i want to give a special thank you to dennis normandy. for your wonderful leadership on the sister city and for your great work on our commission as well. thank you very much. [applause] we want to recognize the incredible diverse accomplishments of all of our filipino-american contributors to our city and to make sure we look forward to continuing that strong relationship as we go forward in our city. so it is my honor to present today, on behalf of our city and county, the filipino american history month proclamation. you may join the council general, and please, the honorable hydra mendoza, president of our board of education, and of course, kyra rodriguez from our filipino channel. please take this problematic -- proclamation declaring this is a filipino-american history month in san francisco. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the highest ranking and only filipino-american elected official in the city and county of san francisco, president of the board of education and education adviser to mayor edwin lee, honorable

commissioner normandy, supervisor carmen chu, thank you. good morning, everyone., good to see you, great to be out there with the new labor center. wonderful. friends, family, emily, judy, good to see you. everybody, thank you for coming. entertainment commission, of course. thank you for being here. and commissioners, human rights commission, as well. we have 11 commissioners representing eight different commissions to swear in today. and i want to, again, thank each and every one of you for both new appointments and reappointments to our wonderful commissions. this is a very, very proud day for me because we're welcoming back people who have done great jobs in our city and running our airports and our arts commissions, our civil service, our commission on the status of women, our environmental commission, our entertainment commission, our human rights commission and of course our rent board, something that i grew up with here at city with our rent board. i want to thank everyone here for coming for this wonderful occasion to ask again for a recommitment and a ne

you're always right. >> my dad received the prize in normandy over the weekend. >> bravo, wow. reason i bring it up -- i'm sorry, the reason i bring it up, i want to read a part of your speech which you said this to your audience in normandy a about america. though a democracy, it's becoming a country of socially ominous extremes between the few super rich and the increasingly many who are deprived. in america today, the top 1% of the richest families own around 35% of the entire nation's wealth while the bottom 90% own around 25%. it should be a source of perhaps even greater concern, the maj majority of all congressmen and senators fall in the category of the very rich. the so-called top 1%. so you look at this problem and you have some prescriptions for the future, but they are how we handle the rest of the world. what we can sort of do to shore this up. dr. sachs, i'll let you take the first question. >> first, beautifully put, and congratulations on that wonderful, richly deserved award. how do we turn the politics in this country which is so much infused with big money ar

part because what my dad was one of those great people of world war ii, landed on the beaches in normandy. several days after d-day. they went from there to berlin faster than we're able to do most things in d.c. i do not get the sense they are dragging their feet. i do not get the sense they have a less than an urgent and sophisticated concern about security as we go forward with cloud computing. host: what about the issue of turning over so much government data to private vendors? guest: that is a very good question and one that we raised. we rely greatly on private vendors to begin with. we understand that. the other thing i would say is that the private vendors, frankly, are the ones on the cutting edge of both new computer developments, both in terms of the actual transactional work they do, the competition that they do, but also with the security they do. and if we would totally rely on government-owned enterprises, frankly, we would be doing a disservice. however, what does that require us to do? it requires us to be concerned about proper vetting for their employees, about proper

government and i get frustrated at times my dad was one of those people in world war ii the beaches of normandy and several days after d-day they went from there to berlin faster than we were able to do most things here in d.c. i do not get the sense they have less than urgent sophisticated concerned about security as we go forward with the cloud computing. >> what about the issue of turning over so much the government data to the private vendors? >> that's a very good question and one that we raise. we rely greatly on the public vendors to begin with and we have to understand that. the everything i would see is the private vendors frankly are the ones on the cutting edge both new computers will developments, both in terms of the actual transactional work they do and the computation they do but also the security they do and if we were totally to rely on just government-owned enterprises we would be doing a disservice. however what does that require us to do? it requires us to be concerned about proper vetting for the employees about proper understanding of the physically aware the operations ar

because my dad was one of those great people in world war ii who, you know, landed on beaches in normandy several days after d day, and they went there from to berlin faster than we're able to do most things in d.c. but i don't get theceps they're dragging their feet, and i did not get the sense that they have a less than urgent and sophisticated concern about security as we go forward with the cloud computing. >> host: congressman lungren, what about the issue of turning over so much government data to private vendors? >> guest: that's a very good question, one that we raised. um, we rely greatly on private vendors to begin with. we've got to understand that. the other thing i would say is that the private vendors, frankly, are the ones that are on the cutting edge of both new computer developments both in terms of the actual transactional work they do, the computation that they do, but also with the security that they do. and if we were totally to rely on just government-owned enterprises, frankly, we would be doing a disservice to us. however, what does that require us to do? it requir

and it was a great lesson 'cause i remember this superb speech he gave at normandy, and i said to him in one of our weekly luncheons, 'how do you do this?' and he said, 'i--i say it over and over again.' and he did. he--it--it--it works. i've tried it at potter stewart's funeral, for example, my very close friend, who used to be on the court, and he died, and they asked me to speak. i don't like speaking at funerals because i do choke up. but if you say it over and over again, it becomes less personal. and yet the way reagan delivered that normandy speech, it--you would never guess that--that he had conditioned himself to get through it. back to the berlin wall, when i was talking about emotional, kind of standing around jubilantly, dancing with kids, beating yourself on the chest, 'we did it. we won,' i mean, it's that kind of emotion that i did not -- th -- did not want to try to demonstrate. when dick gephardt and--and senator mitchell said, 'the president doesn't get it. he doesn't understand the emotion we feel. he should go and show these german kids by dancing on the wall how w

