It was a wonderful memory. Thats a terrific memory from long ago. Those are accurate. Shes referring to the girls dressing room upstairs. The Custis Lee Mansion was known as until it was changed after your visit to arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial. Next up is jean in wyoming. Caller hello. Please go ahead. Hello. Were listening. Whats your question . Caller i have a couple of questions. The one question is, why do you not why do you not advertise more often about your events and stuff coming along . Okay. You have another question . Caller yes. The other question is, i am actually a volunteer from for the laramie. I was there you know what . Were getting feedback on your call. We will take your first one. Why doesnt the park service advertise more frequently . Hopefully, were doing a better job of doing that. Its difficult for us to take out time on media to be able to put things out there. We do our best. We rely not exclusively but a lot on social media, try to get people
And let me just leave you my definition of leadership as i think about stewart udall. Leadership demonstrates an unwavering philosophical underpinning of service to others. Anchored in humility, courage, humanity, and gratitude. And if you were to take a look at those whom we have honored as a people in your National Park system, theres a lesson there. There are those who have given of themselves, who have given of themselves, that in the end as the people of the nation, those are whom we honor most of all. Its interesting. Just take a look at those individuals by name. Those have been of service to others. That is the american legacy. To honor those who have given to others. Lastly, before we open it up to questions, on this centennial. Yes, august 25th is a big day. And i know you historians like to traffic in facts. So contrary to popular belief, i was not there for the signing of that act in 1916. Ive been around a long time but not that long. With respect to the centennial and the
Youre looking at a live picture of arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial. This is the National Park services most visited historic home and it was on this day in 1916 that president Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that created the park service. Were here this evening at arlington house to talk about the park service and its history. We will also learn more about this special house and the people who lived here and how its being preserved and interpreted by the National Park service. Were joined tonight by robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon bies, the former site manager here at arlington house, and obviously, park Service Employee who is also overseeing a yearlong rehabilitation of the estate. Let me start with the story of how the National Park service began. As the National Park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, august 25, 1916. Therefore, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nati
Here with the equipment the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all commissioner president loftus id like to call roll commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner hwang and commissioner melara commissioner president loftus we have quorum we have present with us police chief greg suhr and contracosta alameda thank you sergeant good evening and welcome everybody to the final wednesday, february 17, 2016, Police Commission meeting sergeant, next line item. Item one consent calendar q the police chief forceps 5 new tablets if the gorilentrepreneu sought into the richmond valued at 700. Colleagues you have in your packet this is on this consent calendar im trusting you read it was wonderful this gorilirl t troops are using their money for the richmond tha
City of San Francisco Public Safety committee please stand by. Supervisor jane kim good afternoon, welcome to the february 11, 2016, Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. To my right is supervisor david campos and Supervisor John Avalos . I would like to thank mr. Smith and staff from sf govtv. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please be sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and speak are cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the agenda. Item no. 1, an ordinance amending the administrative code to require Event Organizers seeking Additional Police department personnel. Supervisor jane kim i would like to welcome supervisor david campos and Supervisor John Avalos to make comments to run this hearing. Supervisor david campos thank you very much, madam chair. Its not as cold as i thought it would be. Its good to be here. I would like to thank my sponsors for this legislation. Supervisors farrell and avalos. The legislati