That was built in the 1730s, about 40 years before there was any such thing as the United States of america. Pennsylvania was a british colony. This was its capital building. Capitol building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies has its own government. These are the issues in a lot of ways that will lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room, because the colonies , as time goes forward, or at least many people in the Political Class of these colonies will start to grow , dissatisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally, and one of the other side issues is americans living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. So when the parliament in london makes laws for americans, the most famous being various taxes you get to learn about in school, we will say this is taxation without representation. It is that idea you are not getting the voice. Thomas jefferso
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Science and technology being applied to deal with them today. After that, Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Then a campaign profile of joe biden. Host eric jay dolin, in your new book about hurricane history i , thought it would be interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes would rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer. Isaac kline became more and more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office
Interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer, isaac kline became more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office of the Weather Bureau in washington, d. C. To decide whether or not a hurricane was coming and whether or not you needed to put up hurricanes warning flags. The local meterologists such as isaac kline had left latitude in calling the shots. So on the morning of september 8,
Can see, Benjamin Franklin. He was the inventor of the post office, Postal Service. And you are a native of new yor york. He went to college in florida, and then he went back to your familys business and you built it up, he moved to greenso , North Carolina build into a Logistics Company ultimately merged with another company. Given very involved in philanthropic activities at my alma mater, Duke University with other plates so thank you for giving us your time today racemic let me ask you, at the outset, when you agreed to be postmaster general, did you realize you would get this much attention because it not normally the most famous position in washington d. C. I doubt a fair made people can name your immediate predecessors. You are very well known, did you expect to get this much attention . I think when i accepted the role, we need to member the situation of the Postal Service at the time. It was right at the heights of the beginning of the pandemic. And we were having significant