he said, you're from brooklyn, right now. i have to, liz. i was tempted to say brooklyn is always the house, but this was john lewis. so instead i said, yes, sir. and then you know, he said to me something that i've never forgot and he said, well, you know, washington, d.c., be a tough place. i hear some great about you from your predecessor, sir. but this is a tough place i don't want you to get into any trouble. i unless it's good trouble. unless it's good trouble. and that was the story of john lewis's. so, you know we have to lean in to resilience of the journey and you know the fact that incredible leaders like a john lewis instance talk about in the letter i have freedom over fascism and we show an image of martin luther king jr speaking at the march on washington on 28th of 1963. and what that fight was all about then the march on washington for jobs and freedom is the full name of that march was. and the fact that we have to carry forward these fights into the future, it's so important. and the fact that the fights they they take a l

nomination for election to the position of speaker of the house of representatives the pride of brooklyn, the gentleman from new york, hakeem jeffries. [applause] >> the honorable hakeem jeffries, a representative elect from state of new york, have been placed in nomination. are there further nominations? there being no further nominations, the clerk appoints the following tellers, the gentlewoman from from north carolina, ms. foxx, the gentleman from new york, mr. morelle, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. style, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. torres. the tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in front of the speaker's rostrum. [indiscernible chatter] [laughter] [indiscernible chatter] the roll now will be called. and those responding to their names will indicate by surname the nominee of their choosing. the reading clerk will now call the roll. the chair: adams. jeffries. aderholt. johnson. aguilar. jeffries. alford. johnson. allen. johnson. amo. jeffries. amodei of nevada. johnson. ansari. jeffries. arrington. johnson. awken claus. jeffries. babin. johnson.

the brooklyn das office.nk you so much for what you have done. while overall crime plummeted by 15% across the entire city we all know safety is about more than just crime stats. it's about being comfortable riding the subway before he can send your kids to play in the park and feel safe people need to be safe they also need to feel safe. in the last few weeks we've seen or random acts of violence that shaken many new yorkers. i'm tasking the police commissioner of the city of new york to work across our agencies. double down on our commitment to keep writers safe we are starting by ending hundreds of new police officers into our subway system later this month giving our officers out on patrol to chuckle crime whenever it occurs. it also means continue to make smart capturing investments that prevent crime in the first place. that includes mediators who resolve conflicts on the streets before they escalate into violence and programs that give young people a place to play sports and build trust with law enforc

that has ever emerged from brooklyn.i'll show you the ropes, kid. >> they were a huge success, partly because of james murphy's ability to make pristine electronic music that still had a soul in it. where are your friends tonight? >> where are your friends tonight? >> what you start to see is not a genre of music or a trend. it's a scene. and though they were not a new york band, arcade fire seemed connected spiritually to that moment. sheltering. wake up. >> hold. your. >> mistake up. arcade fire was this big, anthemic rock band that, you know, made these songs that you just wanted to holler along with. >> gazprom drew caputo like. and to me, it felt like the moment that indie rock crossed over into something bigger. holiday or holiday and the best one of the year. it's the first time that you had indie bands soundtracking commercials for mainstream, multinational products, in part because everyone is trying to figure out how do i make money now that no one will pay for my albums? >> one, two, three take my hand and com

also, which is -- actually kind of like my old neighborhood in brooklyn where i grew up, it seemed is where the mansion we filmed at is. >> jimmy: the mansion. we lived in a mansion. no, we didn't live in a mansion. [ laughter ] in the smallest house you could possibly imagine. >> oh, okay. >> jimmy: you had to learn a brooklyn accent and all this kind of stuff, right? >> i did, yes. i went to brighton beach about a month early so i could fine-tune the accent. you know, walk into coffee shops, test it out. which is a little bit embarrassing to admit, but i did do that. >> jimmy: how do you test -- walk and talk to people, also walk around listening to people? >> listening to people. going to clubs. listening to the girls and how they speak. or i'd walk into a shop in brighton beach, and they would obviously speak to me in russian first. i would give them that blank american stare of only knowing one language. >> jimmy: they assume that you -- yeah, right. it's a very russian neighborhood down there, yeah. >> completely russian. >> jimmy: you learned to speak -- did you actually learn

