His president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us. And thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kin
Places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us. And thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kind of fell right in the middle and i think he always felt that h
Commissioner what was going through his mind during the robbery in las vegas in 2007 and he said he did not intend on committing the crime but was trying to get his personal belongings back here i wish this would have never happened. I apologize to them in my sentencing and theres nothing i can do about this, but i couldve done something about the entire thing in the beginning. If i had made better judgment back then none of this wouldve happened. I take full responsibility because i shouldve never i have not made any excuses and nine years. Reporter as you heard, he did take full responsibility for what happened and said he did not even realize that a gun and had been pulled during the incident, and he said that happened behind him and he was not aware of that until after the fact. He also wanted to apologize not only to the commission but to the people of nevada and heres what he had to say about that. I have done my time. I have done it as well and respectfully as i think anybody ca
Because its on the back of the nickel. Monticello right . Thats correct. As we speak were driving towards monticello. It is that rise right there, the Little Mountain and Thomas Jefferson was born here on apri. His father had moved out here to the west to get land and his father Peter Jefferson was a surveyor. He actually coauthored, in 175d what was the official new map of virginia. At that time it was nothing like it was the best map of virginia. So, little tommy was raised on stories by this man who would go out and explore and make maps and discover. If you think about it Peter Jefferson was using scientific experiments to make the unknown, known. To create maps of what was to them, wilderness. And to carve out of this unknown backcountry of Beautiful Image of a map. It is very poetic. Its a metaphor for jeffersons mind of the guy whos constantly learning combine science and knowledge with discovery. So we are going to the top of the hill now. Were climbing monticello. At one time
I am here at theuniversity of Virginia Library with the curator of the special exhibit. She is showing us the exhibit on robert faulkner. We are the main gallery of the Albert Shirley small exhibition. This is a large exhibition surveying the magnificent William Faulkner collection we have here at the library. William faulkner was a Great American novelist who was born in mississippi and spent the last years of his career in the late 1950s and 1960s at uva. He is known for novels sanctuary and was also a poet and short story writer. It has been quite a long time since our last monumental faulkner exhibition. It also is the 60th anvergry n anniversary of his arrival. We have people who visit and tell us about meeting faulkner while here. He was working at his own writi writing here and met with students, faculty, community members, faculty wives, female students from local or nearby women colleges since uva was only men at the time and other groups to talk about his novels, the state of