Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Street side park let. Trying to last us out as long as we can. 25 capacity isnt going to do it, i think it 50 capacity, it starts to turn into a viable enterprise again. Reporter with San Francisco moving into the orange category, Indoor Dining at 25 , we wanted to know if allowed is the same as safe, uc berkeley Infectious Disease expert says he wont eat inside a restaurant just yet. Restaurants indoors are far more risky than restaurants outdoors. Because indoors, the air is circulating and we dont know how good the air is being handled in those restaurants. So they are not completely safe. Reporter at the water bar, at the embarcadero, it opens thursday, with the hope the cases continue to drop so Indoor Dining can rise. 25 is going to help with the ability to continue to serve outside. So we probably have about six more weeks left of that, and then when winter starts to arrive, it is going to become a different dynamic. Reporter it is not just restaurants the got the green light, h
David i got to meet someone who was building the africanamerican museum, and he was a gifted museum director. He started with nothing and made it into one of the most popular museums in the entire country. I am so proud of lonnie burch. We could not be more proud of the work he has done. David a vacancy they belong to be the secretary of the smithsonian. I was a chair of the search committee, and we looked at many candidates across the country. It was clear he knew the smithsonian, he was committed to the smithsonian, his wife was with the smithsonian, so it was an easy choice. Museum, and lonnie bunch is the 14th secretary of the smithsonian air you were the first africanamerican and the first historian. Lonnie that is right. David i was the chairman of the smithsonian at one point. Im still on the board, but i will ask tough questions anyway. Lonnie i appreciate that. David is the job as good as you thought it would be and are you happy you would have it . Lonnie no one knew what it
Organized science and history. Announcer on august 6, 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb in history japan. Roshima, later, ondays nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have a message from the japanese government. From the secretary of state on august 11. Declaration potsdam that specifies the unconditional surrender. Announcer through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this worldaltering events. We begin in new orleans, at the National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take up the war on the pacific and asia, 1941 to 1945. What are the most interesting aspects . One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. In are just about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. That was a major portion of japans strength. Whatever chance japan had of winning