Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big is currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books. Professor is now on the faculty of holy Honors College for today will be discussing his latest book, lincoln on the verge, story about a 13 day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington, d. C. , to be inaugurated as president. These are two
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Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
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Was previously. As new york city becomes a battleground for trouble and haters facebooks reportedly push to beef up its moderation tools to combat postelection violence the system was slammed as a failure of the trial than other countries. Morning this is not International Thanks for joining us. There is growing resentment in europe over the pandemic rules that the number of cases has doubled in some countries governments are trying hard to avoid full log downs citizens a business is a flouting the new measures anyway there were mass riots in the spanish city of barcelona thousands took to one of the main squares in the catalan capital condemning the state of emergency implemented to. The country overnight people violated a 9 time curfew that came into force on sunday they also overturned and set alight rubbish bins near parliament. And a similar scenes over in italy where several cities saw protests getting out of hand and cheering for example smoke bombs were let off and bottles hurl