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The Church Committee 40 years later. The 1975w segments of hearings that investigated cia, nsa abuses. The Church Committee 40 years later. Next weekend. P. M. With what professor Jennifer Kane looks at myths about america in world war i. Such as that world war i failed to have a Lasting Impact on American Society. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. Jennifer keene alright, so today we are going to talk about america during the First World War. I called this lecture americans at war, the myth...

Many myths and misconceptions attached to the war that it is really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then unpack and see the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by sort of talking about how this connects to the First World War all. Not as america but also the sense of how we entered the First World War to begin with. We think of the general narrative we have attached to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaugh...

About his book, the brazen age, new york city and the american empire. A conversation with New York University history professor Thomas Bender. That betweenes 1945 and 1950, post world war ii new york city became a heaven for exiles. The museum of the city of new york posted this hourlong event. It is now my great pleasure to introduce our speakers. They have four bios in our program. An intellectual and cultural historian, whose many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a ...

And today, you are joining us on a very special day. Were broadcasting here from the historic pastor reading room. Where for the past 80 years , scholars from around the globe have come to use the largest shakespeare collection in the world. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you today who joining us on cspan2. And those of you joining us forhe live feed, thanks making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arri...

People can say thats the way the games played. They should have had an election. They didnt have an election. That system is set up so the crooked politicians can make sure they get somebody in thats not part of what we are doing. Charles we heard this a lot in the last few days. So finally the rnc and Reince Priebus fired back. Saying its the responsibility of the campaign to understand the rules. This as we have breaking News Donald Trump hired veteran political that just rick wylie to help th...

White house . It rye mains to be seen what happens from here. Already thousands are expected to be at the donald trump rally in new york. Peter bans is outside with the crowd. Reporter a lot of people filing into the times union rally. People rear are fired up, Trump Supporters are fired up. They are excited to see the candidate come up here. They want to listen to what he has to say. But many of them have made up their mind. We have 100 protesters who do not like donald trump and they are out h...

California, gavin newsom. Thanks for having me. Its fun. Thank you for being so open about this. Yeah, no, its interesting. The response has been interesting. Ive always been pretty honest about the fact i have dyslexia, but no one really paid much attention to it until i became mayor. And actually, one of the first things i did as mayor, the first public events, was visiting kids with dyslexia in the school, and everyone was shocked to know that i had this learning disability, which if i look b...

Move to reconvene in open session. So moved. All in favor say aye. Opposed . Move to not disclosez anything discussed in closed session second. All in favor say aye. President adams i have one item under new business and that is pier 80. Remember we had a presentation in december regarding pier 80 and pier 29 to use as temporary facilities for homeless and that was only in the case of all other beds in the city being used and i keep reading these newspaper articles about trying to make pier 80 a...

Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Supervisor cowen okay how is everybody doing. Good. Lets look alive were talking about land use transportation thank you, very much. So this the meeting will come to order the regular meeting of the sfauvengs im supervisor cowen the chair and supervisor wiener the vice chair and supervisor peskin and our clerk is andrea ashbury i want to thank jesse larson mark that are troifg via sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . Completed speaker cards and docum...

To thank jesse larson mark that are troifg via sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the may 3rd i 2016 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you so much please call item one a planning code to modify the measurement of roof line no the c3 district colleagues weve heard and continued this i got a request from the sponsor to table this item before tha...