i am a long -- naftali. i am longtime citizen of san francisco. i'm speaking in favor of the resolution. when i think of harvey, i speak of gay liberation. for me, this is less about honoring harvey, who has been well honored over the years, and it is forwarding the goals of the lgbt liberation movement, which is to include us and to have equity in all things. this is a phenomenal honor. i urge you to support our folks in san diego and vote for this. thank you. >> thank you. if no one else like that, this will be our final public comment speaker. cracks good morning. i am a rape -- >> good morning. i am a retired navy commander and an annapolis graduate. i worked for 18 years on don't ask, don't tell, and have dedicated my cent -- my life to supporting lgbt service members. i'm here in support of supervisor wiener proposal. i want to tell you a quick story. i know i only have two minutes. i served on the uss lexington, and one of the first things i did on that ship was i looked at the history of that ship and the naming of it. my wife works in a r

both bob here as a policymaker veteran, bob kemmet, bob strong, tim naftali, both of whom helped collect the information. i'm bob zelikow was a young diplomat during the bush 41 administration. i'd like to offer as opening comments as the chair, first a little remark about the significance of oral history, but the telling character of this project, actually about george h.w. bush. oral history and presidential oral history in particular is a species of things that i call basic research in american history. basic research is that research which gathers evidence, gathers data. any serious discipline. any serious realm of scholarship has to gather evidence or data about its subject. in american history you need to gather evidence about american history if you want to understand it. the evidence really only comes in two forms. documents or other things, but mainly documents and memories. documents and memories. the united states government and other entities devote quite a lot of effort to getting and preserving documents, and sometimes things. you can go to the smithsonian museum and see a

in that tumultuous month of may 1990, that tim naftali so helpfully i think spotlighted, there was one other huge issue going on in may 1990, first class nuclear crisis between india and pakistan. bob gates wasn't around for a chunk of that month in may 1990 because bob gates was on a secret mission trying to prevent a war between india and pakistan which actually was a fairly close-run thing at the time. but as tim mentioned in other context, it's one of the things you don't hear about because it didn't go boom. bob? >> yeah, fred. first of all, i'd recommend everybody that's interested in this brand new book that's just come out by peter tomsen, who was the second and last special envoy for afghanistan, he succe succeeded azad and our own special envoy in the bush administration that i recall certainly at the state department, i just had lunch with him yesterday, it's a tome, but i would look at it because he actually was just about to go to press when osama was killed and has add ed some additional chapters that i think tie it together particularly well. remember, when we came in on