granted not believe lee and his men to be blameless. he describes the session as the san in the crime, but he believed, as he put it, that for every san there must be a chance to atonement. his mercy was designed to affect an atomic. grant made no concession to the confederates are copperheads in his magnanimous term. his generosity, he believed was that of a cocker his victory was total. grants you of the surrender is the triumph of right a wrong proves just as president and enduring among northerners as lee's interpretation. among those northerners who embraced his policies a magnanimity or abolitionists and radical republicans. part of the argument of my book is americans across the political spectrum embraced magnanimity but with very different kinds of meaning. it was charged at the time by confederating copperheads that radicals or in tents on vengeance against the south, but the historical record suggests otherwise. in the eyes of abolitionists such as the influential editor, magnanimity was the means to achieve is a good purpose

lee's surrender to the ulysses s. grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. it's a pleasure to be here. property surrendered u.s. grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. the two men met your mama central virginia at appomattox courthouse. lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners had molded in to so formidable a fighting machine. after awkwardly exchanging pleasantries about service in the mexican war, the two men agree to the surrender terms and ended the civil war. in essence, grants term salve for the army of north virginia on there aren't. the promise that they would never again take up arms against the united states. great magnanimity in this relates to the preservation of the labor united the north and south that prepared the way for america's emergence as a wor

please welcome mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you ruth >> and thank you nancy pelosi it is wonderful to be here on the ribbon cutting day. thank you for this. i is enjoy g s a it's like my agency you know my history the university that u purchaser and the city administrator you know i love g s a and to hear pittsburgh it's role it refers to our clients as customers. i went through those years trying to recreate those agencies given the opportunity and the high privilege of re13wi7b9 government and making us not only relevant but at the value for everything we must accomplish. i will add to the appreciation of president obama and his stimulus packet. i was here years ago i broke this ground with the architect and we were happy to before a break ground with leader pelosi and we looked at

the honorable mayor ed lee at the san francisco. and from hk architects. (clapping.) and crystal-clear barton artist with the cliff barton studio. thank you all for joining us the general services administrations is to deliver the best technology services to the government and american people. critical parts are providing with that,s that preserve the integrity off our historic fats and incorporating the design features all have been integrated. those of us who work here about work in a historically more than building. the m public works will homicide a place in his. at the history it dates back to 17952 when it was commissions to design is a new this. this federal building is within the center complex. after the earthquake of 18906 devastated many buildings it was transformed offering a promise of a now a fundamental humane city. this was designed by before a began in 1933 and was complete in 1936. the 77 his is unique including the historic oral office of chester. thanks it to the recovery act it's a beacon to achieve a plaque. in other words, this historic building

mayor ed lee is leading the way for prosperity. today, the recovery is urban finished and incomplete we're still putting people back to work and to strengthen our middle class the backbone of our democracy. we have to make decisions about how to allocate resources that just don't build a structure and create jobs that way or a place to work and create jobs that way but to grow the economy in the surrounding area. that is what it makes it a model to the nation and that's what san francisco is also ready and able to do. as we bring life into the building this is renovated in the great recession and now ready for another service hopefully it is something we'll be calling the great come back of our economy. i think mayor ed lee and everyone here for our leadership all your leadership because it's more than a building it's more than a workplace or a you mean it's to growth and regional it's the link from the past a great past as the un plaza to the future and i couldn't be happier to be here with you to celebrate that. so thank you very

thank you. >> when mayor lee caused us in san francisco to pause for the occasion of mr. mandela's death, he was joined by his many elected officials in san francisco and i thought i simply might identify them. they're not speaking so we'll worry about it on two -- not enough time. public defender jeff is present with us, present with the board of supervisors, david chiu with his fellow members, david campos, breed, cohen, farrell, scott wean. iener. also present from the state of california is president lee, citywide elected official and their various school board members, and i'll identify them in just a few minutes, as well as our police chief and our fire chief, of course his wife, the person who succeeded ed lee as the chief administrative officer, miss kelly. you see the official family of san francisco as posted for the occasion of the celebration of nelson mandela's life. many people did not know mandela personally, but symbolically, and it's, i think, appropriate mayor lee, the naacp nationally has caused everybody to pause, as was the occasion, the ceremony in s

next, we'll hear from mayor edwin lee. when he's not delighting young crime fighters, he's worked tirelessly to make sure that construction is at the heart of every new area in san francisco. it's no surprise that the mayor has been focused on affordable housing. this has been his issue. thanks to mayor lee, no other city is developing as much affordable housing that san francisco is doing right now. thanks to the mayor there is now permanent funding in affordable housing in the affordable housing trust fund. $1.5 billion will be available for construction in affordable housing. mayor lee believes building affordable housing is something to accomplish. mayor's accomplishment includes parks, public safety. ladies and gentlemen, mayor lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, michael. i guess that time capsule is not big enough for me to go in. first of all i have been business an acquainting myself with the family. i'm really happy to not only see you here welcome a great project. this is again another celebration of the presence tha

