And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
johnson confiding in his longtime friend, senator richard russell, that the republican nominee, richard nixon, had been interfering in the peace talks to blow them up. richard nixon approached the south vietnamese side and the peace talks and told them, get out of these peace talks, don t agree to a deal, you re getting suckered here. just wait until after the election when he, richard nixon, would be president and he d give them a much better deal. nixon s intermediary was caught on tape actually telling south vietnamese, hang on through the election, hang on, basely don t end the war, we need the war to keep going until the election. hold on until you get nixon. and those communications to the south vietnamese worked. i mean, at least the politics worked for nixon. nixon got elected. he always denied he d done anything to fro long the war for his own political purposes, denied he d done anything to destroy that chance at peace in vietnam. always denied that to the end.
ohnson confiding in his longtime friend, senator richard russell, that the republican nominee, richard nixon, had been interfering in the peace talks to blow them up. richard nixon approached the south vietnamese side and the peace talks and told them, get out of these peace talks, don t agree to a deal, you re getting suckered here. just wait until after the election when he, richard nixon, would be president and he d give them a much better deal. nixon s intermediary was caught on tape actually taelling south vietnamese, hang on through the election, hang on, basely don t end the war, we need the war to keep going until the election. hold on until you get nixon. and those communications to the south vietnamese worked. i mean, at least the politics worked for nixon. nixon got elected. he always denied he d done anything to fro long the war for his own political purposes, denied he d done anything to
johnson confiding in his johnson confiding in his longtime friend, senator richard russell, that the republican nominee, richard nixon, had been interfering in the peace talks to blow them up. richard nixon approached the south vietnamese side and the peace talks and told them, get out of these peace talks, don t agree to a deal, you re getting suckered here. just wait until after the election when he, richard nixon, would be president and he d give