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The anniversary of the civil war with the people and events that shaped the civil war, saturdays at 6 00 and 10 00 eastern. Each week, American History tvs real america brings you archival films that tell the story of the 20th century. The dream of a canal through panama dates as long ago is the beginning of the 16th century. At one time or another, many powers consider plans for connecting the two great oceans. It was not until 1903, when the United States signed a treaty with the new republic of panama the plan was adopted and eventually completed. 300 million cubic yards of earth were excavated in seven years of construction. It concluded with the building of the tremendous locks. A narrow ditch across the tiny stretch of land became the means of solving a major problem of interocean travel. Ships no longer needed to sail around cape horn. The savings in time, distance, a ....
He was a great friend, the suezfriend of canal. That time spirit of that we would they would move on to panama and join the specific to the atlantic as the in any otherd done part of the world. Futures the wave of the and that they would simply repeat their success in this very different part of the world forgetting that panama was a vastly differenter the rare, typography,rent climate, everything. They were mistaken about knowing territory, as it were. Today frk you go to panama, see a lot of him, at thes a bust authority. Until a couple of years ago, was a steakhouse in downtown. Saw would he think if he the video that we just showed of the canal today . Hist would probably break heart because he was an extraordinary man. The loomingf figures beyond anyone else of his time. He was something of a rain maker. An engineer, he was a believer in a great the capacity of human beings to the untried and difficult. By his ownt up. Hetoric he had tremendous backing invested inne who the suez c ....
Of panama that a plan was eventually complete. It was seven years of construction a concluded with the building of the tremendous locks. A narrow ditch across the tiny stretch of land became the means of solving a major problem of interocean travel. Ships no longer needed to sail around cape horn. Time in time, distance, and money were tremendous. Using the shortcut to many of the world sports saves time and money for both the military establishment and commercial trade operating the canal. Passage open is the responsibility of the panama companies. Maintaining its security is the job of the armed forces on duty. [sirens] alert sound,te it Everybody Knows what they are supposed to do. Nto action, on the double. The smoke plants are a key part of any action. Minutes after the sound of the alert, the canal zone is alive with activity. On their way to take up positions in authorities with plans. In accordance with plans. Great cloud ....
Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Council Member, Michael Brown, the son of ron brown the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I personally dont think so. I have been covering politics for a long time. I actually covered politics in new jersey be ....
The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray C ....