Now is in the southern section of puget sound, which is the Washington State and Pacific Northwest great inland water. When the Transcontinental Railroad came, there was talk about one day being able to stand puget sound. It was not an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. Federalhe depression programs, like the building of the coulee dam, there were big projects happening in the Pacific Northwest. Mid1930s there was talk about creating a bridge over puget sound. It would reach from tacoma to the kit sap peninsula. This bridge was opened on the first of july in 1940. After two years of construction. Bit of aa narrows is a wind tunnel. People working on the deck began to notice movement. Lifts like airplane wing in the bridge. Almost like Horizontal Movement they began to feel a vertical lift in the bridge, especially in the center span. Bridge,s no suspension anything like this, anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Unfamiliarity of how a big thing like this was supposed to behave. Peop
12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
1929, the Financial Health of the over and stated stock market plunges into a Great Depression, it grips the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i want to see my country again holds a prosperity. This land was made for you and me snen send in let me insert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his 1933 speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed. The drought is persisting in key agricultural areas in the country. People must have faith. Coming up in a next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like oledo. In 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo failed at the same time. Which made it the largest ranking failure of the Great Depression. To successful Infrastructure Projects impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. We will take you to st. Paul, where depression er
Page. This is a real honor for me. In a real treat to be able to have an intimate conversation about the executive power in the United States to actually wield power alongside of the president of the United States and also to talk about what its like to be behind the scenes. Let me just say very quickly, if i cough, im not sick. You came back from wuhan with that cough. [laughter] you feeling all right . [laughter] youre a little warm. [laughter] you want to change . I think the two women ought to be here. I cleaned up somebodys fireplace flue the other day and inhaled some fire smoke. In any case, dont be alarmed if i find myself coughing. Let me just say that its really a thrill to talk to you and then i had some experiences as a child of what its like to be in the company of people who wield enormous power to observe both the pressures of the job along with the loneliness you might say of power and obviously comes with privilege but also great sacrifice. Lynn, you said over time tha
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