mr. james lamb who is here with us today.applause] and this event is hosted by the hotel council of sf travel but it really came

mr. james lamb who is here with us today.and this event is hosted by the hotel council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of san francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. so please give a big hand to them! [applause] we also couldn't have done it without our partnership with the public works department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. raichal gordan as well. their team has been incredible to work with. we also have, you can see the signs out here today, i'm going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. and last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses. and it really is a 24/7 job. we want to tha

mr. lamb: your second book was 2011. here you are talking about the james garfield book.video clip] ms. millard: james garfield was not as he has been remembered to be, a bland, bearded, 19th-century petition. he was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. although he was born into desperate poverty, he became a professor of literature, mathematics and ancient languages when he was a sophomore in college. by the time he was 26 years old, he was college president. him he knew the entire aeneid by heart in latin. while in congress, he wrote the original proof of the pythagorean theorem. where do you discover the story about garfield? ms. millard: i was looking for another subject with a lot of science in it, and i was researching alexander graham bell, just doing general research and i fell upon the story of him inventing this induction balance to find the bullet in garfield after he had been shot. it really stunned to be because again i had never heard this story before. the really understand it because -- elevated in the -- alexander graham bell was youn