The meeting will come to the order. Im joined by Committee Members supervisor walton and mandelman. Id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Any announcements today . Yes, madame chair, due to the health emergency, phone number of the board of supervisors and the Committee Room are closed, however, members will be participated in the call remotely. You can make public ct by calling 14156550001. 146 580 2686. Again, i. D. Number, 146 580 2686. Then press pound twice. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you can submit Public Comment in the following way. Email to myself. It will be forwarded to the supervisors. Finally items acted upon today are to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on october 27 unless otherwise stated flmplt fluf resolution authorizing the department of homelessness and Supp
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening everyone. Tonight we are here with peter finn the National Security editor at the Washington Post and previously coauthor of the book the zhivago affair which was finalist for the National Book six circle award for nonfiction. Hes twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his International Reporting and hes won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the German Marshall Fund Peter R White prize for his foreign reporting. In other words, his nonfiction credentials are very wellestablished. Tonight he is here to present his latest book of nonfiction i guess to the right the story of american heiress gertrude with deborahs dramatic captivity and escape from nazi germany. Please help me welcome peter finn. [applause] thank you everyone for coming out and thank you to a books for inviting me. Im delighted to be here. As she mentioned, my book is about gertrude lesandro and the First American woman in unifor
Power and money homes everything based on that system. Student to watch the rest and find your presence, visit our website from a book tv tower on the sabbath. Five introduce our guests. Hes an engineer with idm. He graduated from the university of western cape in portland. , chiropractic and trained psychotherapist. Hes an Award Winning author. Hes the recipient of this African American literature and other awards for his foes. His testimony. Jeff radio tv programs across the nation. You can connect to speak about his latest book. Please join me in welcoming clyde. [applause] think i can tell you how special it is to be afraid. Meet living over 20 years ago, i was in washington, i was a volunteer. I was working with a group that was involved. I had just come from by the empty talk to Chiropractic College indepth he did something to do around computers because i have been doing that for sub pump when i wasnt studying chiropractic. I was able to get computer time but exchanging one were
Talked we will still be uncovering so much talking about refugees and we will talk a little bit about that. Thank you so much. So my book is that is not what i expected this and the reason its not what they expected because it tries to do other things and to tell and intimate history. Just of my life and relationships with other people. With a very intimate introduction and it is an introduction about my life. s i will just jump in and then we can talk some more. My parents and siblings and my grandmother. A thin woman with thin skin and sharp blue eyes like my father he had been separated from his mother during the war and then came to israel years later and moved in with him and then with my mother and him and then with all of us. As long as i could remember in 1981 she lived in the room off of the kitchen. We did not speak much to her she spoke little to us or in general spending weeks listening to the radio. My mother who cooks for her and washes her close resented her. My father w
Youre a member, would you please stand up and be recognized . Oh, come on, theres a couple of you here. There we go. Thank you. [applause] the president s society with an exclusive group of members that supports the ongoing works of president nixons foundation which awe applies the legacy and the vision to, that he had to opportunities facing our nation and the world today. And if youre interested in joining, please see any member of the staff, come track me down [laughter] or one of the front desk associates. Anybody can get you signed up this evening. Id also like to tell you about a a few special events that are on the horizon. On august 20th we will host Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino for their new bestseller, justice on trial, about the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. On september 11th, we will host two programs. The first is an annual commemoration of patriot day, and then we will host Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch that evening at 7 p. M. For a discussion with Nixon