john muhammad and lee malvo were joined by circumstances. was just 17. >> one of the things that struck me was his devotion and commitment to john allen muhammad who he referred to as dad. >> muhammad, a father of three was an ex-army engineer who received the normal training in marksmanship. he saw action in the first gulf war but returned home a changed man. >> desert storm flipped a switch in john muhammad to this day his ex-wife isn't sure what happened. >> i was like his spirit had been broken. he was a broken man. >> that's the man who befriended lee malvo in 2000. he met the teen while on a trip to where malvo's mother had all but abandoned him. muhammad brought malvo to taco ma, washington as his informal adopted son. >> his personality was a loving child. it is very important that one recognize that lee did not attach to a killer. he actually attached to a loving and caring father. >> at the time muhammad was in a bitter and complicated custody battle for his own children who he had stolen away from his estranged wife. when a tacoma

lee, did you want to make me remarks to the board before we hear the public testimony? >> yes, i know. yes. >> thank you. >> good evening, my name is olsen lee and i am the director of the mayor's office of housing and i just had a very, very few remarks, one is i just wanted to thank, the district staff for the work on this particular transaction, and this is as you know from the discreption and the presentation from mr. gold man and conversations with mr. gold man and assistant superintendent lee, this is not an easy transaction, it is a complicated transaction and it looks at a number of properties, but i think that the bottom line is that this is a transaction where both parties benefit. and i think that that is one of the things that we do here in san francisco well. and we look for sort of the good in the transaction and clearly, this provides the benefits to both the school district and to the mission of my office, which is to create the additional affordable housing and so on behalf of the mayor's office, i truly want to thank you for your consideration of this,

mayor ed lee and ms.missioner hi draw mendoza and commissioner perez we're looking forward to our reappointment next month supervisors john avalos and jane kim and a distinguished guests friends. on behalf of the council general my wife and colleagues at the filipino general in san francisco and most importantly the filipino american community in san francisco in the bay area i'd like to express our deepest appreciation to the mayor's office and especially to you, mr. mayor for host this wonderful representation and giving us this proclamation. this is more than a celebration to close the most long celebration of filipino american history month. for this is a gesture for a oonlts time of the growing filipino american citizens across california and throughout the united states. this month has been a month of learning. that the dreams and life lessons that were passed down from our generations resonate what a far greater community than friends. this the the art museums and signing of a b 1, 2, 3 which requi

mayor lee? [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. well, you just met mark, he's our new cio for department of technology. he's already approved himself to be a hard worker. we've tasked him with showing us what he can do in a short period of time. i would like to thank our supervisor wiener and working closely with the p.d., department department of public works and the ability to present an internet connectivity wireless ability along market street has been very important to me because it is part of what we were trying to do on the whole market street. so, today is of course announcing that the department of technology has been able to complete this with a very special partner ruckus wireless and i know selena is here today and i want to thank her for providing the professional guidance, the hardware as well as the good technical advice to the department of technology along with all the other partners that you see behind me working together to collaborate on this. so as of today, we have wireless technology free to the public. also

lee. well, then, they happened to discover one morning that ordinary life had been suspended in his town with no warning, no notice and no news of when it would end. on day four of the gridlock shutdown of ft. lee, the mayor wrote a letter to the agency that runs the bridge. "having received absolutely no notice of this decision, not having obtained any response to our multiple inquiries concerning same, and try as we may to understand its rationale without the benefit of a response, we are reaching the conclusion that there are punitive overtones associated with this initiative. what other conclusion could we possibly reach?" sounds crazy, right? it sounds like mice out of planes crazy. somebody closes down a couple of lanes on the on-ramp to the busiest bridge in america because they're out to get your town! it sounds crazy, right? sounds purely, purely crazy. except that new jersey is sometimes a place where you cannot rule out the crazy. new jersey is the kind of place where you can se

lee was very concerned about the landing. the airports ought yes mattic landing aids, the glide slope indication were out of service that day. lee told investigators making a visual approach landing was quote, very stressful and difficult. lee was training on the boeing 777 and this was his first time landing the big jet at sfo. one of the chief pilots said he had confidence in lee and his cockpit crews. >> did you feel any concern about the ability of any asiana pilot to land at san francisco without a glide slope indication? >> doi not have concern. >> the reports captain lee told investigators he was unfamiliar with 777's auto flight system. now, national transportation safety board emphasized this hearing was only to gather information not to analyze what went wrong. that will happen down the road. vic lee, abc7 news. >> thank you. in burlingame relatives came to the crown plaza hotel. providing video of the hearings in washington one familiar member says she's just looking for empathy. >> we're hoping asiana will take th

