i want to express my d isappointed. couple of questions that i have. one where other alternatives consider such as taking market street down to a single lane and leaving the parking in tact. it has become a free for all. if you start to look at some of the videos posting on facebook and everything, cars are racing up there. we have skateboarders racing down the hill from twin peeks. it's a recipe for disaster. other thing is, our parking was taken away we understand it's temporary and happy to make the sacrifice for little while. you may not be be aware we are not eligible living on market for s permits. we can't park anywhere else in the neighborhood. off market street is all permit parking. we have nowhere else to go. that's a big deal. we have requested over the years for a stop sign or traffic light at market and hattie because it is a very unsafe area. i've had two cars hit over the years. i've been there 15 years. i don't know what the process i s. i like to formally request that you do some kind of traffic impact or assessment investigation in t

you see racism threaded throughout in often isappointing ways.here he is being awarded a congressional medal of honor. i don't know if you recognize the gentleman giving him the award. preillness franklin delano roosevelt, a very tall man in his youth. his assistant secretary of the navy has been banging on about how many figures cut their teeth on world war i and go on to greater prominence and use their experience in world war i in other aspects of their life in america. there is no better example than fdr who takes his experience in the navy and his vision of what wilson did and would use that in his new deal policies and his prosecution of world war ii. just to give you one example. we did not draft a military until we entered the war in world war i. as world war ii was raging in europe, f.d.r. remembered this, and drafted an army before we entered the war. he draws upon his experience, as did countless others, to shape american society and the government in the following years. the things i learned in this exhibit as i put it together were t

i do know that i was isappointed, having had some sense from a historical rspective of the role that selma played in the voting rights drive, i expected things to be further advanced and racial along in terms of interactions, but in terms of here, you know, you've had several african-american mayors, you have african-americans in positions that we can even vote r at some point and now here we are. so i think that that's a part of the challenge and that's why i think it's so important that not just -- to not just be focused on the history, the historical, but what was the mission? what was the vision of persons who were willing to lay it all, life included, on the line? i think they were looking beyond here we are right now. >> there is no constitutional issue here. the command of the constitution is plain. there is no moral issue. it is wrong, deadly wrong, deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. [applause] >> on march 15, 1965, president lyndon b. johnson addressed congress urging them to pass what would become the voting rights act of 1965. up next, we