Clipper and George Hammond culture of the amenities forum which organized todays event. Im happy to welcome back a. J. Baime if we had them here you in half or so ago from the accidental president. His last book, and this time we have a virtually from his home, and were going to talk about his new book about a 1940 election. Were going back 72 years to another electionyear and you will be amazed at exactly how similar it sound in some ways. Another with a different but in some ways. Whats different is the politicians were all younger than they are today. Thats one big difference. But a. J. , take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. Just a very good read by the way. Very good read. Outstanding. I want to say a couple things first. Thank you so much for having the. The the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be and you are doing this virtual. A lot of people are going to painandsuffering china for myself im just reminding why i fell in love with reading when i was s
Im happy to welcome back. We had him here a year and a half or so ago. We will talk about the new book the 1948 election and you will be amazed of exactly how similar it sounds in other ways different. Whats different is the politicians were all younger so that is one big difference but take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. Thank you for having me. The Commonwealth Club is a great place to be. Here we are i know for myself books im streamlining books can transport you to another time and place and during all of this its been a blessing. Regarding the last time i was with you i had already started the book to talk about the accidental president and i planned the book to come out during the cycle. It would be relevant and it would give me an opportunity to talk about things that matter. I found a whole bunch of material i didnt expect to find and elements in our life conspired in such a way that it begins to feel everything i was writing about was no longer taking plac
That was a grand introduction. If you just want the major accomplishments of David Rice Atchison, thank you, it has been a lovely evening. [laughter] needless to say, his administration is a little less impressive than maybe truman or anyone else who was ever president. However, David Rice Atchison is someone you should know about. He was a significant player in the days leading up to the civil war and the term what we call bleeding kansas. He was one of the people who really began the push to get kansas as a state and he tried to direct it in a certain direction that he felt was beneficial for the union. Was he misguided . Very possibly. Was he successful . Absolutely not. And, but what is important was who this person was and why, unfortunately, he disappeared from everything. The library came up with the davidfor this program, rice atchison, president no one knows. Looking at that, i realized that long ago in another lifetime as a journalist, i wrote a column for the newspaper i wor
We do, for sure. It has been so long since we have blue skies. I think everyone is ready for that. We are going to go a record 28 days for the spirit air alerts for the bay. You saw that live look of how smoggy it is. We have, we have that smoke this morning. Checking the airquality conditions, all the red dots indicating that unhealthy air. For the middle peninsula down the south bay. All waking up with unhealthy airquality. To conquer, walnut creek, around the bay, San Francisco, unhealthy air through larkspur, san rafael, the northbay, santa rosa, windsor, petaluma. All of us starting off our day with all that smoke once again. We have the spare the air alert, all of us as we look to the afternoon still dealing with those unhealthy airquality conditions. Because of that smoke we are looking at temperatures, seasonal if not below average for this time of year. Mid 80s for concord, livermore, 70 in oakland and mid60s for San Francisco. Im tracking the return of our seabreeze. I will l
For the peninsula, the south bay, the east bay, trivalley as well as for the north bay. Please be safe, stay indoors if you can. We are looking at a record 28 days in a row, going a month with our smoky skies and the spare the air alert for the bay area. It has been an unprecedented, long stretch for us, dealing with this smoke. It is exhausting for many of us. As we head through the day, we have seasonable to below average for daytime highs this afternoon. Tracking some changes, we are going to see a weather pattern change through the week. I will let you know the days with better air quality for the bay area, coming up in a few minutes. Gianna. Wee alregoc wang. Ace brge toll plaza. The metering lights return on at 5 30 and it is slow out of the east bay into the city. Adding to that is a limited visibility. There is an advisory that was issued by chp overnight. The smoggy conditions that mary was telling you about might be an issue for your drive this morning across the bay bridge a