Good evening everybody. It is my pleasure to be the moderator tonight for professor Kermit Roosevelt. As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. Roy we discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, u. S. G served as a clerk to Supreme Court under Justice David souter. He has written both novels and books on law. Will be at least some discussion about his latest allegiance. It is about the incarceration of the japanese during the second world war. That is enough for me. Me introduce reverser investor Kermit Roosevelt to you. [applause] prof. Roosevelt iii thank you for that introduction. Thank you all for coming, it is a will pleasure to be here. Im going to talk about the
Books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest novel, entitled allegiance. It is about the incarceration of the japanese during the second world war. That is enough for me. Let me introduce professor Kermit Roosevelt to you. [applause] prof. Roosevelt iii thank you for that introduction. Thank you all for coming, it is a will pleasure to be here. Im going to talk about the significance of Theodore Roosevelts vision of the constitution and it will connect to some larger ideas about who we are, and we want to be. The constitution is our central organizing document. We had no official religion, the constitution, in fact, says that we cant. But we give the constitution the same kind of veneration that some societies get their sacred texts. It is our loyalty to the constitution, are legions, that makes us american. We are not a nation held together by race, or religion. We really are constituted as a people by those 4400 words. And so, when we talk about the
As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. We discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, having served as a clerk to u. S. Supreme court under Justice David souter. He has written both novels and books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest novel, entitled allegiance. It is about the incarceration of the japanese during the second world war. That is enough for me. Let me introduce professor Kermit Roosevelt to you. [applause] prof. Roosevelt iii thank you for that introduction. Thank you all for coming, it is a will pleasure to be here. Im going to talk about the significance of Theodore Roosevelts vision of the constitution and it will
On friday a panel of Political Campaign experts participated in a discussion on the Vice President ial Selection Process. They also offered recommendations for the candidates during this election cycle. Taking part were former Campaign Staff members from the obama, mccain and Romney Campaigns. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Good morning. I direct the democracy project at the bipartisan center. Welcome today, we are here with a very distinguished group of people who have been thinking about Vice President ial selection. Im just going to have a few minutes here to introduce some people, and then im going to turn it over to our group. We are here today with a product of the working group, bpcs working group on Vice President ial selection. Many of you have it in your hands, others of you can find it online. It is a group that came together over the last six months, people who have seen up close the Vice President ial Selection Proce
Approved. Thank you very much. The minutes are adopted. Since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. Item four, recommend five members transit citizens Advisory Committee. We have Transportation Planner here on this item. Good morning commissioner. This item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor Advisory Committee. Initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. Its currently in Environmental Review phase. The structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. Five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. There was board initiated two year terms for those members. Members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. Five members represent several different seats as there are theres one appointment for seat for the richmond district. One that is a representative of the fillmore area, one a representative of the tenderloin