Good evening. Good evening. Im steve we bert with the like librarys Public Affairs staff and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight. And thanks to rainy day books, our frequent and favorite collaborator and of course one over the nations great independent book stores. We operated 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. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a coup of oped pieces for the New York Times and for cnn business. After the death of david koch. Chris spent aye eight years ee. Americaed in kochland, the place and title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the very potent Political Network that was put together by da
Most of the world is designed for people who can see and hear and when we ask for accommodation , for example in braille instead of print, that limits our ability to get aneducation, to go and get a job. Ive experienced a lot of those barriers and i realized the law allows us to create change and i wanted to create change so my own personal story is, my struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book haben, the death blind woman who conquered harvard law, first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law school, is that right . Thats right what was that experience like . We had a lot of unknowns. I reached out to another deaf blind harvard graduate and asked them how did you do this . How did you do oral arguments , how did you do exams . I had to figure a lot of it out and it ultimately started back in almond trace law when i had to learn to navigate the school systems. One of my early chapters in my book is an experience where a teacher told me i was failing at class
Of this hearing. It has been quite a night, as well as staff. To the bureau of urban forestry, i think working with the sfmta to ultimately have a net gain of trees, in this area, by the 53 trees that are planted, it pretty entrepreneurial and a way to Work Together with city agencies to make sure we are doing things and hopefully disrupting this Community Less by having these projects be aligned. At the same time, i think it is incumbent upon us to maintain some trust by ensuring that we hold ourselves to the same standards that we would hold anybody else before this body. Even the exercise of finding the contractor, and all of that stuff may happen, that is the process we have and that is a process we would ask any of the contractor to go through. Even if it feels odd, i think it is worth it to go through. That is what we ask others to do. We should not we should be subject to the same standard. That said, i find this permit was properly issued with the one issue that they should fin
Inspire us to investigate and archivesur nations that among the holdings are documents going back to 1775. We have been handing out raffle tickets. That some books. Please welcome hello, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. A little background about myself , i volunteered. After i got my ba in history in 2010 i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. Im going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction
Lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, banker david rockefeller, media studies at columbia, he joined the cia in 1989 and later became a political and leadership analyst on the middle east. Dr. Robarge moved to the cia history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. Hes published several classified works as well as unclassified mono graphs on supersonic Reconnaissance Aircraft and intelligence the American Revolution and biography as director of C