After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
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Nationality: American Type: Politician Born: July 10, 1958 |
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

