thanks to chair brown and richard neal.applause] one of the first things we did was to protect pensions for as many as 2 million union workers as we signed the butch lewis act. the most significant act to protect unions in 50 years. it helped them retire with dignity. just like the social security fairness act. what i'm about to sign, when i came to office and promised i would also protect social security, i never thought we would have to make that promise but we still do. i said that if anyone tried to cut these programs, i would stop them. that is the promise we have kept. even in the face of cutting these programs, i know there is a lot more work to do to improve and expand benefits including those who need it most. to protect social security for the long-term and asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share and so much more. we could not have done this alone. to the people in this room, the people around the country who did the work and kept the faith, thank you. our economy today is the strongest economy in the world.

he is contributing editor, vanity fair and sterling brown, endowed chair of the english department, howard university. and his latest book, the message. he shares his thoughts on race, racism and equity and all of. you tonight have a copy of that book. so that's exciting. we are proud to welcome him back home. baltimore tonight. he will be joined in conversation with the host of midday on wypr tom hall. please join and welcome to a.c. coates and tom hall. they're happy to see you. but. dantley wow, i'm able to see your. it's really great to meet you. welcome back home. for folks who may not know you grew up here. tell us about growing up here. where did you grow up? her. i was coming down. it's funny you ask. i was just coming from my mom's house when my wife and i was giving her a running narration. and after we turned off of liberty heights where i got my nike snyder burger going to and pass the girls in public library. i guess what it would be to branch it in our private public library and this is actually really important because god, i must have been. my mom taught me to read as well.

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chair. unfortunately today's agenda reflects a conditionation of this trend. violates the brown act and charter for months commissioners questions to add items denied. depriving the the opportunity to deliberate on important matters within our jurisdiction. this delineate instruction infringes of powerhouse with the director and the commission. well is a long stands precedent dating back to 18 huh presents [inaudible] this was established to ensure transparency and protect public interests. it maintains a balance with department or political justice and voices of the public on this commission. the separation is not optional it foundational to good government. let us proceed to honor the principles and retory intel rit tow our role as commissioners and the public. thank you. >> there has been a request to potentially provide a continuance for 5d. call the first order of business. >> thank you. the first order is item 1 roll call. commissioner members respond when i cull your name. commissioner. >> here. >> commissioner drew. >> present. >> commissioner limb. >> here. >> vice chai

chairs, the big eagle form side tables that are around the room. the only thing that teddy roosevelt wouldn't recognize there is that the walls in his day were oak paneling and they were dark brown, and then he had the animal heads that he hung all around the room. so if he were to walk in today and see these white walls he might say it's sort of nice, i remember this room but it's not exactly the way i left it because they didn't survive the harding administration. the dominant feature over the mantle is the great gp healy portrait of a thoughtful, perhaps perplexed abraham lincoln. and it's a very, very powerful image. >> that painting was bequeathed to the white house by mrs. robert todd lincoln in 1939, as robert todd lincoln is alleged to have said, this is the best picture of father that was ever painted. >> it was perhaps fitting that just below the portrait of tr's favorite president is a lasting american image on the fireplace mantle, left ear by president roosevelt and still seen today. >> those buffalo heads are there because of theodore roosevelt. he ordered it. the mantelpiece is not the original but it's a copy of the original, which was put there after the 1902 re