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their real property assessment, particularly the commercial real property assessment, then they would agree that what we are doing is exactly the right thing. >> reporter: but when the numbers from year to year are compared, it shows the city is actually assessing commercial businesses more adding millions to the city's tax base. >> but let's remember one more time, we are going to collect $200 million more in 2012. so this idea that we have not collected taxes, that we have given up city's tax base, to say that is very irresponsible. >> reporter: but concerns remain and gandhi is ho...

went away. gone without a trace. >> he lived here on bond court in the hayfield section of fairfax county. in a house still owned by his mother. then 27-year-old wesley thomison was arrested and charged with sex crimes involving under age girls. >> 12 years ago, this man was accused of intiesing under age girls with illegal drugs to have consensual sex with him and he was video taping all of these activities. >> tomlinson was jailed, but later release pending trial and fled the country. >> earlier this year, the united states marshal service developed some type of information about w...

at first settlers called it the land of endless horizons because every time you got to the top of one line of hills, you found that there was another one beyond it. it was a land of incredible loneliness as i started talking to people there. i'll never forget lyndon johnson, the johnsons, for a large part of lyndon's boyhood, didn't even live in johnson city. they lived 18 miles beyond it on the johnson ranch. and lyndon's brother sam houston johnson once told me they were so lonely out there that one corner of the ranch came down to what they called the austin fredricksburg harbor w...

origins of the program in which in a way he announced his beliefs to the american people. about the program in which just seven weeks after president kennedy's assassination in his first state of the union address johnson enunciated quite clearly his concept of what the role of government should be. it's the program with which he began his great society, the war on poverty. for lyndon johnson, the beginnings are all in the place he came from. the place in which he was born and raised. the texas hill country. i've talked about the hill country before, but i don't think you can talk ab...

address during a symposium aimed at revisiting the great society policies and politics of franklin d. roosevelt and lyndon b. johnson. this is about 50 minutes. thank you. it is altogether appropriate that this conference be held at hunter college and at roosevelt house where we will convene tomorrow lyndon johnson served his president when this president was first elected to congress in 1946. lbj, a new dealer by background, and at heart, believed in fdr and his vision for america. in many ways, the seeds of lbj's great society were planted in the fields of fdr's new deal. as john...