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so what you need when you have a period of excess is a period of deflation. a period where all the excesses are squeezed out. so there was a point of view which said that the depression is unfortunate but it's kind of necessary. we've got to squeeze out all of the excesses that accumulated in the economy in the 1920s. and there's a famous statement by andrew mellon, who was hoover's secretary of the treasury. liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. sounds pretty heartless and i think it was. but what he was trying to convey here is we've got to get rid of all the excesses of the '20s and bring the country back to a more fundamental, sound economy. all right. so what i wanted to get into here in the last few minutes is what was the fed doing during this period? unfortunately, the fed met its first great challenge in the great depression and it failed. body on the monetary policy side and on the financial stability side. on the monetary policy side, basic bottom line here is that the fed did not ease monetary policy the

that is during the watergate period for richard nixon. and his opinions, there were nine of them during that period, were extremely important in establishing some of the basic ideas for how we look today at the appointments process. he's also served as consul don't the oversight board and private counsel presenting briefs and oral arguments before the supreme court in the 2009 case free enterprise fund versus pcaob, which was another appointments case. he's also been a specialist, as i said, in american public law with the american law division of the congressional research service and specialized in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law and congressional practice and procedure and labor law. and in problems raised by the interface of congress and the executive branch. in 2004 -- i'm sorry, in 2005, he was the recipient of the 2004-2005 mary c. lawton award for outstanding public service by the american bar association section of administrative law and regulatory practice. mort, the floor is yours. >> thank you. i want to th

these are quarterly numbers so you can see the bounciness, periods of growth followed by periods of slower growth. the yellow bar is a one standard deviation band, a measure of the average volatility of g.d.p. growth quarter to quarter between the period of 1950 and 1986 -- or 1985, i guess. and you can see that g.d.p. growth was pretty variable throughout the period. there's a lot of volatility in recessions including the severe about 1986, look at what happens to g.d.p. variability between 1986 and 2007 or so. the variety is much less and it 's shows a standard deviation band for this latter period and is very striking how much more stable the economy was over this 20 or so year period. this was true not only for real g.d.p. growth but also true for inflation. so, again, the same picture basically, the line, the vertical line in the middle of the graph splits the time period from pre-1986 and post- 1986. the graph shows inflation quarter by quarter as measured by the consumer price index. again, the tan bar shows one standard deviation average volatility of inflation in the pre-1986 peri

so that's been there for a long period of time. all you have to do is go back -- look at "time" magazine, i say to my friend from tulsa. back in 1975, the front page of "time" magazine, another ice age is coming. we're all going to die. and then that same "time" magazine had the last polar bear stand on the last cube of ice age and saying we're all going to dial. which way do you want to go? host: we have another caller and once again from oklahoma, this time the town of boswell. glenda. you're on the air. caller: yes. good morning, c-span. i am a christian conservative democrat. and i am going back in history. i am older than you. the poor has always been oppressed, especially in southeastern oklahoma. the g.o.p. has spent more money on mars. they have spent more money period. and the high gas prices is not because of obama. it's because the g.o.p. wants obama to look bad since the economy's coming up. also, i want to speak on the keystone pipeline. it's less than 10 miles from our house and it is pitiful. do we want our waters in

begins with the p. - period. - period. okay? and so all over here, we can say wavelength over the period of the wave will give you the speed of the wave. but the period of the wave can be re-written, one over the frequency. and those of you who are a little bit into mathematics know that this is equivalent to-- all right, let me write it this way. and so we have a relationship for the speed of any kind of waves, gang. and it simply is the velocity of the wave, the velocity over the speed, speed is the magnitude of velocity. that velocity of the wave is simply gonna be equal to the frequency of the wave multiplied by its wavelength. later on, we'll talk about the speed of light. and the speed of light will be equal to the frequency of light multiplied by its wavelength. so if you know the wavelength of light, you can calculate the frequency, if you know the speed. or it turns out light speed will always be the same. do you know how fast light goes, gang? it goes just as fast as a radio wave goes. it goes just as fast as an infra

