Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
Proposal, calling on the increased role the federal government and the National Election process. Good morning welcome to washington journal. Its a great pleasure to be with you thisfo morning. See him before he gets your proposal and me ask about the election itself. Nahor jumped four weeks hence, record turnout and by the federal governments on statement a secure election, the most secure election in u. S. History. What are some of your observations. Things that you found surprising in this years election . Guest the election was a very secure election b all standards. But, and weeks and months leading up to the election there was a tremendous amount of litigation and dispute over how mail in ballots would be counted and other issues of electioneering. And followinghe election, as everyone is aware a terminus amount ofitigation. A fair amount of uncertainty as to how and when results could be certified. So i think it has certainly been a secure election. But it isn election and which
Make for a bit of a grey start right now were in the 50s for most areas with a few 40s on the map in both livermore 49 degrees. Although napa you were there just a minute ago that youre actually right up to 50 degrees so temperatures wobbling around just a little bit for some of our spots, San Francisco oakland and san jose in the 60s to 70s for high temperatures later today really nice afternoon conditions to be looking forward to and i know it will be a beautiful friday and saturday to get out there and hopefully enjoy the 70s but will it be all right on the roads is question robert is here to tell us more about that i guess it kind of depends on where theyre heading this morning job because some fox look great other spots not so much, but ill start off with a look at the bridges around the bay area this morning a live look. At the bay bridge toll plaza this is one of the good commute 80 west in San Francisco doing fine as you can see its wide open here at the toll plaza so no worrie
Seeing in gold on this map is actually advisories that will be in effect later this weekend starting sunday at 11 00am and lasting through monday at 11 00am the issue here is stronger winds and weve seen in weeks now and maybe one of the strongest winds events of the year so far up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. So we are going to be seeing. Some conditions that are not looking necessarily ideal come the latter part of the weekend meaning you should just enjoy today and tomorrow as much as you can ahead of what will be that increase in wind speeds come sunday, 50s and 60s are current temperatures with way how at 53 berkeley in conquered each at 55, hanging on to the 40s right now in fairfield saint helene and cloverdale but dont worry. Youve got some really comfortable weather ahead of you just like the rest of the bay area well im talking your daytime highs what to expect for the entirety of the weekend. All still to come first though obviously need to track of traffic with robin and it