And now my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and soul. And with the your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job and this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Yeah and we will justify our glorious paths and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in liberty bell, illinois. Richard norton smith, who was this one term governor . Two millions of americans, thats all he was, a one term governor of illinois. They knew nothing more about him. They had never heard a voice like his. They did not know that in some ways, a Political Revolution was being touched off tha
Come to order, thank you. I ask unanimous consent to authorize the trip to declare recess during the hearing. And without objection, so ordered. As a reminder, all of you are out there remotely. Please keep your microphone open, muted, or i will be yelling at you to insert a document into the record, please email it to documents so the united and with that, going to give a brief opening statement. I want to thank the secretary for being here today. We are holding this hearing to do some oversight on the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment jobs act. I appreciate you being here to tell us about the progress. This may be a long day and i appreciate the fact that you are going to make time available, in the hope that all members will have an opportunity. So, we will move along quickly and we are going to strictly observe time limits. So that we can move through this with as many members participating as possible. I really appreciate the fact that the money is getting out the do
Nonfiction account of his trip across the country with his dog. Iran were reading it when i was 15. It would probably i remember reading it when i was 15. I remember being kind of disappointed that on his great trek he did come through pittsburgh. The place closest he came was eerie erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men. Grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer h
Disappointed that on his great trek he didnt come through pittsburgh. The closest he came was erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men, grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat ca
A great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat cabin on top, set into the bed of the pickup truck. We will show it in a minute. He took off on september 23 and headed north the message uses and visited his kid at school near deerfield. Then he made his way up to the top of maine. For some strange reason he thought he had to touch the top of maine first. He found out how big maine is. He worked his way he went to bangor and up to port kent, the top of maine, and drops down. How many days was he on the road . 75, maybe 77 at the most. No one knows for sure. He kept no notes. There were no records, no expense reports i can find or that anybody had. I know when he started Thomas September 23, 1960. I know he was he mailed something from tallahatchie, mississippi december 1960. He was pushing hard to get