hoover dam had cost $175 million. than deferred payment of $25 million allocated for fund control. hoover dam's cost is being returned to the federal treasury at 3% interest from the sale of hydroelectric power. it's fulfilled the hopes of expectations of those who envision this great project. colorado river waters that once destroyed man and his property now serve it. the colorado pours its waters into lake meade named for dr. elwood meade. lying calmly behind the dam they await users. served municipal and industrial needs of the pacific southwest, generate hydro electric energy and provide various other multi-purpose benefits. the clear waters have opened up the fast, new recreational fish and wildlife vacation land for america. picnic, go boating, swim, fish, and enjoy these important out door recreation products. hoover dam worked around the clock to serve water and power needs. falls over 500 feet through the spin stocks to spin the giant turbine wheels and then discharge to the river. this action is completed at

hoover dam had conquered the colorado.e fits to hold hoover dam seven big hydroelectric units were built into the mother house. generator installations began in 1935. the first generator unit end two began commercial operation october 26th, 1936 to serve the stiff los angeles. ones and, two the generators filled the pits as demand for electrical energy in california, nevada and arizona called them into service. finally in 1959, manufacturing and installation of the last generator began. for 25 years it laid dormant and silent except for number of other hoover generators. now as needed contracts were awarded for the generators manufacturer and installation. plants throughout the nation fabricated the many parts. the design followed that of other hoover generating units. it's a 95,000 kilowatt, 60-cycle, 16,500 volt generator. falling water from the reservoir that spins and powers the 1a6/ huge butterfly valve which permits the water to flow from the turbine weighing 2,000 tons the parts were shipped on 60 rail cars. the par

in 1930, president who bert hoover -- herbert hoover sign the appropriations bill to begin construction. in 1931ract was awarded to six companies incorporated. man and machines went to work to build this dam of unprecedented size, this modern civil .ngineering wonder reclamation engineers rushed to completion specifications and design drawings. site completedm their surveys and investigations. of man'ser determination to conquer the colorado river paraded between black canyon as construction got underway. the first major task was to divert river around the dam site. four tunnels were drilled to the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter, they averaged 4000 feet in length. were packed with dynamite and plaster. workman excavated over 1.5 million cubic yards of blasted material in 13 months. lined with were concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon daily before placing the concrete and the dam began. acrobatic workman prepared the canyon walls for each blast. suspended on ropes, they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. after each explosion, these daredev

hoover dam had cost $175 million.ss than deferred payment of $25 million allocated for fund control. hoover dam's cost is being returned to the federal treasury at 3% interest from the sale of hydroelectric power. it's fulfilled the hopes of expectations of those who envision this great project. colorado river waters that once destroyed man and his property now serve it. the colorado pours its waters into lake meade named for dr. elwood meade. lying calmly behind the dam they await

hoover? >> i have some parts of the diary of one of the wickedest men ever lived. he records it private and public in this diary. apparently never expected for us to have it. >> mr. hoover, there must have been some mighty interesting stories connected to the collection of these documents? >> a multitude of dramatic incidents. i recollect after the communist revolution in hungary there arose a dictator. the people finally rebelled. one of our energetic youngsters collecting material went around to the headquarters. he found there was nobody there. he proceeded to load the whole files of that outpost of communism is a truck an they finally wound up here in the library. another case was the one where i made a request of president ebert who was the first president of germany. >> after the first world war? >> after the first world war. it would be apropos to this effort. he gave me the complete minutes of the german war council presided over by the emperor, sitting once a week or oftenor. finally

hoover? also some parts of the diary of one of the wickedest man that ever lived and he records his various wickednesses private and public in this diary. goebbels. apparently he never expected for us to have it. >> mr. hoover, there must have been mighty interested stories connected with the collection of these documents? >> a multitude of dramatic incidents. i recollect that after the communist revolution in hungary, at which time arose a man named bila as the dictator. one of our energetic collectors went around to the headquarters and found there was nobody there, so he proceeded to load the whole files of that outpost of communism into a truck and they finally wound up here in the library. another case was the one where i made a request of president hebert, the first president of germany, the german republic. >> after the first world war. >> after the first world war -- for documentation that would be apropos to this effort and hebert gave me the complete minutes of the german war counci

