Then i just do it all day long. I have a network of friends out there that im in touch with. Tom from the New York Times and we have changes exchanges back and forth and chuck todd and i talk a lot. He is the moderator of meet the press and our political dress it director in washington and other folks as well. We are not a very large group. The old political journalist and we like to stay in touch with each other. Why arent you on the letterman show . I dont know whats going to happen. Dave and i have been close for a long time and he is kept us very tight. I was on his first show when he went to cvs and we have been talking back and forth about a couple of things. I did send him an email today saying david, tonight tonight all the eyes of america will be on you the departure of an icon and im so proud to have been your friend. If you screw this up i will never talk to you again. [applause] tom brokaw perhaps its odd for me to be speaking to an icon of journalism breaking a journalisti
Can, as balanced as i can, i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. We begin our look with author david berman and his book arizonas seventerm governor george hunt. If youre going to write a history for arizona and you want to tell it, you cant ignore george hunt because he was so much involved in everything that went on from 1890 to the 1930s and the new deal. A lot of reforms and the right to the water from the Colorado River. He was at the center of everything. George hunt was born in a place called huntsville, missouri, named after his grandfather. And he was in a part of missouri that was settled largely by the upper south. Tennessee and north carolina. His family came from that area. And he was raised on a farm which was devastated terribly by the civil war and raised in poverty, really, and had a tough time subsistence farming. They had to live on what they grew. Had little education. And more than willing to do with his life and decide
Artists dealing with social and plenty social and political content. A lot of these artists throughout history have recognized the artforms ability to bring about social change. Later, we will make our way to the top of hayden butte and hear about the man credited 40 settlement, Charles Hayden. He was a Community Builder in a wider sense. Thinking about what could he do to help the Community Get bigger and that is in a lot of ways why his figure has become bigger historically. We begin the hour at the asu library, where we will looking at items from two long serving senators, Barry Goldwater and carl hayden. The arizona collection here at the asu library preserves accessible the papers of 14 members of congress from arizona. The goldwater papers and the hayden papers are the two largest archival collections that document the works of the arizona congressional delegation. Hayden is an interesting individual because his father was the first white settler of the city in about 1870. He bui
Bit different. We are in the middle of tempe town lake, whats interesting is that most people dont have lakes that are brand new. Our lake is going to be 147 years old very soon. Tell me why it was built . This used to be a stretch of the salt river. Salt river runs quite a way throughout arizona and it was dammed up in the 1930s when roosevelt dam was built. People used to dump garbage in here. We worked handinhand with the army corps of engineers. We took everything out of here that has been here for decades, and we have turned this into a lake and this lake is responsible for 1. 5 billion worth of Economic Development in our community. What changes have you seen . Pretty much nothing that you see here was here with the exception of the two bridges that you see. We are talking about the buildings around here, we are talking about all of this, all the shops, the restaurants. Nothing was here before 1999. Pretty much as far as the eye can see is all new and the lake is responsible for
Bit different. We are in the middle of tempe town lake, whats interesting is that most people dont have lakes that are brand new. Our lake is going to be 147 years old very soon. Tell me why it was built . This used to be a stretch of the salt river. Salt river runs quite a way throughout arizona and it was dammed up in the 1930s when roosevelt dam was built. People used to dump garbage in here. We worked handinhand with the army corps of engineers. We took everything out of here that has been here for decades, and we have turned this into a lake and this lake is responsible for 1. 5 billion worth of Economic Development in our community. What changes have you seen . Pretty much nothing that you see here was here with the exception of the two bridges that you see. We are talking about the buildings around here, we are talking about all of this, all the shops, the restaurants. Nothing was here before 1999. Pretty much as far as the eye can see is all new and the lake is responsible for