i want to turn it over to mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor farrell. it's great to see homeownership's and our labor force and city agencies thank you for coming together. we all support our assignment. this program as supervisor farrell pass very adequately explains you you know we started pace with or my proximate in 2010. it's a pretty big announcement we you will including exclude that was tremendous barriers for folks taking initiative on their own to create the energy all the times you have water xhefrm and making that something personally they wanted to contributed to the climate change in the world. that codify view was something many my mind when this program started fortunately it was stalled out bus of the fear from the financial sectors particularly freddie mac and fannie mae. but as a result as we've throughout through it there were other participates that stepped up. i i'd like to take this opportunity to not only thank xhaerl for restarting this program and calling upon our department to lead the way with all the other partners we've ide

mayor ed lee mayor of san francisco. now i'd like to ask the district 6 san francisco supervisor ms. jane kim to please come to the stage for a response >> thank you justin. it's actually a good reminder it's important to support our language schools in san francisco being bilingual and transitional is an important part of our city to be able to compete in an economy. so the mayor and i have the honor of going to all the ribbon cuttings participate in the south of middle market. this is the first incubator space we're coming to which is an international collaborative workspace. i was speaking with some of the employees how many of us came to san francisco 13 years for the first dot come boom. many folks went from the colleges to the hot economy at that time. of course, we had the bust will cycle that followed and we're seeing something that's exiting the diversity of the economies and the businesses are incredible. this is excited about this step we're seeing on international collaboration this notice not just in san fra

a special thank to mayor ed lee and everyone for working very hard to get us here to kick start this year. today is a big day after 6 months of working from labor and federal bureau of investigation's we're excelling excited to announce san francisco intention to kick start the green finance sf program. an environmental program that will continue san francisco's tradition of being at the forefront of embattling climate thanking changed that will push obvious further doing down the road and put san franciscans to work in our neighborhood through a strong workforce component that were all bay of helping san francisco property owners in renutritional project in their homes. green finance sf is the program for residential properties of 4 ruin u opts or less known as pace. it's a financing structure that will allow san franciscans at no cost to our city st. to have refume upgrades to property homeowners in san francisco. it's the special pinsz that will help prevent energy efficient upgrade and a spreading e spraifd the cost recovery over the life the unit. it will help to finance upgrade

i'd like to welcome to the stage the houshlg may have san francisco mayor ed lee.'s an honor to be here to celebrate the ninth american heritage indian month no san francisco celebration of the awards. i wanted to thank not that all of you are here but for k q e d for the sponsoring of local heros. this is important because your city is all about diversity and i want to make sure that everybody can live here and be here and have good jobs and education and if they go out to the military they'll come back and give go opportunities for them. i have a special guest someone i met this afternoon but represents sacrifice in the face of a lot of changes. if you, you know, what's happening in the midwest you'll know what's happening no south dakota. this gentleman came all the way to celebrate with us tonight perhaps we can exchange lessons leeshd how to support community. i want to welcome state representative kevin keller from the 27 district. he's here somewhere (clapping) but he'll be joining us tonight. i know he'll be very proud of our community as we conduct this ce

commissioner lee. commissioner joseph.

no judgment, lee. lee will never come back. >> he didn't do it.im a slap on the wrist for now. exactly. thankfully. >>> well, coming up on "good morning america," in her own words, we're hearing for the first time what the newlywed who pleaded guilty of pushing her husband off the cliff said to police and fbi interrogators. how her story drastically changed. >> these tapes are extraordinary. >>> also coming up, how you can show your children that, yes, santa and his elves really did pay a visit. >> can't get enough of santa this morning. >> and where is sara? >> i think she got scared of her criminal record. >> she ran away. >> dan and bianna, i don't think i'll make it in today. i've got a lot of catching up to do on "house of cards." >> ah, turns out she's part of a new trend of binge watchers. fans watching their favorite tv shows in bulk. more on what that's all about coming up. lee knows a thing or two about that. >> yep. >>> "good morning america" brought to you by folgers, the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup. aking up is folge

lee is on her way in the bus but she hadn't made it here. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. from san francisco apartment association. i want to thank you supervisor chiu and the rest of his sponsors. i think this election is a good piece of legislation to create an migration to a difficult problem. i want to encourage this to allow private owners to step in and help anti amending that law so we can help out where there are no fault evocation to help getting people stabilized with unit for a year or two. i hope you employ that creativity to help us all house people that need to be housed. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please ted from san francisco tent e tenancies. this is a good piece of legislation one person getting evicted has no place to go. it, it's an epidemic when tenant are being evoked and having to sign up for huge long waiting lists. the lee's were applying for tenant space and only had one year and were not close to getting a place. the people needing residence are in need we need to keep pe