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For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ....
For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ....
Soaking up the sun. And the president is writing to his wife saying what a fabulous place this turned out to be. The cold has disappeared in just a weeks time. As he leaves key west after that first week he promised our city commissioners whenever i get tired i will be back. 12 weeks later hes back. So each november and december and each february and march the president would take up residence a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month at a time. And it becomes literally the functioning white house of the United States. President truman on his first vacation to key west is invited by the navy to go out on a captured german sub. So he and his 16 closest staff go out on this captured german sub. The captain of the sub is a missouri native. Of course as fate would have it they submerged to 450 feet and the sub springs a leak. The logs are on our official website. They werent the least bit concerned. They had a missouri captain. They knew ....
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the ....
Hours of british bombardment, soldiers raised the flag that inspired an American Lawyer to write a poem that became our National Anthem. We all know about the anthem, but the man behind the song is less wellknown. We may be familiar with his name and the key bridge over the all. Ac, but that is about it has been more than 75 years since the biography of key has been published, and our speaker toay, marc leepson, is here tell us about what he has discovered through researching and writing his new book about key, what so proudly we hailed. Saidrian john coppola leepson tells a multifaceted story of the author of the starspangled banner with clarity, precision, and passion, a literary performance akin to a great soloist nailing the high notes in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Is a journalist, historian, and author of eight books. Marc is a former staff writer ....