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, which is if something had gone wrong, they could have blown up the entire city of chicago. but had all kinds of other i'm thinking of like which rabbit hole do i go down next year, all kinds of other things. there was if you saw the film they are worried that if detonated this bomb could create so much that it essentially could the atmosphere on fire and they do some calculations they get some outside people to do more calculations and they're pretty sure that's not going to happen. but it's not a 0% chance that detonating a weapon this powerful could all life on earth. they go ahead with it anyway. but just to dispel the myth, although oppenheimer considered the father of the atomic bomb, he didn't actually technically on the project he was an administrator he's the director the ceo as it were sitting in the the corner office he ended up being despite no managerial experience ended up being a really good manager people he directed scientists and then he left them alone to their work without, micromanaging them sort of just like go do the science. you want to do. even scien
, which is if something had gone wrong, they could have blown up the entire city of chicago. but had all kinds of other i'm thinking of like which rabbit hole do i go down next year, all kinds of other things. there was if you saw the film they are worried that if detonated this bomb could create so much that it essentially could the atmosphere on fire and they do some calculations they get some outside people to do more calculations and they're pretty sure that's not going to happen. but it's...
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, and he wanted picasso to paint a mural at roosevelt in chicago. and he asked harry if he would ask pablo if he could come to chicago. and paint a mural here, and afterwards, truman sent him a letter and, said, i don't know why a university he would named after president roosevelt would want to hire a what do you call him, a a communal caricaturist instead of one of our great american artists. so harry harry's opinion of of modern art did not change. but harry enjoyed picasso. he said he had a good time. he said it was a lot of fun. he said short bald guy, a lot of fun. it not that much shorter than this, by the way, was in front of the his ceramics studio, which has been abandoned and, is behind fences and barbed wire. they're tryg get the money trestore it. so hopefully will happen. yes and the book you wrote about the road. yes. yes. that was in mexico city. yes. so the road trip that harry and best book that i wrote about so well. he same same way. what i'm sorry to think people would write. right. right. yeah. so the question is harry took thi
, and he wanted picasso to paint a mural at roosevelt in chicago. and he asked harry if he would ask pablo if he could come to chicago. and paint a mural here, and afterwards, truman sent him a letter and, said, i don't know why a university he would named after president roosevelt would want to hire a what do you call him, a a communal caricaturist instead of one of our great american artists. so harry harry's opinion of of modern art did not change. but harry enjoyed picasso. he said he had a...
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chicago had 50,000 klan and 50,000 members klan on long island island. and part of what added to the clients for, cassidy, was that the twenties came at the end of the ellis island era of immigration, from which many of you in the room are descended from 90 to 1920. 18 million immigrants come in from places the streams of immigration hadn't come before. eastern europe. russia poland, 3 million --, 4 million italian catholics, etc. and part of the reaction was to this, to people who believed that these people would not be americans. and the klan is in colorado and portland. and the leaders were trying turn back the clock to a world where white protestant men ran the show and african -- and catholics either knew their place or were not around. and they paint catholics as people who were bad for because pope would tell them how to vote. and -- as part of international conspiracy of. and the klan was trying to restore the small town of white protestant america in a new world of decadal and ethnically diverse cities. and startling scenes clans marching down r
chicago had 50,000 klan and 50,000 members klan on long island island. and part of what added to the clients for, cassidy, was that the twenties came at the end of the ellis island era of immigration, from which many of you in the room are descended from 90 to 1920. 18 million immigrants come in from places the streams of immigration hadn't come before. eastern europe. russia poland, 3 million --, 4 million italian catholics, etc. and part of the reaction was to this, to people who believed...
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the iwd ws founded in 1905 in chicago, but the main predecessor organization to them is a union called the western federation of miners. the western federation of miners. the impetus it comes out of another one of these really bloody battles that happens in. the mining industry in idaho and as a result of that, miners in the west decide that they need to organize on a much broader scale, build an organization, an umbrella organization for all miners in the west, and they meet in montana in 1893 to create the western federation of miners and then the western many members of the western of miners are the key people who, for the organization of an even bigger organization, the industrial of the world in chicago. in 1905. so they come out of the west. but part of the reason that they have a lot of actions in the west and you see a lot in the pacific northwest in particular is that a lot of the people that they to organize and a lot of the people that are not organized by other unions are located in the west are workers like workers that work in mines, workers that work in agricultural indu
the iwd ws founded in 1905 in chicago, but the main predecessor organization to them is a union called the western federation of miners. the western federation of miners. the impetus it comes out of another one of these really bloody battles that happens in. the mining industry in idaho and as a result of that, miners in the west decide that they need to organize on a much broader scale, build an organization, an umbrella organization for all miners in the west, and they meet in montana in 1893...
