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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
My prior knowledge of these men is just from the short blurbs from history class back in school so it's really interesting to see more to their stories and even how they had business dealings with each other.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
What? Sounds like an anachronism to me. The GGB was built in the early thirties. One of many Herbert Hoover's RFC projects, wasn't it? Back then, instead of bailing out banksters, theybuilt big projects. Hoover was a civil engineer, so he was big on that stuff. We have one of his dams right down the road from here. I think you are confusing the GG with the railroad.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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This looks good though - hopefully I can find it On Demand and catch up on the series.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain