It appears he has at least one ardent supporter. Those are some of the regions finest salmon specimens. We will know soon. November is just around the corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. Meeting former Vice President gardner in texas. The chief executive gets a present. He rides to the home of old friend cactus jack and gets a warm welcome en route. He visits the alamo, the historic shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd greets the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star states 23 electoral votes. The president struck of the republicans saying they dont want unity. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam rayburn, former speaker of the house. At fort worth, thousands turned out as he worked to bring the southern vote back into line. Dewey defeats truman, the famous photo of that Chicago Tribune headline from the 1948 president ial campaign. Of course, we know harry s. Truman won the election. His rival, thomas e.
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Before we get to kari and mike, that breaking news out of livermore. Lanes of 580 in the Altamont Pass are open once again this morning after that fastmoving vegetation fire closed the highway in both directions for nearly 4 1 2 hours. Video from the scene shows the char scar there. Our Sharon Katsuda joins us by phone. What are you seeing once you get there . Reporter ry, kris. I pulled off at grant line road and im stepping aside because a fire truck is pulling up in the area. Luckily they tackled the fire and it is out now. Right now i am seeing a lot of traffic heading westbound on highway 580 at grant line road. When i arrived close to about 3 45, i was sitting in all of the traffic going eastbound, but then they opened it up around 3 45, 4 00. So traffic is slowing smoothly if youre heading eastbound on 580. But westbound still looks really bad. Back to you. Bad this early. To meteorologist kari hall. Kari, we know that weve been expecting some hot weather, and thats not the cond
During these two years and its importance today . Julie yeah, so, the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. That is a conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a longstanding dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is killed soon after, and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a faction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. Now, by 1914, the contitutionalists had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he actually has a series of military reverses against the current government. So he goes from having an army that is about 30,
I was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to College Station to my grandfathers library and they have the archives there. My coauthor and i are like, we are here for a day and a half, lets do it. We walk in and mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start . She opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks and videos and things. We are like, what . We only have a day and a half. We started in her scrapbook. My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of Barbara Bushs scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at one of about 120 scrapbooks that mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for