ms. richards about this early on there is very little direction in the legislation about who should be on this committee. and we like to rely on staff to vet -- but there's no guidance for them to rely on. so, i do think that the board has to give more guidance through the rules committee for what the makeup of this committee should be. so, unless there are strong feelings to the contrary, my suggestion would be we withdraw this item, that we send the question of the qtea makeup to the rules committee, we develop some guidance that allows staff to actually put forward a stronger roster of candidates but that has the makeup that we think reflects the school district most accurately. yes, ma'am. >> commissioner maufas. >> thank you, president norton. i appreciate that clarification. and i want to in my own reflection, apologize about my flippancy around not caring about this. that's not the case. it's just when we put it on the shelf because of our economic times, it definitely dropped off my radar, so, i'm glad it's back on my radar. >> i think commissioner haney, if you can put down on a

ms. yellen. it was unclear wednesday whether officials have been vetting mr. summers. 'the president has not made a decision on who you will nominate.'" richard, you are on our independent line. go ahead. caller: i don't think we have any role in syria, just like we did not have any role in vietnam. iraq.n't have any role in weapons of mass destruction were fake. we later found out that the agents that were found there were manufactured and processed and shipped over from the u.s. i'm sure we will find out -- find that out in syria as well. it is a disconcerting fact that we continue to involve ourselves in these foreign affairs that have nothing to do with anything other than the continuation of the military-industrial complex. that is what we have been watching out for this full-time. thank you. host: julia from dayton, ohio, democrats' line. caller: good morning. listening to president obama's speech for just that minute, i get goosebumps as it was an amazing speech. i wanted to make a comment, with everybody calling in about syria . i understand everybody's hesitation. i'm sure we have been shot in especiallyny times, with iraq and vietna

richard norton smith and meet amanda matthews. she is at the massachusetts historical society where she is a research associate for the adams papers. ms, we learned there was not much documentary evidence about elizabeth monroe. how about louisa catherine adams, what exists? >> quite a wealth. she kept diaries intermittently. she wrote autobiographies and memoirs. there are hundreds and hundreds of letters of hers. we have her thoughts and feelings from her point of view, both reflective and contemporary as the events were taking place. >> another suggested that in her research she saw louisa adams as the first modern first lady. do you agree with that contention that she developed a sense of self? >> in some ways she has her own cause. she works with the washington female orphan asylum, so in that way it's somewhat modern having this cause that she was involved in and she does work politics in her parlor in such a way as to help win the presidency for her husband in her own way. >> well, richard norton smith, explain to people how the presidency was won in 1820's, it was a very different system than we have today? >> it was. as we sa