same period of last year. the growth of the ansf has been dramatic. the growth of the ansf special operators has been adramatic. as the ansf continues to move to the fore in full partnership with us in the comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign, i believe that there is great potential for us to accomplish all of these objectives. and i remain committed to the campaign and i remain optimistic with the right kinds of resourcing the comprehensive campaign, counterinsurgency campaign continuing as we currently envision it, that we will be successful. >> thank you very much. ranking member smith? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on that piece there. i think it's just a misunderstanding about the mission in somewhere it's going. we were transitioning, that is the whole point, to bring in other forces, it's not a mat that the mission is reaching a point of diminishing returns, it's a matter the mission is reaching a point of reasonable success, and for it to continue to succeed we need to make that t

a sine wave is a periodic waveform, and it's really one of the pure waveforms. sine waves relate to fourier series, which is a big, big deal in the kind of fusion of math and sound. fourier came up with this equation that said any arbitrary function or complex waveform that varies in time can be described with a series of cosines and sines. this was a very, very powerful mathematical leap at the time, and it really has had profound effects on everything we do in terms of electronics, because basically it means that we can break down any phenomenon that we either observe or want to create in nature into a set of sines and cosines. acoustic instruments typically are limited in their sound capability by the physics of an instrument. for instance, an acoustic guitar can only vibrate in certain ways, and when you hit a string, that string can only oscillate in certain modes and excite certain frequency resonances of the cavity of the guitar, same as a violin or a bass or a flute. an electronic instrument usually has a lot wider variety of expression and tones that it

represents assets acquired or loans made during the crisis period. and you can see in late 2008 our loans outstanding to financial institution and some other programs rose very sharply. you can also see as time passed and certainly by early 2010, those -- those initiatives to address financial strain had been greatly reduced. if you look at the far right, by the way, you see a little bump there right recently. th the swaps. we reinstituted and extended the swap agreesnknd other major central banks and there has been some usage of that in an attempt to try and reduce strains in europe and that shows up as a little bump there at the far th. now, again, we owned about $800 billion in treasury securities at the beginning of the crisis. as you can see from the red, labeled lasps we added about trillion in new securities to the balance sheet during the stn and then the top there you have other assets, a variety of things that could be security reserves and otherte. now why were we doing this? why were we buying thesethis is which monotists like ohers have.

other cases there will be a more significant role for that period. this is part of that transition process and sometime in 2013, we'll see that milestone with the final tranche. that begins just as an additional round of transition we expect to occur by the end of 2014. >> if in the meantime we are offering the taliban fighter $125 to $150 a month to just stop fighting, he can keep his gun, do you think he might stop fighting and keep his gun knowing that we are leaving in 2014 and then he can pick up and fight, we won't be there? >> i don't reject that possibility but i want to offer two contrary points, if you will. the first is, if a fighter wants to pick up his gun at any point and time in afghanistan, that is -- that is likely to be a possibility. if you look at the availability of ak-47s, they have had weapons for a long period f of time. second, critically important, what we stipulated, secretary clinton stipulated for fighter that is come off taliban come off the field as an outcome, they need to sever ties with al qaeda and agree to the cons

if this is correct, we are not going to be talking about recess appointments that were made in the period between sessions of the senate. the recess appointments at issue here had begun the second session of the 112th congress, the one that was elected in 2 0 2010. the terms you will hear about during the discussion are important. it gives the president the power to make recess appointments that are inter-session. that is between sessions. that's playing from the wording of the constitution. what is at issue, in this case, is whether the president has the power to make recess appointmen appointmen appointments intra-session. that is while the session is still going on. where did the president get that power. the answer is, i think, that it is nowhere in the constitution. and the presidents -- and presidents -- especially modern presidents, have simply done it and the senate has general lill acquiesced. as the director of the consumer financial protection bureau and three members of the national labor relations board. as you listen to the discussion, it's important to be ware of several fa

