james garfield. the second shortest tenure as president but he still was president. i don't think any committee has ever had before. spencer sits on a republican side with three declared presidential candidates. ron paul, michele bachman and thaddeus mccarter. they have primary in their caucus. the committee's work is challenging and important and we are grateful to the people who are here to help us figure it told a story about how the committee was formed and michael oxley had a major role and ron told the old joke, the jokes that have seniority much was the members about people taking michael oxley and sarbanes but as i told mike john dingell -- john dingell -- he credits mike with having divided the committee. that is where we are. is an extraordinarily interesting committee. it is a combination of some of the most difficult political issues that we have and some of the most complex intellectual. the financial situation is a very hard thing to do. it is complicated right now by the fact the we ha

without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

roof work at garfield pool is complete. you had authorized a substantial amount of money to replace the deck at one property. the cost and scope of the project put that project into the ada realm. so it is now considered an alteration, rather than a repair. so we are removing this project and moving it back to rec and park planning to further address the ada requirements, the scope of that work, which may also require an accessible path of travel from the concert meadow to the deck. that money will fall to the contingency balance. balboa pool. the planning is complete. that work will start in september of this year when the poll closes for its annual maintenance. mayor llama clubhouse, the roofing is almost complete. a bit of a cost increase out of the contingency for hazmat and asbestos removal. union square. the replacement of the failed light fixtures in the pavement has been planned out. the department has, at the request of commissioner harrison, identified an alternative funding source. the downtown park fund can fund

. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside,

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[inaudible] >> james garfield. james garfield was chairman of the banking committee, and then 10 years later, ascended to the presidency and was elected in 1880. and, of course, a buckeye. [laughter] are you taking notes, norman? [laughter] by the way, the house, i've been doing my homework, wrong. the house greeted the banking committee in 1865 right after the civil war. interesting enough, the senate deliberated on the possibility of having a banking committee, and they got right to work on it. and 50 years later we needed a banking committee in the senate. [laughter] literally, you can't make this stuff up. well, i couldn't resist poking a little fun. but it's funny, the biographer for garfield recounts some of the issues that the banking committee had when he was chairman after the civil war. there was a massive national debt as a result of the war, but at the same time a fund for reconstructive was needed. the wartime system of high tariffs had to be overhauled, monetary policy and inflation had to be addresse

governments whoever they are in this been going on there for forty odd years we have been licking garfield's backside now for for decades whether we supply arms to them or we embrace them like that discussed in place they were blair put actually these people that you know the second time politicians move either way so one of we're kissing could off his backside and now we're trying to kick it it's ridiculous so the media do have a role and the role of the media. is to expose that we are trading with dictators now so what does the government say they say we have to be you with the reality of political reality we have to we have to trade with these people and then somebody wakes up whatever to do and so trading when will this problem is that. it is pathetic absolutely pathetic but at the same time it every so often the government changes power and when the government changes sprout their view changes power so there's no consistency to my mind actually the media have been pretty good they've been pretty good the problem we face now is we're now at war with people and we don't want so we actuall

about aliens or merely some bacteria if we're talking life forms of course particular form such life garfield is a separate question of course where there is life until it ends and civilization are a possibility that's going to revive as a primary importance in what form. of the sun what i'm going to tell you is a paradox because the form will definitely be well known to us only in my opinion and i believe experts generally agree on this life and intelligence should they exist elsewhere at all should be highly human like you see essentially the origins of all of the same just as it is with the atoms molecules or macromolecules or fundamental laws of physics apply invariably. these rules have been fairly recent wasn't explained and all you need is the right environment that would enable a process like to start with for example the atom of hydrogen that originates in a galaxy located millions of plastics away from us and that is hundreds of millions of like yours where it is absolutely identical to the hydrogen atom and the rituals in our souls it's a relative because fundamental laws are you k

for having me we're now in a wait and see mode with regard to libya not just i'm going to work at garfield's but with the libyan people will do in his absence let's hope democracy wins that it . crazy alert pour in activism america's most notorious animal rights group peta may have just found the best new way to reach a wider audience they're starting their own porn site that's right the group whose ads have previously featured nude women posing in cages to protest wearing fur and women swallowing along vegetables to promote not eating meat is now going all the way and just doing straight porn in a conference call with the prosecutor confirmed that they are lindy looking into a register in a triple x. website saying we live in a twenty four hour news cycle world and we learn the racy things we do ours that measures the most effective way that we can reach particular individuals the group said that while the site will have its fair share of pornography it will also exposed viewers to graphic images of animal slaughter houses in case that's your thing too i spoke to get a little more attention

