included what is today's lafayette park, the white house white house grounds, and more. it remains ground today with monuments, parks, and the potomac in the distance. presidents continue to make their mark on the landscape throughout the history of the white house. many presidents have taken a personal interest in the landscape as if it were their own backyard. some presidents approach regarding the grounds -- gardens and grounds with unique skill. jimmy carter had an engineering background, which he used to design a treehouse for 10-year-old amy in 1977. the national park service built it to present cartons -- president carter's specifications on the southwest long. it was freestanding so there was no impact on the cedar. later in the carter administration, the park service had determined a maintenance structure near the tennis court had to be demolished. it was originally a pony shed for the kennedy children's pony macaroni. it was no longer usable. the replacement rolling would require the removal of a tree that was not historically significant. president carter aske

the gardener's office, a house here, a grapery, a fern house, a geranium house, a smaller rose house. you see where the priorities are here. the roses always been the king of flowers at the white house. and then finally, a general propagating house and an orchid house. and then rather suddenly, in 1902, everything changed. all of the green houses as well as the conservatory which is what we see here were unceremoniously torn down. and the reason, to make room for the expansion of the white house under theodore roosevelt, speci specifically the new west wing in the foreground. that was basically that. there is never been another green house at the white house since. so understandably, the loss of their indoor flower gad endid not thrill the president or his family. first lady first came up with a wonderful solution to the problem. since the south grounds were closed to the public, it was again possible to move the presidential flower gardens back outdoors. and this is precisely what they did in 1902 and 1903. specifically the first lady created two colonial style gardens along the imme

the white house. >> thank you. >> as curator and the lasting legacy that you have helped create there. we think about first ladies, the more traditional role of worrying about the house and home, but she felt strongly about doing more with the white house, including opening some of those doors. >> very much. in fact, i think the film mentioned her tours for the blind and the deaf which julie was very instrumental in participating in as well. but she was the first first lady to open the grounds for garden tours in the spring and the fall. and those have continued to the present time. and the christmas hancandleligh tours in the evening. the public could come in and see the house during the holidays all lighted up and beautifully decorated. and another legacy that endures today is the lighting of the exterior of the house. >> right. >> she had gotten a lot of inquiries from people talking about how the house was so dark when they brought tourists by the house in the evenings. and, too, when she and the

even though he did not live in the house, he built a house, like he was going to live in it. that is not to suggest washington wanted to be president forever, it is to suggest he thought the president's house needed to represent the head of the state for a strong new republic. that was the vision he had for that house. even though he had no intention of living there. it was interesting seeing the dynamic of back-and-forth between him and jefferson. jefferson had a different idea of what the house should look like. but lindsay as she alluded to, there was not much in washington, d.c. at that time. it was mostly farmland, swamps, marshes. to put this incredibly striking stone building in the middle of the national capital was to send a message to the rest of the world that the united states president should be respected and it should be a symbol that is treasured by its people. >> while we are on the subject of george washington, you mentioned your dissertation which is on his tomb and the creation of memory of george washington. you have been out talking to people about that.

but now, being a white house historian, the story of the white house doesn't end in 1820, it continues and changes and evolves and all of a sudden now you find yourself using all of your knowledge of american history and starting to connect the dots, you know, in terms of major changes in american society or demographic or economic changes. you can see these things sort of unfolding at the white house, too. so it's one of those things where you don't really learn the depth of the history until you actually get into the job and then you realize how incredibly complicated and complex it actually is. >> what is your story? how did you get to the association? >> so i actually met matt, we were both at mount vernon as fellows and we were there for an extended period of time and i was working on my dissertation, which is also on washington but on a different aspect. and we stayed friends and communicated and touched base occasionally about what we were up to. and then i had a postdoctoral flip in dallas at smu and that was coming to an end and they happened to have an opening and matt called

s that's are do the white house?s are done in the white house? are done in the white house? >> there has been a green house on the roof level. and in that green house there have been different types of plants. sometimes they have been roses and other plants that were used for cuttings. there also was some bonsai up there for a while. i'm not sure it's still there. but for many years it was just a small green house up there for family use. >> firstly, i just want to say, going back to the tour, if you take the tour in october, on the tour, you do line up to see the obama garden, sounds like a wonderful time. i want to go back to the students of the university of virginia, is there a solid record of the design drawings? or some archive available that one could see? >> at the national park foundation. >> you can apply to get a copy of that? >> yep. >> okay. thank you. >> can you tell us about some of the older trees of note on the grounds besides the jackson magnolia. >> sure. well, as jonathan talked about earlier, i think the most special one is the one planted by mrs. clevel