i also think that it is a period that is going to be a period of intense political strategizing and negotiation. i remember the debt ceiling problem in '95, which really had the potential of being a crisis. we would go into the chief of staff's office and we would try to figure out how to negotiate. what are the issues? what are they going to do? what are we going to do? i think there is more intense because the stakes are so enormous. in a sense, i think there are three possible outcomes, greg. i may not have gotten to all of them. i don't know the odds to put on that but there is a realistic chance. the parties will decide to work together in some fashion that then produces a constructive and serious response to our fiscal challenges. now i don't know what odds to put on that, but i think there's a realistic chance, especially that polls show there's an 84% disapproval rating of congress. there are some undecideds. that's the truth. maybe if we have enough incumbents lose, maybe a whole bunch of effected officials will recalculate their calculus and decide maybe it will be better to be more s

i also think that it is a period that is going to be a period of intense political strategizing and negotiation. i remember during the what are the issues? what are we going to do? i think there is more intense because the stakes are so enormous n a brad sense, i think there are three possible outcomes, greg. i may not have got tone all of them. i don't know the odds to put on that tlut bubut there is a real chance. there are some undecideds. that's the truthment maybe if we have enough incumbents lose, maybe a whole bunch of effected officials will recalculate their calculus and decide maybe it will be better to be more serious about governance. so i think that is a realistic possibility. another possibility is just kick the ball down the road. take the tax cuts, extend them for x period of time, whatever it is. undue the sequester in one way or another. i think that will be a most unfortunate outcome but certainly possible. and the third possibility, though i think this is a relatively low probability, is that they do absolutely nothing. they need to kick the ball down the road nor have a con

indeed, every time it came up for that period in our history and social studies courses, we would either put a handle on the table or want to go under the table and hope that that part of the lesson get over quick. because the basic feeling that was communicated to us in the ways in which slavery and the slave trade were interpreted during that period of time was that this was something that we should be ashamed of. that people of african dissent should be ashamed of. and that we as somehow or another were less than human because we had put up with it. had endured it. i was troubled by that kind of approach and interpretation throughout my formal academic years at berkeley. and then in the years that i've been working both here and in other places, the issue of how do we rethink our understanding of this institution of slavery and the slave trade? in way that's can become sources of empowerment rather than sources of shame? and so i continue to do my own reading and my own study. the opportunity to present the results of my approach to this came when we did the exhibition, lest we forget

later 2nd period caps down 4-1. some vintage alex ovechkin up the left side between his legs scoring his 30th of the year. he's the ninth player to score at least 30 goals each season in the first seven years of a career of caps fall 5-2 and lead the jets by two points in the race for eighth place in the east. >>> john wall and the wizards on the road against the grizzlies, nene expected to debut wednesday. final seconds of the 1st half wall to jordan crawford who dials up the three. that is good. with one second left crawford with 22 points, wiz up three at the break. 2nd half with the wizards down one, rudy gay turns it oh. it's the one-on-three. you know the rest. the wizards in front by one. 30 seconds to go wiz down four. ruly gay sinks the clutch three. the griz defeat the wiz. the wiz now 10-34 on the season. >>> d.c. united on the road against the l.a. galaxy. 69th minute, landon donovan to robbie keen. it's 2-0 galaxy, a perfect 10 for the cartwheel. it's now 3-0. saragosa sets up nick deleon and bends it o

these are quarterly numbers so you can see the bouncyness, periods of growth followed by periods of slower growth. the yellow bar is a one standard deviation band, a measure of the average volatility of g.d.p. growth quarter to quarter between the period of 1950 and 1986 -- or 1985, i guess. and you can see that g.d.p. growth was pretty vareable throughout the period. there's a lot of volatility in the economy and a number of recessions including the severe ones in 1973 and 1981. now, amazingly, starting from about 1986, look at what happens to g.d.p. variability between 1986 and 2007 or so. the varlte is much less and it shows a standard deviation band for this latter period and is very striking how much more stable the economy was over this 20 or so year period. this was true not only for real g.d.p. growth but also true for inflation. so, again, the same picture basically, the line, the vertical line in the middle of the graph splits the time period from pre-1986 and post-1986. the graph shows inflation quarter by quarter as measured by the consumer price index. again, the tan bar shows

