They built the railroads, laid the highways, and graced the world with American marvels like the empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam and the towering Golden Gate Bridge. They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the Communists, Fascists and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculptured out of iron, glass and steel. We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age. These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities. (1:36:34–1:36:55)
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Asserts that Americans have achieved significant technological and ideological victories.
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