mojave desert, about 42 million people every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. with the help of our cox communications cable partners, for the next two hours we ll learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. we begin our special feature with its former mayor, oscar goodman. mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob? oh. the refuted mob, of course. all by accident. it s the most amazing thing in the world. i came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. i had a motto in my office where there s a fee, there s a remedy. and carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didn t call them that at that time. and my dad sent us $25 a week for pleasure. we couldn t use it for rent, for gasoline, it had to be for pleasure. so we went out to a place called the ch
mojave desert on my way to the tiny town of baker, california. it s halfway between los angeles and las vegas. just a tiny dot on the map 800 people. it embodies the weirdness of both those cities, and its largest attraction, definitely its tallest, has become one family s rather strange inheritance. my name is larae harguess, and my father, willis herron, set out to build the world s tallest thermometer. hi. i m jamie. hi, jamie. i m larae. nice to meet you. it s big. it is the world s tallest thermometer. well, if someone figured this roadside attraction would get you to stop and gawk, it sure as heck worked on me. hi. how are you, janice? i m jamie. hi. nice to meet you, jamie. today, larae and her sister, janice neisess, run a gift shop in the shadow of the tower. they sell thermometer t-shirts, thermometer hot sauce, even thermometer thermometers. yes, this really is the world s tallest thermometer. and it would be strange enough just to inherit a 130
mojave desert on my way to the tiny town of baker, california. it s halfway between los angeles and las vegas. just a tiny dot on the map 800 people. it embodies the weirdness of both those cities, and its largest attraction, definitely its tallest, has become one family s rather strange inheritance. my name is larae harguess, and my father, willis herron, set out to build the world s tallest thermometer. hi. i m jamie. hi, jamie. i m larae. nice to meet you. it s big. it is the world s tallest thermometer. well, if someone figured this roadside attraction would get you to stop and gawk, it sure as heck worked on me. hi. how are you, janice? i m jamie. hi. nice to meet you, jamie. today, larae and her sister, janice neisess, run a gift shop in the shadow of the tower. they sell thermometer t-shirts, thermometer hot sauce, even thermometer thermometers. yes, this really is the world s tallest thermometer. and it would be strange enough just to inherit a 130
6th committee member jamie raskin. he s part of the discussion that included the committee s chief investigative counsel and retired federal judge michael luttig who testified at the hearings. this virginia bar association event is about 90 minutes. [applause] steve, thank you soso much. i want tot intern thank steve busch, paul atkinson for their exceptional work and also richard called in for the that he did to get this up, put this program together. the events of january 6th are seared in our memories, and i use that verb appropriately. the only connection, the only other examples i can think of is 9/11. anything probably because in each instance we actually saw it in real time, almost as if we were there. but we have to get past those images and we have to ask ourselves why did it occur, who i what is responsible, and perhaps most importantly for our discussion today, how do we prevent it from happening again. and that s why this panel and these four individuals are so
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