new delhi was built in the british colonial period at the end of the 19th century. tidy grid-line streets and office buildings offer a sharp contrast to the narrow, bustling streets of old delhi. today the power that is shaping delhi is economics. beginning in the early 1900s, india made a strong push toward liberalizing its economy. with its strong international ties, delhi has been quick in keeping pace with the changing environment. products aoming in frombroad, and on their stails come welements of ign cuure.onment. delhi's life-sty is cngg a. ( bus horn blaring ) drawn by the appeal of the city and the liberalized economy, more and more people are moving to delhi from the countryside. however, moving to the city does not necessarily mean that you can find work there. woman: they come to delhi expecting to earn money and find employment because they've heard that there's more opportunities there and it's a growing, booming metropolitan area. and when, in fact, they get there, there'massive unemployin thei. and unless they're very lucky, or extremely well connect

the property owner has not stood still in this time period.uilding is held in trust by two families. it took a great deal of effort for the various owners to agree as to what course of action to follow. city planning staff. they are willing to entertain the use of this building as a single-family apartment over a broad -- garage. we are ready to permit -- submit the permit application this week. i have copies, if you wish to look at them. they include floor plans -- this is all in preparation of a site plan. in addition, the property owners capped the gas, electric, and water lines. the building is vacant. >> so there is plumbing fixtures -- commissioner murphy: so there are plumbing fixtures in there? >> yes, and as you can see from this picture, there was residential use. i should probably leave it right there. we had to deal with problems of legality. when the notice of violation was issued in may of 2010, the owners were aware of the problem, and we are seeking financing to complete the rehab this property. they received some bids. those t

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this is a period of near constant volatility. first we had the tech bubble, an unusual situation where stocks went up despite the high volatility. then the tech bubble popped, and just when things were starting to calm down, september 11th happened. not long after that we had the enron debacle. it was one thing after another, and the vix spiked over and over again. redler said mid 2002 after the dot-com bomb was going under, it would have been hard for traders to imagine that the fear and volatility would ever have ended, and, yet, you know what, that's exactly what happened. in 2003 things calmed down, and we entered a new period of low volatility and rising markets. take a look at the chart of the vix from 2003 to 2008. as you can see, the fear index stayed at very low levels for a very long time. almost never going above its long-term average of 20, and this was a very good time to own stocks. it wasn't until the wheels started falling off in the housing market in 2007 that the vix began to rise, and it really spiked in 2008 o

holding up this report and folding it in half because if you fold it in half, you can see that the period -- during the period of the surge, if you will, of production, it nearly doubled over what the historical levels were prior. in a recent correspondence, you told me the quote, the narcotics trade and its linkage to the insurgency contribute to regional insecurity, corruption, volatility in the rule of law and stagnation of economic development. general petraeus has agreed that it was a serious problem noting that the trade finance roughly one-third of the taliban's funding. general mattis confirmed this number two weeks ago before this committee. in an attempt to confront this issue, i discussed this with you, general petraeus, general mattis and the dea just to name a few. in response to my question, general mattis stated, quote, the u.s. government and other international partners including the afghans are reducing a poppy cultivation and opium production in afghanistan, our strategy supports a comprehensive set of actions to reduce opium production. the strategy includes numerous i

so i can answer questions on that during the question and answer period. but, thank you, again, for your. mohammed? >> let me begin by thanking georgetown's berkley center for religious freedom and particularly timothy shaw and thomas farr for their kind invitation to be among the distinguished experts and policymakers. i'm really grateful for the opportunity. given the time limitations, i'm going to limit myself to two general points. the first relates to this overall proposition that the greater religious freedom leads to greater moderation among religious movements. and conversely, the less religious freedom leads to greater radicalism. so what i'm going to argue in my talk today is as much as we'd like to believe that this is true, and we hope it is try, because we all want repressive regimes to reap what they sow, and to also be blessed with moderate organizations, but anecdotically from the middle east, and north africa, and much of the muslim world more generally what we see is it's not as clear cut. i'm going to point out of contrarian examples not

