I find it puzzling. He did vote for lincoln in 1864. Theres no doubt about that. He didnt in 1860 because he couldnt get vote in 1860. But youre quite right that he never really expressed the kind of reverence for lincoln and admiration for lincoln and profound respect for lincolns leadership and what lincoln stood for that one might have thought that, i think, his father, Oliver Wendell holmes sr. , did. And it may have something to do with the kind of skepticism with which he emerged from the war with about so much. Of everything. But it still does puzzle me. I dont have a good answer to that question. Well, he comes out of the war, remember, with a very strong sense of what a mess the campaigns were. And the experience at potomac would have confirmed that. For long periods of Holmes Service hes wading through swamps trying to get from the virginia Northern Neck area to richmond in two different aborttive efforts to invade richmond. He sees people randomly shot. He gets randomly shot
Hello and welcome to meet your district supervisor. Were here with david chiu from district 3. That includes chinatown, Fishermans Wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood. He was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. We will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. Thank you for joining us today. Tell us about your background. My parents immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. I was the first kid born in the u. S. My parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. I grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts of boston. I went to catholic price school in dorchester, a section of boston. I went to Catholic High School in dorchester, a section of boston. Because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. That is where i went to school. It was intense. I stayed there for law sch
Hello and welcome to meet your district supervisor. Were here with david chiu from district 3. That includes chinatown, Fishermans Wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood. He was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. We will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. Thank you for joining us today. Tell us about your background. My parents immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. I was the first kid born in the u. S. My parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. I grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts of boston. I went to catholic price school in dorchester, a section of boston. I went to Catholic High School in dorchester, a section of boston. Because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. That is where i went to school. It was intense. I stayed there for law sch
Is going to help facilitate our march by closing blocks as we move up. So, they are going to be helping. And the chief is here, greg, youre out there someplace. applause thanks, there he is. Thanks very much, fred. We love having a Progressive Police chief in town. So, i want to thank all of my speakers here, all of our speakers tonight with some very inspirational words. And i want to thank each and every one of you for coming. I hope you will join us in the march, and we are going to end with the San Francisco gay mens chorus performing singing for our lives. Thank you. Let me just say that the story of this song was written on the way holley near and joan baez were coming here to 34 years ago to the steps of city hall. And she wrote this as an anthem, coming 34 years ago to the steps of city hall. So, holley nears, we are angry people. We are gentle angry people and we are singing, singing for our lives we are gentle angry people and we are singing, singing for our lives we are here
You Transparency International has and been pleased to work with the bank. Andbank. In an i would love the panel to tell us something new that is going to be so startling that will make the headlines tomorrow. Maybe something you dont say in public. This is a relaxed conversation. To hear the conversations that go on a little bit like that James Wolfensohn shared at the beginning. Those moments, those thoughts are instructional and helpful. Mr. Volker . You want me to give a relaxed news headline . We talked about all the difficulties of dealing with corruption in countries. That is true in many countries. All of which are represented in the world bank board. It is a hard problem, dealing with corruption by all these other countries. It is a hard time changing the minds of the people in the world bank on the subject. Is tough and unpleasant it is a tough and unpleasant subject and makes it hard to get the money out there and get a project started. There was a lot of resistance to mr. W