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The war changed the economy tremendously from long beach and the rest of the United States. Long beach was experiencing a depression but we were lucky we discovered oil in 1921. The town was booming from the oil industry at that point. What was happening was also we were seeing the development of aviation in long beach. In 1911, cal rogers flew the first flight from new york and stopp stopped in long beach and made history in 1911. When the u. S. Army was looking for a place to build a plant to produce aircraft, which they thought we would need in world war ii, they picked long beach because s...

On to double my major from history into Communication Studies prove that i went to graduate School Studies but i never thought of speechwriting. I just taught speech and got interested in various areas of the field. In one when i was at the university of virginia i would ask to give a guest lecture at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. I went down to chapel hill and gave my lecture at 10 00 in the morning and president ford was speaking on the campus at noon. All of us decided to go over and hear him. How often do you get to hear president live . The president gave a speech that ...

Theater covering the anniversary of shakespeares death and taking your calls on shakespeare. That is saturday, april 23rd. This is booktv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Tonight, steve olsen recalls the eru erup eruption of saint marys. And then at 10, Jillian Thomas on the impact title 70 the 1964 Civil Rights Act had on working women. And we wrap up with a report on how the welfare system has failed the poor. That happens tonight on cspan2, booktv. How did you get started in speech writing . Guest that is an amazing story. Where i was a high school debater and debated in college a...

Host our guest is Veterans Affairs secretary robert mcdonald. Secretary mcdonald came to this job almost three years ago and his background includes the military academy at west point and he is an army veteran himself. He came from private industry and served as ceo at Procter Gamble. Let me introduce the reporters leo shane of military times and david wood is the senior military correspondent for the huffington post. Reporter i want to start with the wait times issue. We had a new report over what constitutes wait time and where we stand now. Can you talk about this and what confidence vetera...

Constitutes wait time and where we stand now. And whatalk about this confidence veterans should have that the v. A. Is addressing the problem . There still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. If you ask me, the ultimate measure for any at thatand how we deal veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. We have put together a Transformation Program where the first strategy is to improve the veteran experience. We have used some of the best companies in the world like disney, starbucks, and Procter Gamble to teach how to p...