And Roger L Williams who was on a plane in the late 60s and a backup, we could talk about the cook family and charles kochland, but in 1967 when his father passed away, they were rearranging the firm and try to figure out what to name it. I specifically chose the name kochland because it was a family name but also completely with the character, hard to remember and without subscription. They were not a consumer Oriented Companies that want to develop a brand name. They wanted to avoid scrutiny. Largely because they were in oil business in the theory of the oil business was ops of the old saying whats good for the motor Oil Companies good for the United States. When oil prices shot up these companies were getting massive profits at the expense of ordinary people. The idea was when your business like this, these day in the background. He stayed behind the curtain and quietly make a fortune. Charles kochland is the second part of her born in the patriarch, early in the book you talk about
Remember because i was a child of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out f tof the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school in the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it aint so. So i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniac maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used them. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing
Especially with the way that people move around the city there a lack of scooters in certain areas so i think as long as its regulated properly and you know. The more scooters the it sit with you know its as long as people are careful right and that. As you can see im obviously having a fun time on the scooter its a great way to get from point a to b. Everyone agrees that there should be more of them. I think doubles probably too many. But i feel like this is about and theres enough now. Soon youll see about 85 scooters per square mile of the city. Now that the sfmta is extending the permit program from 2 Companies Just for companies that includes a scoot spin lime and jot. But the best beer wind the program will allow up to 4,000 scooters and will also be extending to neighborhoods like they view excelsior in richmond and er that no more than 40 of any scooter fleet would be allowed in the downtown or south of market neighborhood for some the most heaviest foot traffic is day to day.
We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming. Whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. He didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporters calls and wrote a coup of oped articles after the death of david koch. Chris spent eight near in the the kochland, the place and the title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the potent Political Network that was put toth by the david koch and his older brother, charles, from their base three hours down the road in wichita. Anybody here had a chance to read the book yet . So, you wont understand but youll knee immediately when you get into it, as you get into it, what im talking about. Its daunting when you pick it up. Its 574 pages and thats before you get to the noteses appendix
Favorite collaborator in one of the nations great independent bookstores, we pride ourselves of the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of her signature programming. Whether forms on those issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly did not intend on the particular timeline of todays presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a couple pieces for the New York Times and cnn business. They spent eight years and cook koshland and the extraordinary empire in the poem Political Network has put together by david coke and his older brother charles based hundred hours on the road in wichita. Anybody had a chance to read the book . So you will not understand, youll know immediately when you get into it as you get into it it is daunting when you pick it up. Its encyclopedic, 574 pages and thats before you get to the notes and the appendix and then acknowledgments. But they have written