welcome to the brooklyn book festival. my name is elyssa goodman and i am thetu author of an concrete. before we began i would like to let you know books by authors in the program can be purchased from books on call nyc who are directly outside and authors will be there signing the books immediately following the program. outside at the conclusion of this program. ask everyone to leave their seats so the next audience can be seated. i'm delighted today be moderating this panel, uncovering new york featuring the authors ava chin and ross perlin. after all, there's city quite like new york in the world so naturally it comes with infinite histories of its own personal cultural, political. today our will discuss how they've unraveled facets of new york history from the lower east side to harlem and beyond. in each of their books, there's a new york whose stories have been previously untold, detailing lives that shaped the city we know now. and now their bios ava chin a fifth generation new yorker is the author of the award win

ocean parkway in brooklyn is a good example. you're not going to get rid of the cars there, but we've succeeded with the speed and red light cameras that you don't have people driving through there now at 50 miles an hour. people are going 25 miles an hour. you know that itself in itself is a success. so, yes, most us need to be in a car sometime, but making sure that they are fitting themselves into the streetscape rather than dominating the streetscape is is is the is the goal here. and, you know maybe you hate transit, you hate pedestrian plazas, you hate bike. you should read the book just so that you understand how all of these things came to be. great. let me open it up now for questions from the audience, if we have any sir. hi, my name is. paul. to both. paul, i wonder what's your take about insurance which insurance. did the question? i said hi, honey, all over the place were in cold water. know what you're talking about? which. yeah, thank you, christopher. and thanks for coming out. yeah, i think the open streets just

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about the brooklyn subway even in a deteriorated state are running at capacity. there is not any capacity to take newis passengers onto the brooklyn subways from staten island. the bridge built capacity for subway service, who is going to pay to operate the service? subways not like a road were once it's built he spent most the money you need to build it. you areel actually creating for yourself a permanent new deficit for you operate that the 50% loss forever. moses said who's going to operate it? there were no answers to those questions. even then, in 1964 it was very simplistic. we wish mr. moses would do this force the "new york times," business community but he won't do it. thinking about it. these difficult questions we are still dealing with. how you fund the operating deficits on subways?or how you build more subway capacity? we have not dealt with them very well at several inflection points. cooks in new york city seems to it whips out between proms of scarcity and problems of abundance. we either have not enough people or too many. we either have not en

so, if you were hoping to buy cocaine in brooklyn this week, i guess you are out -- what's that?nd some already? okay. [ laughter ] that's right, federal agents arrested a man in brooklyn after they found allegedly more than 70 pounds of cocaine in his home. the cocaine has a street value of nearly two months' rent. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] we don't need to applaud for high rent everybody. google on monday unveiled a new quantum computer. it is so fast they haven't invented it until next summer. [ light laughter ] exactly how i thought it would go. good ol' quantum joke from our i.t. this is why you can't let the i.t. guys submit jokes. "trust me, it tracks." [ light laughter ] next summer is when you guys are going to get it. that's how that joke works. that's right. google unveiled a new quantum computer that it claims can do tasks in minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer ten septillion years to complete. just something to think about while you're watching porn on it. [ light laughter ] and finally, a man from idaho recently set the guinness world record fo

we got our butts kicked in brooklyn. like the brooklyn dodgers, we always lost in brooklyn. but washington recovered and the rest of that history is well familiar to you. this part of town, peg leg stuyvesant was our first governor when the dutch got here. they built a wall. they called it the stockade. now, it is called wall street. later on, a guy by the name of alexander hamilton figured it out. he would give up this city being the national capital city so we could be the city of capital. that's pretty good, right, steve? especially for your members from out of state and all around the country, we end up being the city of capital all the time. but in 1765, a full decade before the first shots were fired at lexington and concorde, this was the site where the colonies convened. 10 years before axing and concorde. -- lexington and concord. and so much more throughout that period. i will say this building represents so much of that history. george washington actually lived down the block, right by where the museum of the american indian sets. and thomas jefferson lived on mai

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the book is a deep dive into the outer boroughs brooklyn queens bronx places where their hundreds and hundreds of language communities now. and we'll have scenes from tajik is stand and have these trends local places that immigration the study of networks in new york we have into these connections and particular settings which is in all of our books. it grew out of multiple strands of that work and the six speakers profiled in the book are speakers i've known for years and worked with and i say can i injure you -- interview you for a book and finding a way to encompass some oft that work and also encompass a book written in english. you could hear the languages and see those languages on the page. you've recorded over 100 different languages primarily in new york as well at the archive center in t translated them so that's flowed into the world history and interviews along the lines they were talking about as well as long as the book research fromgu linguistics in w york city and trying to find any source. you have to read it againstt the grain because the sources are primarily in lar

