. >> hello, i'm chris not bierman. >> no. there's a chris p. >> well, this is chris bowman do you not have mop. >> go right head. >> okay. fine on the 240g9 of january i'm surprised my - the secretary didn't get it is made out to tom nolan and ed reiskin and others as well as with the board of supervisors i read the 19 page review from the planning department what is called for an exception from ceqa that was complete based on traffic data and in mid-day and at 4 o'clock as people testified the draft is worse between 5 and 8 o'clock at night inform studies about those and that was years ago we have the two lanes of traffic going to polk street there's not going to franklin it is already jammed you're going to have c n mc a densification of housing under plan bay area both long polk and van ness none of those issues were taking into account the coalition of the san francisco neighborhoods asked for eir that has absolutely essential about you go forward you need to see the human impacts your only advisory committee called for e

corruption, which in massachusetts in the early 1960's provided what we might call a target rich and bierman. his electoral -- target rich environment. his electoral trams were unique in a state that was only 2% black. where school desegregation was an explosive issue. where the face of prejudice might appear ugly with anger or thinly masked by codewords. in one early raced which he narrowly lost, his opponent claims to see no hidden message in campaign bumper stickers that read simply, vote white. repeatedly senator brooke was urged not to run for higher office. to bide his time until massachusetts was quote ready. indeed, in 1962, when he ran for attorney general his opponent was lead richardson. -- elliott richardson. a man with deep connections to the upper echelons from it. but ed brooke did not back down. a straight line can be drawn from his victories to another african-american in the national arena, four decades later. i was in high school when he first ran for statewide office, attracting so many democratic voters to the republican i marry that we had to work for months reregisteri

fellow was invaluable for making this project possible and i benefited greatly from the intellectual bierman to the many speakers and symposia learning from the other researchers the administrators and the staff. i would like to thank christian osterman roger lewis and the others who made this possible. amanda monies and pete vere sticker in particular. incidentally when i first considered what i would title the biography there were a few books called the strategist. in the meantime three books have been published in the same title. one is a police procedural another's a financial thriller and a third is advising how to be the leader in business needs. so much for planning. what is interesting though is that few in washington and around the country -- what is interesting is many in washington and around the country don't think of scowcroft is a strategist that merely as one of richard nixon and gerald ford's, national security adviser to george h.w. bush and a longtime washington insider. for some the title may ring counterintuitively. if he's not a strategist in the sense of the sun tzu wer