richard henry lee brought them together for the first time. in 1775 at the first trip to richard henry lee stood patrick henry demanding war with britain if necessary to obtain redress of american grievances against parliaments government ministry. in april of that year british troops fired the shots heard round the world at lexington and concord. and the year after that lee invited his own execution on the british gallows for the treasonous resolves before congress that these united colonies, and these are his words, these united colonies are as of right ought to be free and independent. his writing, this document is illustrated in this book. if those words sense of where they should because they are the keywords in the declaration of independence and it was richard henry lee, not jefferson, who first wrote and then spoke those words in congress urging independence. three weeks later on july 2 congress approved the resolution declaring independence from britain newspapers sent the news streaming and banner headlines across the world proclaimi

richard elberling. the assumption of the central soma plan is that the city job programs are good enough. they're not. they are really not. they're strong on construction but when it comes to the permanent jobs, they really do not get much results. and especially here where you are intending this to be a technology industry district with all the office buildings. the permanent jobs are in -- in the tech industry are crucial to have a really effective job program for city residents and community residents. the twitter tax break programs of central market were a miserable failure, just admit it. we have to do better this time. second, i want to make sure you're aware of the great importance to we are soma, and the community advocates that we have a broad based wide ranging purview citizens advisory committee for the south of market including the central soma, but all the eastern neighborhoods south of market that will essentially replace the very inadequate eastern neighborhood cac with regard to soma. th

. >> president hillis: commissioner richards richard richarrichard -- richards? >> commissioner richards: so on that, a tie in, we have the data in two separate places. we have a list of entitled, but it doesn't say what's going on with them. i'd love to go to one of those projects and say okay, 123 main street, there's a nice little synopsis, status approved, about then what's the world status, building permit pulled, whatever so, we can actually try to understand this. and then if there's a chance if we can say reason it's not being built, that would even be more powerful because we need to understand why we're entitling all these units, but then, the amount of units being built is actually falling. so -- and we're doing everything in our power to make it happen. it's the market, and the market is construction costs, it's financing, it's everything. so i think that -- i think an analysis around that in this report since it looks like we have most of the data if not the reason to tie together what would really be powerful. the other one is, and i know we talked

richard: who knows?y interest rates are finally going up i'm at which everyone, including barry and i, have been predicting for the past decade and have been wrong. eventually, we will all be right about this. maybe we will look back and see you when it broke 3%, that was the sign. that interest rates have to go up at some point. we have been wrong forever. how fast they will go up or whether they will go down, we don't know. barry: the most fascinating thing about 3% is that the fed has been saying we want to get of emergency footing. there are signs of inflation and signs of wages ticking up. it should not come as a surprise that bond yields are moving up as the fed is now three or four increases into what could be a long, slow tightening cycle. vonnie: the most burning question that you have for the nobel prize winner? my favorite question is how long does it take for your life to get back to normal after the nobel prize? we can ask that again. i don't know that it ever gets back to normal. say that m

ok let me go back to richard in new york richard i know you're a career diplomat and diplomacy is sorely lacking these days around the world but richard me what a military strike against the regime. the assad government in damascus what is that's what kind of. what outcome would washington be looking for in striking syria you've said that they've backed away from regime change i think the that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense i think they would want to go all the way i mean what kind of behavior is that you go trying to enact here i mean this is the problem with military policy because it doesn't really have to work with political outcomes it has certain goals of destruction and threatening and doesn't really talk about the political part of it go ahead richard in new york well we certainly do need a clearer overall policy towards syria the strategy has been wanting to put it mildly now the question though what can we try to accomplish by staying in why we're two thousand yeah very small number there in northeastern syria. we don't think first of all we don't think that the oasi

commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: so interestingly enough, maybe i've been sitting up here all this time, these four years, and i don't understand all the various permutations on the development process. i understand we develop something, it's shovel ready. it's got financing, it's got the contract, labor locked in. then we got something, and they go shop for financing. i don't understand the percentage of those different types of processes. i talk to developers, and they say oh, we don't have financing. i'm like we went through all this, and now you're going to the bank. i know one year i went to a hack event, and eric tau did a presentation which i thought was really good. he went all the way through an entitlement process, and it was really good. i throw that out there to see if other commissioners might feel that it would be beneficial. i went for an address change at dbi recently, and on the form it said, is this a rental, is this under rent control, how many tenants are living in there?

