we must carefully create alternatives for vehicle and unharness folks. we must remind ourselves they are fighting every day to get by in the city. signs force them to move from one street to the next. it is part of the problem. until we face the issue of homelessness and carve out spaces to over humanenessties we are not addressing the homeless issue, not creating solutions or offering real solutions. >> thank you for your work on this and thank you for putting into words what people feel about the issue. next speaker, melody. >> i am melody. i have a couple comments on the policy. it says vehicle encampment solution team. my experience with this is that it is a faÇade, empty solution to make it seem like people are helped. as we know there is no housing and no shelter offered to people who do not fit the narrow criteria. the navigation centers are 90 day stay. everybody i have seen in navigation has been out on the streets in three months back on my block. the navigation centers are approximately 550 people total of five navigation centers. that is 550

what we need is leadership, leadership that will take america's great harnessed power and unharness it, and put it to work on the unfinished business at home, and the unfinished business abroad. >> from 1968, what are you hearing, what are you seeing? >> so much of politics is timing. and what i hear in part at least, is nixon projecting a sense of calm, of confidence, of experience which is, of course, a dirty word in american politics now, and look, ronald reagan ran against experience. he ran as a citizen politician in 1966. nixon was able to say, i have the with with all, the mettle, the toughness to restore the order that's been lost, he talked about a civil war potentially erupting at home, in 1968 is widely seen, and i think right letter so as perhaps the most divisive year in the nation's history, since the end of the civil war, nixon con fronted that, the other thing i hear is vietnam. he mentioned the -- and it was really vietnam that destroyed lyndon johnson's presidency. that gave nixon and others a major opening. nixon handled that issue deftly, he didn't talk much about i

what we need is leadership, leadership that will take america's great harnessed power and unharness it and put it to work on the unfinished business at home and the unfinished business abroad. he was first to formally interview the race in 1967. this is what the time line looks like. november of that year, the tet offensive took place on january 30 of 1968. former vice president richard nixon formally enters the race on february 1. george romney withdraws on february 28. nixon wins easily in the new hampshire primary on march 12. then president johnson announcing on march 31 that he will not seek re-election. nelson rockefeller, governor of new york, enters the race on april 30. richard nixon accepts the nomination on august 8 of that year. and he's elected as our rather than permitting them to master us." going on to write that our convention in 1968 can spark a republican resurgence to face the realities of the world in which we live. thurmond knew that nixon needed him desperately. and nixon knew that he needed strom thurmond desperately, and strom thurmond knew that nixon knew. and