and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan, programs manager for the u.s. botanic garden, jim adams, horticultural manager from the united states botanic garden, and jim mcdaniel, board of directors, like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. chapelle. please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. both of our other panelist our named jim and both worked on white house gardens. at the end am going to let you ask questions. we are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and modified since the kennedy administration. so from the johnson administration on. in many different ways, the white house gardens have been inspired and used. the start out by talking about garden trends and movements that have inspired and influenced the development of the

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developed and used their gardens at the white house. television for historic times, american history tv on c-span3. >>> our final panel, the white house gardens today features speakers with lived experiences working in and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanic garden. jim adams, manager from the united states botanic garden. and jim mcdaniels, board of directors. like our previous panel we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we'll leave time for an open q&a at the end with the audience. please join me in welcoming our speakers. >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. both of our jims, both of the other panelists are named jim and both worked at the white house. so we're going to run our panel differently at the end here, i'm going to open up for your questions because i feel it's a unique opportunity

it passes the house, not the senate, passes the senate not the house. doesn't quite get there. 1918, a new congress is elected and enough pro suffragists are elected because new york passing suffrage that 1919 looks like it might actually happen. so almost exactly 100 years ago in june of 1919, the 19th amendment finally passes both the house and the senate. so now it goes to the states for ratification. this is alice paul. she made a flag where every time a state ratified she would sew a star on. and there were 48 states and you needed 36. so a bunch of states passed it right away. wisconsin, michigan, illinois. a bunch of states voted it down over the summer of 1919. almost entirely in the south and almost entirely for overtly racist reasons. they were not interested in enfranchising a single new black voter. they were systematically dismantling black male voting lights with jim crow laws and they wanted no part of new black voters. so momentum kind of stalls. by spring of 1920, 35 states have ratified. you only need one more. five have voted it down.

complained bitterly about the white house press. so every president going back to george washington complains about press coverage was nothing new with any of that. smack nothing new but obama would come into that briefing room and do a press conference. i swear he did not know more than a handful he had no idea who is in the room. i remember at one point he was like he gets the list of questions from his press secretary of who to call in from his press secretary. which some presidents do some don't. that was the practice with obama the press secretary would say here's alicia collen, iron but one point looking down his list and eight reads the name of the ap reported he looks up like where is? of course the ap reporter sitting right in front that's apc. you would think he would know the ap reporter. but no idea, no idea. george w. bush, he did know the personalities he did know the people, he knew the camera opera some of them if they'd been on the campaign. donald trump, he consumes the news, he is fascinated by it he relishes it,

we need more housing, especially in-fill housing. as we look to address climate change, you know, to the aspect of safety here, i trust our fire marshal, i trust our professionals who do this for a living. i believe them when they tell us that this is something that works. on a personal note, as an lgbt person who moved to san francisco because of the tolerance of this city, it's really important for me that other people have that option to be able to live here and appreciate what san francisco has to offer. and as someone who's also had friends move out of the city because of the lack of housing options, it's really important to me that we have additional options. thank you. >> you have 22 questions remaining. >> hi. sean lundy, and long time san francisco resident. i fully support this project for a number of key reasons. number one, i think it's a thoughtful design. modest one and two stories. it has some safety considerations, but both the building department and fire department has reviewed and approved the content. [inaudible]

they met in the white house library and if you know the white house it's the room on the second floor that's shaped like an oval and it faces the washington monument, and so she's given permission to go into this room an hour before her meeting with lincoln and set it up, and she's an artist and she wants it to look just right and then she meets with lincoln and they have this very touching conversation and she brings her minister with her. he talks to lincoln about how grateful he is. she then gives these very emotional words and lincoln responds and he's choking up in the conversation and then they go on their way. when i first encountered this story, and i thought this is a really touching story, but then i wanted to try to write the book in a way that will really capture the scene. so i wanted to find out what does the library look like? i started to do research trying to find newspaper accounts of what it looked like and the more i read was that the white house library was part of lincoln's private family space. public visitors were not permitted to go in there and that's where h

