she is at the zenith of her power and in a position to shape the future of europe. >> she shows the potential of all women to succeed. but even if they are not chancellor of germany, the imf wants more women in the workforce. they say they are essential to economic growth. the u.s. economy would grow by a next or five percent if there were as many women as men. we have a time of economic uncertainty around the world. what is the head of the imf doing talking about women's equality? >> i am talking about half of the world and women today that are launching a study about women's contributions to growth. market andhe labor contributing to resolving. there are many ways to deal with economic issues. the world economy is important. just a politically correct issue, it is a bottom- line issue? >> one that i feel very strongly about. of development, better access, better financing, better contribution. >> is it possible to measure the contribution women can make gecko -- can make? >> yes, we can. japan has a major aging issue. the fertility rate has not been up to renewing population. that, japanese

she is at the zenith of her power and in a position to shape the future of europe. >> she shows the potential of all women to succeed. but even if they are not chancellor of germany, the imf wants more women in the workforce. they say they are essential to economic growth. the u.s. economy would grow by a next or five percent if there were as many women as men. we have a time of economic uncertainty around the world. what is the head of the imf doing talking about women's equality? >> i am talking about half of the world and women today that are launching a study about women's contributions to growth. market andhe labor contributing to resolving. there are many ways to deal with economic issues. the world economy is important. just a politically correct issue, it is a bottom- line issue? >> one that i feel very strongly about. of development, better access, better financing, better contribution. >> is it possible to measure the contribution women can make gecko -- can make? >> yes, we can. japan has a major aging issue. the fertility rate has not been up to renewing population. that, japanese

>> i think of the united states culture, it iso the popular song, and the zenith period that startednd went into the 1950's, and it was the great american standard song. the reason was migration. there were lots of labors of migration. there was forced migration from africa. that was mixed with the french, creole society in new orleans, because everybody was sent to europe to be educated, and they came back with all sorts of orchestral stuff, and there was a lot of complaining about how badly everybody was treated. they put it into a sophisticated context. in the in between was irish and mexican and italian and polish and all these people yearning. are the peopler who migrated from central europe , the jews who came fleeing terrible persecution. you have the bottom, and you have persecution on the top that comes from europe. sophisticated based on the orchestra, and you can take --to give you a different example, that midler has a song that works on different levels. it is sexy, and you get the joke. those classic american standards work the same way. you can get it on sophisticated

the classic east wing -- west wing rivalry, probably reached a zenith or a depth during the nixon yearspeople, the halderman's, they were not on very good terms with mrs. nixon, and they certainly did not appreciate what she could be, the asset that she was and could have been. she is a mona lisa. >> that is very true. >> she is a very enigmatic figure. >> and you do not get much until julia's book. >> the book is wonderful. i remember asking the people close to her, the word shy was often used, and someone who knew her very well said she was not shy. she was self-effacing, and there is a difference between the two. what a self-effacing modern first lady is often a contradiction. >> referring to the victorian painting lady. we had a number of first ladies who struggled with life in the white house. >> struggled with life and death and loss. and politics. i do think generalizations are dangerous, but i do think in the modern era, we think of the president and first lady, that they are a political partnership. >> together. >> that was not the case at the time of franklin or james beard, i

and this greater penchant for war, i think really reached its zenith after 9/11 with president george w. bush's decision to invade iraq, as so many people have said, a country totally uninvolved in 9/11. and this was the ultimate testing time for this great, professional army of ours. and i'm sorry to say it failed the test. we were supposed to win quickly, economically, easily. we didn't win. and instead, we ended up with a protracted war. part of a series of post-9/11 wars where, bringing us to where we are today, where syria may well yet be another one of these wars, waged by washington with its army, while the people are left sitting on the sidelines. >> and making no real sacrifice, was it 1% of our citizens? >> yeah, it's interesting. you know, sort of the inverse of the complaint of the occupy movement. you know, the occupy movement said there's the 1% of the rich people who are screwing the 99%. and when it comes to basic military policy, we have the 99% screwing the 1%. it's the 1% who get sent off to fight these endless wars. >> so it's going to be easier then to have anothe

mirrored the economy in the ups and downs with bag uptick when the great depression began, and hitting a zenith in 1923. suicide rates plunged during world war ii and then they spiked in the early '70s and '780s, after unemployment hit its post-war peak in 1982. suicide dropped to the lowest levels ever in the year 2000 when technology was on fire. unemployment was at a stunning 4% at the time. but has the dot-com bubble burst? american suicide rates have been steadily climbing. all of that is a stark reminder that the job issue is an economic issue. it's a lot more than that. it's an issue that gets to the very soul of our culture and its people. joblessness results in either people giving up in despair or rising up in defiance. of course, both parties claim to be all about jobs. >> as you know, house republicans have been focused on economic growth and jobs since day one. >> today our businesses have created 7.2 million jobs over the last 40 months. this year we're off to our best private sector jobs growth since 1999. >> but the truth is jobs aren't created so much when the government does s

world war, first world war and going way back in time and this man said in essence, i've reached the zenith but the one single burning thing that was on his mind, now what? i've had the praise of man, i have been elevated in all kind of positions, but he said to billy graham, i don't know what will happen when i die, and i want to know. think of that. if a great man like him would be that interested, then maybe you ought to pay attention and understand what god really has promised to you. billy graham left there with the assurance that this man had received jesus christ. will when i go to heaven, i'm gg to see churchill because of the work of christ. general douglas macarthur i served under him and one day he came back from overseas and was a civilian a while and was in the hospital dying. i wrote him a letter. i said dear general i served under you blah, blah, blah and i said sir, i hear you read the bible every year. once a year he read the bible through. he is a man that said when japan was defeated, send over missionaries, missionaries, send the bible over here. that's a great man as fa

might not even last whatever coalition she builds that first term so, yes, at the moment this is her zenith. i would think it's for her personally probably also the beginning of her slow descent out. >> it's been a little mixed on the german economy at this point. there are those that are saying there's underinvestment here. layoffs are increasing. she's had a honeymoon period where the eurozone crisis settled and data's been good. potentially things could worsen into the end of the year and into early 2014. how likely do you think that may be? how likely may germans roux that they didn't vote for a change. >> i don't think they won't roux that they didn't change. even if it's precarious, if it gets worse there are ways to roux and there are ways to keep it stable. i think germans give her credit for keeping it stable. she's had a bit of a honeymoon. she and germany have benefitted through the crisis. for example, the budget balance looks good in part because germany has had to pay less in interest because of the euro crisis. it was lucky that just at this time, you know, the chinese needed

the classic east wing -- west wing rivalry, probably reached a zenith or a depth during the nixon yearswere not on very good terms with mrs. nixon, and they certainly did not appreciate what she could be, the asset that she was and could have been. she is a mona lisa. >> that is very true. >> she is a very enigmatic figure. >> and you do not get much until julia's book. >> the book is wonderful. i remember asking the people close to her, the word shy was often used, and someone who knew her very well said she was not shy. she was self-effacing, and there is a difference between the two. what a self-effacing modern first lady is often a contradiction. >> referring to the victorian painting ladies. we had a number of first ladies who struggled with life in the white house. >> struggled with life and death and loss. and politics. i do think generalizations are dangerous, but i do think in the modern era, we think of the president and first lady, that they are a political partnership. >> together. >> that was not the case at the time of franklin or james beard, in the 19th century. >> or ev