richard came in with a portfolio. i came in with a pile and i got to fill in the most recent political figures. i work as a caricaturist and a political cartoonist. there is a difference. political cartoonists use word bubbles. when i'm wearing my political cartoonist hat, i'm really a political commentator, just like somebody who is writing a column in the op-ed pages. except i have the advantage of drawing my opinion. i ideally express it with a certain amount of humor and the poor columnists have to rely on just using their words. the old thought about pictures being worth a thousand words is actually quite true. somebody who writes an 800 word essay about tax policies or something has to rely on a reader who is willing to invest five minutes to read those 800 words. but the magic of the political cartoon is that you glance at a cartoon. humans have a visual acuity. we pick up stuff fast. we recognize a face, a setting, a metaphor, a pun and you can pick up a cartoon quickly. we have a certain advantage. there are

host: richard nixon, declaring victory in 1968. as you hear that and reflect on it 50 years later, what is the political legacy of that year and for the conservative movement? guest: i think that the three most significant figures leading to the election of ronald reagan and the triumph of conservatives post-war america were barry goldwater, richard nixon, and bill buckley. what nixon did in creating the coalition that ultimately went on to bolster him and lead to that landslide of 1972 that matthew was talking about, and ultimately the election of reagan, was very significant. host: 50 years later, the legacies? guest: one legacy is that the republican party became -- the conservative movement became much stronger on national defense, pro-military, pro-using aggressive military power overseas, and the democratic party became much more antiwar. the issue of race, i think is central to this discussion. the republican party really became the party of white working-class americans, much more so than the democrats. really exploding the

commissioner richards? >> vice president richards: yes. i'm trying to find exhibit a just so i understand what a member of the public's just said. i have a b, but no a. b. >> there's a b. >> vice president richards: b. >> okay. >> vice president richards: i'll pass it while i read it, my comments. >> president hillis: okay. any additional comments on this or a motion? commissioner o'koppel commissioner richards? >> vice president richards: they make a period of time more than one year which a bar might relocation and make accommodations before they deem it abandoned. i think that's reasonable because we've seen that things take time. i'm open to that if other commissioners are supportive of increasing the one year limit. mr. starr, any comments? >> i was just going to say, we do have two modifications on it. >> president hillis: and that was one of them? >> no. one of -- they were just clarifying ones. one was to change the january 1st, 2018 date so that hemlock could take advantage of it. there was a miscommunication on that date, so it's

richard nixon winning with a half-million votes, but with the electoral college vote, richard nixon with 301 electoral votes, hubert humphrey 191 and george wallace at 46. what was the nixon strategy in the general election? matthew: one was to try to not talk a whole lot of specifics about vietnam. he didn't really know. he didn't have a plan for how he the war, peaced with honor for example. he wanted to keep the focus on the unrest in the country and how he was going to be a voice for as he said in his invested address, the forgotten -- his convention address the later forgotten americans, the silent majority. that included some of the wallace voters, although they went for wallace, but working-class, primarily white americans in the south and the north, all over the country, middle-class suburbanites. the idea that the cities were out of control, that campuses were out of control, that these really a front to a fundamental american values, he tapped into that strain and as well the strategy was that on the left, he could be in the center right. he had wallace far to his right or to h

