systems. near louisville, kentucky, two new battery plants to power trucks and suvs. more jobs and investments in existing michigan plants and new job training in texas and beyond. >> if this $11 billion investment you are making now, is it still a risky bet or do you feel better about this one >> listen, of course it is risky. any time you bet on a future, it is by definition risky. but it is a bet that i'd make any day of the week because electrification is coming the battery industry is coming to america and we just want to be at the forefront of it. >> r

henry ford suggested that wars could for ever more be prevented if only there was a currency denominated in kilowatt hours. question. does this sound like something that now exist? hint, thank bitcoin time for a thread. and this was from a guy who had, he is a co founder of gala, which is like that wallet being used in el salvador. and he was responding to yet another piece of.

henry ford suggested that wars could for ever more be prevented if only there was a currency denominated in kilowatt hours. question. does this sound like something that now exist? hint, thank bit quain time for a thread.

years 40% of its fleet will be battery powered. 113 years after the model t first hit the road henry ford'sson chairman bill ford says this is for its new model t movement. >> everything is changing. if my great grandfather saw our history five years ago, he would be very recognizable to. him now are on the cusp of a revolution. >> ford is betting big on the revolution, spending another 11 billion dollars to build new plants in tennessee and kentucky and hiring 11,000 new workers. outside of memphis an all new carbon neutral campus producing electric vehicles, their batteries, and recycling systems. near noble kentucky, two new battery plans to power trucks in a few suvs. and new job training in texas and beyond. >> is this 11 billion dollar investment you're making now, is it still a risky path? or do you feel better about this one? >> of course it's. risky anytime you bet on a future, it's by definition risky. but it's a bet that i would make any day of the week because the battery industry is coming to america and we just want to be at the forefront of it. >> with going green now a corpo

when i talked about henry ford and mass production early in the cars, i talked about how mass production just raised the stakes for anybody in the automobile business. to mass produce cars, you have to have huge amounts of money and capital and financial resources. it involves huge factories and supply chains sometimes spread out all over the country or all over the world. it's a very complicated business. but above all, it requires money, fund-raising and this is something preston tucker or any maverick trying to enter the automobile business -- this is something that they lack. they have real trouble raising money to enter the auto making business. and so preston tucker always struggled with fund-raising. and he tried some unconventional schemes to try to raise money. for example, he sold -- one of his mistakes was renting such a big factory. he rented a former dodge aircraft plant in chicago that covered 9 acres. it was too big a factory for his needs, much too expensive for him to afford. and then to try to raise money some of the unusual schemes he engaged in was selling accessories

henry ford invented the assembly line, this is a prototype of a robot moves a vehicle along, if something goes wrong, they don't shut down the assembly line. the robot can simply make a detour. >> reporter: ford is pledging a made in america stamp on its evs. what would your grandfather say about the new model t for the 20th century >> i think he would say what took you so long >> reporter: how long until every car is an electric vehicle? ford says it's up to the consumer and believe they get the same value for money general motors wants to get rid of all philip >> all right tom, thank you it makes me wonder if they will vanish like video stores >> and phone booths, too >>> two of the biggest names at the fed step down. >>> it's not 2035 yet. so get ready for more pain at the pump oil prices are surging led back? same state farm agent. texted the next day? same guy. is that even legal? and get this - he remembered my name. of course. hey, blink twice if you're in danger. whoa, guys. at state farm, we actually get to know you. it's called service. come on! like a good neighbor, state farm

let's go to henry ford says, who's in west jerusalem? what more can you tell us about these 3 incidents? well, yes, it has been a pretty violent day already. these 3 deaths in different locations, starting with that one. and i'll keep these truce them is where the police say that the 3rd here, a woman who's from near jeanine in the occupied west bank, that she was emerging from the locks. the most compound before 7 am in the morning and that she was challenged by is really security forces at a checkpoint at the chain gate which leads into the r alleyways of the old city. and at that point, she produced a knife and was shot emergency services arriving sometime later pronouncing her dead at the scene. we've seen images of what looks like a kitchen, mike black handled kitchen light being taken away as evidence by israeli police. earlier there was this operation by is where the military or these registry forces in the occupied west bank in the village of booking, near jeanine israeli forces say that they were shot at by at least one palestin

henry ford and the rest of them created tens of millions of jobs for products that were cheap enough for tens of millions of more people to buy cars. think of that. >> put the harness makers out of business. >> they lost out. they are adaptable. we moved the country from the far to the industry in the city. we did great. microsoft, apple, huge companies. people forget that. the only person getting rich was bill jobs. nonsense. go to seattle. i used to travel that route. it was nothing. now, it probably has more millionaires per capita than any place in the world. why? a few high tech companies did very well. silicon valley is the same way. you may go through patches of this. robots are not going to take over the world. as brian said, give us economic freedom and great things will happen. i bet on it. economic freedom produces great things. so does political freedom. >> one more question. >> you are very kind to come. you filled the joint up. i never thought that would happen. brian and i will sign books for you. we are very grateful you came. [ applause ] ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> this year marks th

