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Throughout the neighborhood things had taken on a new look. In place of this, this. Blighted backs yards had become flower gardens. Rat infested alleys before and after. Cluttered backyards before. And after. A neighborhood like this can become this. This then is the baltimore plan. It cannot work miracles. There are some areas beyond recovery, but for those areas worth rehabilitating, the baltimore plan can work and together with a program of redevelopment, and new housing public and private, it can remake a city. On the next washington journal, Robert Dunham of Death Penalty Information Center talks about nebraskas decision to outlaw the Death Penalty, making it the 19th state to do so. He will discuss the potential impact, what it says about public opinion. A look at the 2016 president ial race and some more recent candidates announcements. We will take your calls, look for comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday night at
Its the coolest place and i wa reminded these guys are so fortunate to work at the National Conservation training center. Its a really terrific facility. Nice to be back here. Nice to see all of you. I guess and the warmup act for the president ial did a tonight. I promise no spin on a promise to finish intensivists if you cant get enough of politics will deal to go see it, although i dont know who that would be at this point. Im sure we dont want to see the debate comes so we will finish on time for that. Im here to talk about Rachel Carson and bismarck indicated that some of the 27th of december the 50th anniversary of silent spring. She was a famous author before she wrote silent spring. Im going to talk more about that tonight. This is rachel and i love this photograph. This is the frontispiece of the book. I spent seven months trying to find this photograph and arrange to reproduce it in the book. It was made by irving penn, the great 20th century portrait photographer verboten m