richard busca a craig prosser mientras escapa., habrÍan tenido que sacarlo del suelo. serÍa dificil imaginar sobrevivir a eso. >> [locutor] para todos los que se encontraban allÍ, es un milagro. en medio del caos de las columnas que caÍan y los cables de acero reventados, nadie sufriÓ una sola lesiÓn. >> ¿saben algo? fue increÍble, asombroso, fenomenal que todos los que estÁbamos alÍi hubiÉramos podido escapar sin ninguna lesiÓn. fue un alivio tremendo, fue sencillamente increÍble. >> [locutor] el toldo finalmente fue elevado unos meses despuÉs, y aÚn hoy se mantiene erigido. >> yo corrÍ, richard tambiÉn corriÓ segundos despuÉs. y este es el poste que se puede ver cuando cayÓ delante de nuestra cÁmara, justo frente a nosotros. >> [locutor] craig prosser ahora estÁ retirado, pero Él tuvo algo bueno. logrÓ realizar uno de los reportajes mÁs memorables de su vida. y tambiÉn logrÓ vivir para contarlo. >> oye, logramos conseguir un buen reportaje ese dÍa. >> [richard] sÍ. >> [locutor] "ciudad de white rock, canadÁ". >> [mujer] solo es

this is richard thompson. that's me. another richard thompson. that's me. these are a couple of color vaultmans. these are done in the 1970s. richard thompson's style is just -- i mean, as a cartoonist, i look at this and it's such a beautiful combination of loose lines. he was influenced a lot by some of the great english cartoonists, and then he took it to his own sort of place. i aspire to this. but i'm still working on it at age 60 something. this is one i did for politico. this is a caricature of bernie sanders. i do a cross hatch and then add water color. richard's approach was a classic way. he works in a style that would have fit in perfectly in the 19th century, but ises are very modern. this is another richard thompson. you can see the difference. i rely on a lot of black and white lines that harken back to the wood engravings. richard's style here, you'll see that the rendering is done with water color. here's a paul ryan that i did for politico. a dick cheney, a karl rove. those are both richard's up there. it's interesting, this wall gets a lot

commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: if we could add the secretary and office to the action items? you'll be giving us an update on. other thing is i read a statistic this week on price jumps on median houses. santa clara county actually jumped 26% year over year even though they're perusing all this housin -- producing all this housing, even though they're largest in the bay area, 26%. i thought it was shocking. >> president hillis: all right. thank you very much. >> clerk: if there's nothing further, commissioners. we can move onto item 12. [agenda item read] clerk this is for yo is -- >> clerk: this is for your endorsement. >> gamp, president hillis, commissioners, drof rahm. my name is tam tran. i work with the citywide division in the planning department. i'm also part of planning staff for the connectsf program. this is the city's long range transportation planning program and a multiagency partnership between the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and the county transportation

host: a key player in the 1960's is richard nixon. he loses the california in 1962.hip that famous speech, you won't have dick nixon to kick around anymore. guest: my parents were very upset about that. host: that actually made him look like a victim, correct? guest: they try to make him look like a has been. there is the old role in american politics -- you are not finished until you say you are finished. but if you say you are finished, you are finished. and nixon said in that famous press conference that he was finished. so he thought that he was finished, but he wasn't. and his good friends in california gave him some great advice. they said get out of california, go to new york and you could actually rise back up. and that is what he did. host: he places the name of very berry goldwater in a nomination in 1964, and what happens between 1964 and that 1966 led the groundwork for his campaign? guest: he did a brilliant thing when he gave his nominating speech for goldwater. the liberals in the party were resisting goldwater, and in

commissioner richards? >> vice president richards: so just before i say what i was going to say, i was reading the historic research on this. it said the original owner had six children in that house, and i can't imagine that. i visited this yesterday, and i raised some concerns to him. i completely understand the situation the family's in. i asked him the question before. he's been the neighborhood a long time, and he's got some children and needs to grow. i asked him about the lack of affordable housing, because you have a built before 1979 house, you have two rent controlled unit. the other is density. 2502 square feet, and 480 square foot, i wouldn't say they're as equitiable as they'd like to consider. we've got this issues, what should we do? the project as is, demolishing rent control units, i can't support. if there's any other way the project sponsor would consider mitigating it, i'd be open to that. >> the project sponsor is willing, and i see that the city's attorney's office is here to enter int

