i understood ed lee and anita lee. so the lee family, thank you. i think it's incredibly important for us to up lift and continue to remember what a great man ed lee was. anita, perhaps one day, you will have grandchildren. no pressure, tanya, breanna. one day, perhaps you will have grandchildren that you will be able to point to the sign and say this was -- this was named after your grandfather. and to mayor lee's mother and sister, thank you very much for sharing your brother and your son with us. and to the larger community, i woke up excited today because i think that it's an exciting time for us to remember good people, and quite frankly, newcomer was an ugly name, and i can't think of a better name, a better name than ed lee, anita lee. it's just a warm feeling that i get when i think about the lee family and the contributions that they've made to all of san francisco. i'm grateful for the fresh faces and the students that will maybe one day grow up and out of curiosity study and understand who ed lee was, his principles, his legacy. on the d

[applause] >> i want to take the opportunity to thank the lee family. anita, thank you so much for being here and allowing us to do this on behalf of you and your entire family. pansy lee, mrs. lee, thank you so much for being here. i know ed would have loved for you to be here in this moment. thank you, sf sister, and standing so closely with him for so many years. thank you for being here. i also want to acknowledge my board commissioners, my coautho coauthors matt haney and emily merase, and shimon walton who signed onto coauthor this. i want to acknowledge ike kwon from the p.u.c., marry johnck from the arts commission, and lydia so from the arts commission. i also want at that thank reverend norman fong for being here, and the edwin m. lee democratic club who has carried his honor as well. this is a really special time for us, and we have so many other elected officials who wanted to be part of this because he was so instrumental in each and every one of us that are up here this morning, so we'll be acknowledging our city assess or-recorder, carmen chiu,

lee. thank you. that was so nice. thank you, david and stuart and anita for this amazing event. this is a big day in the life of pew research. one of the cheapest way to get a laugh in america is to go out on the street with an open mic and ask questions about our government and about the news environment. what is striking about -- the number of ways, and i will redo -- i will read you numbers that will depress you. more information has been opened to more people in more ways than ever before. we have the cable tv revolution and then the internet revolution . astonishingly, the same proportion of americans can answer these questions correctly and incorrectly now as when gallup was asking many of these same questions in the 1960's and 1970's. you would think the impact would go in a different direction, but it doesn't. so, here is a little bit of what we don't know about what is going on in the country. there are occasional surveys about civic knowledge. the most recent one in 2017, 20 6% of americans could not name three branches of government. one third could name a single bran