[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
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Consider Caroline Harrison as one of the most underage or to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies, influence and image. Here to tell us more about Caroline Harrison or two guests who know the office well. The first ladys historian, the director meredith of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at this milled sonia. Its edi i thank you for coming in. And bills seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that buildings. Among his books is the president s white house. And doctors, were going to start with an illustration tonight. For the government was spending a lot of money. Its she got into it by wanting to create a house, they were crammed in this house. The only lived upstairs. You see, understand on the picture, the middle of the upper picture, the columns and the street side of it the office was on the left. Its the east room was below that, and the other public rooms on the ground floor. Then the
Efforts to end racial injustice. The Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. Were one of the nations leading National Civil Rights Organization founded in june of 1963. For the past 56 years for help protect the and other vulnerable communities across the country. What are your thoughts of what happened in atlanta at the shooting at the wendys restaurant. Another tragedy. This is a moment you would expect Law Enforcement would be on their best behavior in the wake of the tragedy of the killing of george floyd and Breonna Taylor and with the marches and protests happens across the country, its fair to say that Law Enforcement is under a microscope. You truly would expect the very best when it comes to how theyre engaging with communities, with africanamericans. This is most unfortunate, a most unfortunate and avoidable tragedy. What we understand is that this man was in his car, may have been asleep at the wheel. Isnt clear whether we would have been to deply Law Enforcement. Ther
The lost history of president s black family, you can purchase it directly in the link in the chat box to the right of your screen and the link provided on the Atlanta History Center website. As betty and i are talking, we invite you to commit your question to the q a portion of your screen and ill try to get to them as time allows. Doctor Betty Kirsten is a retired physician and denominated us yet, the other madison is her first book and it follows a nearly 30 year quest to confirm her lineage, the reviews call it group for new generation, thank you so much for being with us. Im very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of james mattis as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights, what did you think or what were you told about him going out . I was told what everybody else was. He was an important figure in American History but i was also told that he was my great, great great