fire boats were called. 1,350,000 gallons of water were poured down, and the caisson remained flooded for two and a half days. it settled by only 2 inches. when the water was eventually pumped out, the damage had to be painstakingly repaired. 11 courses of timber had been damaged and more pine was forced into the breeches and irons drafts were bolted to the chamber's roof. after those seven hours down in the caisson, washington had to be taken home an and rubbed forn hour on his spine with salt and whiskey. he tried to rest at any moment expected to hear the doorbell ring with the message the caisson was burning yet. he recovered to write his notes whether it was the salt and whiskey that did the trick or simply being away from the caisson, we don't know. we don't know if his wife, emily, tended to him or how much he would have seen of his 3-year-old son. what we can know is nothing stopped him from his task. every day brought new challenges and new uncertainties. washington roebling might call all of this simply doing his job. but considering the strength of mind and feeling acquired

i walked around the field at caisson, soaked in blood and 1968.i visited quite cool and spent some time in the highlands. i walked around there on the old airstrip where the rv 299 combat engineers have withstood vicious attacks in 1969. up in the asha valley pipeline hamburger hill in late summer heat and humidity. i met in the morning there was two north vietnamese army veteran who stopped the americans on hamburger hill and i was surprised when they accepted my invitation to climb with me. but not that the americans who fought there would call hamburger hill because they ground the mob like a hamburger grinding machine. greeted by a brief summer shower, the trove was deepened the paris. i stumbled and i stumbled and i slid and isolated and they wondered how the young men of the 101st airborne had climbed that hill in may of 1969, noting that there were over 50 years younger than me was not a significant explanation. no one was shooting down at me and i was a carried more of the equipment and weapons. it took our small group about two hours to r

despite what he had said about caisson. so richard nixon. politically speaking, again, let me tell you a story, were born was a famous british correspondent and had been writing good thingsabout resident nixon . and he wanted an interview and he got to me and i told mister nixon he should do it. so i was in the room with oval office when nixon knew he was going to get these great british writers don't take notes, they sit there and listen. and they memorize it and walked out and re-created. but he i remember, i asked nixon if he would have been a new dealer if he entered politics at the time of the new deal. >> rather than when he did post war era. and nixon wrote him a long memo which is in my book, about how the way he grew up in yorba linda affected who he was. he was not against government action. didn't believe folks like him should really rely on it, people should only use government that really needed it. so nixon came to power in the postwar gop, 1946. and anti-communism and the cold war, these were the issues thatinitially i think m