then he put a little briggs & stratton motor on the back of that boat, and he could winch himself off with that briggs & stratton, pull that boat back off the sand, and then -- here was the key to it all -- turn in the surf and get headed back out again without broaching when it was broadside to the surf, go out to the mother ship and pick up another load. higgins had 80 employees in 1939. the marines went for this boat. the army loved the boat. orders were placed. higgins expanded from a little almost ma-and-pa kind of a factory into an assembly plant. he had four different ones in new orleans, some of them under canvas, 30,000 employees, and he turned out 20,000 of these landing craft in the course of the war. he was just a genius at design and a genius at production. he was a lousy businessman, and he went bust after the war. but he's the man who won the war for us. c-span: now, you're doing something at the ... >> guest: we're building a museum in new orleans, the national d-day museum, on the site where higgins built some of these boats and tested them. it's bigger than just hono

in the world still had polio as you can see from the smack into challenges maybe this person out briggs and acute at branson west africa but with a range of new tools and political commitments i believe we can, indeed, accelerate the progress making to reaching all children and eventually eradicating this disease for ever. if there is one last lesson i perhaps close the presentation with it is this one -- if we have learned one thing is been that in this battle as in any no plan is going to survive contact with the enemy and you have to constantly be revising its as necessary to reach the kids which, indeed, we can i think as shown to this program. thank you. [applause] >> here is a look to developments in the field of mental health. in this discussion you will hear from mental health advocates tipper gore who talks about her personal experiences. following her remarks political pollsters talk about americans' opinions on health care changes. this is an hour and a half. >> welcome everyone is always just so and lightning to be in a room filled with advocates and people who are just so c