pendergast says we want to run you for the senate. truman says, run for the senate? what do i know about the world. i know how to build roads and kansas city. pendergast says we will get you elected and give you people to tell you what to do. he runs and gets elected to the senate and 1934. most of the other senators shun him, call him a senator from pendergrast. in 1940's, running for reelection, roosevelt is not backing him, pendergast is in federal prison and kansas city, the pendergast machine has fallen apart, he's coming in third in the primary, so then he cuts a deal with the heads of , andachine in st. louis they get him narrowly reelected and he is back in the senate. as senator during the second term, he does a little bit better and heads an important investigation of the defense industry and develops a national reputation. have a, he does not popular reputation, and he does not really have any support. he had 2% support in the polls, but gets the nomination and gets back on the ticket as vice president, and when roosevelt dies, he becomes president of the

the machine that ran kansas city --'son by aust pendergast -- boss pendergast. he was relatively honest and a corrupt urban machine. in 1933, he says to his daughter tomorrow, i will be 50 years old -- 49 years old. from the gut i have done, they could take away the 40 -- for all the good i have done, they could take away the 40 and just say i was nine years old. he was ready to tell them he was leaving the machine and going back to the farm. pendergast says that they needed him and wanted to run him for the senate. pentagon says they would get them elected and get people to tell him what to do. he runs and he gets elected to the senate in 1934. most of the other senators shun him. they call him the senator from pendergast. he does not have much of a reputation. in 1940, he is running for reelection. roosevelt is not backing him. pendergast is in federal prison in kansas city. the pendergast machine has fallen apart. he is coming in third in the primary. the heads of with , andachine in st. louis they get him narrowly reelected. as senator, he does a little bett

product of the pendergast machine. a pro who, by the way, was quite popular in the senate, and one of wallace's problems had been that as vice president he could do practically nothing for the administration as presiding officer of senate. he had no impact in the senate. truman did. he had many friends. you want a goodwill ambassador to help get your program through? his name was harry truman. so without bouncing wall a lace at all -- wallace at all, roosevelt was perfectly prepared to see truman nominateed, and he was. after the inauguration on january 20th, truman and fdr met for a few times. there were some meetings but nothing, nothing like a real working relationship established. it was too early for that. it was something is ill in the works. something had to be done for wallace, so roosevelt nominated him to be secretary of commerce. in the bargain, get rid of a cabinet be member that roosevelt was more than willing to get rid of at that point, secretary of commerce jesse jones from texas. roosevelt rightly susp

my name is paul pendergast denied the privilege of serving as the president of the golden gate business association would to the nations first lgbt chamber of commerce am also the president of the san francisco small business network which represents 11 business organizations here in san francisco. i want to underscore the thoughts are presented by kevin cal as was mr. hockey and i want to add another certain element to this was a bit of irony we were talking about a new level of transparency and engagement and i will say that in the past month the gdb eight sold by public events and there's been no representation, no request for input from supervisor peskin's office to participate and engage in this legislative process. when other supervisors contact us regularly. so, small businesses boys does not appear to be included into this proposal legislation and we are very very serious concerns regarding its merits. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning tom window at executive director of liberal also. there's a lot of intriguing ideas here. providing more oversight to

my name is paul pendergast denied the privilege of serving as the president of the golden gate business association would to the nations first lgbt chamber of commerce am also the president of the san francisco small business network which represents 11 business organizations here in san francisco. i want to underscore the thoughts are presented by kevin cal as was mr. hockey and i want to add another certain element to this was a bit of irony we were talking about a new level of transparency and engagement and i will say that in the past month the gdb eight sold by public events and there's been no representation, no request for input from supervisor peskin's office to participate and engage in this legislative process. when other supervisors contact us regularly. so, small businesses boys does not appear to be included into this proposal legislation and we are very very serious concerns regarding its merits. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning tom window at executive director of liberal also. there's a lot of intriguing ideas here. providing more oversight to