in a housing crisis. while i appreciate what you're saying, it's unique to this particular site. so i am in support of this going forward and look forward to seeing supervisor stephanie work with both you and supervisor fewer to find the site or even in her district within the area to build some affordable housing. thank you for giving me the opportunity to say a few words. >> supervisor peskin, i can't hear you if you're speaking. are you muted? >> i apologize, thank you. so supervisor preston, i think you were in the middle of making a motion to restore the language from lines 20-22 and i assume in the same breath, would want to delete in your motion the language that starts on line 22 and goes to page 4 to line 6. is that correct. >> correct. >> ok. >> so that motion is made and i think has been sufficiently discussed on that motion. a role call, please. >> on motion as stated by supervisor peskin, preston. >> aye. >> supervisor safaye? >> no. >> supervisor peskin. >> no. >> peskin, no, one aye and two

, our council house that we built to house our national government.had to vacate it. the idea behind that was that since the arrival of statehood, the state of oklahoma and the federal government were really not looking at tribal governments functioning at that time. and so if you are tribal government is not functioning at that time, you really don't have a direct need for your capital building. so we had to vacate. we had our last meeting here in 1907. from 1907 until 1919, the tribe, through the federal government, we leased this building to the city of okmulgee for about 12 years. for the city, the building function kind of like a city hall. the sheriff's office was in here. maybe court from time to time. boy scouts, red cross, knights templar, all of those things that happen in a city hall space. and then in 1919, we were forced to sell our council house, once again through the federal government, to the city. -- the city of oak mobile. we sold the council house to the city of okmulgee at the time for $100,000. from 1919 until 2010, the building

what you need as you are covering the white house? >> we went a year without having any briefings by a press secretary. occasionally like mulvaney came in. >> i think we just passed the one-year anniversary of no press briefing by the press secretary that i find astonishing. >> it is. and you make a point that is valid and important, which i want to get to but my argument about the need for a press secretary having regular press briefings. we are in an extraordinary moment right now where the president is doing his own briefings every day that we are an extraordinary time of crisis. but i think it is important to see the person who was speaking on behalf of the executive branch to come out and take questions every day from all comers. even though in the news garden admitted the the information isn't all that useful some is more than others, it's important symbolically to send a message to the country and to the world the most powerful person in our government is accountable. we don't have question. like the british prime minister has

in a housing crisis. while i appreciate what you're saying, it's unique to this particular site. so i am in support of this going forward and look forward to seeing supervisor stephanie work with both you and supervisor fewer to find the site or even in her district within the area to build some affordable housing. thank you for giving me the opportunity to say a few words. >> supervisor peskin, i can't hear you if you're speaking. are you muted? >> i apologize, thank you. so supervisor preston, i think you were in the middle of making a motion to restore the language from lines 20-22 and i assume in the same breath, would want to delete in your motion the language that starts on line 22 and goes to page 4 to line 6. is that correct. >> correct. >> ok. >> so that motion is made and i think has been sufficiently discussed on that motion. a role call, please. >> on motion as stated by supervisor peskin, preston. >> aye. >> supervisor safaye? >> no. >> supervisor peskin. >> no. >> peskin, no, one aye and two

and it turned out to be this beautiful 22-room house, about a mile and a half or so from the big house, and it allowed eleanor, for the first time in her life, to have a home of her own. so she loved the place. and after he died, she actually lived on that place until she herself died. brian: now, if you're coming -- if somebody's never been to that part of the country, how far from new york city? ms. goodwin: probably a couple hours from new york city. i know by train it is. brian: on the hudson river? ms. goodwin: along the hudson river. in duchess county. brian: and in those years, in the war years, that you're writing about here, domestically, where did franklin delano roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt spend their time, besides the white house and hyde park? ms. goodwin: well, hyde park was the most important place for both of them. i mean, he went, during the whole presidency, something like 200 times to hyde park. so that's the most important place. brian: how would he get there? ms. goodwin: he would get there by train. he would often get on the train in washington, maybe at 10:00