and then we get to he hoover library, which was interesting because i came to the hoover library, a way a lot of people might come to libraries, not knowing a lot about hoover, knowing only what my teacher told me was that he didn't care about the depression and was very grumpy on that car ride with franklin roosevelt. and it's a great library. some of the funniest archivists -- they tell me, that's a quote, the third world of presidential libraries, from one of the archivists. he said, no one ever announces from the hoover library. so what they were doing when i was there was having a pool, and they were all guessing -- many of us are in offices and we have basketball pools. their pool was, how many days a year did hoover spend in his vacation retreat? and i saw them all discussing this and i thought, this is cool. and i learned a great deal about hoover there, and this is the house he grew up in. a keynesian childhood, and after going to the hoover library, i was so interested i ended up getting his memoirs, and i'm the one who read his memoirs. but the first volume, i tell you, it's

hoover dam has pointed the way to the fullest utilization of the colorado river's resources, truly a modern civil engineering wonder. >> this labor day, on the c-span networks, on c-span at 5:30 eastern, an education department summit on bullying in schools. at 8:00, bill nye the science guy and creation museum founder ken ham debate evolution o. c-span2's book tv, at 7:00 eastern, congressman james clyburn talks about his life from his youth in the jim crow south to his leadership position in the house of representatives. at 8:30, author sylvia on her book, "price of fame" about playwright, diplomat and congress woman clare boothe luce. and at 10:00 a.m., michael lewis discusses the hidden world of high-frequency stock trading. on c-span3's american history tv, at 7:15 p.m. eastern time, american artifacts looks at declassified documents related to the 1964 gulf of tonkin incident that led to the escalation of the vietnam war. at 8:00 p.m., president warren harding's newly released love letters. at 9:45, the life of nobel prize-winning economist milton friedman. find our television

then we get to the hoover library which was interesting because i came to the hoover library the whale lot of people come to libraries, really not knowing a lot about hoover, knowing only what my teacher had told me, that he didn't care about the depression and was very grumpy on that car ride with franklin roosevelt. it is a great library. some of the funniest archivists i met. that is a quote, the third world of presidential libraries. no one ever announces office from the hoover library. what they were doing when i was there, they were all guessing and many of us are in offices and have these basketball schools and so forth what their pool was how many days a year did hoover stands in his vacation retreat. i saw them discussing this and i thought this is cool. i learned a great deal about hoover's there and this is the house he grew up in. he had a keynesian childhood. and getting these memoirs, and the first volume is very interesting. he had quite a sense of humor and so one of the things academics don't seem to comprehend when they criticize libraries for not showing both sides a

that's the herbert hoover faction. then there was another faction which was we need a constitutional conservative, a guy who really believes in the declaration of independence which was central to cool in's thinking. he really -- coolidge's thinking. his christian view was as we all have a common father in god, the father, therefore, we're all brothers. any form of government in which i try to enslave you or you try to ensleaf my, be it in the form of world war sr., be it slavery, be it indentured servitude, all of that is against god's wish for all of us. and i go into some length on his christian faith, why that was so important to what he was trying to do. but what happened with the republican party is it was split ideologically x they realized they could not actually defeat the woodrow wilson faction, unpopular though it was, until they kind of come wind factions -- combined factions. so coolidge was very much a part of combining that funk. nevertheless, he recognized while herbert hoover was his commerce secretary

i think without his hoover.t the business news. >> cleanest cat walk we have had for a long time. we're keeping a close eye on the sanctions war between russia and west. today we're focused on poland. let me explain. good to see you. hello there. certainly fair to say it's an industry that doesn't get much attention. it's a difficult time now for poland's apple growers. we learn something everyday. poland is the world's largest producer of these babies, even beating china. until russia's recent ban on eu imports, poland was the biggest supplier to that russian market. the embargo on food may be hitting growers everywhere, it's especially painful for poland's mainly family farms. last year their apples accounted for 90% of the $450 million worth of annual sales to russia. autumn harvest about to begin, it's got to be decide what had to do with these apples. the business correspondent sent us this report. >> it promises to be one of poland's best ever apple harvest. families like this used to send across the borde

nevertheless he recognized that while herbert hoover was his commerce secretary herbert hoover also was not necessarily about the kind of politically small conservative declaration of independence approach to things. on the contrary. he dismissively referred to him as his wonder boy. he said for six years the man has been giving me unsolicited advice all that bad and refused to endorse them until the last possible moment which was never done at the time. to the last possible moment he refused to endorse him. why? because herbert hoover was a mighty executive and he believed in a progressive mindset that businessmen can run things better as if you are all cogs in the machine rather than free men and women who want to live a certain way. coolidge was very much opposed to that. the commerce secretary, how am i doing on time? the commerce secretary, have a lot to say. the commerce secretary at the time herbert hoover expanded the government massively in his own department. many of the things that he did in the 1930s when he was president, from 28 until 32 was fdr like. there was no distinct

