I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
Written, you will find a number of them are on historical figures but also the recent one on the gutenberg bible. We appreciate that and being a partner with us at the White House Historical association. Thank you. Margaret thank you. It was a joy to join you. Next on the presidency, we hear about the Kennedy Administrations work on womens rights from alan price, director of the jfk library and museum in boston. He explains that womens rights were parts of the kennedy platform and how that transferred into the equal pay act of 1963. The National Archives Foundation Hosted this discussion and provided the video. Alan one of the joys of my position is there is a heritage to president ial libraries and all of the prior directors of the jfk president ial library and museum have been mentors to me, as i have taken on the role. We have announced to the Community Just a couple of days ago the passing of the very first director of the jfk library. He was a member of the Kennedy Administration.
Southwest travis to 25. Concord, napa have an onshore breeze. A little onshore breeze oakland and novato. A lot of activities in the mountains. Pretty good thunderstorm activity. For us, near normal temps. Just not lot of change. The average is slightly below for some. Okay. Over to sal, so far so good out there, sal, is there something new on the screens . No. Itnow, we do have traffic that is moving along very well. And we are easing into a monday. Lets go to the bay bridge. And you can see there are people there. But theres not a crowd. Thats probably the way you would like it. There have been no major problems here on interstate 880. So we are off to a noise start. Its 5 01, lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. New this morning, Antioch Police investigating a double shooting outside of a 7eleven. It left a woman dead and a man seriously injured. Now the two victims were in their car outside of the store, which is locate on buchanan road and gentry town drive. This is around
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Into civil unrest and eventually violence and rioting. This morning in minnesota, the sun came to came up as it does this time of year, bright. Trees are butted out. Flowers are up. The promise of summer after a long winter is there. I want to say thank you to all of the people of and a soda who protected their neighbors, who took an unprecedented step last that an unprecedented force of our neighbors and Public Servants were able to come together, execute the most operationblic safety in the states history. They did so in professional manner. They did so without a single lossoflife and minimal property damage. I am grateful to those folks. I am grateful for their protection of minnesota. Again to make note once that the Operational Plan and the decision to operate falls with me. When the order to do so, the actions that happen after that are my responsibility. I want to once again extend my deepest apologies to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation, were