i approached senator mathias. i approached senator mcgovern in the spring after having given up on fulbright. i did give them to neil sheehan with no expectation that the times would put them out. he did not tell me they were working on them for reasons that are not clear to me entirely. he chose not to tell me that the times was moving ahead very rapidly though it took him several months as they sought to get it in order. during that time, i continued to see mccloskey in hopes he would put them out, senator mathias. i tried out senator gaylord nelson. mcgovern and mccloskey and matthias were all very favorable to putting them out first. then they thought better of it and delayed. in retrospect, they all thought, let ellsberg put it out and whatever negative facts will come out. what people think of as watergate generally, the dirty tricks, the campaign contributions, the enemies list, the entry into the watergate itself -- these are things none of which has ever been traced conclusively or directly to nixon himse

senator mathias from maryland had it. i said if i last here long enough, and my favorite part is this fireplace. this fireplace goes to the first floor. the whole fireplace hind the brakes goes directly to the first floor. it is where the british soldiers went their tor -- their torches in 18 12. dolly madison left the white house 45 minutes before the british troops arrived with his notes. she had those in one arm and the gilbert stuart painting that hangs in the east room today under the other arm. she left. the british shoulders came in. the eighth of food that had been prepared and burned the white house. a storm came and put out the fire, otherwise we would not have had a white house. then they burnt this building down with all but a handful of firms that have been preserved and restored. downstairs, are the majority leaders. we cannot hear anything through the old fireplaces. just opposite the fireplace is a picture of my grandfather. honey fitzgerald. the first son of irish immigrants. he was elected to the congres

>> steve mathias central station. the central station is recommending approval. we talked about the conditions possibly having the security system maintain that for at least 10 days and entertain a calendar of events. this could be a new year's eve party. most of the things he's going to have would be more like jazz bands and maybe a wedding here and there in the basement area. central station recommends approval. >> any questions, commissioners? >> no. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. commissioners, any motion or any comments? >> make a motion it gets approved with the police conditions which retains security for at least 10 days and send the calendar of events out of the ordinary such as new year's eve, saint patricks day, sing oh -- >> [roll call vote taken] approved. >> all approved. thank you. so our next item is something we would do, privately. rather than doing one off they are requesting a year long permit that would cover activity in that area. we've done this before with a couple other places. h

mathias has watched the biggest city explode, stretching the limits of water, power and sanitation. ♪an extra 3 billion or 4 billion people living on this planet. do you think it's possible to preserve what's left of this garden of eden with that kind of pressure? can we have it both ways? >> we cannot give it away, the thought that we can still do it. with 3 billion people more, the task will be harder. we'll do our best. >> the man in charge of the park knows that without tourists there would be no park. but too many people could turn galapagos into another hawaii where 95% of native species were wiped out by too much change, too fast. so he is proposing a cap of less than 25,000 visitors per year. >> the way tourism is going up, we will probably reach by 2016 that limit. >> but he says galapagos can only thrive with the right kind of visitor, the eco tourist, willing to play top dollar to see a blue-footed booby but not demand a golf course and water park as part of the package. he wants strict movement on human movement, visitors like paul. >> they put those stakes there in 1944 t