richards approach was a classic dip pen. he works in a style that would've fitted in the 19th century. but it is very, very modern. this is another richard thompson. you could see the difference. little lines, little black and white lines that go back to the wood engraving of the thomas era. richard, you will see that the rendering is done with watercolor. he let the paint render the shapes. there is a paul ryan that i did. there is a tick cheney -- a dick cheney carl rhodes. gets a lot of attention when i come in to the ball and -- bar and i am sitting around. , as it areple leaving, they will stop. he gets a lot of attention. shamelesss self-promotion thing that i did back in the beginning. one of our reporters did a piece about odd couples in washington. people you would not expect china get a drink at a bar. this is when i started doing .tuff with hay-adams hote i situated them in this bar for this one. this was a cover illustration when ron was chief of staff of the white house for obama. i was far too nice to mitch mcc

sir cliff richard's barrister?he sing at all. you said you don't have to be sherlock holmes to conclude this looks like potentially a pretty flimsy complaints, do your? mr johnson replied, i'm not sherlock holmes, i am johnson replied, i'm not sherlock holmes, iam not johnson replied, i'm not sherlock holmes, i am not the police. that's theirjob. but given they had decided to take this forward, to ta ke decided to take this forward, to take it seriously, to take it to the next stage, i couldn'tjust ignore what they were doing. the bbc was criticised for using a helicopter to film the search of his flat. mr johnson plaint issues about sir cliff richard's brevity were considered by those higher up, his bossesin considered by those higher up, his bosses in london this was a story involving allegations of a serious nature against a figure of the highest profile, against the backdrop of a number of other allegations being made against celebrities, some having been jailed, guilty as a result of other victims coming forwa

richards -- >> commissioner richards: so effectively, a whole foods or large grocery store could not go in. one of the things we did recently at the lucky penny site, there was an s.u.d. that was created that bent the rules, that allowed high density and things in exchange for the developer gave back to us. so maybe the numbers don't work now as is which is a straight project, but i think i'd urge you to go work with the supervisors office to go explore an s.u.d. or something that can actually make everything fit together nice and work better, including a use size larger than 4,000 square feet which could allow a grocery store to go in. that would be my recommendation. so i guess i'll make a motion -- so what you did say was they cannot come back within a year or they can? >> well, in their current form -- nick, you can correct me, but if you deny a conditional use, you cannot come back with essentially the same proposal in a year. >> commissioner richards: this would take more than a year to figure out. >> well, it would, but they can't come back with the same proposal within a year

here is a then richard thompson, a laura bush. sophisticates, the painting of richard is sort of annoying and wonderful. up in the corner. that is our trouble that kevin draws for the economist. he did it recently with the twitter bird on his shoulder. a fabulous piece of color art. >> in the bar, 75% of the art on the walls are really straight caricatures. there are a number of real political tar dines. this one has one by me and one for kevin callaher. you can tell the difference in that we have word bubbles and captions. there is a lot more information and opinion being conveyed in these, which is what we are really about. example of lovely good political cartoon, built around a clever visual metaphor that is conveyed quickly. in this case it is the boxing ring, and it is israel and policy stein going at it. nd the new ref is obama. then you see round number. -- he old refs, busch bush, clinton, reagan, albeit up. and if a food example u are doing a good political cartoon, you can distill it down to a nice visual nugget that ca

. >> president hillis: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: just to reiterate, i think we need to make sure whatever we come up with, we need to have the rent board's opinion, the dbi opinion, because there is a tax, so that they're tuned into this as well as well as the city attorney for potential state law stuff. >> president hillis: any other comment, director ram or director hui? >> just to thank everybody for coming. there was one idea thrown out that commissioner melg talked about, ju -- melgar talked about, i think that director hui talked about taking that job. but thank you all for your comments today, and i think we'll organize the hearing within the time frame you talked about, probably this summer. >> president hillis: thank you. and certainly we can be updated as this moves along. we can hold an informational at the planning commission to get an update where things are. dbi can do the same, so we look forward to that. >> yeah. i look forward to workforce between our department and planning. and we can giv

