Episode 270: The California Guarantee
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Episode 270: The California Guarantee

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202633 min

Following the state’s Supreme Court victory, Carl Hayden expected to pass a bill authorizing the Central Arizona Project immediately. Unfortunately, his plans ran up against those of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, who had his own ideas, and a powerful congressman from Colorado who was wary of any project downstream of him.

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I think it's safe to say that Arizona history, like really any history, has been shaped by strong personalities as much as larger trends, forces, and events. I mean, could you have had the Bascom affair? very start of the Apache Wars if it had not been for Lt. Bascom's blind stubbornness,

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or Cochise's anger. And I don't think anyone would be talking about a 30-second shootout in Tombstone and the aftermath if it wasn't for Wyatt Earp's hotheadedness and desire for revenge, or Johnny Beams' jealousy and womanizing. I also wouldn't be gearing up to talk about a certain Arizona senator's disastrous run for the US presidency if it

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It hadn't been for a large Polish-Jewish man deciding that the gold fields of La Paz were the perfect place to try again to make a living. But strong personalities helping shape events are not limited to the distant past. In the early 1960s, we find a confluence of them coming together in Washington, DC to

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