in the white house. princess martha was an interesting character. she had come to washington in the war years in he can i will from norway. her son is currently the king of norway now. she was beautiful. she was long legged. roosevelt always liked his women tall. so it seems. i think she had a gay spirited kind of conversation he just enjoyed. eleanor understood that he needed that kind of companionship. so she would visit on weekends and keep him company in the movies, in dinners at night, often again while eleanor was away. but when churchill came no one else stayed in the suite. he was an incredible character during this period of time. he would stay three or four weeks at time. his habits were so exhausting that nobody else could sleep during the period of time he was there. he would awaken in the morning, have wine for breakfast. he would have scotch and soda for lunch. brandy at night smoking his cigars until 2:00 a.m. and when he would finally leave, the entire white house staff to have to sleep f

geranium house, a second smaller rose house. the rose has always been the king of flowers at the white house. finally a general propagating house and an orchid house. then rather suddenly in 1902 everything changed. all of the greenhouses as well as the conservatory which is what we see here were unceremoniously turned down. the reason? to make room for the expansion of the white house under theodore roosevelt, the west wing in particular. that was basically that. there has never been another greenhouse at the white house since. understandably, the loss of their indoor flower garden it did not thrill the president or his family. first lady edith roosevelt came up with a wonderful solution to the problem. since the south grounds have been close to the public in 1893, it was possible to move the presidential flower gardens back outdoors. this is what she did in 1902 and 1903. specifically the first lady created to colonial style gardens on the immediate south face of the mansion. won a short distance west of the portico and one on

of the white house. and anybody that works in the white house knows the impact or sees the impact, you read about the impact, you see it on the walls of the things that they've been able to acquire for the collection that make it, you know, part of the beautiful museum and gift to the people that it is. and when patti mentioned about correspondents, i sort of chuckled on that little bit, too, because i've worked for several first ladies whose correspondence was incredibly important to them. and one of the things that with mrs. nixon and her focus on correspondence is she came from a small town, and she really understood that if somebody got an envelope from the white house or the president of the united states, what that would mean to receive in their mailbox, and that's why she was relentless about having her mail responded to and that anybody that wrote to her would get a letter from the white house and how much that means and still means to this day, of course. but the fact that, you know, she took th

it turned out to be a beautiful 22-room house about a mile and a half or so from the big house. it allowed eleanor for the first time in her life to have a home of her own. she loved the place. after he died, she actually lived on that place until she herself died. >> if somebody's never been to that part of the country, how far from new york city? >> a couple hours from new york city. by train it is. >> on the hudson river? >> along the hudson river. in duchess county. >> in those years in in, the war years that you're writing about here, where did the roosevelt spend their time besides the white house and hyde park? >> well, hyde park was the most important place for both of them. he went during the whole presidency something like 200 times to hyde park. so that's the most important place. >> how would he glet? >> by train. he would often get on the train in washington, maybe at 10:00 or 11:00 at night and it would reach hyde park about it morning. so he would sleep on the train. he loved traveling fwran. he had his own compartment because of his polio, he didn't like fast mov

lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the white house historical association.

especially an occasion when the clinton white house. even just doing those jobs is hard to imagine and then not being able to really speak publicly so that after that first performance, he came back on the monday and held a press conference and this time he got a suit that fit a little better, they realized they could deliver it which made him look a little bit taller. when he called on me ask the question. with sean there was the need to ask the question basically in light of what happened on saturday can you clarify the nature of your job and if the intention to always told the truth from the podium over as far as you know it. he gave me a good answer and said yes but for some reason, he took offense to that and thought i was questioning his integrity, how dare i ask if he would tell the truth. >> host: and you write about that in the book. >> guest: it set off a whole series of events and there's a lot of things that was quite a time. i still have to regularly deal with him because he was the press secretary, that the interactions ar

we are also in support of other transitional housing stopgaps to bridge when we actually have housing for folks. i do want to stay the navigation centers often end up being used for reasons of enforcement around them. i'm always cautious when i see these things come up, because it gets promised to the residents, well, we'll create a clear zone or something like that, and it's promising to your constituents that you can't deliver. the city does sweep people every single day and every single night, and they come back. it may not be the same people, but there's no place to go. there's thousands of people that are caught outside the shelter system. so we support navigation centers, we support other transitional facilities, but we also want to make sure that this does not get used to promise housed people that their complaints will be responded to regarding unhoused people. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jordan, and let's talk about homeless shelters. i've been in a conventional shelter in philly, and it was like a mini prison. i home that navigation center replace sh