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i chicago's south side. according to journalist cynthia diagonal, myron who was a student of til mobley when she was a fifth grader. mamie till-mobley lost a son to hatred but inspired hundreds of children to strive for excellence. in fact, she demanded that we do so. she taught us we could do anything. she taught us to be proud of ourselves. to love our blackness. perilous as our lives would be because of it. i went on to become all things i dreamt, largely because of that remarkable woman. she invited me to dream as big as i wanted to, do all the things she had hoped. her son might do someday. working primarily with black inner city children and in special education programs. till mobley encourages our students to reject a vision of themselves that did not to academic and professional successes. emmett lost his life, but his mother saved hours. diagonal, myron asserts. when mamie till-mobley retired from the chicago public scol system in 1983, after over 20 years of teaching, she began working closely with
i chicago's south side. according to journalist cynthia diagonal, myron who was a student of til mobley when she was a fifth grader. mamie till-mobley lost a son to hatred but inspired hundreds of children to strive for excellence. in fact, she demanded that we do so. she taught us we could do anything. she taught us to be proud of ourselves. to love our blackness. perilous as our lives would be because of it. i went on to become all things i dreamt, largely because of that remarkable woman....
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and dan holt, those chicago hearings benefit. did everett dirksen, didn't they it who was running for the senate in 1950 as a republican? this is i think this is true. you know, so lucas was very wary of having these hearings dig up dirt on the democratic party in chicago that year. and sure enough, after the hearings took place, scott lucas, who has been who had been the democratic leader in the senate, lost his election to everett dirksen to the republic. and who would go on to, you know, a very long and really important career in the senate? well, one of the other places that the kefauver committee visited was las vegas. this is from the c-span archives, a little bit from the mob museum in there. a a lot of people have this image of las vegas that we always blow up buildings and we have blown up a lot of hotel casinos on the strip and replaced them with newer ones. this building was just about vacant in the late nineties and the federal government was ready to let it come down. the mayor at the time was oscar goodman, who had
and dan holt, those chicago hearings benefit. did everett dirksen, didn't they it who was running for the senate in 1950 as a republican? this is i think this is true. you know, so lucas was very wary of having these hearings dig up dirt on the democratic party in chicago that year. and sure enough, after the hearings took place, scott lucas, who has been who had been the democratic leader in the senate, lost his election to everett dirksen to the republic. and who would go on to, you know, a...
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the chicago tribune once called him the blue jeans of new york city. he could get dirty with the laborers, as many of his peers couldn't. at the opening of the new york metropolitan museum of art, he chose to sit with the common citizens rather than the dignitaries. to tale of a garden and the three sams. after tilden lost the election. in 1877, he attempted to enjoy life. he bought huge yachts and turned his prize for st bernard's and dog shows and won. in 1879, he bought gray's an estate in yonkers on the hudson river. its chords as you see the palisade cliffs just beautiful property which he would expand to 200 acres. the mansion 99 rooms and it's here. he had a stroke and died. many later in, 1899. samuel onto meyer bought the vast estate on the hudson. his vision was to turn it into phoenician gardens, the grandest in the world. temples pillars, fountains, some prices were built rivaling all others. over time, much of the was sold off. never less. one can envision the beauty visiting unfamiliar gardens. i visited it a few years ago and these photo
the chicago tribune once called him the blue jeans of new york city. he could get dirty with the laborers, as many of his peers couldn't. at the opening of the new york metropolitan museum of art, he chose to sit with the common citizens rather than the dignitaries. to tale of a garden and the three sams. after tilden lost the election. in 1877, he attempted to enjoy life. he bought huge yachts and turned his prize for st bernard's and dog shows and won. in 1879, he bought gray's an estate in...
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she was probably about 16 when they married maybe 14 wife chicago heir who was a shoshone woman who had been kidnaped or sold to the hidatsa, who are part of the mandan indian nation. as a young and traded to them, charbonneau was a frenchman a french trader, a french national who married several indian, many sort of and had several at the same time sort of over the course of his life. but skagway will accompany the expedition. it leaves fort mandan, which kind of up there in north dakota, the middle of north dakota today, and go with to the pacific coast, the first winter in february 1805, while expedition is wintering at the small installation they build on the missouri river called fort. so kagawa gives birth to a son, jean-baptiste charbonneau, who goes to the pacific with the expedition as a baby who is nicknamed pomp or pompey by lewis and clark. so kagawa at several points not only helps the expedition, stay on track, but she also saves a bunch of journals and other scientific material. when one of the keel boats that the expedition is using turns over in some rapids. she actuall
she was probably about 16 when they married maybe 14 wife chicago heir who was a shoshone woman who had been kidnaped or sold to the hidatsa, who are part of the mandan indian nation. as a young and traded to them, charbonneau was a frenchman a french trader, a french national who married several indian, many sort of and had several at the same time sort of over the course of his life. but skagway will accompany the expedition. it leaves fort mandan, which kind of up there in north dakota, the...