house member to the presidency since james garfield. >> yes, and of trifecta. he was a member of the house, also the nominee of the legislature of ohio. have been elected by the legislature of ohio to be their senator. he was leaving the house to be a senator. he was the dark horse. so what we're seeing today, especially in the communication revolution, is you are generally down by the district in which you are covered by the local press, and which the media may be under smaller markets, and you find yourself -- you have youtube, twitter, facebook, c- span -- you have the ability to take your message out said the boundaries of your district to a greater extent than ever before. this is why senators, house members, even if they decide not to run, certainly have voices being heard across the country far more than ever in the past. >> do you feel yourself qualified to be president? >> i think you always feel qualified when you see the office, but you have to be very realistic that it is a very challenging job. i do not think there has ever been an occupant of the

one thing that garfield once said about his time at williams, he was talking about the mark hopkins withthe president of williams college for think almost 40 years, jim, susan? and he said my definition of the best education is mark hopkins on a log and a student on the other end of the law. all i can say is jim burns was my mark hopkins. [applause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't yo

i was born into the garfield presidency but thank you,cy, have a wonderful birthday.onderful working with you, you are a real pro. despite your very young age. and another guy who is a pro and who will play a crucial role is senator mike crapo, republican from i'd low -- from idaho and he deserved on the gang of six and many are saying he would be great on gang of 12. is that what they call it? >>guest: committee, committee. >>neil: the next wave of the next wave of reduction. have people kicked your name around? >>guest: people are making the suggestion and i will just see what senator mcconnell decides to do but i will work closely with them one way or another. >>neil: a gang or a committee, are you slur you would want that? >>guest: the knives are out. and they will be out on this, too, but it is important. >>neil: but the junior goal is to come up with $1 trillion plus in additional cuts that are already hinting of revenue or tax hikes and you have the tea party members hearing it and will we see all of this we have just seen all over again in another few months?

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arthur garfield hayes, roger altman, maybe these were heroes of my time because they were founders of the aclu, and many others. one is lincoln stevens, and if you read the book carefully, you find jack was influenced by part by the wonderful autobiography, and so i came away today because this is not only bastille day comer this is the date that sacco and vanzetti were executed. so my but if it is what would have happened if darrow had been their lawyer and had not been rejected by the sacco and vanzetti defense team which thought he was too much of a chicago midwesterners for this new england elite crowd. the result might have been different. but at any rate, let us welcome jack farrell. [applause] >> it's really nice to be introduced by david pollack julie gave me great insight for the tip o'neill book. he was a wonderful help. i came early tonight so i could listen and make sure the bookstore was passing it to great hands, and i was assured by meeting them and talking to them that it is you really are a wonderful community of people and i think the great thing about politics and p

one thing that garfield once said about his time at williams, he was talking about the mark hopkins withpresident of williams college for think almost 40 years, jim, susan? and he said my definition of the best education is mark hopkins on a log and a student on the other end of the law. all i can say is jim burns was my mark hopkins. [applause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't you sa

garfield made his run, that's been a longtime now. ryan probably just can't get there fast enough. rick perry has been able to vault into the top tier in sort of a mano ymano race with mitt romney. he has been able to launch really well. ryan would have to start smaller and grow and grow and grow. that would be a lot harder to do. as an opponent to obama on the trail he has a lot of appeal and he is good at arguing these points and talking about the fiscal message. i don't know whether his lack of executive experience, whether his lack of gravitas are what the republicans are going to want to contrast with obama who they basically say is in over his head. megyn: thank you. three days after he came in second in iowa's straw poll and he was very close to coming in first. texas congressman ron paul has many supporters who say he is still not getting any respect from the media as a legitimate candidate. now ron paul is responding with a new campaign ad and he joins me live in our next hour to talk about his approach, and i'll ask him why he thinks he is not getting the same coverage as

