. >> when i met with sysco ceo william delaney i asked him how much high food prices are impacting hisusiness. >> well, they have impacted us a lot, susie, we experienced higher food prices for the last few years as much as six, seven percent it is a damper in terms of our customers in generating revenues when your costs are going up three and a half, five and a half, six percent for these restaurants and 35 percent of your cost structure let's say that is a big increase so you have to find a way to offset. >> the price for beef and grain have been surging. >> right. >> what to you see as your forecast going forward? do you see prices coming down a bit or stable lieding or going forward? >> we think they will stabilize and hopefully come down a little bit. the beef prices have been high for a good while. you right the grains have been high and recently we have seen a lot of increase in in poultry. the inflation we have seen in our cost of product gulf of m five to six percent and we think it is coming down three to four percent, it is still going up so what i am saying it is going up,

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however, delaney would use the telegraph because what could be talking to them and they were using telegram. >> this picture of lincoln signing the emancipation and sitting with henry william stewart, there's an empty chair behind stewart. this past weekend, i visited the gravesite in dorchester county on the eastern shore of maryland of the lady by the name of anna carroll. that is supposed to be her chair. she was supposed to have been a military strategist who went down the tennessee river and helped map out a strategy for taking vicksburg. i learned this weekend by looking at that painting and also by seeing some letters written by her and by lincoln that that empty chair was her chair. and that she was taken out of the picture because she was a woman. and that they believed that no woman at that time among that cabinet group could have -- should be in a picture of these great men. do you know something about that story? >> i do not, but the person i would go to is carpenter who drew the one that i used here. and carpenter is with lincoln for six or seven months working on this and trying to capture that moment. so he does write about it. so i'm not familiar with the s