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what an amazing gathering place for america. -- america chicago has been over the years and still is to this day. when we talk about issues here in washington, many times i can relate them not just to neighborhoods but to people in chicago who feel so intensely about the land of their birth or causes of the countries. i've gone through that same experience, my mother an immigrant from lithuania, i was fortunate to witness the freedom struggle in lithuania when they finally broke from the soviet union. if you go down chicago avenue, west of michigan avenue, you go into an area known as ukrainian village. that know man clat tur -- nomenclature speaks for itself, there are schools, families, who are watching the war in ukraine with personal intensity, to them it is a land where their fathers and mothers were born, where many of them were born. and they have prayers and pleas to politicians not to forget. you can also step rightout side of this chamber -- right outside this chamber and find a group of ukrainian americans who have been demonstrating for the cause of ukraine for as long as
what an amazing gathering place for america. -- america chicago has been over the years and still is to this day. when we talk about issues here in washington, many times i can relate them not just to neighborhoods but to people in chicago who feel so intensely about the land of their birth or causes of the countries. i've gone through that same experience, my mother an immigrant from lithuania, i was fortunate to witness the freedom struggle in lithuania when they finally broke from the soviet...
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convention in august of that year, finally at the chicago convention that year, in the summer of 1944, truman was truman was chosen by roosevelt, pick to be the nominee. and from there, as you know, they were elected president. truman served only 90 some days asice president until the death of franklin roosevelt on april 12th suddenly found himself presiding. united states. so the truman committee continued after harry truman became president to things. what was it? what do think its legacy is? and did he follow their work? he did closely. the the times, the mood and the leadership of the committee had changed. there were still important work to be done under james mead and others in the committee to continue doing issue important reports. but everybody kind of agreed that the real driving force behind the truman committee had been truman himself. and later on, as the mead committee and others, it continued. but it was never quite the sort of headline grabbing attention thing that it was during the war with truman as chairman. truman followed it closely, and he continued to be a big a
convention in august of that year, finally at the chicago convention that year, in the summer of 1944, truman was truman was chosen by roosevelt, pick to be the nominee. and from there, as you know, they were elected president. truman served only 90 some days asice president until the death of franklin roosevelt on april 12th suddenly found himself presiding. united states. so the truman committee continued after harry truman became president to things. what was it? what do think its legacy is?...
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albert in chicago, democratic caller. hi, albert. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: yes, as far as your guest, mr. spiering, i would like to ask him a question. every republican was onboard with the trump tax cuts, so we are going to set that aside. i would like you, mr. spiering, to name just one accomplishment that mike pence had while he was the vice president. how would you rate his job performance? guest: yeah, i think that mike pence had a lot of executive experience when he was showsen -- chosen as president trump's running mate and he stepped up and really led the country during the period of the coronavirus. that was the number one issue that pence tackled and handled and i think that a majority of especially people in washington felt that he was an effective manager of that situation during the crisis moment when it was happening. pence took the leadership of a very difficult, very thorny issue and did a fairly good job. you may not disagree with him turning over control of the pandemic to dr. fauci and the way they handled it, but most people saw p
albert in chicago, democratic caller. hi, albert. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: yes, as far as your guest, mr. spiering, i would like to ask him a question. every republican was onboard with the trump tax cuts, so we are going to set that aside. i would like you, mr. spiering, to name just one accomplishment that mike pence had while he was the vice president. how would you rate his job performance? guest: yeah, i think that mike pence had a lot of executive experience when...