herbert hoover signed a bad tariff which was the wrong thing to do. well, republicans did that a lot. they were pro tariff, put hoofer knew better because he made his trade in international trade, and he lived in london and asia and he knew how key trade was to increase prosperity. yet he talked himself out of vanity into signing halley, he didn't want to be overridden, and it contributed one of the factors that made the great depression great. it may even well be in the exhibits over there here at the library, the exhibit about history. so i -- we said, how can we show that hoover goofed by signing hally. he should have hesitated more. and we look for imagery and we knew that hoover played with medicine balls, like a big heavy ball. it was dr. the doctor there was the coolidge doctor, found him a medicine ball and he would heave it around with whatever staff were lucky never to get to play with him and it was kind of a -- a little bit funny, nonyoung person, man or woman, acting all macho about sports and working out in that way so we played on this,

so we said how can we show that hoover goofed by signing smoot-holly? of all people, he should have hesitated more. and we look for imagery, and we know that hoover played with medicine balls. that was his sport. like a big, heavy ball. dr. boone found him a medicine ball, and he would heave it around with whatever staff were lucky enough to play with him. and-kind of, you know, a -- and it was kind of, you know, a little bit funny. a non-young person, man or woman, acting macho about sports and acting out on that. and so we played that out on this page. and this is too small for you to see, and that's one problem with the book, it's even too small on the page, but you can see hoover in the bottom row of the frame, he's thinking he can catch the ball, but actually what happens is he gets knocked over by it. and that's what happened with smoot-holly. and the aide says, oh, sir, how are you? [laughter] and we tried -- so this is the way of capturing the goofiness of it all ask and also the foul -- and also the foul, the goofy error and then the tragedy th

that's fold by the story of the construction of the hoover dam. in an hour a 1960 interview with herbert hoover who discusses life beyond his presidency. and later u.s. army captain william johnston with his work on the republic of vietnam in the 1960s. that's all ahead here on c-span 3. >>> this labor day, on this c-span network, on c-span at 5:30 eastern an education department summit on bullying in schools. at 8:00, bill nye the science guy and ken hamm debate evolution. on c-span's 2 book tv james clyburn talks about his life from his youth in the jim crow south to his leadership position in the house of representatives. at 8:30 author civil a dukes morris on her book "price of fame." at 10:00 p.m. arthur lewis discusses the hidden world of high frequency stock trading. on c-span 3's american history tv at 7:15 p.m. eastern time, american artifacts look at declassified documents related to the 1964 gulf of tonkin. at 8:00, president warren hardings's love letters. and then that's followed by an interview with milton freeman. let us know about

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next, a 1955 department of the interior film about the planning and building of hoover dam. the story of hoover dam explains the engineering feats necessary for construction and promotes economic and recreational benefits provided by the structure. >> in 1930, president herbert hoover, for whom the dam is named, signed the appropriation bill to begin construction. under a contract awarded in march 1931 to six companies incorporated, a combine of six major construction firms, men and machines went to work to build this dam of unprecedented size. this modern civil engineering wonder. reclamation engineers rushed to completion, specifications and design drawings. crews completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to conquer the colorado reverberated between the cliffs of black canyon as construction got underway. the first major task was to divert the river around the dam site. to do this, four tunnels, two on each side, were drilled through the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter, they averaged 4,000 feet in length. drill holes were packed

there's also, incidentally, a very good picture of a hoover in the museum that has been -- hooverville in the museum that has been refurbished and reopened. if you get a chance to get over there, look out for it. the shelters were places not only for the marginal. the writer, matthew josephson, described the shelters in the new republic, and i'm going to read a short passage that includes his description. he found the east 25th street municipal shelter in the south ferry annex filled to capacity. the shelter served watery oatmeal and thin black coffee for breakfast, 20 ounces of coarse reddish-brown vegetable stew -- sometimes, though not often, with a beef in the broth -- three pieces of stale bread and black coffee for supper. the place was warm enough, almost too warm, he wrote, and filled with a nightly human stench. the men slept in shelter-issued rough cotton night shirts packed like immigrants in the steerage compartments of old steamers. truly he noteed star doneically, a nanolonger feel -- a man feel not alone. the warders turned the men out into the streets. some passed the h

