Mount Hood

Timberline lodge, located on the south side of Oregon’s Mount Hood ,was built as a
Works Progress Administration (WPA) project during the Great Depression between
1936 and 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (above at podium) dedicated the
Lodge on Tuesday September 28, 1937, five months before the completion of the
interior of the lodge in February, when it was opened to the public.   

Theodore Roosevelt, then U.S. Vice President, delivered a speech at the
Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 1901 in which included the famous phrase…”Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”. He was referring
to the idea of negotiating peacefully, but carry a “big stick”, or the military, for
political power. The speech was made twelve days before the assassination
of President William McKinley, which subsequently thrust Roosevelt into  
the Presidency.

James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) served as a U.S.
Senator from South Carolina from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and
after 1964 as a Republican. On August 29, 1957 he concluded the longest
filibuster ever by a lone senator, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of
1957. He held the floor, speaking nonstop for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

Sen. Strom Thurmond gives a wave as he leaves the Senate chamber at the
end of his 24-hour filibuster.

 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Friday, August 28, 1963