do we have representation from brooklyn today? okay, we'll take it. and then last not least, tonight are today's moderators kate harding. she is the author of asking for the alarming rise of rape culture and coeditor of nasty women feminism resistance and revolution in trump's america. she holds an mfa in fiction, a ph.d. in nonfiction and has taught creative writing at stories, studio, chicago and my alma northwestern university, among others. she lives in rogers park. and, well, she's actually making her own bookshop that's opening this fall. it's called jarvis square books. that's awesome. so i'm going to pass it over to kate to kick it off. thanks. hi. thank you so much for that introduction and for having us all. i really excited to be here to talk these two books at a really crucial time for them because there's been a whole lot of talk. the pandemic began about, the great resignation and, quiet quitting and not so quiet quitting. and there's also a lot of stuff going on generationally where i was just recently as i got into bookselling in the p

ocean parkway in brooklyn is a good example. you're not going to get rid of the cars there, but we've succeeded with the speed and red light cameras that you don't have people driving through there now at 50 miles an hour. people are going 25 miles an hour. you know that itself in itself is a success. so, yes, most us need to be in a car sometime, but making sure that they are fitting themselves into the streetscape rather than dominating the streetscape is is is the is the goal here. and, you know maybe you hate transit, you hate pedestrian plazas, you hate bike. you should read the book just so that you understand how all of these things came to be. great. let me open it up now for questions from the audience, if we have any sir. hi, my name is. paul. to both. paul, i wonder what's your take about insurance which insurance. did the question? i said hi, honey, all over the place were in cold water. know what you're talking about? which. yeah, thank you, christopher. and thanks for coming out. yeah, i think the open streets just

and if we come to pepper at brooklyn, too much usually is in the high and the high end consumers. but uh, we have to look at it is that consumers in china right now, even in the high end, they're looking for discount as well. so even though it is limited to the input from the subsidies, the overall quote economy situations impact is larger. well, as regards to talk to you about an effective date. thank you. apple siri could be listening to use us without the consent. apples agreed to pay $95000000.00 to settle a court case alleging that its voice activated assistant violates it uses previously . i phone is complained that the voice recordings were shared with policies, including advertises. the tex thomas denied any of them doing and the preliminary settlement filed at the oakland, california federal court. and that's a show for this week. if you'd like to comments on anything that you've seen, i'm at a fairly good on x. try to remember to use the hash tag h i c t c o. you can drop us a line counting the cost of the elder 0 dot net is our email address, as always does more for you

he certainly was as we say in brooklyn a nudge. that's a good word. [laughter] without chairman durbin, we could not have confirmed so many judges in such a short amount of time. he's been an excellent and diligent partner every step of the way. i want to thank his staff and judiciary staff and my staff, my great counsel, for the great job they have done. i want to thank vice president harris who helped us confirm many nominees by deciding vote, many of them were 50-50, and without her being here, and she had to change her schedule often at the last minute notice, it might not of happened. thank you to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. we did have some support from a group of republican senators and that helped us. we think that as well. -- thank that is well. it is my sincere pleasure to turn it to the person who led the way in this great effort, our president joe biden, mr. president what you have done confirming a record number of judges will be one of the most important follow-ups of your legacy, which is of course very large and impressiv

nomination for election to the position of speaker of the house of representatives the pride of brooklyn, the gentleman from new york, hakeem jeffries. [applause] >> the honorable hakeem jeffries, a representative elect from state of new york, have been placed in nomination. are there further nominations? there being no further nominations, the clerk appoints the following tellers, the gentlewoman from from north carolina, ms. foxx, the gentleman from new york, mr. morelle, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. style, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. torres. the tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in front of the speaker's rostrum. [indiscernible chatter] [laughter] [indiscernible chatter] the roll now will be called. and those responding to their names will indicate by surname the nominee of their choosing. the reading clerk will now call the roll. the chair: adams. jeffries. aderholt. johnson. aguilar. jeffries. alford. johnson. allen. johnson. amo. jeffries. amodei of nevada. johnson. ansari. jeffries. arrington. johnson. awken claus. jeffries. babin. johnson.

