whether you're a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. we start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanish-american war because that's when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was not ready to go to war at this period of time, when the u.s.s. maine exploded in havana harbor and cubans rebelled against the span ir, everything came to a head and we declared war on spain. spain declared war on us and the war started in earnest in a lot of soldiers enlisted all at once. we didn't have any sort of underlying setup, any sort of logistics ready to go to supply all these soldiers. so between not being able to ply the soldiers to begin with but going to war any way and seeing the consequences of the spanish american war afterwards, kind of

tookis is something that place along time ago and it has followed me. i can't get away from it. looks like the wall that you scaled. >> it is a very good representation of it. course, as you see that fellow standing on top there, that would have been impossible. the thing is those stones were rounded on top, narrow. nobody could stand up there unless he was an acrobat. >> what did you think at the time that you are scaling it? did you have doubts? >> i was not very much afraid of that. i was a good climber.

i never thought about what i was getting into. [laughter] >> i understand that when president theodore roosevelt presented you with the metal it was on the parade ground of west point? turned out the core in full dress. i saw someone coming up with the superintendent. when he got close enough, i saw that it was old teddy roosevelt himself. they handed him the metal. he held the box himself. he took it and the started to pin it on my coat here. he said to me -- now, young man, don't let this give you the bighead. [laughter] wonderful.

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so, if the judgment of the people is to be reversed, if that symbol is to be replaced through the action of the elected representatives, then it must be for substantial and not trivial offenses. watergate, 40 years ♪ in the next hour we'll look at iowa's capitol city. ofthe spring and summer 1993, these two rivers swelled to record levels leaving