it spilled into the samet creek and then into the animus river and then into the san juan. it polluted the entire four corners region. i share the enormous anger and frustration over this terrible incident. when i toured the affected areas following the spell, i visited with impacted residents including farmers in places like aztec, as well as san juan leaders and mexico and navajo nation president. in the southwest, water is our most precious resource. you can imagine the impact this disaster has had on our community in colorado, new mexico, navajo nation, and arizona. take a look at this photo. i have demanded the epa act with a sense of urgency. this must be our first and our top priorit@ ar and oversignew of the epa's response is completely warranted and appropriate. we must also look over the horidn and take action to address the hundreds of thousands of similarly contaminated mines that littered the west and are leaking toxins into our watersheds. their estimates that 40% of western watersheds have been polluted by tctiic mining ways. reclaiming and cleaning up abando

mikio: nominal gdp and corporate sametability or one of the thing. just look at it from a macro point of view. if you translate it to the corporate world it is about corporate earnings and tax revenues. another reason is that you have to look at the nominal number because that is the basis for both corporate profits and tax revenues. you do not tax real income, you tax nominal income. time, theree same are rumors of disenchanted pessimism at the boj. said thatthe guys who if the japanese people do not believe us in terms of the optimism for the japanese economy, we are done for. mikio: that is the biggest risk, actually, that the leadership, that i agree with is a big risk. it is very said that if the japanese people do not believe unfortunate, if these reports are true. i think that is related to the past attitude. the old regime was, yeah, we will print money. defeatistan inbuilt attitude to whatever they did in the past thursday said we would never get out of this, this is a structural thing, forget about it. that mindset is not gone after two or

the samet to some of to clear his name, especially in the german community. despite his campaign to do that, he always carried the burden of those last days when stanton denounced him as an incompetent. we know that he was following lincoln orders in. unless your stanton realized that he had a letter authorizing him to do what he did. i did run across where -- at one point grant begin to lose confidence in him. he said that when i went to explain it that grant did not blame him. some of the research i got was from grant's memoirs. other questions? kelly, final comments? >> thank you very much for being here. one more reminder, we do have the book upstairs. he will be signing those books. thank you all for coming today. >> thank you. [applause] you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. coming up next, historian and coast guard veteran, thomas ostrom, traces the history of united states coast guard through its beginnings under alexander hamilton in through 1790 t

for decades before the spill last month it leaked heavy metals into samet cres over the last ten yearsand and average of 200 gallons of highly polluted water per minute, or more thansee 00 million gallons per year have flowed out of this mind and into the river. beyond the immediate cleanup of the spell it is time we overhaul our abandoned mine cleanup policies. we need to make future disasters like this less likel@ ar while resources like oil, natural gas, and coal all pay royalties to return of fate value to taxpayers, hard rxak mining companies can still mind valuable roles for free. a comprehensive approach to refouan should include the establishment of a hard rock reclamation fund. funded by a fair royalty. in a comprehensive survey of abandoned mines and a plan to clean them up. i appreciate the value of hard rock mining and what it means for families. my father and my mother's father father both made a living in this industr@ ar the industry continues to prfouide good paying jobs throughout the west. passing long, overdue reform to our federal mining law, which has nyou' been up