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 We are used to Hoover Dam being a big tourist draw, but there was a time when that aspect of the dam was unexpected.
It was seventy-five years ago September thirtieth that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came here to dedicate what was then called Boulder Dam. As Michael Hiltzick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter and author of a new book on Hoover Dam, called Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, "Roosevelt hoped that his appearance at the edge of the Colorado River gorge would eradicate from public memory the project's decades-long gestation under three Republican presidents and transform it into a visible symbol of the New Deal."
More on News 88.9 KNPR:
KNPR's State of Nevada: 6/15/10: Interview with author Michael Hiltzik
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May 23, 2013 | The 17th Part II
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There was a time in Nevada when your ballot would not have included contenders for the U.S. Senate. |
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May 17, 2013 | The 17th
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May 3, 2013 | Frank Wright
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Mar 29, 2013 | Mark Twain
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Mar 8, 2013 | The Dickersons
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You'll have to go back a century to look at the career of one Nevadan who helped shape the state. |
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Feb 22, 2013 | William R. Wilkerson, part 2
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Feb 1, 2013 | William R. Wilkerson, part 1
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The ties between Hollywood and Las Vegas go back to an interesting time in America. |
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Jan 11, 2013 | Houssels
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Dec 14, 2012 | The 1912 Elections, Part 2
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Have elections in Nevada changed all that much over the last century? |
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Dec 7, 2012 | The 1912 Election, Part 1
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In this year's election, Nevada could have gone either way, just as it could have in another memorable election year. |
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