. >>> the only reason that stephen king has publish mord books than john prados, king makes stuff up. prados has written 17 books, the blood trail, about the ho chi minh trail, inside the pentagon papers and viet nam, the history of an unwinnable war. senior fellow with the national security archive and institution for historians and everyone interested in fighting needless government secrecy, prados heads the iraq doicumentation contrac. it's in his contract i should mention his book is the normandy crucible. ladies and gentlemen, a heavy weight historian, john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, that was very gracious. also add my voice to all my colleagues, congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were talking about historeography, it shows you how the process goes of trying to read the tea leaves and interpret issues in history. so the phrase "decent interval" comes from an article henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the jo

prados heads the iraq documentation project or the vietnam project. it is in his contract that he mentioned the normandy crucible which is not about vietnam. ladies and gentlemen, a relentless researcher and heavy weight historian john pradas. >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. we also add my troyes those of all my colleagues and congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, since we were just talking about historiography, let me open on a historical graphical note because it shows you how the process goes of trying to read the tea leaves and enter pretty issues in history. so the phrase decent interval actually dollars an article that henry kissinger wrote which he published in the journal foreign affairs or in the months of the 1968 election especially when foreign affairs experts positioned themselves for potential appointments and new administrations by putting out views and opinions that potential prec

prados heads the iraq documentation project and the vietnam project. it is in his contract that i should mention his most recent book "the normandy crucible," which is not about vietnam. john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. let me also add my voice to those of all my colleagues congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were just talking about his tor i don't gofy. let me open on a his tor graphical note. it shows you kind of how the process goes and a time to read the tea leaves. the phrase decent interval actually comes from an article that henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the journal foreign affairs in the month before the 1968 election. people, especially foreign affairs experts, positioned themselves for potential appointments in dual administrations by putting out views and opinions that potential presidents can take a look at and decide if they like these peop

is responding to the need we have heard many times to slow down the traffic, make the alley safer, prado -- promote the pedestrian network and honor the communities that of help shape the market. the western song but transportation plan was born in the town hall meetings. -- soma transportation plan was born in the town hall meetings. we tried to implement a series of small, focused, incremental improvements that bring the benefits of community planning and to daily lives. affordable housing, recreation and opens base for everyone, peace and quiet, and al the improvements. these three alleys hold enormous significance to two population groups. to the lgbt community, a social heritage of caregiving born of the aids crisis. community planning works best when the community and city family work best together. the planning department and dph have made valuable contributions, but the transportation authority has gone one step further. they have listened come at a professional expertise, and there are ways to implement the changes. my thanks. >commissioner avalos: we will close public comment.

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jeffrey sim ball, katherine scott, and john prados. >> thank you very much. >>> you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >>> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the knoll memorial library. >> mr. knoll was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life, and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i. newton, and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> and american history tv looked at civil war era medical pra

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prado griese two nuclear talks but war on green grass politicians stick to their governments calling for military action against iran and syria last. i did appeared in group of russian observers try follow the presidential election but except blood to be a putin one of a georgia is the vote join me in a few moments for more on this. thanks for being with us five o'clock here in moscow on charon's her all she with the latest president obama has ruled out an attack against syria saying it would be a mistake after reading u.s. politician john mccain call for airstrikes syria's president assad responded by saying he's determined to continue fighting for what he calls foreign backed terrorism the pressure is piling on though spain has closed its embassy in damascus while china has withdrawn most of its workers over fears for their safety and the u.n. is considering a u.s. proposed resolution demanding that both government forces and opposition fighters and the bloodshed bear long uprisings claimed thousands of lives and forced many to seek shelter abroad but there's one corner of syria th

at a certain prado, we need money to invest because you need people to answer phones for live service. i am pretty proud that wall service is down, it is not degraded - -while services down, it is not degraded to a point to where it could've gone given the costs. do we think it's acceptable? i want everyone who context the irs to get what they need. this year, everyone is not getting what they need, but we are doing a pretty good job given the resources we were given. >> thank you, commissioner. i am looking at data and the budget cuts compared to the level of service are not always, they don't always follow, given this information from the gao. we just encourage you to continue to work on that and we would be delighted to work to do anyway weekend. with that, i would recognize mr. lewis for 5 minutes per >> thank you, very m. >> the gao notes there has been a 34% increase in the number of calls for this filing season and a 50% increase in calls answered by the automated phone service. can you tell us what are the taxpayers calling about? what is the nature of the calls? >> calls can