President Barack Obama visits Hoover Dam - pics

[Kadie]

U.S. during in Boulder City, Nevada October 2, 2012. Obama is in Nevada to prepare for the presidential debate on Wednesday. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque




Obama visits Hoover Dam
By Sun Staff (contact)
Published Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 | 1:36 p.m.
Updated 17 minutes ago


Like many visitors who come to Las Vegas, President Obama made his way Tuesday to the Hoover Dam.

Shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, the president’s motorcade left the Westin Lake Las Vegas, where Obama is spending three days preparing for his upcoming debates with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, for the famed dam, constructed during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration.

Obama, according to CBS news correspondent Mark Knoller, learned his hotel was only 15 minutes away from the dam and said, "well we've got to go check it out." Knoller also reported the president was awed by the site. "It's spectacular and I've never seen it before," Obama told reporters.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/02/obama-heads-hoover-dam/



A bird’s-eye view of Hoover Dam and the Hoover Dam Bypass.

[monmouth]

1. An engineering feat that helped many people recover during and after the depression...n/t

[PSPS]

2. It is quite magnificent, isn't it?

[thelordofhell]

3. The concrete used during the construction is still drying

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. An example of what we can do as a collective. I hope this is symbolic of his second term.

And, he looks hot in his sunglasses!

[PA Democrat]

5. Hey Mitt, who built it?