He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. We have to realize that over half the people on the planet werent even here when he walked on the moon. The other asked it not said jay if you dont do it who else is going to do a quicks jim calls it a great book and adds to neils legacy. We did our level best to try to get this done for the history. We have had a heavy Library Event sale so thats great. We were trying to get neils story in a library for history and hopefully we
That was a relationship you established earlier on. At least after the 1964. He was flying and the slowest person ever to answer you. We have a great chapter in the book that involves neal and tom stafford. They were stand offish to the nine like you have to earn your way to the club. They said you need to throw a dinner for them and make it black tie and show them respect. He said i will put it together. The first words from staffords mouth was who is paying for this . Tom went to the naval academy. His father had to borrow the money to buy the bus ticket to send him off. Neal said the last time that stafford picked up a check she was hitchhiking in europe. They brought in the best of wines and when they sat down for dinner, you know, they brought it out and it was supposed to be fried veal with potatoes. And his was fried card board when it came out. And potatoes were you know stinking and the salads were sitting in the sun. Are you old enough to remember the turtle club . Host i was
Hello everyone thousands are expected to march on sunday after murder of the leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, he was a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and was preparing a report on russian involvement in the ukraine. Shot dead on friday night near the kremlin. As you see, people are gathering, security is high as well. Metal detectors, i think we are looking at as people enter the period in moscow to merm Boris Nemtsov. Rory challands to remember mement. Rory challands has remember Boris Nemtsov. Rory challands reports. All day people brought candles and flours. Its a tragedy for the country. People like him are important who wan lead ours and follow their views and are honest. Trrnalts translation its hard for me to talk about it. I feel sorry for him as a person. He was murdered. I dont know if it was a provocation, it doesnt matter. This person was part of the history. For some he was a positive figure for some negative. This for the man thought to be the predecessor for bori
Of federal appropriations from the National Park service. We recently spent be several hundred thousand dollars repairing their or sewer system, we do ongoing safety and food inspections, trash removal and road maintenance. So we had to evaluate in the case of claude moore, in the case of dozens of these, of whether or not we would be in violation of the antideficiency act by allowing these to continue to operate. So if you may, let me just say we took the closure date on october 1, and then we began to evaluate each of these operations individually to insure that we were not violating. And those that we felt we could honestly and clearly and legally reopen, we have done that. By the way, i have limited amount of time left, but i want to say at least speaking for this member i just heard my colleague from colorado make some rather strong statements about you and your service. I completely disavow those comments. I think you have been an exemplary public servant. I think youve done the
In spots. 63 degrees in concord. 59 degrees in San Francisco, and 63 degrees in santa rosa says the great elizabeth. Yes, i know. The great winger. Have the same ring to it. Yeah. All right. Lets go out live towards the golden gate bridge. Got some flashing lights going on right now, and doing those lane changes. Those are the crews out there right now. Theyre opening four in the southbound commute direction, two in the northbound. Anyway, theres no delay in either direction right now. Everything is free and clear from novato all the way down towards San Francisco. And if your commute is in the south bay toward san jose, 64, 65, 63 miles per hour. 101 parkway and 280 all cleeshgs and your most popular drive time around this morning, westbound 580 not backed up yet through tracy. 880 looks good in oakland, and theres a live look east shore freeway. Westbound 80. A nice and light 19 minutes so that is looking good all the way down through berkeley. Now, transit bart so far system wide on