Territorial politics of wyoming. I encountered gracious and wellinformed experts in the sources that i was seeking and their goals seemed to be to make my work and research as productive and rewarding as possible. The working atmosphere of the archives was congenial, stimulating, and fun. A friend of mine, the distinguished historian of the election of 1896, Hall Williams and i, would work at library in the library of congress until 5 00 in the afternoon when they closed, have a bite to eat and we could come over to National Archives, which was open until 8 00. So we made the most of every single day. Whenever i returned, as i did during the next decade, i had the same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities. The cliches about lazy government employees, repeated ad nasuem by unknowning politicians, had no validity within these walls. Instead i became convinced, as im sure most historians w
Helen tapped was more ambitious about getting to the white house than her husband, William Howard taft, and was willing to get personally in bald in politics to get him elected. As first lady, she overcame a serious illness directly mounted the white house. Invited top Classical Musicians to perform their, and support it causes that matter to her. Helen tap also has one of the most physical legacies of our first ladies. Washington d. C. s famous japanese cherry trees, the ones that frame the tidal basin in the Nations Capital and brings tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies. Influence and image. The life of hell and taft, her husband served in the white house from 1909 to 1913. Here to tell us about her life and her legacy is her biographer lewis gold. His biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that of the 20th century first lady, shes the most obscure but you say she deser
How are you guys . Good. Its a three day weekend and no rain. A beautiful view over San Francisco this morning with partly sunny and cloudy conditions. We are starting out with the little bit of fog in the north bay valley locations reporting low visibility and temperatures this morning a few degrees warmer than where we started yesterday and in any case a cool start with temperatures in the 30s and 40s and for the afternoon slightly warmer and are partly cloudy skies mid to upper 50s expected for the bay area. When i come back a look at whats going on currently as well as your afternoon highs in the rest of the weekend including the extended forecast. Happening today, San Francisco International Airport begins to screen passengers coming from china for a new and deadly virus. Sfo is one of three airports during Health Checks. Elissa harrington his life for us at the International Terminal at sfo this morning. The reason they are doing Health Checks is because it is one of the airports
That it happened the way the agents say it did, that he first fired the gun at them. Tim furlong, nbc 10 news. A solemn farewell today to a fallen new jersey state trooper. Police officers from across the garden state, pennsylvania, delaware, and far beyond, paid their respects to trooper Frankie Williams in Atlantic City. More than a thousand members of Law Enforcement game to boardwalk hall for williams funeral. The 31yearold rookie trooper and another driver lost their lives in an accident on route 55 in Cumberland County a week ago. Williams death came 11 months after he joined the state police force. To see somebody cut down really in the most productive, wonderful time of their life, after being married just two months, is horrible. Williams was remembered today as someone who always had the most positive outlook, no matter what the circumstances, he is the fourth member of the new Jersey State Police to die in a car accident in the past 18 months. Today former u. S. Congressman
The suburbs possible as well. Take a look at that when i come back with the hourbyhour forecast in just ten minutes. But first, Jessica Boyington watching her first alert traffic. Thanks. Starting off with the schuylkill expressway still dealing with the construction. Our camera as right around montgomery drive. But good news, we have some lanes open now in both directions. So earlier we had all lanes blocked off on the east and westbound side due to overhead sign repair. Right here is the eastbound lanes. And you can see one lane getting by toward center city and thats slow. So, very slow through there. They had pretty much ysh pushed over to the shoulder. Westbound, two lanes are now opened. Watch, the shoulders blocked there as well. Either way, its a slow go. And since earlier they did have both directions blocked off in both all lanes blocked off in both directions, there was a big backup. So, now some residual delays because of that as well. So, expect problems on the schuylkill