We continue with our look at the history of tempe. We visited Tempe Town Lake to learn about the citys growth from Public Information officer chris baxter. Typically we are on land or in a van, driving around. We are not on water in a pond to vote. Tell me what is the significance of the water here in tempe. We dont do things the normal way. We are in the middle of Tempe Town Lake. The interesting thing about this is most people dont have lakes that are brandnew. Our lake will be 17 years old very soon. Tell me why it was built. Very this used to be a barren stretch of the salt river. The salt river once quite a ways through arizona. It was dammed up when roosevelt dam was built. This beautiful stretch of river fish in water flowing in it was dry, they used to do all kinds of horrible things to this and we worked with the army corps of engineers engineers, to get everything out that had been here for decades, and we have turned it into a lake. The lake is responsible for 1. 5 billion dollars of Economic Development in our community. What changes have you seen . Pretty much nothing you see was here with the exception of the two bridges that you see. We are talking about all of this, all the shops and restaurants, nothing was here before 1969. So pretty much as farce the eye can see is new and the lake is responsible for all of this. Is,reason our city exists this is a really great place to cross the river. Where we are right now is exactly where our city was founded. This was the ferry crossing, right here. The building you see behind you, that White Building was our original first business. That is the flour mill. Between the ferry in the mail, this is how we got her start. What is the city like now . Tempe, arizona, is one of the most densely populated cities in all of arizona. We are the number one college town in america. We are doing amazing things. Tempe is known for being innovative. Lake isa river into a pretty original, right . You dont hear that very often. One of the things we had to do was create a lake that could become a river. Water that runs from the salt river and it comes down this way. We actually have a working damaged into this so that when it rains, this lake becomes a river. We can lead out as much water as we need to and we can raise up the dam again and it becomes a lake. House it utilized recreationally . Does it draw people . Has 2. 4 million visitors every year. It is the second largest tourist destination, second only to the grand canyon. Responsible for a huge amount of Economic Development. Our population has grown quite a bit. Have condos that are here on both sides of the lake and across the lake, just the sheer building alone has resulted in a lot of new resident. We have fortune 500 companies that have located here and part of it is because people want to play at Tempe Town Lake. A lot of people in those buildings have standup paddle boards in their office. The grandmother board, walkout and hit the water on their lunch hour are run after work, and there they are. So we have a lot of Tech Companies here, go daddy is just down the road. This is the lifestyle that millennials want. Oldaverage age is 28 years for our city. This is a really active community. To you feel that reflects in the community with new ideas and a lot of energy . Not just in our community but in the world in general, one of the things at asu is a huge amount of research that happens that the College Students are part of. They have a cure for ebola that originated at Arizona State university, two miles down the road from here. Students who live here. The inventions, the ideas, new companies are created here all the time. Light of these businesses thrive in tempe and want to open here . The reason people come here is because of the innovative nature. There is nobody here that says you cant do that. We think the best thing to do is say, lets figure out a way to say yes. Lets figure out a way to help you support your dream. That is what makes us unique. We said we want to have some pretty Water Council had a get that pretty water . We spent 30 years figuring out the answer. He started in 1965. This concept was created by , somea State University architecture students came up with this idea. Over 30 years we figured out how to find it, what it takes to support the annual maintenance , so for about 100 million we got 1. 5 billion back, plus all these beautiful places to live and work and hundreds of new businesses being generated because they want to be here. What do you want to see for your city next . It sounds like this happen pretty rapidly. What is your ideal scenario for your city . But i really think tempe wants is to make the world a better place. But we have a lot of young people and the goal of the city is to help its residents achieve it streams. That is the goal of any city. We want our residents spent to do whatever it is they want to do. Want to cure disease or open a popsicle stand, that is rate. Whatever they want, that is what we want for our city. Featuringekend, where the history of tempe arizona. Learn more about tempe and other stops on our cities tour at www. Cspan. Org. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Donald trump becomes the 45th president of the United States and republicans maintain control of the u. S. House and senate. Events take you to key as they happen without interruption. Watch live on cspan, watch ondemand at www. Cspan. Org or listen our free cspan radio app. We have a special webpage to help you follow the Supreme Court. Go to www. Cspan. Org and select Supreme Court near the top of the page. 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According to this log, the japanese planes commenced an attack on pearl harbor. At 7 52, the uss maryland sounded general quarters, and shortly after the maryland records that the oklahoma, the ship next to it, was hit by an unknown number of torpedoes. Now the notable thing about the deck log for the uss maryland is, at the time, it appears that a lot of the radio transmissions went to the uss maryland, meaning a lot of the radio transmissions were recorded in the deck log itself. And what that ultimately means is a lot of the confusion that was occurring at the time of the attack, meaning there was no idea where the japanese were at the time are what theyre going to do next, lends itself to the deck logs. For instance, at 12 01 a. M. Troops reported landing and enemy takers were reported four miles off the coast of ohahu. As most people know, that was not the case, but at the time they were not sure if the attack was part of something bigger. If they were going to launch an invasion to knock out the naval base. We now know that was not the case. Another entry of note was at 11 43 a. M. , the further continuation of confusion, the maryland writes that enemy troops wearing blue coveralls not only did we think they were attacking, we knew what they just like. It is viable just for the first and firsthand accounts we received. You can see at the time the chaos occurring. We kind of get an idea of what some people were thinking at the time, what the ships were doing, how we were responding to the attack and other things of that nature. Four historians it is a very useful tool to get an idea of what was happening at the attack on pearl harbor. Other folks who might be interested, genealogists are interested in it to see who was on the ship at the time, who passed away and things like that. The United States of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. 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The book makes a great gift for the holidays, giving readers a look at the personal lives of every first lady in American History, stories of fascinating women and how their legacies resonate today. For the holidays, in paperback, published by public affairs. Its now available at your favorite bookseller and also as an ebook. Up next, on the presidency, a conversation about president franklin d. Roosevelt and how he used his language to bolster his world war ii policies and strategies. Georgia State University professor mary stuckey talks to paul sparrow, director of the fdr president ial library and museum in new york which hosted this event. We will hear fdr deliver six speeches, including the day of infamy speech following the pearl harbor attack of december 7, 1941. The 75th anniversary of that attack is it this week. This is just over one hour. Paul tonight, we have a really fantastic guest and friend of the librar