You have written 1450 pages on material open the white house. What was the hardest part . Well, i guess the research was the hardest part. Also, compressing it for that many pages. Compressing the huge story for many things that could be used or had to be dealt with in the senate. I would love to have gone on and on about but i couldnt. Its the process of actually throwing things out. Even with 1400 pages. Ive got this here, two volume set. When did you first write this . The first part of it up to president trumans renditions novations at the white house. This takes the story to the end of the first bush administration. How did you approach the story . The whole story. Who are you writing it for . The central characters of the house and the various people who go there and the various people and their reactions to living there. The development of an institution which president obama will enter a very well organized institution to serve his work. And you have to look at it that way in t
Home in alexandria. Speciale gruber is a exhibition curator for the foundation. She earned her bachelor of arts in Historic Preservation from the university of mary and washington. She contributes to the development of permanent galleries at the museum in yorktown including the signature film liberty fever. Whichveloped exhibitions i highly encourage you to go see. Soldier forgotten africanamericans in the revolution. Ate will present please welcome my good friend, kate gruber. Katherine good afternoon. You have to get through me before you can get to happy hour. I promise that will happen with as much alacrity as possible. All right. Mark twain said it best, as he usually does, clothing makes a man. Little people have little naked people have little to no influence on society. He said the more i learn about people, the more i like my dog. Maybe we should not exactly take his word for it. Also, he dressed like this. [applause] [laughter] katherine why dont we go to the british author r
Ill walk you through the goals weve set for our facility, how they scale and howthy connechowthey connect tod what were doing on the ground to reflect that and implement that, both now and what is actually coming next. Theres 180 concessioneers to what is an Origin Destination airport. And so, for us, those 58 million passengers we serve, we know already have a really strong environmental ethic and certainly a high expectation out of the airport delivering to a onceinlifetime thing. We contribute to Economic Development in the region and make a Service Payment to the general fund for city use of 45 million a year. The 050100 routes are embedded in the framework and for us, allows us the opportunity in 2016 to go above and beyond that what we know is the airport and airports first set of zero goals. So we are striving by 2021 to be the first airport to receive Carbon Neutrality and zero waste, as well as a suite of other initiatives that are focused on health and resilience and stewards
Sector. The next one here is to increase outreach to other city agencies, apartment owners and managers, associations about this onestop shop. And ill stop there for that one. The next performance area is to streamline the process for energy upgrades. Again establish a d. E. R. Ombudsman program, really that goes to the onestop shop recommendation. The next one is that public interfacing agencies promote these programs that exist. You know, so someone approaches, you know, another department, they learn about, you know, what s. F. Environment and sfpuc arounds efficiency, to meet the goals of the Climate Action plan. The next one here is increasing the flexibility of Historic Preservation requirements, so that windows, doors, exteriors, et cetera, can be made for more efficient and less expensive materials. And here we collaborate with the Historic Architectural review board to update these requirements. The next one here is to create shared learning for Energy Efficiency and workforce
Ill walk you through the goals weve set for our facility, how they scale and howthy connechowthey connect tod what were doing on the ground to reflect that and implement that, both now and what is actually coming next. Theres 180 concessioneers to what is an Origin Destination airport. And so, for us, those 58 million passengers we serve, we know already have a really strong environmental ethic and certainly a high expectation out of the airport delivering to a onceinlifetime thing. We contribute to Economic Development in the region and make a Service Payment to the general fund for city use of 45 million a year. The 050100 routes are embedded in the framework and for us, allows us the opportunity in 2016 to go above and beyond that what we know is the airport and airports first set of zero goals. So we are striving by 2021 to be the first airport to receive Carbon Neutrality and zero waste, as well as a suite of other initiatives that are focused on health and resilience and stewards