so in order to not have you wait an hour for a relatively small period afterwards. if we have not concluded by the time of the vote, we will end at that point. as a result, i will hold everyone on your side very close to the five minutes. i will hold my own people close to the five minutes, not just for questions, but for your answers. so, i ask all, all of the members to include time in your five minutes for questions and a reasonable period for witnesses to answer. with that, mr. secretary, you are recognize ford fid for five. >> thank you for the opportunity to downyou. let me thank the inspector general, a strong and independent oversight agent at the usda. the mission of the nutrition assistance program, s.n.a.p. is to help, low income people get the food they need while they get back on their feet. it has never been more important in the lives of americans than now. so strong administration and oversight, including accurate payments and proper use of benefits are just as critical. the focus of today's hearing is about usda's oversight and management of the ret

so, we can -- there's never a period -- never a point where we couldn't end the program. >> what's our exposure currently? what's the totality of our exposure? >> the totality of our exposure currently is $69 billion, of which $54 billion is to the ecb. >> what's our total exposure in terms of other things by the united states to the european sovereign debt? other forms of -- >> as our stress test analyzed, the exposure of our banking system to the debt of the weaker countries is, on net, about zero. they hold some such debt and they have -- they've written some insurance on that debt. they have hedges in the other direction to protect them from loss. >> what's the credibility in the hedges? where does the strength of the hedges come? >> written by a variety of strong -- a stronger european institutions and we're quite comfortable that -- we can't imagine a scenario where essentially every major consequen constitution -- >> explain to me. if i'm not correct, you did express some reservation, there was one area of exposure -- currency swaps, i thought i heard that in your testimony. >>

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and to women in that time period. edith mayo who was my predecessor as curator and my mentor did a groundbreaking show called first ladies role in public image and it really looked for the first time the first ladies in the context of american history and the role played by first ladies, so we wanted to take another step with that, and this time instead of looking at roles specifically as hostess, as political partner, to look at how each different women summed that all up and combined those roles, what they stressed what they did. so, looked at almost as case studies. we also wanted to give you a more intimate view of each one of these first ladies. the kinds of things people say. be they a piece of china, a watch, a scrap of fabric. it's the kind of things we save to remember our lives. each of these we call the high boys show memories and we save things in our bookcase or our credenza or china cabinet, we want to show what people save and use each one to link to a memory or a little bit of a story. you won't come a

so what's a very long period of time? because most of us are saying i'm sorry, i don't have a long period of time. i'm not willing to wait. >> well, that's, i mean that is the sort of $64 question for the individual investor. a 69-year-old who has just entered into retirement and is completely, completely discouraged. >> right. >> and what should they do. even that person should be overweighted with equities, because the other kinds of things that they will be tempted to do, fixed income one, but these other kind of bizarre products that are out there -- >> like the alternative investment type stuff? >> well, all sorts of things that are being sold to individual investors. you know, timber and all sorts of things. i just do not believe can give you the kind of extraordinary types of returns you get by owning a company, a company is a dynamic compounder of wealth. it can make the adjustments to inflation, to deflation, to recession, to prosperity. it can make those adjustments for you. in a way that allows the return on eq

first period, caps short handed. brooks, anticipates the drop pass. fields the puck, gains control and skates in. 14th goal of the year. 1-zip lead. same score, third period. his shot turned aside. scores on the rebound. his 12th of the year. up 2-zip. leafs with a good chance in the third period. one of his 23 saves. 2-0 the final. caps 4 points ahead of the jets and sabres. next week they play the islanders. here's dale hunter. >> don't worry about the past. won three, but now we have to worry about the islanders, and that's what you key on. it's tough out there. you see the guys sacrificing their bodies, not just our team, the others too. tonight we got the job done. >>> today the nationals on the road in jupiter, florida facing the cardinals. gonzalez getting the start. he came up with a defensive play of the game, snagging this liner, likely in self-defense. still good. he gave up two hits over four innings. top of the 3rd, base hit through the legs of westbrook. top of the 5th, rain comes down, canceling the game. >> give me the ball, i'm ready

