Could you please be seated . Welcome to the Civic Affairs speaker series. I am president of the Womens National Republican Club. Our organization was founded by the separatists in 1921 to teach women the value of the ballot. Our founders built the townhouse in 1934. Today, the Womens National Republican Club continues its goal of furthering political education and promoting good governance. The chair of the series will introduce the renowned author this evening. [applause] good evening ladies and gentlemen. I am the chair in the speakers committee. Tonight i have the great had tht privilege and honor to present to you the speaker, with mr. William f. Buckley, junior the renowned social and political commentator, journalist and author of 37 books which range from the adventure to commentary and awardwinning fiction. Mr. Buckley needs no introduction. Everyone in the room is familiar with this achiever. We have read his syndicated articles such as the column on the right, the National Re
Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She is the author of seven books and is appeared on cspan and book tv over 60 times. She is well known for her work on Abraham Lincoln and her book team of rivals with the inspiration for Stephen Spear spielberg film. She earned her phd at harvard, we will reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took your phone calls. We will show you discussions from her book leadership in Turbulent Times and bully pulpit. We will start with january 1, 1995 appearance on the cspan series book notes. In the hourlong interview she discussed frank gooden Eleanor Roosevelt and the homefront during world war ii, her book, no ordinary time one the posted price for ordinary history here is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Frank Franklin Elinor Roosevelt a couple questions after all the work he did on the book, what would it be. With eleanor i would like to understand why she was una
Good evening from the tv this is a series of programs of Pulitzer Prize winner and historian David Marinus Roberto Clemente and Vince Lombardi. And then began their 1977 and received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting 1983 and has appeared on the tv and has traveled the world we will revisit the trip to kenya also the history in 19 sixties that first in 2002 and then to margin to send night this is a book about the vietnam war and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Here is David Maraniss. A rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Thirtyfive years ago the 28th infantry regiment were ambushed here 61 were killed many injured. The university of wisconsin madison 35 years ago they tried to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. Held a demonstration that turned violent. The new book titled they marched into sunlight the author is David Maraniss. You write in the epilogue is as reflected in the book quick. It means im not trying to make a specific point i believe history i
We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
That is dated. And so im very enthusiastic about the water supply budget work sheet. I think we will have a much better understanding of water supply, issues related to that. So i hope you get a chap chanceo look at my letter. I requested there be a backgrounder included with that, so the elements are clear on how the system works and water rights. So information about the baker act, the 1995 flow schedule and i requested that there be information in there to look at the history of water entitlements and demand and storage level and so annual entitlements, tourist demand over the years and how much water was remaining in storage at the end of the year. I think that will be very helpful in transformin determiny moving forward. I hope there will be an opportunity to for the public to ennaturengage in using this too. Some of the factors to be considered are entitlements but alternative supplies, demand is we know demand is much lower than it was projected. New storage could be included an