Churchill said to kennedy he held out his hand and he said i am so sorry for your loss. Joe junior had died during the war and churchill was sincere and he said to churchill, what good was it all . Churchill looked at him unbelieving world war ii had destroyed in churchills mind hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy. It had saved western civilization so churchill thought. Kennedy lazed hatred at him. As booktv looks back at our 15 years on cspan2 we bring you programs from our archives. Erik larson appeared on booknotes in 2003 to talk about the devil in the white city. In the book mr. Larson tells the story of two men architects Daniel Burnham and. Or henry h. Holmes who played prominent roles in the history of 1893 chicago worlds fair. This is about an hour. Cspan erik larson, author of the devil in the white city, you write early in your book that this book is about the evanescence of life. Whats that mean . Guest really, what i was struck by, as the book pr
Item. Item 7a, executive directors report. Good afternoon, Port Commissioners. Ment members of the public, members of the port staff, welcome here today. I just have a couple of very quick and happy items to report on, starting with milestone update on our pier 431 2 project. You may recall that that is part of the bay trail and lays atop the seawall in Fishermans Wharf between where blue and gold sweet calls and the san friscan restaurant. Constructing a new waterfront concrete promenade from powell street to the franciscan restaurant. Our contractor there is vortex marine. They have been working rather diligently including saturdays most of the last month and will continue to work saturdays through thanksgiving with the goal of completing the project to substantial completion by thanksgiving. So far, 92 twofoot wide diameter concrete piles each of which are 100 feet in length, support the new wharf deck and that deck will go along the promenade there and come around behind the franci
Second. I havent used this touch pad before. Im jay ock in the maritime department. Maritime regulatory and Environmental Affairs manager. This that capability i manage the ports dredging program and quality air program. Im here to talk about the programs how they work at the shipyard and how they Work Together to promote not only environmental enhancements, particularly air quality enhancements here at the port, but also to provide increased revenues for bae, which means increased revenues for the port, and also increased Union Employment here, maritime related blue collar employment. Now, testing 1, 2, 3. Okay. The genesis for this was the completion of shore side power at the dry dock. This was a requirement Environmental Mitigation for the americas cup to proceed. The port contracted, in essence, with bae to do this work. Bae performed admirably. Got it in and got it done days before the first ship came in and connected, which was Matthew Perry. The Matthew Perry is still in dry do
Power. This came about, in part in large part, due to the fact we had previously constructed shore side power at pier 27. And i wanted to just touch on that for a moment because with the exception of commissioner brandon, this Port Commission hasnt been here during that project. That started way back in 2006 when we applied for our grant, which came through from the air district in 2007. We subsequently applied for and received additional Grant Funding which resulted in a project with a budget of 5. 2 million, where we had 4. 2 million in Grant Funding. So, we got a 5 million project for 1 million out of pocket. We got that done on time, got our first ship connected the end of 2010. By connecting at the end of 2010, we beat out the other california ports and had the first functional shore side power system for cruise ships in california. For the americas cup, though, as you know, theyre using pier 27. Were also doing the construction of the cruise terminal at pier 27. For mitigation fo
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