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there was organizing on the ground around police brutality in los angeles and new york and chicago. and there was also this mass of anti-iraq movement and obama emerged. and then people green screened it. they made him this progressive of candidate. and when he got into office, you know, he did what he had to do symbolically, we can never take away the significance of the first black presidency. you can never deny the importance of that. but in these moments, he became this kind of arc. how can one put it this kind of containing voice? right. you know what happens if obama doesn't tell the nba players to go back to the court, right. to play basketball? how how far do they push the matter? in so many ways. and so part of what i'm trying to suggest early on in the book, but again, it gets beyond it goes beyond obama. right. is that, you know, we can' read him as the fulfillment of the black freedom struggle, because when you do so, you you narrow the complexity of that struggle. that struggle is not just simply a black liberal ambition. you know, you think about the politics. you're h
there was organizing on the ground around police brutality in los angeles and new york and chicago. and there was also this mass of anti-iraq movement and obama emerged. and then people green screened it. they made him this progressive of candidate. and when he got into office, you know, he did what he had to do symbolically, we can never take away the significance of the first black presidency. you can never deny the importance of that. but in these moments, he became this kind of arc. how can...
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there was one that was pretty high profile in chicago in 2016 at a trump rally. i wasn't at one, but, you know, you kind of never knew when the temperature was going to shift and the movie was going to turn. and it was such a know it was really such a shock for me in many ways, as you kind of thought, some of these are my people. yes. and, you know, i had i had covered republican politicians for years. i had you know, i started in public radio in nebraska as one of my friends originally nebraska here. i think. and, you know, i would talk to everybody and, you know, farmers many of them who were conservative would listen to us in their tractors and and, you know, republican members of congress their staff would would turn to us and communicated. and it was okay. it wasn't it wasn't like this, you know. so it was a normal. so fast forward to and this is where we're going to start. think if you if you want to join our conversation, we would love it. and again, i don't want this to be a fitness contest, but there's a mike over here. and if it's hard for you to get to
there was one that was pretty high profile in chicago in 2016 at a trump rally. i wasn't at one, but, you know, you kind of never knew when the temperature was going to shift and the movie was going to turn. and it was such a know it was really such a shock for me in many ways, as you kind of thought, some of these are my people. yes. and, you know, i had i had covered republican politicians for years. i had you know, i started in public radio in nebraska as one of my friends originally...
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chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the environmental challenges that still lie ahead. we need to know a lot more about how toxic substances behave in the environment and what affects various exposure levels have on human health and the environment. this knowledge would help us control the risks from these substances without sacrificing the benefits of the technologies that produce them. we need more information on long range transport of pollutants through the air. acid rain is an example of this kind of transport. we also must do better at tracking the flow of pollutants through the environment. much of our pollution contr
chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the environmental...
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a lot of students at parkland were students from chicago. those young people brought together students from los angeles, students from texas, students from new york all saying, we got to do something about guns. so yolanda was we asked to speak. she learned that morning, saturday morning was that she was going to speak very quickly this is what she said. and she blew us away. she said, i'm yolanda, renee king and granddaughter of margaret to king junior and coretta king. my had a dream that his four little children would live a world where they would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. she then said, i have a dream to and my dream is enough is enough and we must a country where. it doesn't mean anything happen to us, but it still it's put into the universe. it can't begin and it is now in the universe and. we will get there someday. i wish i could wave a magic wand. and we were there today. but we're not. so long as i close, we perhaps know what our challenge is. i'm asking encourage just please p
a lot of students at parkland were students from chicago. those young people brought together students from los angeles, students from texas, students from new york all saying, we got to do something about guns. so yolanda was we asked to speak. she learned that morning, saturday morning was that she was going to speak very quickly this is what she said. and she blew us away. she said, i'm yolanda, renee king and granddaughter of margaret to king junior and coretta king. my had a dream that his...
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speaking in chicago around independence day, he saluted the race of men living in the day of revolution. their descendants. and then he looked out in the crowd, saw a bunch of germans supporters, the audience he recognized one chicago leader named anton lessing. it was hard to miss. and lincoln had snubbed on july 4th. he had not gone to a big political picnic and. he regretted it because it got a ton of press and a lot of attendance. the lincoln looks and says, besides, the men descended by blood from our ancestors, there are germans, french and scandinavian here, men who have come from europe or whose ancestors settled here, and they find themselves equals in all things. if they look back through history to trace their connection with, the days of revolution by they have not. but when they look through the declaration of independence they find it says all men are created equal and that they have a claim to that moral promise. let's head to lincoln as though they were the blood of the blood and flesh of flesh of the men who wrote that declaration. and so they are that's an extraordinar
speaking in chicago around independence day, he saluted the race of men living in the day of revolution. their descendants. and then he looked out in the crowd, saw a bunch of germans supporters, the audience he recognized one chicago leader named anton lessing. it was hard to miss. and lincoln had snubbed on july 4th. he had not gone to a big political picnic and. he regretted it because it got a ton of press and a lot of attendance. the lincoln looks and says, besides, the men descended by...