and he was clearly attracted to helen. now i won't say what the nature of this attraction was, it's hard to say. helen believed that he was in awe of her for many ways. the subject of hitler's sexual orientation -- i don't think there was nothing sex between them, but he liked being in her company. and most significantly, in 1923, there is the beer hall push. hitler tries to seize power in munich. and the nazis are fired upon by the police. hitler is injured, his shoulder is dislocated. several nazis are killed, including his aide that he was marching arm in arm with and seeks refuge in helen's house and putsy has fled to austria. and next morning, helen gets a call from her mother in law saying the police are coming to your house next. they are looking for hitler and going to arrest him. and in the scene which i describe in detail in the book, helen goes up to tell hitler, look, get ready, you are going to be arrested and he has a gun in his hand. and helen at that point is convinced in her own mind that he is thinking of

we are on items seven -- item 7, grant acceptance, helen filter -- helen hilton raiser. >> good afternoon. i am here to ask for your acceptance of a grant of approximately $11,500 from helen hilton raiser to support free youth swimming lessons for children in diverse and underrepresented communities who otherwise might not be able to afford them. this grant directly aligns with the department's mission of providing imaging, educational activities and help the department to expand our already robust aquatics program. helen has proposed to provide a grant to the department to pay for the staff to implement the swim lessons. we will be offering them to about 180 san francisco public elementary school students during the fall, 2012. lessons will begin in september and end in november. we are calling this program the swim club pilot program. like i mentioned, lessons will take place at garfield pull in the mission district, and students will walk from their school site to the pool -- lessons will take place at garfield schoo -- garfield pool. the programs are designed for kids ages 6 and up, w

helen gurley brown died today at age 90. we get a look back tonight from nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: before there was "sex in the city" there was "sex and the single girl." >> well, i didn't write the book to help us. i wrote it to help the unmarried women in this country. >> reporter: natalie wood and tony curtis starred in the movie but it was inspired by helen gurley brown's 1962 best seller, a frank and forward dating guide that encouraged women to enjoy being single. brown was as bold as her headlines and dating columns, the consummate new yorker in zebra print and big earrings. >> i think that helen really helped create today's modern woman. i don't think that women would be in the careers that they have, that they would be ceos today if there hadn't been helen gurley brown. because helen said, you can do it. >> reporter: she was at the helm of "cosmo" for more than three decades, took an ailing magazine with a small circulation, and transformed it into an international brand, the bible for single girls as its publis

helen ditched him. she writes that hitler asked about her and she says -- and said, she is divorced. she is happy to hear that. she is still thinking about him. she divorces and goes back to the united states in the late 1930's and spends the war years there. in the 1950's, she decides to move back to germany and spends the rest of her life there and dies in her seventies. >> what parallel, if any -- i am afraid to ask the question -- what parallel to what happened is there here in the united stes at this time in our lives? >> i never feel that there is a great historical parallel or straight analogy. hitler was such an extreme case that i am hesitant to make direct analogies. i think there are a number of lessons from which i took away just from living vicariously through the lives of these americans in of the's germany. one -- through the lives of these americans in hitler's germany. the conditions have to be right. the economic conditions and political climate. that does not take away from the respon

woodruff: you knew, as we said, helen gurley brown very well.ittle bit about her life that would help us undetandow s bece the person she was. >> well, she turnedded her back on a conventional woman's life at the age of seven. that was 1929. she came from nothing. father died early. her mother was impoverished. she had a crippledded sister. she was really a horatio al jer hero. she emanated a new american dream, the idea of the slf-made won. >> woodruff: where did that come from? you were telling us today there was this self-reliance that stood out in helen gurley brown. where did that come from? >> she just... she was a very plucky girl. she didn't want to be a hill billy left in arkansas. she wanted to be a successful woman. she had the idea that she could actually do that without getting married until she got good and ready and found mr. right. she managed to get that idea across to working class women, ornaryomeniving in hard scrabble towns all over america with not much to look forward to but maybe a job at the 5-and-10, a boss/husband and

if they don't, he's off the hook. >> helene? obama tried out the schamus the dog line this week, this past week in iowa. the campaign has been holding that in the bag for several months. you should have seen him when he first did it. beside themselves. >> a quiet romney transition is in the works where there are people coming from boston to capitol hill to talk to 202-585-3835 -- republican lawmakers about if there's a romney win, what would they do legislatively. >> republicans will use the president's, you didn't build that against him and at the republican convention and traveling heck hers in charlotte. >> when we return, the big question we put to these folks this week had to do with chelsea clinton. she teased she may try her hand at the family business. >> we are suckers for this. chelsea clinton raised a few eyebrows this past wek when asked? she would try a turn at the family business. "before my mom's campaign, i would have said no. now i don't know." which powerhouse political family will see one of its own in office

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org.