house. lizzie hurried away. she returned later in the day to get her trunk and when she went back to the house, mrs. pruitt gave her money. the next morning, she went to find a local judge and wanted to file a complaint. she went to another judge. unfortunately when prewitt found out, he decided to act and he had lizzie arrested for grand larceny and he claimed the money his wife had given to her had been stolen. she spent the rest of the week in jail and was finally released on ale. -- released on bail. lizzie testified and told her story. prior to the civil war african americans were not allowed to testify against whites in state or federal court. the war changed that. the judge decided to acquit prewitt. some time again when this trial took place, her baby died. lizzie went to trial herself in november 1864. it would have been her baby's first birthday. she was convicted and sentenced. she sent a letter to abraham lincoln. she was not able to write it herself. she said, i must solemnly de

it is the peoples house, the white house. but we need to know about the people that built the house. the people that impacted it beyond the president and their first families. he was very generous to introduce his historians at the national museum of african american museum culture. pecan a three-year project delving into this topic. during that time, we had the privilege to host a group called the presidential leadership scholars. this is a program that is a collaboration of the presidential libraries and foundations of clintons, pushes, and president johnson. they bring together these young dynamic early career leaders, and at the program educator house across the park. they went up into the historic slave quarters that night. i think they were intrigued, encouraged, maybe a little bit inspired. they took it they took us to task. we need to do a better job of telling that story and interpreting that space. so we folded that story at the cater house and the last remaining example of sleeve hoarders in the presidents neighbor

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the housing, we have to actually have the housing built. i think in a perfect world, we would love to see 100% subsidized housing on every site, but building the project is a better alternative than letting the site sit vacant. colleagues, i ask you to help me build 101 homes in a district that has historically built very little housing, and to create 250-plus union jobs, and i want to thank my chief of staff, daniel, for working so hard on this legislation with me. i ask that you vote yes on this legislation on its second reading, and thank you again for your time, and thank you to the supervisors who met with the developers last week, and i hope your questions were answered. thank you, president yee. >> president yee: okay. any questions? supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, president yee, and thank you, supervisor stefani, for your work on this. over the last week, as supervisor stefani mentioned, i had the opportunity to speak with the developer and his representatives to learn more about the project behind this request

miles to the white house. the guards don't want to let her in. she pleads with them not to let her go, they let her in and some people do stop her. she eventually gets up to the white house and is pleading to see lincoln. the guards will let her any further and then lincoln comes down and she says -- my husband is a soldier in the union army and i haven't gotten his pay for months and i have these kids, we are starving, i need help. lincoln says to come back tomorrow and we will work out the paperwork and she comes back the next day and lincoln is of course shot that night. she findsomes back, the situation on the ground has completely changed and now she is not going to get the help that she needs. one of the fruits will said to be sure to14th is -- get her children and education. so, she then pledges in that moment that she will do what lincoln said to do and make sure that her kids get educated. the story that survives, the earliest account i have found is from 1901, so it is questionable in terms of its cr

iit is a 141 unit affordable housing that will house formerly homeless house solds. in january 2019 you approved the concept and design. this is in anticipation of start of construction this july. as my colleague mentioned in the previous presentation, this is located on the same block as nine a adjacent to the public safety between mission rock to the north pa extension. next slide please. brock nine is served by transit including muni metro and 55 bus. within walking distance to library and parks and open spaces. just a brief review of the background on the mission bay project. 1988 the redevelopment agency approved mission bay north and south owner participation agreements opa. it mass allowed up to 6514 units with 30% affordable housing. in mission bay south 612 affordable units are constructed which includes completion of 1153 street. serving homeless vet hav vetera. the opa requires the develop submit the plans. it included block 9 in the request for blocks 8 through 10a. just a quick recap on the activities leading to the request before you today. in april 201

and now we've got these creatures in our house.y're going to live to be like 170 years old. they're going to way outlive us. which is weird. and they hibernate. you probably didn't know this, but tortoises hibernate like bears. so they went to sleep around december something and they've been asleep this whole time, and they just woke up from hibernation like a day ago. and now they're looking around like, what happened? we went to sleep, everything was normal, now there's like a pandemic. so the tortoises are freaking out a little. tommy, can you bring leggy? >> jimmy: what's the tortoise's name? >> his name is leggy. and we named his leggy because when he was born he had a little trouble getting around on one foot. one of his feet was a little lame and we had to give him special nutrients and put -- hi, leggy. how are you doing? >> jimmy: oh. what's up, leggy? oh. >> leggy's got a very quiet voice there. >> hi. >> looking good. >> jimmy: jack, each night we've selected a charity each night, our guests do, and then i make a donatio