i am honored to rise today at the house democratic caucus to place into nomination, the pride of brooklyne gentleman from new york, hakeem jeffries. [applause] >> of the names of mike johnson, representative elect from the state of louisiana and hakeem jeffries, representative elect from the state of new york have been placed in nomination. are there further nominations? being no further nominations, clerk appoints the following tellers, the gentleman from north carolina, the gentleman from new york, the gentleman from wisconsin and the gentleman from california. the tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in front of the speakers roost. >> politically speaking, we knew those were going to be different speeches. you saw lisa mcclain for the republicans nominating mike johnson for speaker of the house and pete aguilar nominated hakeem jeffries. he is an interesting and called it a nice beach and he jumped in there and figured mike as we figured he would. >> this is how the house chooses it speaker, this is the process and you have the tellers, who are overseeing what is

floundering charity at the time called the president and asked if he'd like to visit the site of brooklyns trip. president carter agreed and found his way to the lower east side. standing on the roof of the the dilapidated building he looked to the wealth of wall street to the south and to the power of midtown manhattan to the north, and then he looked down and saw an image he'd never forget, an elderly woman cooking breakfast over an open fire in the rubble of the building there in the heart of the richest city in the world. the habitat for humanity worker that was there with him turned to president carter and said if there's anything that you can do, we would take it. he said, if there's anything i can do, let me know. the worker said, maybe you can send some volunteer carpetten terse from your church. the very next day he called habitat for humanity and said he'd send some carpenters already, he would be one of them. and thus became the tradition of giving one week to build and restore homes for his fellow americans. it's remarkable to think one of the 45 men who served as president an

i remember working on raising money for my first film called brooklyn bridge. i was about 12 years old and people would tell me, this trial child is trying to sell them the brooklyn bridge and i got hundreds of rejections at at one point i remember writing a letter before computers, writing that i thought i was an emotional archaeologist and i was uninterested in the facts of the past or the dry reads. some higher emotional thing. it took me decades to sort of realize that clearly had to do with what was rooted in this excruciating loss. it's now 59 1/2 years that i've been without her and not a day goes by that i don't think of her and it's way too long to be without your mom. >> you make me cry here, right at the beginning. what i wanted to ask you about the work here though, if you hear from all the naysayers and the doubters at the beginning of your career it's almost unfathomable to anyone who knows you because people put your premieres on the calendar to make time to watch your work when it comes out. i think the fact that it's always been this phenomenon

entre los refugiados, estos nuevos cierres estarÁn afectando Áreas sobresaturadas de los condados brooklyntercera caravana del 2025 marcha contra reloj hacia la capital del paÍs, esperan llegar a su destino antes de que cambien las polÍticas migratorias con la nueva llegada de donald trump a la casa blanca. juan: una nueva caravana migrante saliÓ de la ciudad de tapachula, chiapas en la frontera sur de mÉxico en los lÍmites con guatemala. se trata de la tercera caravana del 2025. son unos 200 migrantes que caminan hacia la ciudad de mÉxico. se reunieron y avanzaron 6 km hasta llegar al retÉn migratorio de viva mÉxico en la salida de tapachula sin que nadie les impidiera seguir caminando. en su primer recorrido la caravana camino de madrugada 14 horas hasta que llegaron al municipio de huixtla. >> tener una mejor vida, lograr mejores cosas. siempre vamos en busca de eso, de ir mejorando y esperar a ver quÉ pasa. juan: los migrantes saben que la travesÍa serÁ difÍcil para llegar a la frontera antes de que donald trump tome posesiÓn como presidente de los estados unidos y cambie las polÍticas

someone who is a lifelong brooklyn resident, that is a dismaying thought. i wonder how you think about that. when you think and speak to other like-minded folks people who want to enter the public life, are you getting that sense as well? that you have to migrate given the changing climate? the enemy of the state. the state is in a state government has maybe come to the forefront. its attackers, regulation, ease of doing business. again, regulatory certainty. this migration from the blue states to the red states is one of the largest migrations the post- civil war migration by american blacks out of the south. this migration back to red states started before there was a notion of the enemy of the state. i think there is a risk premium that's being created. it's being created on tax insurgency. i have one investment in massachusetts. massachusetts put in eight tax and excess tax above a certain level. massachusetts is my biggest tax bill last year. i have one investment there. i think this idea of economic freedom i think it's economic freedom. i don't think

