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Opening ceremonies for Beaver Creek were held on Dec. 15, 1980. From left to right: Brain Rapp, president of Beaver Creek Resort Company; Harry Bass, chairman of Vail Associates; unidentified Forest Service representative; Jack Marshall, president of Vail Associates; then-governor Dick Lamm; former U.S. president Gerald Ford. (Vail Resorts Special to the Daily) Editor’s Note: The Vail Daily’s Tricia Swenson has compiled this information from talks with longtime locals, her own experience as a Beaver Creek Children’s Ski and Snowboard School instructor and from books from the Avon Public...

>> that was ross perot during the second of three presidential debates on october 15, 1992. talking about one of his favorite issues -- the u.s. debt. he won 19% of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate since theodore roosevelt. he ran a second campaign in 1996. today, he is our focus on "the contenders." thank you for being with us. we are doing this series as a way of looking at american history through the lens of presidential candidates who have failed in their quest for the white house but had an outside impact on american history. tonight joining us fo...

too fat. c-span: where is pointe de hoc? >> guest: it's in between omaha and utah beach. it's about a hundred-meter-high vertical cliff. i tied a rope at the top and ran it down to the bottom, and i tried to pretend to be a ranger. i got about halfway up, and i decided that this was a mistake so i came down again. c-span: how many are alive today that climbed pointe de hoc? >> guest: about 260 climbed, and i would expect that about 60 of them are still alive. about half of them never got through the sixth day of june, and of the 260 -- 200 were either killed or wounded. so not a lot....