garfield had something on the ball. but what we're seeing today, i think, especially in this might be case revolution is you're no longer a house member generally bound by the district in which you are covered by the local press and be which the media maybe in the detroit market or smaller markets you find yourself. you have twitter, youtube facebook, c span, you have the ability to take your message o outside the boundaries to a greater extent than ever before. this is why house members even if they decide not to run certainly have voices being heard on a far more regular basis than ever in the past. >> host: so do you feel yourself qualified to be president, to be commander in chief? >> guest: i think you always feel qualified when you seek the office, but you also have to be realistic to understand the office is a challenging job. i don't think there's ever been an occupant of the white house who said they were fully prepared of what happens in the office because not only the day-to-day administration, but you never

who was able to garner more attention your new spider-man or garfield as the new tsunami. >> it's a tossuptle time down the road. >> are you disappointed the big screen didn't go that route? >> in publishing we moved so quickly. we turn on the dime, the plan for the movie is well under way. i wouldn't be surprised. we tend to be quite influential. >> you might be on to something. the feedback has been positive? >> it's been great, i'm excited to see and do you think it's your first glimpse of spider-man today. >> alex thanks so much. here's erica. >>> thanks, 2,000 years ago the elite of ancient rome wore pearls. today that traditional mark of the rich and powerful and maybe preppy is becoming much more affordable thanks to china. "early show" contributor katrina szish has more. >> good morning. from a creature as ugly as the oyster comes a gem fresheured for its beauty. pearls begin as a grain of sand or piece of tissue inside a mollusk. the end result is a piece of jewelry growing in popularity as its price continues to shrimpg. shrink. audrey hepburn loved them in "breakfast at tiffanys

hedge fund managers in wall street pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or construction worker in garfieldpholes, i've got to think republicans finally will give on those. i think democrats will look at what do we do with entitlements. but one place i won't go, i won't go to raising the social security retirement age because there are so many people who work in factories and work construction and cut hair and work as waitresses, they can't work till they're 70. people like you in the studio and i can work till i'm 70 if the voters allow it. but the fact is if we can find a way to differentiate there -- >> right. >> but certain things to me are non-negotiable. >> how do welow down the rate of growth in medicare to make that program sustainable the next 20,0 years. >> well, the issue is growth in health care costs. medicare is run more efficiently in terms of administrative costs than private insurance. we've got to find a way to deliver -- it's health care costs overall that are eating us up. people don't get raises because the company is paying more for health care. government can't afford

abraham lincoln aside, americans have not elected a sitting house member today presidency since james garfieldfour of the last six presidents have been governors. the republicans like chief executives. democrats seem to like gel -- legislators more often. we only collected a sitting senator three times and we had to in 2008 because there were both sitting senators. also, the last three presidents have each been elected on their first criteritry. americans seem to be willing to elect a president without having known him or her so long as they have in the past. host: we had a couple of callers and if you listen to governor rick perry with his texas twang, you can hear a dented george w. bush. -- you could hear eight tinge of george w. bush. guest: that is the sales pitch that the mid romney campaign is getting. they don't want to go back to texas although we have had -- if you can't george h. w. bush, there have been three -- lyndon johnson and the two bushes from texas and that does not seem to bother them to elect a second bush after the first bush got rejected for a second term. i'm not sure

here is dorothy garfield, evanston, illinois. 103.. loves doing cross word puzzles. she's crazy about jay leno. jay, you've got a big fan. here you go. this is ernie may, colorado springs, colorado. 100 years old. loves to play the saxophone. he and mr. clinton ought to get together. happy man. we love him. happy birthday to you, sir. and we have mae weiss of delta, colorado. 106. loves to go to church. contributes her longevity to eating lots of veggies and. fruits. good for you. gwen zischke, state college, pennsylvania. 100 years old. loves to play bridge and sew. makes fruit pies and i bet she uses large crusts. that makes it the best. and angelina maher. 100 years old today. and can speak three different languages. that's it, that's all. and now back to new york. >> all right, willard. thank you so much. coming up next, just how healthy are hot dogs? everything you need to know about the summertime favorites. this is "today" on nbc. ♪ >>> back now at 8:37. this morning on "eat smart today," hot dogses, quintessential summer food,