this is the henry adams street project. the purpose of today's hearing is to take public co+ completion of the draft e.i.r. there is no approval action requested at this time. the project consists of a couple of sites and the subject property at 801 brannan and 1 henry adams street, founded by division, alameda, in the city square neighborhood. this would include the demolition of the three existing commercial and industrial buildings at henry adams. this would include new construction of some -- three mixed use residential buildings as well as two mixed use of buildings. there be 824 dwelling units, with 54,594 square feet of retail. all the buildings would be 68 feet tall and are within the urban mixed use district. this will be dedicated to the city in partial fulfillment of the affordable housing requirement, with 100 of the unit's proposed that would be affordable housing that would be constructed under the mayor's office of housing. this would vary the developments on the site, and it would not include land dedication

in "the education of henry adams," hero to that busy he wrote that the british are eccentric and so were the self and they appreciated that. so were the south and they appreciated that. they were instinctively anti- slavery. nothing was going to convince them otherwise of that. there understood the fundamental truth of that in the way that people in their ivory towers do not. because of the economic suffering they endured through not having any cotton throughout the war in the south, there was the largest casual campaign in british history to keep them going body and soul through charitable projects. even though it was suffering, it was not as much as someone turned off all the oil in the world. >> so the cot and workers in england, where the empathizing with the north -- so the cotton workers in england, were they empathizing with the north as an economic argument or a humanitarian argument? >> it was a humanitarian argument. it was not that everybody in england was pro-south. many of the anti-slavery campaigns, including the great aristocratic families, understood that. tavis: what was

think of the education of henry adams, classic 19th century memoir. he think it's about somebody else but it's henry adams who writes it. this is how webster writes about himself. the principal event which took place while in w. come he never liked his first game, trammell but he did what any of the children or grandchildren to be called in one. presided in amherst with establishment of a college of that town. all right, here's his later life. webster is a very canny businessman. remember the book tour and as tabs and the infrastructure publishing business, and no one is interested in american dictionary. so he wants to go to your. emus back to new haven in about 1823. he wants to go to europe for some research. and he also has a new idea. is always thinking, having these marketing brainstorms. and his new brainstorm is to write a universal dictionary which would be valid in both america and england to market and in both places. and he wants to set up a conference between oxford, cambridge and him to decide what universal english is going to be. but o

and has just received of henry adams prize in federal government and was a finalist for the "l.a. times" book prize with history. she is also the co-author of the three roosevelts with james macgregor burns. and 2004 backer vf to urge washington.in that has everyone adequately introduced so now let's get to theth real reason you aret' here please call me to welcome james macgregorr b burns, michael beschloss, and susan dunn. [applause] >> we were freshmen at williams in 1973 togethertoge except you were a freshman student and i was a freshman faculty member at. >> she was seven years of and i was a freshman at william. >> guy like that version. [laughter] you have a good fortune to be gyms student and then hope you will tell us about that and also tell us about the senior thesis that euro with him. >> as you may have noticed we have williams college in common. i am happy to say that again just in case anyone did not e t the point*. there is no better undergraduate teaching done other than williamsne college and our only alumnus was james garfield who did not serve as president ver

of course one of his descendants is in the book henry adams who may be the best historian. >> charlie: who is it you most want to tell us. >> oliver wendell holmes, sr. holmesas a poet and essayist. a very small man physically, five foot four in a pair of heavy boots. he was a poet, published pt and he was a medical student. he saw no incongruity deving his life to medical sign and writin poetrs and writing essays and finding the monthly atlanta magazines. he was one that caught on to french and the whole way of life ther immiate. keep in mind charlie, they did not speak any frch, none of these people. french wasn't taught yet. modern european languages weren't taught in colleges. >> charlie: they had to learn the language when they arrived. >> yes. imagine you're plunged into medical school with thousan of students going to lectures, attending demonstrations of surgical processes and the like. and everything's in french. none of the other students speak english, and you've got to catch up. with a rigorous schedule that would be enough to exhaust anyone and not one of them to my knowl

. >>> joining me is congressman henry coyer and adam kinninger. gentlemen, good morning. congressman claire, the president asked the american people to call their congressmen, and we understand that some sites crashed, we're hearing that the server for the house is still down. what are you hearing? >> we're hearing from our constituents to make sure we don't have a default. we have to find a solution in a bipartisan way. i know there's two competing interests here, but i'm hoping that we get together and work something out. >> obviously congressman kinninger, a number of your colleagues said they would not support john boehner's plan, so i'm wondering if you will. >> well, i'll let every one of my colleagues speak for themselves. this really just came out last night. i'll say, look, once again we've taken a leadership role in trying to find some kind of compromise. i think it's important to remember, the grand compromise from a republican perspective, we feel like we are coming to the table, we understand we've put ourselves on a trajectory, and willing to pay for that, a