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What can the Hoover Dam teach us?
Consider the Hoover Dam.
It’s located 26 miles from Las Vegas in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Nevada and Arizona.
It’s BIG.
It was started by a conservative Republican President, Coolidge — and finished by a liberal Democratic President, Roosevelt, in 1932. The need for the dam trumped partisan politics.
It stands 60 stories …
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