thanks. >> president hillis: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: i think instead of hiding the data, i think we need to recognize miss rogers for analysis on 827. i think it's just an oversight that the link's not live. i think it's probably an easy thing to do, so i support commissioner john's statement, as well. on 14 states, i believe that's agendaized on the b.i.c. meeting in may, so having it scheduled for the 3rd may not be a good idea. maybe we should schedule the 19th like we did the other item, so you might want to check with president -- >> president hillis: so we've got it on the 18th. we would have to ask staff to move it to that date and that would be helpful. director, did you want to comment on the live link? >> i think it is an over sight, and perhaps miss ojeda can comment on it on the housing inventory today, unless you want to comment on it now. [ inaudible ] >> okay. >> president hillis: thank you. >> clerk: if there's nothing further commissioners, we can move onto your regular calendar. item 8. [agend

but he went on to say that cliff richard, sir cliff richard's private life was shattered when the bbca boy under the age of16 in the abuse, against a boy under the age of 16 in the 1980s. the bbc covered the story. they had reporters outside his house in berkshire, they also used a helicopter and shot footage from there, including some of the footage which you could see a politician officer inside of sir cliff richard's apartment sifting through some of his belongings. sir chef richard at the time was in portugal watching this unfold on bbc news, he had never been questioned at the time, in connection with the allegation, he also was never arrested, and he was never charged. and the cps, the crown prosecution service dropped the case, two years later, so sir cliff richard says the bbc breached his privacy. we heard earlier on this morning from his barrister, in court today, who said that it was a very serious invasion of his privacy, there was no lawful justification for the bbc to cover the story in the way it did. he went on to say that a bbc news gathering tea m on to say that a bb

jereem richards wins the gold instead.ing. he can add to that tomorrow as well. i will have more on this story is just after 5:30pm. russia have said they will not accept the conclusions of a report produced by the international chemical weapons watchdog into the substance used to poison the former spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia in salisbury. scientists at porton down identified the chemical as novichok, a military grade nerve agent developed by russia. the russian foreign ministry say they will not accept any conclusions until russian experts are given access. britain has requested a un security council meeting to discuss the findings of the report. from salisbury, duncan kennedy reports. removing the bench where yulia and sergei skripal were found has been one of the mainly clear up operation in salisbury after the nerve agent attack. police say traces of the substance were found in the city centre and especially at his home in one of the suburbs. the first confirmation that it was a novichok nerve agent came

hich richards? >> vice president richards: i make a motion to adopt the statement of the eir and overriding considerations. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion, then, to certify the final environmental impact report -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. items 11 a and b. [ agenda item read ] >> good afternoon, commissioner hillis and members of the commission. laura aiello, department staff. this request for conditional use authorization to legalize the merger of a four unit building into two units was originally considered back in october 2017. the project was eventually continued to the march 8 hearing. at that time, the commission denied the motion to disapprove the project and directed staff to return with a draft motion to approve the project with conditions. at the march 8 hearing, there was discussion regarding the change in building code occupancy of a two-unit residence versus a three-unit residence, the high cost

how much information about the search of cliff richard's flat police gave the bbc.r danjohnson was told the time and date of the search by south yorkshire, but they deny giving more information about the investigation and claim they were forced into cooperating with the bbc. today i can confirm that south yorkshire police have gained entry into a property in the sunningdale area of berkshire. matthew fenwick who is now retired from south yorkshire police made this statement to the bbc on the day of the raid. here in the middle, he told the court today, reporter danjohnson already knew many details about the investigation in a meeting they had one month before the search. mr fenwick was asked if he felt danjohnson had forced him into a deal with the bbc. mr fenwick told the court, i didn't want him to publish the story, but he told me he could and he would, so we came to an arrangement where he wouldn't publish it then, but we would give him the details about the search. he was asked, did he force you into it? yes, he replied, really, yes. under cross—examination, it