expands the earlier context statement and ak tech tour and culture survey that was complete bid anne blumfield in the 1980s. under the contract and it was paid for by a national grant. the survey results were approved by the state office and were later officially adopted by the board of supervisors in 1999. although ms. blumenfield began an update, with funding from massive heritage and as a beautiful, she passed away unfortunately before her work was completed. these efforts were renewed five years later in 2004 by the san francisco northeast conservancy. it was formed as a 501c, and was raibl to raise funding by a lot of individuals as well as others to engage respected historian michael to research and expand on the earlier work. 18 years and many additions and revisions later, we finally, we're finally before you today for the adoption of the revised northbeach contact statement. i would like to thank mr. corebit for his amazing research along with gary gos, who contacted a lot of information on building permits and provided original blueprints for many of the northeast buildings which we

. -- sara blumfield. we have people here from the advocacy committee and members of the museum board of directors. tonight's program is sponsored by the museum's committee on conscience. this is our effort to deal with present day genocide, particularly the areas of response and prevention. the committee on conscience has two major goals. first, public education, working to sensitize the general public at large to the problem of genocide, the general problem of genocide. we do it through programs like tonight. we just took ambassador rise through the exhibit ourselves. the second part is out reach to policymakers. it was a blueprint on the government, to be better positioned on genocide in the future. to get on to tonight's program, is my pleasure to introduce to you ambassador susan rice, our permanent representative to the united nations and a member of president obama's cabinet. you have some biographical information on her, but i wanted her -- wanted you to know that she has had a very distinguished c

we are kind of a dwindling group these days so it is great to see mark blumfield who people call mr. capital gains was the guy responsible for so many of the great policy changes happening. you are back here in 1978, right? he is responsible for the 1923-- >> that was the disasters in 78. >> and jimmy p from u.s. news who is a good friend and is one of its top leading writers on economics these days. >> you can pronounces last thing. >> we just call him jimmy p but he is one of the great reporters. i am going to talk for a few minutes about how the book came into being and by the way, my good friend is here who is one of the great biographers of ronald reagan. when is your note-- new book coming out? september. he wrote a book on the 76 reagan campaign and now has a book coming out about 1980 and reagan is the central figure to our book. i am a big fan. it is so funny mention this issue about the trillion dollars because i was thinking about that in 1987 when it briefly worked for ronald reagan, remember when jim miller was the head of the budget office? we did something arthur in 19