so we said, how can we show that hoover approved by signing. of all people he should have hesitated more. and we look for imagery. a big heavy ball. it was the craziest doctor. whatever staff were lucky enough to get to play. and it was kind of a little bit funny. young person man and woman acting macho about sports and working out. we played on that. and it this is too small for you to see which is one problem. you can see in the bottom row. he is thinking he can catch the ball but what happens, he gets knocked over by it which is what happened with smoot-hawley. and then, you know, the ins aqueous. and this is the way of capturing the goofiness of an all and also the fall, they do fear, the tragedy that were the steps that led to the great depression. one of many, many bad decisions that caused the great depression. this is a picture. we had all kinds of people to draw. i was eager. it's hard to read from far away. but came and wrote to vote -- wrote to roosevelt the number of times. we think of the cartoon. we think of him being on roosevelt

hoover, i want to thank you for this session that you and i have had here together today. there's just one other thing i wonder if you would be able to give me something of your philosophy and your feeling about your fellow americans and about your country. >> rather an extensive subject. i wrote a passage on the subject. i don't think i could phrase it as well as i did it at that time. >> fine. >> so if you'd like i don't mind reading it to you. >> i wish you would, sir. >> perhaps without immodesty i can claim to have had some experience in what the word "america" means. i've lived in many lands, many kinds of american life. after my early boyhood in an iowa village i lived as a ward of a country doctor in oregon. i lived among those to whom hard work was the price of existence. the opportunities of america opened to me through the public schools. they carried me to the professional training and the great american university. i began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. i have tasted the despair of a fruitless search for a job. i even know the kindly encourag

often early 20th century presidents like coolidge and hoover fishing in three-piece suits. >> are there any of those images that are in any way controversial? you write about teddy roosevelt liking to chop down trees on his property just to hear it fall. we knew george w. bush was always clearing brush on his ranch. outside of golf, have president's been criticized by the activities they pursue on their vacations? >> sure. sometimes with a little bit of tongue-in-cheek. president theodore roosevelt, who won the nobel peace prize for in the summer of 1905 monitoring the hand of the ru vacation,se war on had a newspaper scolding from the "new york times." the reason? he needed a break. the break appeared on the waters of oyster bay. and it was an early u.s. navy submarine, called "the plunger." roosevelt went down on it for 55 minutes. hee new york times" said needlessly risked a valuable life and a collapsible and otherwise dangerous device. >> the book is "away from the white house: presidential escapes, retreats, and vacations ." we've been speaking with lawrence knutson, the author. t

edgar hoover colintelpro.there have been stories about monitoring the identities or ruining the reputation of so-called hactivist people who use on line activism for political ends some nasty forms of destruction that they not only plotted to use against them. that is exactly the kind of political abuse of surveillance capabilities that are so famous in the 60s and 70's. the problem is that people viewed as latter -- these cuddly creatures who are peaceful and nonthreatening because they had been vindicated by history. they were viewed as threats just like people who are muslim to stand up and say i think palestinians have the right to defend themselves or u.s. violence in the muslim world caused terrorism. the surveillance system is very much about targeting those people. there are stories like that and john cook on my list but there are stories like that coming. [applause] >> i want to thank you very much for what you have done and when you see edward snowden i would like you to thank him for many of us here

in the evaluation of specimens hoover thought to be irrefutably human. this was the result. ( laughter ) despite this early disagreement, the fbi and the jeffersonian have forged a mutually beneficial, if somewhat tense relationship, which survives to this day. thank you. ( applause ) thank you, dr. brennan. are there any questions? yes? how much money have you made from your book? i don't really know. i have an accountant and an agent... that's not really the kind of question we're looking for from an anthropology student. yes? did you get your agent before or after you wrote the book? people, dr. brennan is an accomplished forensic anthropologist who writes books on the side.

