The presidency, h. W. Brands looked at gerald ford in the context of the 19700s when he served as House Minority leader, Vice President and then president. Exploring the american story, watch with American History tv the saturdays on cspan2. And find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime a cspan. Org history. Us tonight is mike buehler. He will introduce our speakers momentarily. Mike is president and ceo of Fort Mason Center for arts and and culture and a longtime Historic Preservationist. Prior to joining fort mason, he led stress historic nonprofit ss heritage. The he has worked at the los angeles conservancy and regional attorney for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. We asked mike to moderate tonights program because of his preservation work in both los angeles, the subject of tonights talk, and here in San Francisco. Thank you for being with us, mike. Welcome, and im goingin to hand the mic over to you. Thank you so much, francis. Its such a ple
With us tonight is mike. Mike is president and ceo of the center for arts and culture in and a longtime Historic Preservation. He led San Franciscos Historic Preservation nonprofit. He has been the oat director of advocacy of the los angeles conservancy and for the Historic Preservation. His present racial mark in angeles the subject of tonights talk in here in San Francisco. Thank you for being with us mike and welcome and i will hand the microphone over to you. Thank you so much frances. Such a pleasure to be here tonight with my longtime friends and colleagues aliso beach and Stephen Schafer to talk about their stunning new book preserving los angeles how Historic Places can transform americas cities. Published by angel city press. Dare i say this book is a monument is a monument to statement and major contribution to preservation field. Kevin devoted much of his career to enhancing the unique architecture of Cultural Heritage of los angeles. I had the shoes to fill and ken has left