have several items from jefferson's presidency dealing with the louisiana purchase, lewis and clark expedition, things relating to world war ii, franklin d. roosevelt's day of infamy speech, we have a map that charts the incoming claims during the pearl harbor attack that was submitted to congress, so those are among the special items. >> the secretaond thing that he found is an entire second copy of that second annual message. and it is also written by a clerk, but signed by lincoln. so it is an pishl coofficial co well. and finally about two dozen pieces of communication all signed by lincoln that we had not known about the text, but not known where the man uhe scripts were. toechb though there's some exciting parts, there's also pretty dry parts where he's just regurgitating what the secretary of state or whoever told him to say. so with this message he frantrad to congress and read by a clerk, there were also other reports submitted he same time. reports from secretary of state, secretary of interior, war department, post office, post master skrn. general. so i think that's why this messag

have several items from jefferson's presidency dealing with the louisiana purchase, lewis & clark expedition. we have things relating to world war ii, franklin d. roosevelt's day of infamy speech. we have a map that charts the incoming planes during the pearl harbor attack that was submitted to congress. and so those are among the special items. >> the second thing that he found in some ways even more remarkable is an entire second copy of that second annual message. and it is also written by a clerk but signed by abraham lincoln. so it is, in effect, an official copy as well. and then finally he found about two dozen pieces of communication between lincoln and congress. again written by clerks but all signed by lincoln that we had known about in terms of the text from printed sources but had not known where the manuscript materials were. and they were all in this one small set of records. >> it's actually labeled "interior department." in addition, even though there's some exciting parts of this message, there's also some pretty dry parts where he's regurgitating what the secretary of state

the louisiana purchase and the louis and clark expedition. it came the cumberland road, the erie canal over time. over time the transcontinental railroad and the rest would come later. and then in our century, a republican president, president eisenhower, at a time of bad economic times, bad economic times he went forward, took the initiative of interstate highway initiative which was so important to our country. it was a security issue to unite america. it was a jobs initiative to build that interstate highway system, and it was about promoting commerce, connecting people, improving the quality of life. it was a great initiative, and it, too, was a bipartisan initiative. in fact, in the senate our friend, senator gore, vice president gore, his father took the lead on that legislation, distinguished gentleman from tennessee, as we heard earlier from the gentleman from tennessee. so this has all been a bipartisan initiative. the about rebuilding america which is part of our reigniting the american dream, to build ladders of opportunity for peo

if you follow the "lewis and clark expedition -- theodore roosevelt observed 100 years later, but the 100 year anniversary by announcing the establishment of the national parks service to reinforce the green and the structure in our country. what hundred years later, we did not observe that, but i was hoping we would under president bush. but infrastructure was not a priority that as so we are behind in doing this infrastructure built. i want to add another great republican president -- president eisenhower at the interstate highway commission. all of these things done at a time when we did not have a lot of money to spare. it is not as if we were building the golden gate bridge. we are not flush with money now, we've got to make these investments. we see the need and the opportunity is there. it is bipartisan in the senate. let's get moving. people's hopes are pinned on our passing this transportation bill and these guys are saying my way or the highway and it's just right. we have passed a number of them already with over 400 votes. we have done it. it is good. but let's not mistake

clark. and other expeditions that went out there. you draw the maps, then private enterprise comes.so, what world could private enterprise play? the risks are assessed and the dangers are understood. that would be lower orbit. it is still dangerous but we understand the danger and we can quantify it. to pay a private enterprise to take us to a space station, i don't have a problem with that. let ivan enterprise take tourists into orbit. i don't have a problem with that. let it happen. we live in a free-market society. free market should markets should go wherever and investment pays a return and that includes space, let it be so but it is my read of the history of human conduct tells me it will never be the frontier of space. that will always need to be reserved for the wisdom of governance. [applause] >> hi, two-part question. one is the stuff they were talking about where space travel to go and what they could do, that is really awesome. what happened to all that stuff that was happening? part two, backside. >> do you mean why did we stop dreaming? >> part two, he wanted to work f