Biden will participate in that wreath laying ceremony at 11 00 eastern time. We have got about 15 minutes left with verna jones. We want to get your thoughts on Veterans Issues this morning. Oward is in florida and on the democratic line. Caller i live in seminole, florida. When i was in the service, i was in vietnam. I am finding out, i am turning 65 this year. I notice i am going to be losing some of my benefits over at the v. A. I am going to get Social Security. I dont understand. I have been going there and had operations and everything else. I dont have a lot of money. I am going to be 65 and losing my benefits and i just dont understand why Social Security could go to that to pay for people who can afford it. Guest thank you so much for your service and for sharing that information. I will ask you to call the American Legion. I think we need more information. If your income has changed, it may put you in a different category. Without knowing, i would not be able to give you a go
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The symbol had survived and even increased in power and roosevelt dismissed any critics of the remodeling as yahoos. Thats all he said. The white house was lived in hard for the next some 40 years. World war i and ii passed by. Very little in world war i, world war ii. They lived it down. And it also was threatened with being dangerous for bombs and things during the war. We thought wed be attacked. Ms. Roosevelt wrote in the summer of 43 and said qun father expects los angeles to be bombed this summer. So the Great Depression was battled from its walls in world war ii. president coolidge in the 20s tore off the attic and added a lowprofile third floor. President franklin met with the corps of engineers after pearl harbor, and among the many negative documents, a particular one brought a week after pearl harbor called the house a fire trap. Roosevelt simply dismissed the report. I dont want to hear it. In 1945 came a president no one had ever heard much about. Harry s. Truman was a Pro
President franklin met with the corps of engineers after pearl harbor, and among the many negative documents, a particular one brought a week after pearl harbor called the house a fire trap. Roosevelt simply dismissed the report. I dont want to hear it. In 1945 came a president no one had ever heard much about. Harry s. Truman was a Problem Solver and considered that he had an appropriate knowledge of architecture and interior design. Some might have objected to that, but he did have a history of dealing with buildings. One might question trumans sophistication but his sensitivity towards symbols was acute. Always had been. As he was to demonstrate with this house, the corps brought to him the same documents that hed truman read them and ordered a structural investigation from the corps. He wasted no time. And the resulting death sentence predictably, the corps said the house must be torn down and reconstructed. The widowed Eleanor Roosevelt moved out from the second and third floors s