Are you guys picking up audio and mark. I guess its working. We will get you gentlemen shortly. You for joining us. Im jordan worthing, and i have the honor of introducing this mornings very special programmer, a conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the Hearst Corporation frank douglas. Millions of viewers turned to msnbc at7 00 , to hear chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball. Butthe roots of his journalism career are actually with first. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12, he corrected me like a journalist, chris was Washington Bureau chief of the examiner and the syndicated columnist for the chronicle after frank bought the San Francisco chronicle and then chris went on to lunch hardball with eight bestselling books. And as everyone knows, chris returned to the air after a brief hiatus recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful for you to being here today. Ive had the pleasure of working with frank Fra
Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for having me here today. Id like to thank the u. S. Global Leadership Coalition for welcoming me and for convening this important gathering about how the United States can and does lead in healthcare around the world. This is not necessarily the kind of stage i expected to be on when i was a young washington lawyer two decades ago. Before my first job at hhs. Many of you may never have expected to need to attend gatherings like this one in your professional roles either, but were united here by the shared recognition that American Leadership on the world stage is indispensable to american prosperity and peace at home. When i was first asked to serve at hhs in 2001, as general counsel, i didnt imagine that National Security and Foreign Policy would become a significant focus of my work at the federal governments largest domestic department. But i was confirmed in august of 2001. One month before 9 11, when everything changed. The day of 9 11, i q
Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this quote from rick perlstein, the historian. A fog of crosscut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. I think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true. Know historic event happens in a vacuum. Its tied to many other things. And thats the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. What i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. A lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believ want books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, theres three categor
Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
Welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission regular meeting for thursday, july 23, 2015, 2015 disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Speak id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner johnson and he wanted to attend. Commissioner moore commissioner richards additional commissioner hillis is and he wanted to be absent commissioners, that places you under your prototype for continuance item one admitting a request for a discretionary review authorization is proposed for continuance until august further on the agenda a request for continuance for items 9 and 10 on Howard Street for the certification of the Environmental Impact report acceptance of authority and determination of compliance conditional use authorization and request for variance proposed for september 3, 20