edgar hoover was a master of instead of j. edgar hoover now we have these agencies that are doing the exact same thing they're collecting information and you know everybody has their secrets and there's all kinds of ways of using power and leverage in washington d.c. blackmail should not be one of them i wish you'd get back of course the way to reform this is to only collect were relevant information crimes in terrorism except not conduct a massive dragnet non-relevant that includes non-relevant info on innocent people because that is allowing this terrible system to occur calling raly former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower thank you very much for joining me thank you the n.s.a. and its former director general keith alexander are back on to the public spotlight for dealing in secret to get artist marina porter nial shed some light on less. the agency that eroded the meaning of privacy and indiscriminately peered into the lives of millions of citizens around the world is suddenly subscribing to protecting personal information bu

hoover. 18, 1964 on aer cold night at about 1:00 in the morning. the kkk burned down frank morris's shop. as of now, we have not heard what happened to the killer. it is possible that they will get away with this act without being exposed even though the police were part of the gang that committed this terrible act. your office is our only hope. >> why is this significant to you? >> it goes to show the feltessness that they -- ng this time stupid they fell during this time. hard it wase of how to live in concordia at the time. >> they open the doors wide open and said i will do anything to help you. the fact that the grand jury was convened and part of this mission to look into the frank morris case is really significant. a small step towards justice. thank god we are there now. what we've got to do is continue the momentum and continue to push the federal government to resolve this case. >> c-span's american history tour focuses on native americans. we start off with the level of the biddle big horn. a tour of a new mexico pueblo. 9000-year-old na

edgar hoover was a master of instead of j. edgar hoover now we have these agencies that are doing the exact same thing they're collecting information and you know everybody has their secrets and there's all kinds of ways of using power and leverage in washington d.c. blackmail should not be one of them i wish you'd get back of course the way to reform this is to only collect were relevant information crimes in terrorism except not conduct a massive dragnet non-relevant that includes non-relevant info on innocent people because that is allowing this terrible system to occur calling raly former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower thank you very much for joining me thank you. boom bust is coming up next here on r t aaron aig joins us for a quick preview parents hey lindsey thank you know coming up on boom bust jobs numbers came out today u.s. job growth slowed in july and the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose so we'll look into what these numbers mean coming right up and at the end of the week which means it's viewer feedback day he

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republican herbert hoover served as president from 1929 to 1933.embered most for his time in the oval office at the start of the great depression, hoover also served as the secretary of commerce under presidents harding and coolidge. in this hour-long 1960 nbc interview, hoover discusses his life beyond the presidency. speaking with reporter ray henle, he delves into topics including his childhood, his time in china during the boxer rebellion and involvement in supplying food to civilians in german occupied belgium during world war i. this is part of the stanford library's department of collections and university archives.

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and on sunday, president herbert hoover. let us know about the programs you're watching.all us at 202-626-3400. or e-mail us. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> richard blanco, what's a kukudio? >> it's a firefly. technically it's a click beetle but it's a type of firefly that's very myth cal in cuba as well as in south florida where i grew up, and there's sort of a folk tale or sort of a folklore that the women used to tend to pin beetles on their dresses and in hair as kind of a magt ritual. not a mating ritual, a courting ritual. it's also about the name of my uncle's book which is where i really came to connect with my culture and heritage by working in a cuban grocery store in miami. the book takes its title from that store and also sort of the idea of prince kukurios of the old adage it takes a village. the book centers a lot on the growing up and being sort of ushered and connected to my heritage, my cuban-american heritage through all the various people in the village in my community. and so the store plays a central role in that through all the custom

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all of which j edgar hoover dissented to.and it was hoover in the end who went to the president and insisted that this plan not be implemented. what happened, then? they went outside of the agencies of government. unable to bend the agencies to the purpose, they decided to go outside of government and develop their own establishment. that is what the plumbers was. it was not a legitimately constituted law enforcement agency. it was then irregular, ad hoc group established to carry out certain activities. and how was it paid for? in part, it was paid for through money raised privately. we spoke earlier of how a private person was contacted to bring money to the white house to be furnished to the plumbers in order for them to carry out a break-in of a doctor's office. and that money was returned to the private person who provided it in the following manner. mr. colson called up the attorney for one of the milk producer cooperatives and asked him to have the cooperative make a contribution to a political committee called, of all

while at the hoover institution he wrote four or five papers that really are the most important and in some respects the only emotions of his personal point of view as to these matters. and here's a sensual view about the vietnam war was that the united states could not possibly succeed because it was fighting a limited war that provided no access to joke that to the north vietnamese government whereas the north vietnamese were fighting an unlimited war in which they could command all the resources for the purpose of taking over the south. what was going on was of course exacerbated by the rather extraordinary analysis of the situation on the part of the commander general westmoreland who felt the united states as it was a much bigger country could win the war of attrition in his view was they could kill two or three vietnamese and if they did this for long enough when the vietnamese would have to give up of course it worked in reverse but that turning point, the very misunderstood turning point was the tet offensive of the north vietnamese of 1968 when they managed to penetrate the wa

