Make your parents happy and avoid combat. That wasnt it. I wanted to do something positive, i joined the peace corps that summer. Host okay, all right. Well, why this book now . Guest well, i started working on it, i did jack kennedy a couple of years ago, and before that kennedy and nixon. I knew the story, and what i came to believe was how powerful bobby was. He was the leader on civil rights. He was the one that talked jack into the civil rights push in june of 63. He was the one who really got him through the cuban missile crisis, who advised bringing the turkish missiles in as a negotiation and answering the first letter from khrushchev. He also was the one that went to the excom group, the top advisers to the president , and said we cant be like the japanese, we dont believe in sneak attacks. Were not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. Were not that kind of country. So hes a moral compass. Thats the reason. And righ
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Stepped out for the david you can take a peek around and see how they lived. He was probably the most famous painter from missouri, most famous in the 1930s, 40s, is known for doing a style of art called regionalism. A lot of the midwest rural scenes, he often paints. He paints American Labor scenes but it tends to be the rural aspect of it. His core belief was common art for the common man. He is an artist who becomes famous during his career, and fairly welltodo. Tom benton came from a political family. He was named for his great uncle senator thomas benton. Tom grows up surrounded i politics by politics. His father was a successful lawyer. A u. S. District attorney. When tom was seven his father was elected to the house of representatives. The family moves to washington dc for eight years. For benton, growing up in bc, then coming back to the ozarks every summer, that will be formative for him to experience those different worlds. This able to move in political, powerful orbit but a
We will explore the history of this midwest city parent coming up, the sinking of the steamboat, one of the many to sink on the dangerous waters of the Missouri River. It sank within minutes. 150 passengers on board were terrified and no one died. But they lost all the freights , goods and cargoes belongings. Third 132 years until the until we dug it up. Nationalter, visit the world war i museum and memorial and see a collection of posters involved in the comments in the conflict. True socialere the media of the day. Really what they meant to the various countries. With thein our look mayor, james. Isphysically, keep it 480,000 people spread across the 318 square miles, about 1460 per square mile. 30 smart when you get down to it. Roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. ,e have tremendous spo
Money if this is something that not only increases the value of the property but its work that would have been done anyway. And then its work thats already been done, and these are the kinds of things that i think that should be coming to the board prior to the completion of the work and so i guess im just not interested in going backwards here. So i just want the department to help us to understand why were at this point after the fact. Good question, i love this committee. Good afternoon, or good morning, Committee Members and supervisors. Tim frey, department staff. This is something that i think that the city has some flexibility in determining what is considered or defined as recently completed work. The recently completed work definition in the Mills Act Program does state that it can be work thats happened within the last two years. And thats something that the city attorneys office, along with the full commission and board decided was a reasonable time frame but based on what i