due respect to herman cain and his achievements, which are considerable, to be our commander in normandy not quite in the same league as being head of a company. i'm not sure he's got the stature to quickly take away the vote romney doesn't have. i think that if you have to bet the house, you'd say they would settle for romney. >> bill: all right. rick perry could make a come back, there are two more debates this month. you've got to figure perry is going to be throwing everything in there. what i can't understand is why governor perry stay as way from the media which could rehab his image, battered image he got on the debates, much faster, you know, talking like you're talking tonight. but he stay as way and i know time is running out for him. it is. >> there is only one explanation, bill. means he'll -- he thinks he'll blow it and he thinks he won't do well f that happens he completely dead meat. i think he's trying to prepare and trying to get up to speed. he's got sparring partners and training in the catskills getting ready for the next debate. i'm not sure he wants to accelerate th

george marshall, chief of staff of the army thought he had donovan banned from going in to normandy and so did dwight eisenhower. they had it prohibited that he would stay in england. donovan managed to talk his way aboard the heavy cruiser and land the second day of the utah beach landing. had a great time. he was on the beach on a jeep, a deron message met -- diving into the -- he marches in land five miles and gets pinned down by a german machine-gun, reach into the pocket of his field jacket to look for a suicide pill because of u.s. officers carried a suicide pill including donovan, realized he left it at the hotel in london and was all worried. had an aide radioed back that he feared an aide might mistake for an aspirin. it took almost two years for donovan to build up his spot organization. may seem like a long time during a war but took the u.s. army quite some time to build up its force and become a credible force in the war. eventually became very proficient and turned into good intelligence. like all intelligence agencies its effort failures too. one of the most striking fail

george marshall, the chief of staff of the army, thought donovan was banned from the normandy landing as did eisenhower. they thought they had him prohibited. donovan talked his way aboard a heavy cruiser and landed the second day of the utah beach landing. had a great time. he was on the beach on a jeep, german plane flies over, strikes the beach, he dives into the sand, marchs inland five miles with an aid, pinned down by a german machine gun there, reaches into the pocket of his field jacket to look for a suicide pill because all oss officers carried one, including donovan. realized he had left it at the hotel in london, and he was all worried, had an aid radio back to the hotel fearing a maid would mistake it for an aspirin. it took two years for donovan to build up his spy organizations. it may seem like a long time during the war, but it took the u.s. army to build up its force to become a credible force in the war, but eventually, it was very, very proficient turning in a lot of good intelligence. like all intelligence agencies, it did suffer from its failures, too. one of the

and if you've ever been to the battlefield at normandy or the battlefields of the first world war which in many ways are even more moving because nobody goes to see them anymore, you know what a toll it took. we are -- again, we are more indebted to other people than we have any idea. and we are particularly indebted to all those people who preceded us. who preceded us as painters, writers, artists, musicians and who left us the poetry we love and the architect we love and the buildings that have shaped us after we shaped them. and we're indebted to those who have the fundamental nobility, and character and who have the best intentions of words that have survived. who were not just depending on tomorrow's rating or goal or getting our faces on television as the purpose of achieving high office who was trying for the best of the country and. when you read about these young americans who were studying for medicine, painting and the theater and who was doing for the best of the country, it's inspiring than any way i can express it at least right now this afternoon for you. on we go. [appla

when president roosevelt was president, while our troops were storming the beaches of normandy, he led the nation in prayer. people sang, how could you do that. -- saying, how could you do that? fdr did that. if he were president, is that something you would do? >> yes. a president does not lose their first amendment right to freedom of speech and liberty. i would be most pleased to do that, to lead the nation in prayer. we have seen that not only with fdr, but you can go back to george washington. washington had a prayer for the nation. when washington was sworn in as the president, he raised his right arm and he swore to uphold the constitution of the united states. his first act was to take the bible he put his hand on, washington established that presidcedent. when it was over, president washington took the bible and kissed the bible as the word of god in recognition that this is a sacred trust that was being given to him. our nation wisely does not have an established national church. that is what our founders did not want. they were right to stand for religious liberty. we do not

it from men who passed on the knowledge from the underwater demolition teams that beaches at the normandy. now, when the truck bomb went off, i had actually ended up taking out the entire western wall of our barracks. and what the insurgents were doing at the time is they were actually packing chlorine into the suicide car bombs and the suicide truck bombs, and their intention was to create casualties not just with the explosion, but also by creating this poison chlorine cloud after the explosion went off. and we were in the barracks, there was a marine who was next to me, kind of grabbed each other. we made our way outside the eastern side of the barracks, and as soon as we got outside, i fell down to my hands and knees. and because of the chlorine my eyes were burning and my nose was burning and my throat was burning, and i was down on my hands and knees, and i was choking, and i was coughing. and i looked down on my uniform, and i saw that there was blood on my uniform. and so i started to pat myself down to check for an injury. i didn't feel like i was injured, but you're trained to k

[applause] commissioner dennis normandy. [applause] commissioner mandahar. [applause] commissioner claudine cheng. [applause] and all the members of our consular corps, thank you all for being here. let's all give them a warm round of applause. [applause] >> tonight, we're honoring seven milestones of the san francisco bay area's filipino american the community but these events became our communities benchmarks because of the remarkable achievements. among them, and achievements of decades of public service, if you first, and events that have significantly impacted our community. tonight, certificates of honor will be presented by honorable hydra mendoza, the council general, and executive kai rodriguez. >> one filipino-american publication has stood the test of time. 50 years of committed service by delivering the news and documenting our history. ladies and gentlemen, philippine news. [applause] ♪ >> truth, integrity, and bold journalism. in 1961, the philippine news was founded in the garage. its vision was to create a community newspaper to tell the stor