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. >> we'll talk to gale she ehee about helen gurley brown.'m howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> when paul ryan stepped on to the national stage last weekend, the media spotlight shined rather brightly on his personal side. >> his message is he's been going through the iowa state fair, et cetera, has been, listen, i flipped burger at mcdonald's, i'm a regular guy. >> he's an avid bow hunter who likes to pose with his kill. and he's obsessed with fitness. a devotee of tony horton's p96 workouts. >> vice presidential candidate paul ryan talks about his grueling workout routine. can you show us the throwing elbows move? >> it's this here. and then it's the number-one growing sport in america. the abs and core, you get on the floor. >> but journalists soon got off the floor to look at the wisconsin congressman's record. >> now ryan also admits when he looks back on some of his own votes, he feels "miserable about policies that added to the deficit," too. >> while ryan might be the running mate, it's his record driving much of the deb

crip helene? >> no. chris: a wipeout for the big dog, for bubba, for elvis. thanks for a great roundtable, sam donaldson, kelly o'donnell, helene cooper, john hileman. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you back here next week. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

helen gurley brown was a huge success. half a century after she uttered the word sex out loud. >> sex, of course, is not the determining force in a woman's life. i say it's one of the three best things there is, and i used to say i don't know what the other two are. finally i decided what the other two are. it's called eating and breathing. >> kate white is the current editor in chief of "cosmopolitan," and she joins us this morning. welcome. >> thank you. >> so, what do you think it is about this woman that made her so powerful? >> well, she really listened to women and she listened to their needs and desires and wasn't afraid to speak candidly back to them. and i think that "cosmo," as she created it in 1965, it just was so authentic and really real, and women loved how fresh and candid it was. >> this is one of the people who really made the '60s interesting. that's what i remember. but she took a struggling magazine -- i mean, "cosmo," you know, was on the map, but it wasn't anything like what she turned it into. she c

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. >> thank you for being here. i want to thank the young people for being here, because you are the future. there are going to be things in this building and you are going to see that are not normal in those buildings yet. they are cutting edge, but by the time it you are my age, everybody is going to have this stuff, and you will be some of the first to see it. it is great to have you here. really quickly, this is a building we are proud of, because this is really who epitomizes the value in san francisco. it uses a third less power than a normal office building. it saves money. i want to kick it off by introducing the mayor over his career he has have so many different figures on this building from being the administrator to being the mayor, so this is a welcome thing. phyfe good morning, everybody -- >> good morning, everybody. i have got the same eyes as you today. this is the first time i have stepped into this building as wel

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. >> the things commission. the meeting is called to order. we'll start by taking the role. >> commissioner studley. >> consumer hayon. >> commissioner renne. commissioner liu is excused today. the first item on the agenda is public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the aendda that are within the jurisdiction of the things commission. >> thank you very much, commissioners. and, of course, the public library don't give money to the friends of the library nor accept it. it has been since march 26 that this things commission has had a regular meeting, nearly four months, virtually a third of the year. it is like leaving the city unguarded this is a disgrace, especially in view of the grand jury report. i distribute to you through your staff a flier reminding you that july 13 was the one-year anniversary the letter to mayor lee that the president of the library commission proving that ethics is meaningless for the public

thank you, andrew, thank you, fred, thank you, helen. eric. >> the court: done it again.l me what is up next episode. >> we have another fascinating topics. so it turns out that there seems to be and underlying common pathological mechanism, alzheimer's, the frontal tell proarl dementia, park sons disease, huntington disease, these degenerative diseases of the nervous system and all due to protein miss folding and these abnormal proteins forming aggregates, and the aggregates spread from one cell to another, so we are going to have people that specialize in parkinson's disease and huntington's disease and the person who discovered this mechanism, they will all be here to describe this common scene that is emerging that pulls together all of the desubsequent rative, degenerative areas of the brain. >> so those who have been listening to this and those of you who would like to have more information, clearly you will see at the beginning respective institutional affiliations who have been part of here and also go to my web site and see, rebroad cpa's of this, clearly, when y