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He went on to get his law degree, and he had president kennedy come to present his diploma at his graduation. But i thought here he was in a body full of rhodes scholars and yale and stanford and harvard graduates and all of the ivy leaguers with terrific education. He never felt inferior about that. He felt that he never ended his education. He was always reading, he was always studying. I once went with him to an event, and i looked at the back of his car and there was the count of month cristo, and i was surprised, and he said, i never got to read it. Irma byrd complained she could never dust her table because she was bringing books home from the library of congress always stacked up and he was working on them. In 1980 he gave an impromptu speech at his grand Daughters School class, which was in the gallery. He gave a speech about the history of the chamber of the senate. Several senators came up after and said i didnt know t ....
About how to produce the surveys efficiently and how to recognize the social and Cultural Heritage and how to expand the notion of how the preservation means and also at the state and federal levels and i am going to share some of the things that i have learned at that conference with you at a future date, but in addition, last week, along with the handful of other local government representatives i was invited to attend a training on the federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program and it was helpful to gain a better understanding but also how we as a city and as a commission can help to promote and facilitate use of that and it is certainly timely considering we are at the verge of adopting or the state on the merge of adopting a state historic tax credit and so those certainly will be used in conjunction in the future, and learned a lot about some of the ....
One relatively positive development i guess we can say is it appears that louisiana avoided the worst of the predictions of a 20foot storm surge to come with these horrific winds, but make no mistake. Hurricane laura is still very dangerous. Not only was it overnight but also as we speak, flash flooding, heavy rains, high winds all still happening at this hour as storm, as you can see there from the radar is moving north very strongly. As this storm hit in the middle of the night, people are really just starting to get a sense of the damage that they are facing today. Homes and businesses destroyed, trees down just everywhere, and that is likely just the beginning of it for folks. The storm also blowing out windows all over the place. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power. The cleanup will no doubt be a herculean task. One. Hardest hit communities is lake charles, louisiana, and thats where cnns gary tuchman is and was overnothing. Still standing there today, gary. How what ....
Speaking on capitol hill more than 18 hours after he started. Cruz and a handful of other republican senators are speaking out against a new Health Care Law. We are going to have much more on this and follow the story throughout the day. Thanks for being with us. Thats what is happening today. Well be back in half an hour for a local news update. Er from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer, and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Thats a good party trick for bono. Not that he needs one since hes a rock star. Former president clinton commented it must be easy to make ....
Nothing but the worlds longest tedtalk. But the issue is a real filibuster you are trying to disrupt the business of the senate or delay the business and what cruz decided to do was he was trying to walk this line of on one hand keep talk prove to house conservatives that there was some action behind his words. Theres a lot of theres a lot of skepticism about cruz, even among some of his fellow conservatives that think ted cruz is only out for one thing, ted cruz and the advancement of ted cruz and the president ial campaign in 2016 of ted cruz. So he wanted to show, no, he was willing to do something but its risk free. Hes notisrupting a vote or delaying a vote so you look at this and you just wonder, all it is is maybe the longest speech ever before the iowa caucuses. Where is this going . At what point are the sides going to get to the point . With a government shut down a real possibility, what point is it going to happen . One side is going to have to blink. In this case, were not ....