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Thanks for visiting, mr. governor, give it pride of place somewhere. like if you moved into a new apartment and the landlord triumphantly handed you the vacuum bag from the old tenant. here's the original dirt from the former occupants of these rooms. congratulations. pride of place. but the oroville dam, they dedicated in the 1968. it's a big deal. it's huge, it's taller than hoover dam. it's the tallest dam in the united states. it's 770 feet tall. it was completed in 1968, took them almost a decade to build. it's one of those unimaginably large things we have made. you can see here the gian...

Ground on the construction. this was 1957. this was a previous governor of california, goodwin knight. everybody called him goodie knight, as in good night. he's got a shovel full of dirt there. somebody at the ground breaking had the foresight to save that exact shovelful of dirt they dumped it into a bag, saved it for the day the dam would be complete and up and running. they could have saved a little of it but they saved a lot of it. they saved a giant amount of dirt from that shovelful and gave it to ronald reagan. they sent ronald reagan back to the governor's mansion that day with a gian...

We feel proud with our clean record to relation to this problem. >> reporter: call it pride or selective reasoning, but he never lost faith in the revolution. opponents concede his popularity diminished as his beard grew whiter, but he continued to command fear and respect. he would eventually out live many of his critics and out last ten u.s. administrations. in the end, it was illness, not washington, that forced him to retire. passing cuba's leadership to his younger brother, raoul, in his last year he only appeared occasionally, mostly in photos looking frail. at times he tried to play the...

That we live today because we have a totalitarian regime. >> reporter: what castro was never able to abolish is economic props parity. for that, castro blamed the united states and its embargo. many blame the man himself pointing to his unwavering belief and outdated social model. castro had little tolerance. opponents were often listings add traitors and exiles. and castro became the target of international condemnation but like so many times before, castro never backed down, proudly defending his record on human rights. >> translator: there hasn't been a single case of death quads here. neve...

Turned into the nightmare we have today, a totalitarian regime in which all liberties have been abolished. >> reporter: castro was unable to bring economic prosperity. for that castro blamed the united states and its embargo. but many blamed the man himself, pointing to his unwavering believe in a socialist model. opponents were often dismissed as traitors, imprisoned or compil exiled. castro became a target of international condemnation. but castro never backed down, proudly defending his record on human rights. >> interpreter: never has a person disappeared in cuba. we feel proud of our clea...