It is a rare treat to have the curtain pulled back from those who were on the front lines of protecting the president and the first family. We are honored to be joined tonight by three secret Service Agents Whose Service almost approached 82 years. 22 year veteran of the secret service. Larry was honored with the u. S. Secret Service Valor Award for his role in stopping an assassination attempt on president gerald ford in september of 1975 in sacramento. Later larry served 25 years as the security chief of the United States committee. Joe clancy is with us tonight. Joe served on the protective details of residence, including president bush, or trailblazers as he wouldve called them. President bush with strobe laser. Joes nearly 30 year career culminated in 2015 when president obama named joe the 24th director of the u. S. Secret service. He was in charge. Today joe is the chief Security Officer at comcast corporation. Nick is with us tonight. He served 30 years in the secret service. H
There he much in equity inclusion, accessibility, and we take that on as a great badge of honor to establish expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges. If you see there is a need we are not meeting, let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today to our first panel discussion. [applause] i spent over 20 years of my industry,nasa and the and i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, and around Flight Controllers and directors over the last 40 years that ive this has been a fantastic experience for me. Gentlemen, theyre planning discussions like this or have been a part of the Mission Control that have been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually have the missions. Through shuttle, but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo 11 and many other great spaceflights. If you have not gotten your tickets for that, hopefully you will today. They will go quick and
Next, on American History tv, Virginia High School teachers Becky Morrison and Irene Winchester given illustrated talk about world war ii and clothes rationing. They explored government restrictions on styles and colors, and its impact on innovations in fashion such as cork wedge heels, shorter hemlines, and glow in the dark buttons. Friends of the National World war ii memorial hosted this talk as a part of their annual teachers conference. Invitee are excited to Becky Morrison and irene fashioner talk about rationing during world war ii. Another teacher from her school. Welcoming themin up for their presentation. [applause] she stole my line because i was going to say, this is probably the best teacher conference you can ever go to. That is why i brought irene. This is my third year. I want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. Thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back
Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city, on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta
Assurance. Important note, alameda fire and cal fire are investigating the origin, on the far end of the fire area it came up to structures but was repelled by the full scale response. They are trying to keep fires under 10acres, they won, but 250 acres were given up. It was quite an effort by the fire crews, they likely saved homes in dublin itch mark is joining us, today the weather probably helped with the spread or the lack thereof. It could have been worse, typically we would talk about august, maybe tripledigit today just low digits, the wind pushing the fire activity away from the home. That westerly a closeup view of streets. Twain harte road and camino loop, theres open space. The fire crews trying to protect all the houses in this neighborhood. Current numbers not changing too much, right now you can see the readings around 78, 81, 85 degrees, and the winds that has been a challenge throughout the day even though the wind is out of the right direction, any wind is a challenge