peggy: esta este albergue masivo en brooklyn, objetivo de quejas, incluyendo el asesinato de 2 migrantesiban documentos importantes. para junio esperan cerrar 46 refugios para solicitantes de asilo, estiman que esto les ahorrarÁ miles de millones de dÓlares. ilia: 35 estados del paÍs estÁn en alerta por la cuatridemia, 3 virus respiratorios y 1 virus estomacal. reportera: nos llena dios de salud advierten del aumento de enfermedades respiratorias en 35 estados. el doctor guillermo santos lo vivÍa diario en su prÁctica. >> hemos visto un aumento bastante grande. personas que estÁn llamando porque tienen enfermedad respiratoria. >> un poco frustrante, me di cuenta que con este tipo de virus, hay un poco de incertidumbre, aÚn en el personal mÉdico disponible para atender a uno, porque son cosas nuevas, sÍntomas combinados. reportera: ya se reportan mÁs de 5 millones de casos y cerca de 3000 muertes. >> es una recombinaciÓn entre 2 que ya eran bastante malas y tiene una mutaciÓn encima de eso. reportera:m recientemente otro virus ha estado ganando atenciÓn. se sabe que hay casos, aunque es d

other places you want to narrow the roadbed and you want traffic going more slowly, ocean parkway in brooklyn is a good example and not getting rid of the cars but we succeeded with the speed and red lightht cameras that they're not going 25 miles an hour and that in itself is a success. yes, most of us need to be in a car for some time and going for them and we're sitting themselves into the street scheme rather than dominating them is the goal here. i think doing those quickly afters good thing for new york recovery. itre would not have been possibe if they hadn't already proven yes, w we can have a block closd off for pedestrians and we can repurpose a space in the world is not going to fall apart. longer term challenge is you can't just sort of take away traffic on a wide roadbed and declare this to be an open street. you need programming going for the city and other levels of government just sort of known to do this and people being paid to advocate for transit and going to run the trains pretty frequently and so there are many idiosyncratic legacies and may be too easy to say if we were

and then in the brooklyn side, right on the other side of the verrazzano bridge, you have fort hamilton which is a u.s. army installation. so it's very concerning to me that we have these objects, we're not sure if they're drones or unmanned aircraft, but they are flying over sensitive infrastructure and facilities. the fact that we don't know what they are or who's behind them or what they're doing is very concerning to me, particularly in a post tiny spy balloon world. the fact that this administration allowed for chinese spy balloon to go across the country, over multiple military installations, is very concerning. we could potentially be having this happen again, it's like astounding to me that this is even happening without any type of intervention. you say it's no known threat, but is there still a possibility of there being a threat? at the end of the day, that's what my constituents want to know. >> yes. i am cognizant, and we all are in the f.b.i. of what this threat can look like. any way across the spectrum of sophisticated state actors, adversaries that want to hurt us, all

and people would tell me, this child is trying to sell them the brooklyn bridge. i got hundreds and hundreds of rejections. at one point i remember writing a letter before computers, writing that i thought i was an emotional archaeologist, that i was uninterested in merely the dry -- and facts of the past but some glue -- not sentimentality or nostalgia, but some higher motional thing. and it took me decades to, sort of, realize that that clearly had to do, was rooted in this excruciating loss. it is now, nicolle, 59 1/2 years that i've been without her. there's not a day that goes by that i don't think about her, and that is way too long to be without your mom. >> you make me cry here at the beginning. what ipd wanted to ask you abo the work, though, is, i think the reason -- if you read through all the nay sayers and all the doubters at the beginning of your career, it's almost unfathomable to everyone who knows you. people put your premieres on their calendar to make time to watch your work when it comes out. but i think the fact that it has always been this ph

i remember raising monoen for my first film, about brooklyn bridge and this shield and triing to sellridge and at one point i was an emotional archaeologist and i was uninterested in the facts of the past, but some glue, not sentimentality or nostalgia, the enemies of good anything, but some higher emotional thing and it took me decades to sort of realize that that clearly had to do and it was rooteded in this excruciating loss. nicole, it is now 57 1/2 years that i've been without her. there's not a day that goes by that i don't think about her and that is way too long to be without your mom. >> you're going to make me cry here at the beginning. what i wanted to ask you about the work, though, is i think the reason, if you read through all of the naysayers and all of the doubters at the beginning of your career, it's almost unfathomable to everyone that knows you. people put their premieres on your calendar to make time to watch your work when it comes out, but i on eye think the fact that it has always been this phenomenon of someone who experienced pain and loss, but stayed open, c

