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About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took...

I had to wait a long time for this. I was at basic training in fort jackson. The the obviously here easily, and and the cadre and the mess talking about the restraints that the personnel of bjl. And lbj and the restraints that he was under was the incremental buildup that johnson put him through and the administration and i dont think you spoke much about it and just an observation of my own that the only thing i saw later on that what really worked that scared the bejeaners was a linebacker one...

Lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to ...

The war, the pace of military operations or determine the pace of how quickly the local population is seen the south vietnamese government as a legitimate entity. And so what you see here, i think, are some disconnects, not only in modernization theorys the that we talked about earlier but also this theory of graduated pressure. As we talked about a little bit earlier in the evening, theres a difference clearly between articulating strategy and implementing it. And i think this is a clear case o...

Vietnam wouldve pursued that agenda of world domination. But it didnt turn out that way. It turned out more the way dave gordon describes it. Right. What happened between then and now . Part of the problem, i think, is that lezuan and the politburo is also balancing their own requirements. And we need to realize that after the bifurcation of vietnam in 1954 where there is two entities, a south and north vietnam, that in north vietnam, hanois leaders ho chi minh and ultimately lezuan are having t...

Crews are cleaning up two downed trees at highlands park. Trees are also a problem in San Francisco. Thats where abc 7 News Reporter lillian kim joins us live with details. Reporter its no longer raining where we are but from falling trees to clogged storm drains, city crews were busy. This is what a clogged catch basin looks like. Workers with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission have been clearing one after another in hopes of preventing the street from flooding. In most cases they fi...

Part two is still coming and it brings with it moderate risk of urban flooding, thunderstorms, mudslides and rockslides. I will be back with a detailed look at how much more rain you can expect and how long you are going to need the umbrellas, coming up. Its pretty wet out there. Thank you. Appreciate that. A tree fell on to wires blocking highway 116 in Sonoma County this morning. The westbound lane was closed for nearly half an hour about 6 30. Cal trans was able to reroute traffic while crews...

To safety. Other drivers were still trying to get through deep water on the expressway this afternoon. Police have closed down the road from rancho verde Mobile Home Park to stony point road until the flooding subsides. Its not just the flooding but falling trees also posing difficulties. Two trees being removed after falling overnight. We have a live look for you from our camera in emeryville. As you can see, traffic is very heavy on interstate 80 heading toward berkeley. Rain is still coming d...

Drought, and hey, even though were in a drought and have this rain coming your way, we urge you to please keep the conservation efforts going, because even the storm system that could dump eight inches or more of rain in the higher elevations, it is not going to bust that drought. This is what you can expect through this afternoon, sunshine, that rain moves in tomorrow evening into the north bay, then were talking about really dangerous conditions by thursday. Torrential downpours. In fact, ther...

Dont go on the rocks. Reporter forecasters say this storm has the potential to catch a lot of us by surprise because we have been in a drought and may have forgotten over the years how nasty a pacific storm can be. In monterrey, len ramirez, kpix5. Yeah, take a look at some of the unusual storm preparations going on in San Francisco. These are crews working on the rocky and jagged cliffs off of telegraph hill. The east side. Crews repel down 150 feet. Their mission is to prevent any rock slides....