representatives came. in the 1850s, they had to put on the wings. by the 1870s, they were crowded. they couldn t find space for the sn senators to work. offices were their discs in the chamber. of course, they were constantly besieged there. so eventually they kept adding space to the capital. they built terraces in the 1870s and added extra rooms and that p wasn t enough. in the 1890s, they bought an old apartment house, which is down constitution avenue about where the taft stands today. for a while, senators moved in there, to the envy of many house members, because that gave senators private offices, at least some of the senators. but the building had been built as an apartment house, not an office building. the weight of an office building was too much. it began to sink. the elevator shaft was seven inches lower by the time they moved out. that was pulling the floors apart. it was unsafe. it was a fire trap. it was very uncomfortable. people complained about it. it would
and to visit the plants that have been displaced. the titans that run these global transnational corporations, they are operatives and the wall street giants that finance them could care less about workers anywhere or the community in which they live. and frankly, these new bosses of global production don t care about democracy or the rule of law either. they pay whatever they want and they can pay off as they see fit. i ve seen workers in making may tag washing machines in monterey, mexico. they used to be made in newton, iowa. those workers don t make enough to buy the washing machines they make. the poverty rate in newton has dramatically increased in the town that paul may tag built. the quality of those machines has gone down too. who can be proud of what is happening? i visited the homes of those workers from monterey lived and other maquilla factory zones and seen firsthand their impofferished living standards. i stood at a surreal location in mexico witnessed the jobs
my book, at some point, you know, i call him a genius at one point. we always argue about whether the term is overused, but one of the pieces of that description is the enormous speed with which with which he worked. enormous speed from which he went from zero to 60. from a blank landscape to this. this is not just a sketch. this is a rigorous exploration of the possibility of this made into a physical form. the second essential fact about this drawing is that we recognize that today, given that he worked on it for five months, given that he left the project after 11 months, given that almost nothing on this plan was put into place not just in the next decade after its creation but in the next six to seven decades after its creation, the fact that you and i can all sit in here and place ourselves on it. place the capital. place the white house. the fact that we recognize these avenues, those people who have lived in d.c. for quite a while you can recognize the streets in this
it becomes hard to imagine that our dome exists at all. this is the level that we go outside. pelley: wow, what a beautiful view. tonight, you re going to see it like you ve never seen it before. simon: this is called lung packing, and william trubridge is doing it to attempt something known as a free dive going down more than 400 feet, longer than a football field, on a single breath. he carries no weights, but he ll go down quickly. at 70 feet, he ll lose buoyancy and will be pulled by gravity alone. medical scholars say the sport is revealing human capabilities that are making them rewrite textbooks on human physiology. i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m morley safer. i m bob simon. i m charlie rose. i m scott pelley. those stories tonight on 60 minutes. good evening, national retail federation says 141 million people went shopping this hold day weekend spending $57 billion. that is more shoppers than last year but less money spent. thanksgiving
if you go look at it again tonight i was sitting there in it is in the book by the way. i was sitting there, carter is behind me jody is there with the big fellow in his arms. saturday night before the election isn t there used to be a bump and there was cigarettes every where. times have changed. everybody was smoking and then we got the word in seattle last stop it was an amazing experience. i want to talk about my book a little bit but really what it is about. people walk up to me why you write this book now? i did not write it last night. [laughter] i gave a lecture on mintier years ago by the way. i talked about this years ago. but i do think it was a grown-up aspect that was political and played by a the queens berry rules. the tousing total where warfare of limited fighting with that they get our job there eyes and the kicking and and on since mohammad ali was a great fighter because he played by the rules but there is no rules today it is like that of politics. all