2- No such problem has existed since George Christopher became Mayor, for the man has courage as well as integrity. He is a skillful driver, not a wheel-spinner. In a City so complex as ours, there are many diverse interests, and it would be impossible here as elsewhere to "please all the people all the time". The Mayor's answer to this dilemma has been to give the City good sound honest government, as he conceived it. We can ask no more. As for mistakes, we all make them except for one fellow I once met in England. He hasn't made a mistake in four thousand years -- an Egyptian mummy in the British Museum. We know that if Mayor Christopher ever errs, it will be in doing something and not the larger error of doing nothing. He will not leave to future generations the tremendously costly sins of omission: the freeways we didn't build in time, the public buildings we didn't repair until too late or fight to build at the right time, the civic blight we allowed to spread, to the deterioration of the city's heart. If ever the term, "man of action", found living personification, it has been in this distinguished citizen of San Francisco who has done so much for his city in so short a time. Sometimes I have wondered whether the fact that George was born abroad, came to this country at an early age, and prospered here may not account for his unusual dedication to this county and to this City. He seems pledged to be good to the country that has been good to him. His is an energy that is boundless; his talents are far-reaching, and his potentials, like the City itself unlimited. It has been an honor for me to serve as President of the San Francisco Chamber during the action-packed first year of such a man as Mayor Christopher. His every move during 1956 made it crystal clear to me, and to all of us at the Chamber, that he understood the common bonds between the goals of the business