liz: i would imagine queens brooklyn, all those places. when we look at what's happening in l.a. there is a gouging rule, there is a law that you cannot charge anything over 10% higher than what the previous price before the crisis was but a lot of different realtors are demanding more from seven months, a year of rent, they are tripling prices and tell me what you know of the law and what will you expect to happen to realtors and brokers that do that. >> as far as i know no penalty against the realtors in the ask so far is coming from the owners and the landlords were taken advantage of the situation, you cannot raise pricing at a rental north of 10% of the most recent price, the penalty isn't that great and your call what is it mean to be a disaster capitalist, yes a forest fire a wildfire in the palisades is a tragedy, we saw prices skyrocket emerge april may june july same thing after 9/11. it's enforcement that may be the issue with the massive housing crunch and bidding wars we found all of our horton he found this on instagram and he's doing the omens work in making sure w

alexis mcadams outside of the court room in brooklyn. how did the arraignment go to today?n, it went quickly and only in there 10 minutes or so but reading through court documents we got where he was told and hurt the country and in new york city five years. one thing he didn't remember according to him is heading this moment on fire after he showed the video surveillance of him using a lighter to set this woman to blaze while she was sleeping. he's had, "oh, my god, that is me" and started to cry. inside the court appearance, the first time in front of a judge on arraignment and arson and murder charges after investigators say he used a lighter to set that woman on fire new york city subway last month. surveillance video shows at the crime scene but he says he does not remember the attack. later apologizing say he had been in a local bar in brooklyn and had a few drinks until he passed pier until the woman woman who is dead and identified was homeless. toshiba's 57 years old. can we talk so much about her but this is a photo from yearbook picture in high school. something

but we grew up in places as varied as brooklyn new york and atlanta georgia the west coast east coast industrial midwest and everywhere in between. sometimes disagree. just as any tightknit family disagrees democrats are united fiercely united when it comes to fighting for working americans, for working families. in the months and years to come democrats will show where our values live through our actions and words and through the policies we push in this chamber. democrats are here to tackle the biggest problems that face our country. democrats are here because we need to make housing more affordable for the millions struggling to keep a roof over their heads. we need to make sure americans earn higher paychecks, keep more of their paychecks too. democrats are here because we want to lower the cost of childcare and outrageously high expense too many american families. democrats are here to defend the women's right to choose to defend our fundamental liberties and defend the wellspring of democracy. we want to help our small business owners thrive and function as the engines in our ec

but we grew up in places -- we grew up in places as varied as brooklyn, new york or atlanta, ga or the west coast and everywhere in between. we sometimes disagree as every tight-knit family disagrees. but democrats are united when it comes to fighting for working americans and working families. in the months to come, democrats will show where our values lie, through our actions and words and through the policies we push in this chamber. democrats are here to tackle the biggest problems that face our country. democrats are here because we need to make housing more affordable for the millions struggling to keep a roof over their heads. make sure that americans make higher paychecks. democrats are here because we want to lower the cost of child care, outrageously high expense for many american families. democrats are here to defend a woman's right to choose, to defend our fundamental liberties, to defend the well spring of democracy. we want to help our small business owners thrive. we want to help americans save more money when they go to the grocery store, when they go to the pharmacy,

founder of a fledgling charity called president carter and asked if he wanted to visit a site in brooklynhis trip. president carter agreed and found his way down. standing on the roof of a dilapidated building he looked out on the wealth of wall street to the south, to the power of midtown manhattan to the north, and then he looked down and saw an image he would never forget. an elderly woman cooking breakfast over an open fire in the rubble of the building, they are in the heart of the richest city in the world. the habitat for humanity worker that was there with him turned to president carter and said, if there is anything you can do, we will take it. if there is anything i can do, let me know. the worker said, maybe you can send volunteer carpenters from your church. the very next day, president carter called habitat for humanity and told them he would send carpenters, and that he himself would be one of them. thus began his tradition of donating one week every year to build and restore homes for his fellow americans. it is are markable to think that one of the 45 men who has served as

one of my most memorable ones was to massachusetts and i had a leader there who was from brooklyn new york. , he was a cuban-american and his name was eloy crews. i would read a few verses from the bible, in spanish using a , different vocabulary than the one i had used in the navy, i might say. and he would give the final salvation to perspective followers of christ. he was more than successful in winning those souls to be christians. when we got through with our assignment in massachusetts and begin to leave to go back home, i asked him, what is the secret to your success? he was a little embarrassed about my question but he finally said, "i tried to have two loves in my heart. one is for god and the other love that i try to have in my heart is for the person who happens to be in front of me at any particular time." that is a very profound statement and one i remembered ever since that time. since leaving the white house, i've been a professor at emory university, finished my 36th year as a professor. claims is still a town of 1700 people. it has grown a lot since i was a child. we