edgar hoover at his meeting with nixon following the 1968 election said to him, not only did we havetap on the south vietnamese embassy phone, we had a tap on anna chennault's phone, which johnson requested but the fbi had not done, and we had a bug on your campaign plane for the last two weeks of the campaign. so nixon -- if that had been true, then any interference that nixon personally did with the peace talks would have been in the fbi file. so nixon takes office obsessed with getting his hands on the file. he as h.r. haldeman work on it. houston says, we've looked into it. well, it doesn't make lyndon johnson look good, it doesn't make us look very good, either. huston comes up with a strange story in which he says there's a complete bombing halt report with all the documents from the time at the brookings institution. and it was prepared by clark clifford's defense department. his top aides. and this is exactly the sort of thing we need. probably going way longer than i should. >> if you want to know the rest, read this book. >> there, that's fair. >> elizabeth, one of your dis

comes from people that i dedicate the book to do the black conservatives that affiliate of thatthe hoovernstitution and academics who have done a lot of research in this area and have written about it for many years. and i'm familiar with their work and thought the younger generation of blacks should be saying the things they are saying for a new generation of readers and that was a part of the impetus for writing the book. >> host: you are an independent and he starts chapter number one black man in the white house. talk about that, barack obama. >> guest: barack obama's presidency in the first election of 2008 was kind of the culmination of the civil rights division. that pushed political power as a means of raising blacks in america. and i think it games with the civil rights act of 64 and the voting rights act of 65. since then, however, liberals, black liberals in particular have made political power a priority electing more officials and the obama presidency is the culmination of that vision. i want to say we have that now. to use the data term what do they have to show for it and t

hoover, taft and john gill, will use the donation to buy ipads, chrome books and campus improvements.he first wave of a $120 million megapledge from facebook's founder and his wife. it's to infuse the schools with technology. the schools are the first districts to receive donations. san francisco and west palo alto will be getting checks this year, as well. >>> and l.a. lakers star point guard in san francisco today meeting himself. check it out. basketball star jeremy lin had a wax figure unveiled at the madam toussaud museum at fisherman's wharf. the palo alto native and former golden state warrior has had a busy summer signing with the rivals from l.a. for $25 million. lin is the first chinese- american to play in the nba. >> excellent. >>> hip-hop, rap, rhythm, four- letter words, a new push for socially conscious hip-hop in oakland. the story on bay area nightbeat at 10:00. >> speaking of hip, look who is hanging out where the hip cars are, paul deanno. >>> this is -- they pay us to do this. this is the greatest thing. marco my photographer and i have been gawking at all these ca

. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm bill hoover. i'm a small business in noah valley and i've known sheila well over 10 years we're members of the noah valley merchant association i've worked closely with her over the years and i'd like to suggest that sheila is an outstanding recipe of our community. she makes numerous contributions and her bed-and-breakfast is impeccable i support her wholeheartedly >> thank you. next speaker. >> i've known sheila for years i have lived in the same house and i've been over there a few times i send people and relatively relatives to shelia last place it's a unique place i know she's done tons of stuff for the neighborhood she's part of someone said the noah association she didn't sit there all day taking guests she brings them to the cafes on 24th street and she's really a major educate to the neighborhood besides being a burning i recommend approval of the, you know, the project. thanks >> thank you as the next speaker comes up i mean, i'll call for names (calling names). >> commissioners, thank y

. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm bill hoover.'m a small business in noah valley and i've known sheila well over 10 years we're members of the noah valley merchant association i've worked closely with her over the years and i'd like to suggest that sheila is

while at the hoover institution he wrote four or five papers that really are the most important and in some respects the only expressions of his personal point of view as to these matters. and his essential view about the vietnam war was that the united states could not possibly succeed because it was fighting a limited war which presented no existential threat to the north vietnamese government, and were working to take over the south. what was going on was of course exacerbated by the rather extraordinary analysis of the situation on the part of the american commander, general westmoreland, who thought that the united states, because it was a much bigger country, could win a war of attrition, and his view was the united states could kill two or three vietnamese for each lost american, and there would come a time, if it did this for long enough, when the vietnamese would have to give up. of course it worked in reverse. there came a time when the united states had to give up, but the turning point in many ways in vietnam, but a very misunderstood turning point, was the tet offensive of