Talk im not good at power point. Well, this is not the supreme city. Its not the book i originally set out to write. And the original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. But without trying to be too cute, i took too big of a bite out of the apple. And i discovered doing my Research Within the larger story i had intended to tell. Its an unfold story, actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. And that story is the rise of the sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. Which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skyscraper above 42nd street. And by the end of the decade, by the end of the 1920s, almost half of new york skyscrapers were in midtown. Its one of the great building booms not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of the world. This eruption, almost, that occurs in these years. And
About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
I had to wait a long time for this. I was at basic training in fort jackson. The the obviously here easily, and and the cadre and the mess talking about the restraints that the personnel of bjl. And lbj and the restraints that he was under was the incremental buildup that johnson put him through and the administration and i dont think you spoke much about it and just an observation of my own that the only thing i saw later on that what really worked that scared the bejeaners was a linebacker one and two. That got them, you know, to the to negotiate with us. Thats an important point, i think, that clearly west moreland is dealing with the with the theory of graduated pressure which is which kind of takes hold in the National Security establishment. This idea that we can determine how much pressure to ratchet up or ratchet back and eventually hanoi will realize that it cant win this long war because we have the ability to either ratchet up or ratchet back. Unfortunately, we dont have tha
Paris hiltons brother arrested accused of threatening to kill the crew and calling passengers peasants before be restrained. His explanation today, wednesday, february 4, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Matts on assignment. Well tell you more about that later. What a scary situation, this commuter train so many people ride on it to the suburbs every day. Heartbreaking what happened. Our top story. A deadly collision between a commuter train and an suv. This happened north of new york city and the impact triggered a huge explosion. Nbcs kate snow is at the scene for us. Kate, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Federal investigators on the way here now. This is the most deadly accident ever on this railroad. You can see the burned out car behind me there, there were more than 600 passengers on board, as it slammed into a car stuck
A melt down on a flight accused of threat ining to kill the crew and calling fellow passengers peasants. His explanation this february 4th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We will tell you more about that later on. What a scary situation. So many people ride on this train to the city every day. Its a deadly collision between a train and an suv north of new york city and the impact triggered a huge explosion. Kate snow is at the scene for us. Kate good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Federal investigators are on the way here now. This is the most deadly accident ever on this railroad. You can see the burned out car behind me. There were more than 600 passengers on board as it slammed into a car stuck on the tracks. A twisted heap of metal and glass is all that remains after it collided with a commuter train from new york city bound for the northern