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so i m going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. but i ll start with how i came to this story. and, actually, what s surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day. in 1836 when washington irving was commissioned by john jacob astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred, irving s book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. and those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. i think you in oregon know a little bit more about them or i m sure some of you know a lot more about them. but in the national consciousness, they re largely forgotten, except among historians and people who really follow western history. so it is a really important story. it s historically significant, and it s a great adventure story. and that s partly what attracted me to it. and it s also a story that i feel needs to be told because those events have h ....
we conclude it was not the right system to go across the entire border and was much too expensive. we scaled down our ambition somewhat and selected and much more modest portfolio of systems that the border patrol selected and tailored to each area of the border. we focus that on arizona because that s what action was at the time. we are in the throes of completing a plan, it consists of everything from small hand-held longer-range binoculars like sensors to more complex systems on hightower s with radars and cameras that are connected in a command-and-control center. the purpose of the systems is to get the border patrol better information about what s on the ground, what the threat of that activity is, whether it s a microburst somebody carrying a weapon, and more options for how to respond. outside of arizona the border patrol as indicated to us that his activity there is migration because we ve done things in ....
and, actually, what s surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day, in 1836 when washington irving was commissioned by john jacob astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred. irving s book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. and those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. i think you in oregon know a little bit more about them, or i m sure some of you know a lot more about them. but in the national consciousness, they re largely forgotten except among historians and people who really follow western history. so it is a really important story. it s historically significant, and it s a great adventure story. and that s partly what attracted me to it. and it s also a story that i i feel needs to be told because it s had, those events have had a big impact on the shape of the north american continent and on the course of american empire, these events that happened over these three ye ....
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