Good afternoon. Welcome to the board of supervisors San Francisco Land Use Economic Development committee. Im scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is cohen and supervisor kim will be joining us shortly and were joined by supervisor campos. Our clerk andrea and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing specifically jonathan and jessie railroad madam clerk, any address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Okay. We have one item on our agenda madam clerk call item one. Establishing the latino district. And he item one is cosponsored by mayor ed lee and supervisor campos. Thank you and happy monday to everyone. I want to invent by thanking the Land Use Committee for hearing this item and also by recognizing members of the community in the mission who have been working on this for a long time. Were going to hear from some of them and you can imagine this is a very momentous and historic momentum f
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible they are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public S
Will apply during and after the program. They will also learn from leaders and other sectors as well as in the stat distinguished faculty from universities affiliated with each center. Participants will visit and learn to give them a firsthand look at the resources of the libraries and the stories to tell. The president ial Leadership Scholars Program is at the stage iv the participants to expand the scope of what they believe is possible, to build upon their already proven track record of success to achieve significant and measurable good in their community and in their future work. They will also bond together and learn from each other as mentors, resources and partners to advance their own personal leadership projects and help each other over their challenges they face and importantly this program is at no cost to the participants thanks to the generous support of our founding its been terrific too clever with my colleagues and now its my pleasure to introduce bethany streett the ex
The skills necessary to do so. I dont think you can disaggregate em. Let me ask you about the two presidencies involved in this, in this initiative that arent represented on the stage, and president clinton, im going to begin by asking you about 41. Even though you havent written a book that will be out on november 11th. [laughter] about 41. No, i think i could put one together, and itd be ready by yeah. [laughter] be ready for the christmas season. [laughter] but you have worked a lot with 41 in your postpresidency i have. And youre known to be very close with him. What leadership attributes of 41 do you think have impressed you most and are the ones that you want to inculcate through this Leadership Program . When youre dealing with president bush 41, there are a couple of things that are never in doubt, and i think this is really important. His goodwill is never in doubt. And this was true before he was 90. Weve been working together for a long time now. Weve been out of office a lo
To push socalled politically correct narratives under the guise of objective, unbiased reporting. So theas question for today is, has the socalled fourth estate, the institution of that largelyr is responsible for checking the government, for providing information to its citizenry and so on fallen prey to a rising pressure from the woke or the pressure to be woke . Today batya ungarsargon the deputy Senior Editor at newsweek said yes. She has a. Forthcoming book. Its are great cover. I know were not supposed to judge books by the covers but this is a great cover. Its called bad news how woke media is undermining democracy. She chronicles the radical shift in american journalism over the last few years and what it means for democracy as a whole. Im looking forward to explaining this and to help me a number of guest. First batya ungarsargon is the Deputy Editor of newsweek. Before that she was the opinion editor of the largest jewish media outlet in merrick and she has written extensivel