identified a bunch of different pressure points are what's the one that if you were going to do a roosevelt's ford airplanes tanks thing what would be the place where you would put that energy. i think. it would be an energy it would be and and very quickly shifting from possible kills to renewable sources of energy and. climate. change is a much more serious issue i think the most people realize and particularly where food security is concerned and if i were to pick a single indicator that i think it's going to change our thinking in this country it will be what it's going to happen to from prices in the years immediately have. it's. i mean we know a few things about how climate change the facts grain production crop ecologists have a rule with each one degree celsius rise in temperature one point eight grease fire and i. during the growing season lowers cranio by about ten percent we we saw that in spades in russia last summer. but more importantly agriculture as it exists in the world today the pall of touring a period of rather remarkable climate stability. i mean there was a mini ice age of t

ford didn't create, but it perfected the mechanization, which transformed the industrial revolution. things went downhill with the stiff competition from gm and chrysler in the 1920s. by world war ii, president franklin roosevelt as the arsenal of democracy. ford motor is credited with a pivotal effort in the war by churning out warplanes and military cars as fast as one an hour. another key point came after the war. ford created a post-war classic, the '49 ford. that move marked a new era for the company, and put it back on the map. by 1957, ford becomes the top-selling brand producing 1.68 million cars. its sales reach an all-time high 15 years later. after introducing a wave of new cars in the 1970s, '80s and '90s sales slowed down to the point in 2006, ford is forced to undergo major restructuring, and they mortgage all of the assets to raise $23.4 billion in credit to finance part of the operations. it reaches a low point the next year when ford reports losses of $12.7 billion, because that is where things really begin to turn around. under mulally who took over as ceo five years ago, ford has drastically transformed the lineup from big trucks to smaller cars. and that brings us back to today, and ford's

roosevelt won. in 1976 the unemployment rate by it -- was 7.8% and gerald ford lost the election by just over 2%. jimmy carter lost when it was 7.5% back in 1980. ironically it was in 7.2% in 1984 ronald reagan winning by nearly 20% of the vote. when george herbert walker bush was running for reelection the unemployment rate was 7.4% and he also lost that election. reducing unemployment and reducing the deficit how do you do both? that is the question but bob is joining us from new york. good morning. caller: i heard recently -- and i believe it was on c-span the last week two -- an interesting statistic that for every billion dollars of trade imbalance that we have -- what is it, $250 billion a year with china? for every billion dollars of trade and balance it is equal to or costs 13,000 u.s. jobs. so, by the government and our elected officials not addressing the trade imbalance with some of these asian nations it is just disingenuous on their part. and not dealing with the trade issue bringing millions of jobs back to the united states -- if i could finish. i have a plan to put people back to

roosevelt is deputy editor of defense daily. steven foma white house reporter from the mcclatchy newspapers and the presidential foundation journalism award winner for coverage of presidency. joe calvaruso presidential of the gerald ford foundation and we'll keep over the podium. melissa charbeno and skip over the president and ken delcky who helped arrange today's luncheon. thank you for your work, ken. and the son of president ford and one of our guest speakers today. shane harris is a writer of the washingtonian magazine and he is the presidential foundation journalism award winner for coverage of national defense. viola ganger is a defense policy reporter for bloomberg news and mark sands is editor for air force magazine and he's a new member of the national press club and please now give them your round of applause. [applause] >> the national press club is once again honored to host the your r. ford presidential foundation for presentation of its annual awards for outstanding reporting on the presidency and national defense. it just so happens that our club has enjoyed a long association with the 38th president of the united states and the foundation which carries on his legacy. gerald ford spoke at this podium a