we just ask you in what year did henry ford build his first car?cond secretary of state antony blinken. he is saying the taliban will not allow the planes to get off the ground in mazar-i-sharif in northern afghanistan. these are privately organized evacuation flights. blinken says the taliban was holding things up. we had been earlier reporting it was the state department holding things up. you have a conflict there immediately. blinken also says he and the state department are doing everything he can to get the flights off the ground, got that. we're waiting still for president biden. he did come out apparently. he started his presentation on unions and the need for unions and the value of unions. my commentary has been that the president wants to change the subject from afghanistan. whatever you do, don't talk about afghanistan, talk about something else that's positive. so now he is talking about unions. tomorrow he will offer a six point action plan to combat covid. that is changing the subject but that is just my opinion. quick check of the m

henry ford would have done that. so we end up with a difficult questionth. >> it's time to wrap it up tonight. this is the book you want to look for. thank you, thomas for being here with us and thank you to everyone for joining us tonight. we hope to see you again at our next author talk. >> i am so pleased to have with us this evening associate managing historian and author of tonight's book joseph smith for president in conversation with him is that professor of american history at lsu and author of the best-selling book white trash, welcome both of you. i'm so excited to have you with us and we are looking forward to hearing from you. >> thank you so much. it is good to be with you and it's good to be talking with you, nancy. >> let's get into it. your book looks at the early years of the mormons and more specifically missouri and illinois and the presidential run of 1884 what i find most fascinating of joseph smith in the mormon community how they embrace the toolbox of democracy. by toolbox, all the legal and p

this morning, the chairman of ford, bill ford, great grandson of founder henry ford, tells nbc news innt for the 21st century >> we're putting our money on it we're putting shovels in the ground and we're creating the biggest site ever. importantly, we're also creating a carbon neutral site. >> reporter: the automaker placing a very big bet, investing $11 billion to build three factories here in tennessee and in kentucky. both states struggling to recover from the collapsing coal industry ford will hire 11,000 workers to build electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. while tesla leads the battery revolution, nearly every major automaker is making big promises to go green. this summer, gm promised to end gasoline gasoline-powered engines by 2035. >> unwaving commitment to move evs as quickly as possible. >> reporter: president biden highlighting the cash back consumers get for buying electric >> especially us reach the goal of half the new cars sold in america will be electric by 2030, saving billions of gallons in gasoline. >> reporter: this is a car revolution that we're w

plant will occupy six square miles, making it three times the size of the historic complex that henry ford built in michigan a century ago. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts, this is bloomberg. manus. manus: thank you very much. let's set up the events for the day. the key event is going to be the congressional testimony from fed chair jay powell and treasury secretary janet yellen. i think where he reset and recast the die yesterday was about inflation. it will be greater and enduring and an upside risk. dani: the disappearance of the transitory word. will we see selling pressure resume? we also have the ecb forum that will kick off today. we will hear from christine lagarde. the key policy panel to watch for is tomorrow afternoon, christine lagarde, powell, bailey, and kuroda. coming up, we will stick with the central bank theme. we will discuss more about the resignation of these two fed chiefs. we had the stock trading scandal. we have questions around health as well. what does this all mean for u.s. monetary policy? we will discuss that nex

covid-19, what is happening in recent weeks with vaccine requirements, seeing health systems like henry ford in detroit go from 68% vaccination rate to 98% for health care workers after instituted requirements. two of the major hospital systems in maine go to more than 99.5% after requirements were in place. seeing it in private compaes as well. bottom lin is our experience during and before covid with vaccine requirements are clear. they work, they increase the vaccination rate and ultimately they protect a save lives. >> should be clear too, to the extent we have polling on th, secondary to public health effects but polling is general support, ght? in terms of most federal employees, 56%, companies with 100-plus employees,58%. alth care workers, 60%, seems like no-brainer. what is the other -- my question is, we're 40th in the world in ccination rates. what are the other policy levers lying on the table to be pulled to get us higher? >> well, it's very important question, chris. we have a number of measures we can take to contain covid, vaccinations are most critical pathway to get through