for example, the period from the end of -- the period from the end of the 2001 recession t 200 recovery on record in which the employment to population rate fell. we lost 3.7 million manufacturing jobs in the year before the recession started. and the middle class has been struggling for decades. in 1970 half of all households had incomes within 50% of the median household. by 2010 that share was down to 42%. now, these problems didn't happen overnight, but the recession made them much, much worse. it will take more than a few years to meet the challenges that have been building for more than a few decades. but we are making progress in meeting those challenges. i'd like to use the rest of my time to discuss progress in the recovery to date and while we still have a long way to go, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the economy going forward. my theme is that the unique nature of the financial crisis and recession that followed have made the pace of the recovery uneven, but with the essential help of policy actions that the obama administration has taken, the economy is

homeownership arose during this period. i think to put it all in the government is probably wrong in this case. most of the worst loans were made by private-sector lenders and had been sold to private-sector securitizations. it didn't touch freddie and fannie for example. it went directly to investment. fannie and freddie did acquire subprime mortgages but that was later in the process rather than the beginning of the process so that think there was some of this going on everywhere including the private sector without encouragement from the government who was a big player in the decline in mortgage underwriting and in the selling of packaged mortgages to private investors. yeah. >> so i think one of the hallmarks of the fed under your leadership has been transparency i am wondering whether you think perhaps too much transparency could damage credibility of the central banking and get things wrong, i guess. >> we didn't get the transparency today but just generally i think i agree. transparency is very important. important f

one of the few african-american staff we know about in that time period. one of the others we have discovered very recently is in fact a man -- he young man, even a teenager by the name of alfred howell who we have discovered recently was the first african-american page appointed to the house in 1871. previously the story line was the first black page was appointed in 1965 on the 100th anniversary of abraham lincoln's assassination appointed by congressman paul finley from springfield, illinois. we did an oral history with this gentleman. wonderful story. he remembered being on the house floor, 1965 voting rights act was being debated. wonderful memories. but it turns out during reconstruction there was an african-american page appointed from the house from the richmond area. we learn more history every day and the senate actually had appointed a page in the reconstruction era too, someone championed by charles sumner, the great radical republican senator from massachusetts. that was two years earlier in 1869. that is a story we are still learning and as w

their share of national income quadrupled over this period, to the point where they were pulling down about $1 in $8 in our economy. one-in-a-thousand households pulling down about $1 in $8 in our economy before the great recession began. >> you set out to try to solve three mysteries -- whodunit, who created the circumstances, and conditions for the creation of a winner-take-all economy. and your answer to that in one sentence is? >> american politics did it far more than we would have believed when we started this research. what government has done and not done and the politics that produced it is really at the heart of the rise of an economy that has showered huge riches on the very, very, very well off. >> it's the politics, stupid? >> exactly. >> how did they do it? >> through organized combat is the short answer. >> and why did they do it? >> because they could. because the transformation of political organization, the creation of a powerful, organized business community, the degree to which that was self-reinforcing within both parties has meant that politicians have found that

they actually cannot be received by the senate during this period. and so what will break up this period of time between december 17th and january 23rd? a series every three days consisting of a matter of a few seconds of a senator calling open the senate and closing it. two occasions beyond which they went pro forma and to exercise business. but to some total of that, may clear that during this total of time, the senate is going ah be in series for a set of seconds time every three days. that comes up to a matter of minutes by its own order, by its expressed statement. one distinguished commentator said we should look at what the senate said. what the senate said is it's not practically going to be i available. let me back up a bit to discuss the hard questions. what has happened to the recess appointment clause is that there are three positions that have been adopted by history that may be debatable, they may still be debated. but three positions that have been adopted historically that have made this power available. that was a huge, interpretive

