always had a kind of special interest in it. ari thought with the pandemic going on there were lessons there particularly with regard to vaccines and one of the things we ve been preaching is get vaccinated and one of the t big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is it took 70 years to come up with two effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country and our marvelous pharmaceutical industry came up with three effectivevaccines in less than one year . to get this an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about the polio period was fdr came down with polio at age 39. most people thought of it as kind of a children s disease but it did hit adults from time to time.and in his own struggle to come back and ultimately go all the way to the white house, he set up warm springs. a place he would go after he was afflicted because the strings were warming down in georgia and made him feel better to wget in the water
not surprisingly i tend to lean towards american history , much of it political but actually, one book i just finished was not about politics. it was about the history of the polio epidemic from the games and. it came out in 2006 and it won a pulitzer prize and as a polio victim myself, i have always had a kind of special interest in it. and i thought with the pandemic going on were some lessons with regard to vaccines and one of the things we ve been thinking lately is get vaccinated and of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is 70 years to come up with 2 effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country and our marvelous pharmaceutical industry came up with effective vaccines in less than one year. to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about the polio period was fdr came down with polio at age39 . most people thought it was kind of a children s disease but it did affe
lean towards american history , much of it political but actually, one book i just finished was not about politics. it was about the history of the polio epidemic from the games and. it came out in 2006 and it won a pulitzer prize and as a polio victim myself, i have always had a kind of special interest in it. and i thought with the pandemic going on were some lessons with regard to vaccines and one of the things we ve been thinking lately is get vaccinated and of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is 70 years to come up with 2 effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country and our marvelous pharmaceutical industry came up with effective vaccines in less than one year. to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about the polio period was fdr came down with polio at age39 . most people thought it was kind of a children s disease but it did affect adults from time totime .
hosted the u.s. house of senate,tatives, u.s. and the library of congress. .enator mcconnell senator mcconnell takes us behind the scenes into the republican leader s conference room and his private office. and he recalls his own political career and the historic moments .n which he participated we are in the united states capitol in the senate wing and a tour by theven majority leader himself. fork you, senator mcconnell opening you have this week to us. where are we in the capitol now? senator mcconnell: we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. we are in the main happen toll. came down from philadelphia in the summer of the capitol looked quite different at that point. the two wings were added right there the civil war during 1850s. but this particular space like the capitol has its own history. that know that during general period they began to develop what subsequently came as the library of congress in this particular space. the been the office of republican
senator mitch mcconnell. we hear about historic events that occurred in what is now the republican leader s suite. posted hosted the house of representatives, the u.s. senate, and library of congress. senator mcconnell takes us behind the scenes into the republican leader s conference room and private office. he recalls his own political career in the historic moments in which he participated. host: we are in the united states capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour by the majority leader himself. thank you, senator mcconnell for opening you have this week to us. where are we in the capitol right now? senator mcconnell: we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. we are in the main capital. the government came down from philadelphia in the summer of 1800 and the capitol looked quite different at that point. the two wings were added right before the civil war during the 1850 s. but this particular space like every space in the capitol has its own hist