on the other hand, henry ford and the rest of them created tens of millions of jobs for products that were cheap enough for tens of millions of more people to buy cars. think of that. >> why did put the harness makers out of business. >> but they lost out. but they are adaptable. we move the whole country from the farms to the industry in the cities. we did great, okay? microsoft, apple, i mean they are huge companies. people forget that. it's like the only person getting which was bill gates, nonsense. i don't want to get offensive here but i used to travel that route, washington to new york. now it has more millionaires than anywhere else per capita. silicon valley. you may go through patches of this. but robots are not going to take over the world. jobs will do -- he said, give us economic freedom, and great things will happen. i will just pet on it. bet on it. economic freedom produces great things. so this political freedom. >> one more question. >> one more question. well, you are very kind to come, you fill the joint up. i never thought that would happen. [laughs] we are very g

henry ford health system in detroit went from 68% to 98%.he point is we are seeing in a lot of places this is working. it's effective. creating more certainty and protection in the work force. there are places where they are contingency planning to ensure they are backfilling. we support that as well. we stay in touch with them about the steps they are taking. but we still continue to believe that putting in place these mandates for businesses over 100 workers is something that is a positive step for the work force, for the country, and for a lot of these businesses. as these business leaders can attest to as well. >> is there anything special about the new york rules? reporter: the biden administration might be looking at and making it lail bit too -- a little bit too -- it is bigger, to your point most of the places you mentioned are having tiny, tiny -- new york seems to be the exception. jen: sure. i know that obviously osha and as they are working to do the rule making we have asked about earlier, they are looking at a range of ways to

happening, even in recent weeks with the vaccine requirements, you are seeing health system like that henry ford system in detroit go from 68% of the vaccination rate for their health care workers to 98% now for the institute requirents. you are seeing two of the major hospital systems inaine go to re than 99.5% among health care workers after they put requirements in place you're seeing it outside in private companies as well. the bottom line is our experience during covid and before covid with vaccine requirements are very clear. they work, they increased vaccination rate, and ultimately they protect and stabilize. >> we should be clear, we had polling on this which is secondary for the public health effect, but the polling here is general support. in terms of most federal employees, 56%, companies with 100 employees and more vaccine are testing, 58%. health care workers you have 60% supporting which seems like a no-brainer. what is the -- i guess my question is, we are now 48 in the world in vaccinatnrate what are the other policy levers lying on the table to be pulled to get us higher? >> it

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henry ford's model t car, above us hangs a huge 1930 21935 lockheed electro aircraft. 0ver 1930 21935ockheed electro aircraft. over in the distance is a powerful optic from the long class light house. i probably pronounce wrong but it was made in 1907. it's been an extraordinary year for museums and galleries. in a moment we will hear how they have responded to the pandemic. were going to visit each of the five museums that have made it onto the shortlist for museum of the year 2021. they are vying for a £100,000 prize. let's find out more right now. please welcome two of this years museum of the word judges. director of the art fund the charity which manages the prize and director of taste. jenny, this audience is not the reminder about a quick recap, what is the award, what does pride do not prize to? is award, what does pride do not prize to? , , , ~ , , to? is the biggest museum prize in the world. to? is the biggest museum prize in the world- it _ to? is the biggest museum prize in the world. it celebrates _ to? is the biggest museum prize in| the world. it celebrates exceptional

prosecutor said he was seeking charges against prime minister henry over the july assassination of president jovenel moÏse. prosecutor bed-fordclaude said henri had communicated with a key suspect on the night moise was killed. meanwhile, many haitians are still struggling to recover from the devastation wrought by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck one month ago. >> as you can observe, we have not received help from anyone. my house was destroyed. we have not received help. people who live here are helping us to rebuild this church. amy: tensions are ratcheting up on the korean peninsula as south korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier today, in response to a ballistic missile test by north korea just hours earlier -- its first since march and a breach of u.n. sanctions. two days earlier, pygyang tested aong-range uise miile. present biden eviously sd he was open to diplomacy with north korea but denuclearization talks between the two countries have not resumed since negotiations between trump and kim jong-un broke down in 2019. back in the united states, the justice department charged former intelli

henry kissinger said that he believed the resignation of president theiu would lead to a negotiation with north vietnam that would save saigon, from a. president ford mentioned none of that chaos in his speech at two lane. days after the president resigned. the third president that week, president yin but the airbase was bombed by north vietnamese pilots. rocket attacks on the airport followed in which pilots were killed, the last two americans killed, and their bodies were left behind at a hospital my mistake. president born forward did not say one word about those deaths. because the americans could not use the airport anymore, they switch to a very dangerous evacuation using helicopters, using buildings that could not bear the weight of the helicopters, so the helicopters had to hover as the people climbed aboard, without being checked and without finding out what they had done during the war. i mentioned vietnam tonight, as i have been since the start of the evacuation, because it is the only model that we have for an evacuation for a war that we lost. and every day of the evacuation of vietnam was either chaos at every level. the president of