this was unofficially nag rated 1 year ago today. but because of the bureaucracy of the state, it has taken us a little bit of time to navigate through those fine lines through state and municipality to get where we are before you. just one thing i wanted to point out to you is that seven 7 years on the budget committee serving on the board of supervisors, the budget information before you is critical to help i think arrive at the decision that is before you. but what doesn't always get the kind of attention in those reports is the policy reason why we are actually here. and numbers aside which i think are well justified for the enactment of this grant, this contract, is the fact that recidivism rates in san francisco like in the rest of california have been all too high. when i took office, recidivism rates were in the mid-60s for san francisco and the state in the high 70 percent. to me, that's failure. we have been working with the kind of precision partnership with members of the criminal justice system to target on repeat offend

came after but i really only deal in the book with two months of the nixon presidency when he was nag rated and two months later eisenhower was dead. >> host: what sense of the man did you get, nixon? >> guest: he before baffled me and complicated. i was rift vet by the different sides of him. he could be really vindictive and sort of vicious, even long before all the tapes we have all heard, he would refer to -- at one time he referred to his 1960 running mate, henry cabot lodge, you're a knuckleheaded gutless wonder, and yet he could be so kind to people. and so generous. and in ways he didn't have to be. always had a thing about the kens but when he was president, he invited mrs. kennedy and her can two children to see him in the white house. and he spent time with them. they played with the dog and they all wrote him the letters and he wrote personal thank you letters to the two children. they were so touched mrs. kennedy she wrote back, such a sweet thing. she had that side of him and then he had this other side. he completely baffled me. >> host: what struck me is how mean dwight eise