Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the depth 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you could you please call item one. An ordinance 30 years the acquisition of Real Property from the state of california for sidewalks along van ness avenue under the jurisdiction of public works with the Maintenance Agreement waving fees and making appropriate findings ii was told ms. Julian is presenting i dont see her in the chambers one presenting yes why not have the Mayors Office staff make a recommendation i dont know is it finally. Xavier for various reasons which well show you in a little van ness sidewalks a desire so are the van ness sidewalks under the city jurisdiction for the apply for local codes like beverly and thanks of that nature Public Utilities commission performed on investigation about 83 sidewalk blocks that will be added to city jurisdictions that includes 2 million a
Done in his career and in his memoirs he writes frankly about the experiences he has had the good and bad. It makes for really good reading, but one thing the crack spent some time thinking and talking about late in life was his role in the u. S. Mexico border of 1846. Grant said at the time i do not think there was ever more wicked were then that waged by the United States of mexico. I thought so at the time when i was the dexter, only i had not moral courage enough to resign. During the time of the u. S. Mexico war, i just found this are really moving which is why it took it for my title. The fact of the matter is grant was not alone in thinking that the u. S. Invasion of mexico was somehow wicked. Wanted to talk about in this book and tonight is the evolution of the American Public during the course of the u. S. Mexico war from being with it really enthusiastic and in favor to largely turning against the war. I see the u. S. Mexico war as the moment of americas First Antiwar Movemen
Book is hemmingways boats. Everything he loved in life and lost. What was the pillar . It was a fishing cruiser that hemming way bought in 1934 and owned for the last 27 years of his life, the most beloved material possession he ever owned, and so i thought maybe i could tell the hemingway story in a new way as a figure story telling devis. Could you do it . Well, i went to cuba in 2005, to havana, and when the guards were not looking, i certain tishesly touched the boat, a moving experience. The boat was dry dock, on a hillside at hemingways home, and it was in terrible condition. It looked as if it were dying of thirst and only wanted to get into water, but that further convinced me i had a story to tell through the prism of this boat because when hemingway got the boat, he was the reigning monarch of american literature. He was at the very apex, and when he lost the boat, when he lost everything, when he killed himself by shotgun 27 years later, this boat lasted him through three wi
James meredith at the university of ol miss. I like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot on like to pick out these subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to our cultural history, biography. Paul hendricksons most recent work, hemingways bonet is the name of the book. Thank you for joining us on booktv. Thank you for having me. Sander and Stuart Taylor talk about affirmative action, oral arguments in fisher versus university of texas. They agreed with the initial goals of affirmative action. That now believe it hurts the minorities. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you for roger and cato for sponsoring this event, it is great to have such a great kickoff to the book which is being officially published today. I am going to start and talk a little bit about the central idea itself and some of what we found in the book. I will try to relate this more to what is happening tomorrow. I am particularly glad to be doing this at cato because it stood for
His journey as a civilrights activist participating in the 1963 march on washington, a prominent historian and editor of Martin Luther king jr. s papers, part of three days of booktv this weekend, monday, featuring authors and books on the inauguration, president obama and Martin Luther king jr. Last week booktv attended the key west literary seminar in florida. Today from noon to 3 00 eastern we bring several of their talks and panels from the event. Paul hendrickson, robert richardson, jeff gawker, and many more present and discuss their books. Next, cynthia helms, widow of Richard Helms, recounts her life. She drug in england and served in world war ii, calls for introduction to the world of secret intelligence via her husband, the internal politics of the cia and the couples time spent in tehran as Richard Helms served as American Ambassador prior to the iranian revolution. This is about an hour. [applause] [applause] thank you. Very kind of you, nice event you allowed us to have h