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For being here today. Well, thank you very much. And its quite an honor to be here at the fdr library and let me tell you a little bit about why i wrote the book and a little bit about myself. I actually as was mentioned have worked in the field of aging so obviously Social Security was something of great interest to me. And i was here in 1985 at the 50th anniversary of Social Security on august 14th. There were 7,000 people here there were people from Human Services groups and unions and so forth and i came back in 2005 when the 70th anniversary was held actually in 85 fdr junior was the mc a...

We are in prospect garden here in princeton new jersey. This is the card and allen wilson designed when she was a resident of Prospect House when wilson was in the white house. She brings a white house gardener back here to this garden at Prospect House. She says to the white house gardener lets recreate the section of this garden at the white house and of course this is the famous rose garden at the white house. Allen tragically doesnt live to see the rose garden completed however. She is dying in the summer of 1914. She is wheeled out into the space in a wheelchair and she watches as the gar...

Is but heres a point that people miss. Seven other times the president has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant and the law he side in fact was not going to endure. What about the preexisting Condition Program . This law was sold on the backs of people with preexisting conditions across this country and yet when someone showed up on february 1st of this year to enroll in the pcip program, they were told, sorry, sister, the program is closed. For 11 months people with preexisting conditions who were promised relief are simply wandering the country what they were supposed to do...

He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book ...

Harder to gather signatures. I think you know colleagues what happened there were very heavy books that were circulated to collect 31,000 signatures to qualify to place the measure on the ballot to reverse our decision last year, the first referendum on a board ordinance to qualify in more than 20 years. Now given this measure has qualified i think the city will incur massive cost for these handbooks and supervisor wiener and i introduced legislation to reduce the material required to be in the ballot handbook. My legislation would allow the department of elections not to include the full text...