mr. lambert, welcome to the show. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. >> i know it's been difficult to have books going virtual. have we recovered? >> yes, we are on our way. our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. currently we are at 95% of our precovid hours of operation. in the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and caree

mr. christine lambert, i says germany will deliver for seat of the art air defense systems, ukraine. within days, the comments came during surprised trip to odessa on her 1st visit to ukraine since the war began done. but i said, germany will continue to coordinate with allies on any decision regarding cubes, request for german battle tanks. the radians and their supporters have rallied in cities across the globe. solidarity with protests, sparked by the death of my son in police custody in tehran activists. a demonstrator, demonstrations rather have taking place in the early 160 cities around the world. i mean, he's death while held by iran's, the tories morality police as part weeks of unprecedented unrest around breaking of fossils military officers who toppled the country's leader paul henry dunbar. on friday say he's now planning a counter offensive. the military also accuses friends of helping them. in a tell lies, address the army said the former leader has taken refuge at a french military base. will france denies the accusations. protestors attacked the french embassy in the

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rachel lambert mellon, bunny mellon, specifically, even in 1989 she returned to the white house to spruce up the rose garden under the reagan administration. at that time even mrs. mellon, the original creator of the rose garden was actually advocating for the removal of all or some of those crab apple trees. they were the crux of criticism that mrs. trump received. this is because the roses and the other plants underneath it needed more light. the bigger the tree gets as it grows the more it is going to shade things out. mrs. mellon was even in favor of removing some of those trees. the trees that were removed last year were actually the second or third iterations of the crab apples, they were not the historic trees. >> i must confess, i do not take sides on politics but i miss the trees. especially when i was doing a new stand up in the rose garden and you had the beautiful blossoms behind you, the beautiful magnolias in the corner. the trees all around and also gave the rose garden a bit of seclusion. it gave it a definition. you as the historian have a phrase that i do not know how to translate into average. what does the phrase, what do you professional hi