they may hit the white house. you know, it was a time when we were personally in danger, but i don't remember anybody being shaken by that. however, the navy captain went away with take it out, and then he came back. he wanted to be sure he heard it. again, dick said take it out. i remember that so clearly because i understood what it meant, and as karl said, my goodness, you have a military aircraft shooting down a passenger airliner. it's -- i don't think it's a close ethical decision because if that airliner had gone down in the white house or if it had -- >> this is flight 93 that we're talking about. >> oh, i'm sorry, karl, that's exactly right. but instead they went down in shanksville because the people were very brave. >> not to dwell too much on that, but the -- as we came back into washington that night, the president finally at the end of the briefing in nebraska said i'm coming back to washington. they said no, mr. president, please don't come, we don't know, blah, blah. he said no, i'm coming back. th

if so, why am i secretly 78 years old maybe i'm not actually at my house, but my parents' house or maybe i just want to prove to everyone on top of being a well-known bibliophile who is up on the latest literary trends, i am also an old soul who loves a steamy read about a torrid affair between an innocent farm girl and a hot priest. anyway, if you have any guesses, send them to whydidsethpickthethornbirds@ gmail.com. there is almost no way we'll read anything you send us. but you know what, what the hell you can either spend your time doing that, or trying to recover the password to your workout app, giving up, and taking a three-hour bath. like the rest of us. and while are you're doing that, the president and his allies are trying to wish away the coronavirus pandemic and hoping you'll forget that he badly botched his response to the crisis for more on this it's time for "a closer look." ♪ >> seth: as we have seen throughout his presidency, donald trump is both an emblem and an enabler of broken government and that government has put lives at risk with its arrogance and incompetence f

reporter: the focus after it passes the house is it will go on to the white house.resident trump will see that house tonight on his desk. democrats tried to tush -- to turn this debate back on republicans in the senate. >> we are trying to get to the place where we think we are giving the needed resources. we think the initial request was short changing hospitals and testing. reporter: of all of those things, republicans say they are all important. but the only program running out of money was the payroll protection program that kept employees in their job. the sba is already look at guidelines so they can go to banks on friday and the loans can be processed through on saturday or sunday. lou: thank you very much. joining us tonight is national economic council director, larry kudlow. what will be the immediate effect of this legislation, the $484 billion? >> it's going to help. as much cash and liquidity that we can pour into the economy is part of the largest rescue effort in the history of the united states. kudos to kevin brady. we knew it was going to run out o

annie karni, white house reporter with "the new york times." and jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan, i'd like to begin with you. having written about this briefing we witnessed today that sure was abrupt. suddenly it was eefr. the longest among them -- we looked it up -- ran 2:24 minutes at their height. that is well into tarantino territory. and while sub "irishman," it would get scorsese's attention. could it turn out that live television might have been the disinfectant for this kind of briefing? >> this was a short film compared to the longest ones he's done, the ones you just cited, brian. this has been in the works for a while. as axios first reported it and we have as well and added some details to it, a number of his advisers both inside and outside the building have been asking him to sort of curtail these, suggesting to him he shouldn't be out there every day. that he should reserve his appearances for big moments when there's major news to announce or perhaps some really good announcements to mak

the need is housing. at the end of the day to transition people to a place where they can live in dignity, raise their families, continue to get the support and help they need, but we have to do a better job with producing more housing in the city. i am committed to that along with making sure that we have places like jelani house to provide hope for future generations of those in san francisco. i want to thank you for your support. this is an exciting day in the city. martha, i am excited you continue to bust your but to do this work. >> it is my staff. >> she said it is her staff. >> we know it takes a grade visionary leader. the fact you started this organization and brought together so many amazing people with these incredible skills to build upon what you started and to have it amount to such an incredible place and this is extraordinary. congratulations. i look forward to getting this place open and ready to go. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. this has taken so long i have worked with two dist

