House of representatives. And im a historian, has going. And we want to talk today about the history of African American representation in the 20th century. And we have a lot of artifacts, from house collection, they have to do with that in a lot of history to cover. In the last African American sort of to be elected in the 19th century leaves a 1901, george white of North Carolina. And then its a long time before another African American comes into the house, and that is oscar to priest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from this man, from the 19 twenties and thirties. But before a legit because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about oscar, and how he got into congress . So theres a long period, almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress, where there is no African Americans who served in either house or the senate. And that has everything to do with a gym crow laws that go in the books in the south. In the way that changes o
Europe is steady powell makes some remarks later on tonight road map begins with megadeal monday lvmh announcing a deal to acquire tiffany. Charles schwab buying ameritrade, 26 about the all stock deal it will combine the companies the two biggest publicly discounted brokers will have more than 5 trillion in client assets ebay set to sell off stub hub for 4 billion david has details on that. Lets start with this Historic Deal in luxury goods lvmh will acquire tiffany. The deal is worth 135 a share, two Companies Expect to complete that deal by mid2020. I assume you can fill us in on what is going to happen to the brand, synergies and all of that. Listen, i mean, it is an important transaction for lvmh, which tried twice before as my understanding and not been able to get there had done it privately. From a m a Strategic Point of view, this went about as well as sort of it had been could have been hoped for from both sides. Seasoned advisers on both sides, who i think i thought they wou
Ethan allen was one of vermonts founding fathers. He was the first colonel commandant of the original Green Mountain boys, and the Green Mountain boys were at one time the Largest Paramilitary Force in north america, if not for the actions of ethan allen, and the other Green Mountain boys, vermont may very well have looked different than it does today. Announcer welcome to burlington, vermont on American History tv. Located on Lake Champlain, about 45 minutes south of the canadian border. It is home to the university of vermont, and it is the states most popular city with about 42,000 residents. Our comcastp of cable partners, over the next 75 minutes, we will explore the city and region. We begin on the waters of Lake Champlain. To hear how important it was to the citys origins. Welcome to Lake Champlain. We are out here today on the spirit of ethan allen interiors. Great opportunity to tip to talk about americas first great lake when it comes to historic significance. Lake champlain
Good morning. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I want to welcome you back to the regularly scheduled budget and finance Committee Meeting. Im Supervisor Malia Cohen and to my right is supervisor chang and our vice chair yee will not be here and so well take that without objection. Thank you. Okay, moving on i want to recognize also sfgovtv, the assist with the broadcast and recognize the clerk of the board today is miss linda clark. Any announcements . Clerk please silence all cellphones and devices. And files should be submitted to the clerk. I think that i said linda clark and i meant that our clerk is miss linda wong. Okay, so first weve got several items on the agenda today and this is the second to last Committee Meeting of the year. And weve got some administrative items that well take care of today and first id like to call item 13, and item 13 out of order. And the sponsor is supervisor, and please call item 13. Clerk to establish the tenant assistant fund for housing. Super
And finance Committee Meeting. Im Supervisor Malia Cohen and to my right is supervisor chang and our vice chair yee will not be here and so well take that without objection. Thank you. Okay, moving on i want to recognize also sfgovtv, the assist with the broadcast and recognize the clerk of the board today is miss linda clark. Any announcements . Clerk please silence all cellphones and devices. And files should be submitted to the clerk. I think that i said linda clark and i meant that our clerk is miss linda wong. Okay, so first weve got several items on the agenda today and this is the second to last Committee Meeting of the year. And weve got some administrative items that well take care of today and first id like to call item 13, and item 13 out of order. And the sponsor is supervisor, and please call item 13. Clerk to establish the tenant assistant fund for housing. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. So the clerk, along with the sponsor, has identified that this item needs to b