Welcome. The 64th secretary of state, we are here to talk about her new book, health and other destinations which is an interesting book. I just finished reading it. I look forward to this conversation about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you. I enjoy talking with you anyti anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building of the library congress, shes in her home, i should disclose weve had a longstanding relationship between us, we were young staffers under president carter and i have followed her career ever since then with great admiration. This is for seventh book since you left secretary of state. Did you ever imagine when he finished secretary of state, the first woman to ever serve as secretary of state, he would write seven books in addition to the other things we want to talk about since you left secretary of state . It never occurred to me that i would write this but it is important people who served in office to write their memoirs because it is the basis of peo
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
Id like to adjourn today todays Board Meeting by Geraldine Mary crowdley, who was a one woman army for the neighbourhoods of the Northeast Corner of the city, but the city at large. She passed away early this morning in the style that she should pass away, listening to Frank Sinatra and watching monday night football last night. Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that s
Ambition you can accomplish it and i want to thank the other members of the board of supervisors for acknowledging our efforts. I would like to thank ermina for recognizing our institution and our family and the events we do in the community and i would like to invite all members of the board. [please stand by] as my office has spent months engaging with s. F. M. T. A. And the Merchant Community to address the deeply felt and deeply real concerns on how years of construction will impact their lives and of construction will this isnt limited to my district, of course. From the central subway to van ness, there are many Small Businesses impacted by construction, and they deserve answers on how we, at the city, are addressing those impacts. Im very much looking forward to this hearing, and im asking the b. L. A. , s. F. M. T. A. , and b. C. T. , to report. And i want to thank president chi and the supervisor. Thank you, supervisor marr. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Id like to adjourn to
Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that she actually, many, many years ago, served on the republican countys Central Committee of california, which ive now outed her on, but she made up for that by running for the Democratic County Commission here in San Francisco in 2004 and 2006, winning both times, and serving as one of its vice chairs. She was pretty much active in