but a lot of work needs to be done on this period. another big question has to do with nixon's position on the war in the 1968 presidential campaign. and what was his role in the so-ca so-called caper. there's wide agreement supported by evidence that nixon and his campaign organization engaged in a clandestine effort via intermediary to encourage the president of south vietnam into shunning the johnson-initiated negotiations and thereby influenced the u.s. presidential election vote in nixon's favor. and there is now new evidence, convincing evidence, that kissinger passed information on to the nixon campaign about president johnson and diplomatic negotiations. the unanswerable question, of course, is whether these efforts influenced the electoral vote in the '68 election between nixon and humphrey. a third question, issue, is sort of a con textual one. that is did nixon and kissinger have a so-called grand design for global diplomacy? and if so, how did this question influence vietnam policy? some writers have suggested that nixon a

equalising in the second period thanks to his solo effort from dimitri pes doing. nice in then put the hosts in front for the first time later in the period making it three two no goals in the third period meaning it's the number who progress to the western conference semifinals on a meeting it's simple. formula one where lewis hamilton has made it to pull positions from two this season but mcclaren speedster earning the top starting spot on the grid in malaysia after doing the same in melbourne last weekend the two thought isn't a winner putting himself in prime decisions also claimed his second podium of the season after finishing third in australia setting the fastest lap time of just over a minute thirty six seconds on the supine circuit jenson button also made sure that his stable continue their strong start by taking a second spot on the grid for sunday forty three year old michael schumacher meanwhile is having quite a resurgence of his new and improved my c.v. the seven time world champion will start from third in the me. and finally to the canvas where som

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as a period of cultural change, a period in which the beatles were happy and the rolling stones was happening and music was changing, and politics was changes, but this is about madison avenue in new york city in the 60s. >> well, you know, the funny thing su talk about the beatles and rolling stones. i wanted to start beforement that i wanted to start in the high 50s and say what would it be like. >> exactly. and say like because i had been raised by baby boomers who acted like they had invented all of this stuff. i was like well, lack at all these batenicks in the early 50s and look there is a free love movement. from the 20s and the 30s it is just like this is part of the subversive part of american culture. so i wanted to see quite honestly living in the 80s where so many baby boomers had become so conservative, i was kind of as a young person looking at it and saying i think i feel more like their parents then like them. and identified with that part. and then i thought wouldn't it be amazing to sort of find adults in 1960 when new york was the center of the universe and the ce

a long period of stagnation in real median incomes. diminished confidence in the ability of americans to exceed the economic achieveness of their parents. a substantial ongoing shift in the risk and cost of health care and pension security away from employers to employees. poverty rates much higher than those that presail in any economy with comparable weather and a deteriorating public infrastructure. these are relatively new and unfamiliar challenges for this country. we were remarkably successful as a country for a very long period of time in achieving much better economic outcomes than we saw in most countries around the world because we had leaders who put government policy to work in providing health care and retirement security for retiring americans universal primary and secondary public education, the g.i. bill, the great public infrastructure projects of eisenhower and others in the last century. large investments in scientific research and sensible safeguards over the financial system. these long-term challenges for us as a

and this really is a very remarkable period. it's remarkable that we would find ourselves in a situation when the secretary of state, hillary clinton, comes before a scientific audience here in the united states in november of last year to talk about -- with a very public health-based address about an aids-free generation. and when shortly thereafter the president of the united states on world aids day spoke in considerable detail on the high risk and difficult to reach marginalized populations in the united states. and that unfinished business and the challenge that is there, as well as the challenge of moving globally from $4 million to $6 million, a very ambitious goal. persons on u.s.-supported treatment, and in a fairly short period of time on existing budget levels. we're also going to be looking forward today -- particularly with respect to the aids 2012 international aids conference to be here in washington july 22nd to 27th. and dr. frieden will tell us a bit about that and what we might expect as coming out of that uni