c-span: bill gaston. >> guest: bill gaston was the husband of a woman who's probably not remembered too well now but was well-known at the time because she starred in one of the most successful theatrical extravaganzas of all time, a play called "the miracle," which was directed by the austrian producer max reinhardt. and this "miracle" went on tour for six or seven years in europe and america. and the two stars of it were a woman called rosamund pinchot and a woman called lady diana cooper. and clare always said that she was offered the part that eventually went to diana cooper in that play. and the other part went to rosamund pinchot, whose husband, bill gaston, was a tremendous womanizer. and clare rented his house on--guess what?-- crotch island one summer, and he kept coming and going, and he wouldn't let her--he wouldn't let her have any peace. c-span: you said in that summer on crotch island, there were a lot of affairs, a lot of different men. >> guest: a lot of different men. c-span: how did you find all this out, by the way? >> guest: i found--well, she kept a diary of that su

>> i was a big supporter of chief gaston. i think he will do a great job in the district attorney's office. part of me was sad to see him go from the police department. he had come in and started modernizing the department. it's technology -- a lot of different changes that needed to happen but were not happening until he came in and start of the department on the right path. it is critical that whoever the next chief of police is continue that modernization of the department. it will have benefits citywide. in my district, we have public safety challenges. the district is often viewed as a "safe district." we do have violence. we had a bunch of violence around delores park last year. there have been robberies in glen park and parts of the valley. there have been shootings in diamond heights. one of the challenges is making sure that the police department understands that even though we may not have the same crime levels as some neighborhoods, we still need attention from the police department. >> let's talk about the city's

what we did is create a policy where they did, and i think it may have been cheap gas than -- chief gaston at the time were they created personnel files where they could go to the court system to learn whether this type of material existed, whether or not information that we should know about individuals who are testifying for us in that trial should be given to the police department. we also have our own internal policy because -- which means if there are allegations of misconduct, we create materials and have an internal policy about how the material is disseminated within our offices so that we can comply with all our obligations in terms of discovery. our office has had a lot of discussions about the implementation of that policy and a lot about when we should implement policy and when during the course of litigation that information should be provided. we chose to be very expensive on that. we chose to give it prior to preliminary hearings if time allows. i think that is above and beyond what the law requires. those are the decisions that were made. we do have a set policy, a set poli

. >> do you feel that -- the district attorney that we have, gason, -- gaston, fits into this category? >> i will have to see what happens. >> i will go to john thompson. we were talking about how often, you have public opinion polls on the death penalty but the last -- the wrong question is asked, do you support the death penalty or something like that. can you elaborate on this? >> this is a tricky question that we have been tricked into believing, so that people say, do you support the death penalty. this is a trick question. you will not put yourself in that position of being placed under arrest based on these reports. we ask you if you support this and eliminates you automatically. if you ask that same question in a different way, meaning the use of what the state killing you, that is the question. you have no control over the death penalty. he is the only one to make this decision. he is the only one -- he does not want to make the decision. this is a tricky question from the beginning. do we support the death penalty? we never placed ourselves in this position. do you give the s

gas prong a little over percent on concerns about the growth in internal tariffs so it would have to gaston is down more than two percent some profit taking after it announced dividend payments in line with expectations and last year also been a slower after deadline to secure share swap with b.p. luke now peter weston that atong capital explains the current volatility on the block. but it looks like we have a continuation we've seen over the last couple of weeks which is basically x. to get extreme pressure but mainly it's a doing materials and energy names it's a continuation in follows on from russia having be one of the best performing markets over the last six months but also we have this renewed world continuation rather of concerns of sovereign stress and so for europe and then there's also concerns about hiking rates give us a considerable slowdown in global growth so it's really exiting russia given you know essentially profits. in this environment and moving into say for us that. russia's economy in the first quarter grew four point one percent year on year but that's below the fo

i was living in a small town about 20 miles from gastonia and a book at just -- john salmon's vote gastone in 1929 which is the best book about that particular strike, came out and i read the book and i was fascinated by it. went down and take a look at the old mill which is abandoned now. i was looking for something to write about that would allow me to do research both in the united states and in scotland, and my wife's -- i had missed it but my wife said why don't you write about ellen dawson, because she is scottish and sure enough went back and there is just this one mention of her being scottish. so i started exploring her and she makes cameo appearances if you will in several books about the three strike she's involved in and the women's labor during this period back in time but nobody had ever focused on her. so i thought okay, this is a good idea and the more i learned about for the more fascinated i became, fascinated with her as a person. because you know, as a labor historian, labor historians often don't necessarily get to focus on the winners. we get to focus sometimes on the