by house. >> oh, that's it. i mean, if-- for example, as i just said, in atlanta, every young person has been tested at covenant house. morning, it was impossible to get testing if you were and throughout most of the americas-- and that would include nicaragua, guatemala, honduras and mexico-- there's virtually no testing. so, it's a very big challenge for us in trying to make sure that we care for kids. and it makes the use of masks and face shields and gloves and gowns crit important to prevent the spread of the disease. >> sasan: how are you getting p.p.e. to your staff? how are you protecting them during this time? >> well, it's a bit of the wild west. i mean, we are out on the open market, and we're competing with government agencieother for-profit and not-for-profit businesses trying to access supplies. and we've also been purchasing. in fact, we purchased l weeks ago a significant supply of masks. and we were in cpetition, competition with a federal government agency at twe time that w doing that. there's

she went out there to paint her in the house and it came to the white house. i have a quote that she sent to julie about her impression of her mother while she was painting this portrait and i would like to read a little bit because i think it is so beautifully provocative as to who mrs. nixon was. she says her mother has eyes that are like no one else is. the eyes reveal an unusual spirit. they are the eyes of the 16-year-old girl with great sweetness and in that expression, occasionally the doors closed and the lights go out. always the feeling of something beyond, desire for the unobtainable. she has maintained a fragile beauty about her life. when she looked out the window, i like the expression then in her eyes, she still will be despite injustice. i thought that was a beautiful tribute. >> ladies and gentlemen, let's hear from you. we have a microphone. can we bring a microphone? >> you talked about mrs. nixon's support of women's rights. back in 1972 at the republican national convention, they had a platform committee and for the first time it had to be

for what she did during a white house briefing early she's been kicked out of the white house briefing room now the association says that they corresponded violated the social distancing policy that was established there or to correspond to touch us we those were all those decision. yes he was in effect other than those things are. going back to your point how many clinical trials in the past steve perry would you like to see before you put a stamp on it because it gave her the trial seemed to take place the moral thing here which is the down part i made the case is that you like to say this was the last press briefing one american uses on attended on march 31st as you can see there are less seats available in the white house press briefing room to integrate proper social distancing loriot it does not have an actual seat during this time according to a media report she had said she was attending as a guest of stephanie gresham the white house press secretary so the white house correspondents association decided to remove away in seats altogether for what. called not abiding by their so

sponsors' house. i'm showing you a diagram of hoe looking down on their house and it's kind of exactly like how you are looking at this, my hi-tech demonstration right here. i built this myself yesterday because i thought it would best and most efficiently explain my concerns. so, the viewpoint where you are sitting is where my house is. this is the project sponsors' house as it currently is. with its current footprint. the new proposal that they plan to have is to build out a rear extension such as this. so, in essence, this is what i'm going to be looking at. the lines you see here from this loin to this line is the current width of my house. my house right set up above to this and my direct line of sight. i do understand that planning has suggested and made a recommendation that you will approve this house with the modification. modification being that this part is removed and this part is going to be the new proposed plan according to modification recommended by planning. to me, this doesn't serve

the house is going to debate this package as well. there is a broader discussion here that is still ongoing about a larger, broader fourth stimulus package that does include more funding for people that aren't getting it. that's a wide range of people from independent restaurants to lower income communities. people on food stamps. workers in the gig economy who haven't had a paycheck for a while who aren't necessarily essential workers and then essential workers who need hazard pay, need paid sick leave in order to stop the spread of the disease so they stop going to work with potentially carrying the coronavirus and continuing the spread of this. i think as was pointed out we'll see governors taking center stage here. more so than washington and dominating the conversation and guiding the conversation of where the states are actually going to go. i think the priority does still need to be testing if anyone wants to reopen the economy. testing does need to be up to speed. >> all right. thank you all so much. >>> millions of americans

follow live house coverage on should and the house on c-span. >> earlier today, alabama governor kay ivy held a briefing on the state's response to the pandemic. they announce the current stay at home order would expire on april 30 and a new safer at home order would into effect. she outlined medical procedures and state beaches. this is 45 minutes. >> well, good morning, everyone. as you can see, i have got a great team assembled with me here today, and i am certainly grateful for each one of them. for their service and participation in this process. i am here to speak today about our stay at home order that expires thursday, april 30. first he we couldn't even be here talking about this order that expires if it had not been for the people of alabama abiding by the regulations and guidelines, for their sacrifices, their patience and their understanding during the last six weeks. what our citizens have done is work it, and i appreciate that so many people have been willing to do the right things to keep themselves healthy as well as to protect others to be well and healthy, too. this