charles: it is in the southern, central part of the state. right on the banks of the merrimack river. headquarters for presidential campaigns every four years. it is the state capital of 10,000 state workers. host: should we had that way? y? head tht wa charles: this capital is the oldest where the legislature still sits and the original chamber. it was built around 1816. it is the same building as in the early 1800s. host: how does it play a role in national politics? charles: you have the steps of the capitol in the front. to in thisspoken square. reagan, clinton, tries to make an address. hampshire take the primary seriously. they will come out and participate. they know it is a sacred duty. they are very participatory. a very high percentage vote in the primary. interviewer: a beautiful capital. where we going now? charles: main street. it finished and $11 million improvement. improvement.lion hotel, this is where legislators used tuesday when they came by train used to
everyone to track major projects through every stage of the approval process. this council will make sure that every federal agency that is consistently delaying projects by missing deadlines will face tough new penalties. i know it won t happen when it may worry about them. we hold the bureaucracy accountable. we are also creating a new office in the council of environmental quality to root out inefficiency, clarify lines of authority and streamline federal and state local procedures so that communities can modernize their aging infrastructure without fear of outdated federal rules getting in their way. this massive permit reform, that is what it is, it is a permit reform, doesn t sound glamorous. they won t write stories about it. they won t even talk about it but it is so important. buit is on the first step in renewing america s roads, rails, runways and rivers. as i discussed in ohio recently, my new vision for american infrastructure will generate $1 trillion in infra
corner and pulling visitors, hey, look at this that we just found, it s the house that keeps on giving in a way that i ve never seen in my career. it s really a house full of places to be discovered, and i think for inspiration as well. it s built around 1760 by emerson and his family, one of the first occupants of the house. so william is the grandfather of the emerson the writer we all know and love. when he looked at this house, he and his wife had several children. the last of which was born only $10.10 days before he left to go be part of the revolution. he knew her for only a short time. while he was here, he was one of the town leaders, and like many, he not only led in the church but he would have gatherings. he talked about the american revolution, he s a philosopher, he started the house amazing book collection. the collection contains about 3000 volumes that started all the way back with the first minister who lived in this house and continued through the earlies
cable or satellite provider. c-span is in massachusetts learning more about the area of literary. we take you inside the home of ralph waldo emerson. this is really house of two revolutions. later, the second american revolution of intellectualism and thought. it s such a charming house with so many discoveries. i love working here and every week i am finding new graffiti or some other object in the corner and pulling visitors, hey, look at this that we just found, it s the house that keeps on giving in a way that i ve never seen in my career. it s really a house full of places to be discovered, and i think for inspiration as well. it s built around 1760 by emerson and his family, one of the first occupants of the house. so william is the grandfather of the emerson the writer we all know and love. when he looked at this house, he and his wife had several children. the last of which was born only $10.10 days before he left to go be part of the revolution. he knew her for
is at stake. saint, isnature as a that kind of title. you may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it walt emerson quote. someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. though nature as we know it is drawn rum ralph waldo emerson s experience in 1884. he is trying to say what would our lives we like. how would we make sense of ourselves. how would we make sense of our world world. say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. we didn t have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. what would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. and then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. yes, experience is a thorny thing. he wrestles with it in the piece. what i love about this piece is why y the title, which i ll explain in a