I am the 113th president at the press club. Residence atst in the university of maryland, global campus. We have an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter. Live. The npc for our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask that you hold your applause until the head table guests have been announced. Beginning to my far left. John oshea, colonel, retired. And member of American Legion post 20 based here at the National Press club. Wensing. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Lolita, National Security reporter. John donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. To my immediate right, the president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club Presi
Id like to adjourn today todays Board Meeting by Geraldine Mary crowdley, who was a one woman army for the neighbourhoods of the Northeast Corner of the city, but the city at large. She passed away early this morning in the style that she should pass away, listening to Frank Sinatra and watching monday night football last night. Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that s
Ambition you can accomplish it and i want to thank the other members of the board of supervisors for acknowledging our efforts. I would like to thank ermina for recognizing our institution and our family and the events we do in the community and i would like to invite all members of the board. [please stand by] as my office has spent months engaging with s. F. M. T. A. And the Merchant Community to address the deeply felt and deeply real concerns on how years of construction will impact their lives and of construction will this isnt limited to my district, of course. From the central subway to van ness, there are many Small Businesses impacted by construction, and they deserve answers on how we, at the city, are addressing those impacts. Im very much looking forward to this hearing, and im asking the b. L. A. , s. F. M. T. A. , and b. C. T. , to report. And i want to thank president chi and the supervisor. Thank you, supervisor marr. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Id like to adjourn to
Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that she actually, many, many years ago, served on the republican countys Central Committee of california, which ive now outed her on, but she made up for that by running for the Democratic County Commission here in San Francisco in 2004 and 2006, winning both times, and serving as one of its vice chairs. She was pretty much active in
Football last night. Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that she actually, many, many years ago, served on the republican countys Central Committee of california, which ive now outed her on, but she made up for that by running for the Democratic County Commission here in San Francisco in 2004 and 2006, winning both times, and serving as one of its vice chairs. She was p