he was in washington meeting with willard e. mills in arkansas at the time mr.ways and means committee, probably one of the most powerful and influential people in washington. upon being introduced to the president, my friend was struck speechless. he just was stammering and stuttering. at which point the president put his hand on his shoulder and said, it's okay, dan, i always get nervous around him, too. [laughter] >> it's a special honor for me to be here today. i'd like to introduce our special guest, lieutenant government gavin newsome. it (applause) at the thank you. >> also represent state mark malone's office tom ammiano. (applause) * >> all will return momentarily, i'm sure. paul henderson, representing mayor ed lee's office. [laughter] >> and to my right, i have the open house, our state association vice president and i'm sure other names, past president san francisco chapter. we have lots of our membership here including a couple of board members, kerry greenberg from fresno. [speaker not understood] is here. we have two representatives from san mateo

e. lee. the war drags on. they bring grant to the willard hotel in washington in march of 1864. he tells lincoln i'm going go to ridge monday and they are taking over. he's going go to atlantic. twoprgs. the war will be over maybe in a month or so. then the unexpected happened. it's close to washington, atlanta is longer from tennessee. richmond has good transportation and roads. atlanta in the so-called winderness of the georgia pine woods. grant gets near richmond then we have a names that today makes shuddered. if you look at the army that leaves in may of 1864 and look in september, almost 80% is killed, wounded or missing. and the reputation of grant has changed. and people -- mary todd lincoln is calling him a butcher, a murder. you get the impression it's a more difficult past to fight bobby lee in front of richmond he's done something not politically sustainable. suddenly so you john c. fremont on the left, and he's said lynn -- lincoln shouldn't be nominated. except "new york times," perhaps, all of the newspapers turn on lincoln. he asks for the resignation of the cabi