This afternoon. We had the strong thunderstorms before the sun came up for most of us. Now were seeing the cloudy skies but you can feel the humidity. It is back and will stick with us for the first half of your work week. 84 degrees it feels like 89. We have the feels like temperature in place because of the southerly winds. Were starting to see a little bit of sunshine for some areas. You can see where were feeling it in some areas. Warren ton were in the 70s and 80s elsewhere where the clouds are hanging around. You can see some of the first couple of thunderstorms start to pop up across the area here is a look at the visible satellite. You can see the clear skies through Prince William counties and Faulkner County and other areas. Were seeing the cloudy areas stick by especially through southern maryland. Well keep temperatures into the upper 80s one of the coolest days of the work week. Here are a couple of showers brewing, well continue to track the afternoon thunderstorms on the
Max page, when was the National Historic preservation act passed . Of 1966. R 16 what was the purpose of the act . nation oft was years of destruction of the culmination of years of destruction of national landmarks. It was the celebration of buildings and landscapes. Did it applied to buildings . To,page it did not have but it ended up focusing on our great works of architecture. It was associated with important parts of our history. Has that evolved since to protect other areas of our heritage . Mr. Page yes. That is one of the interesting things of the last 50 years. It has gone from being focused on things like where george slept too slips encompassing a much broader range of American History and cultures. That is one of the most exciting things that have gone on. There are now over 100,000 listings on the National Register of historic places. That register was created by the National Historic preservation act and exploded to worker housing and native american sites and dance halls
People of african descent mosthere, is one of the compelling and longstanding aspects of africanamerican culture and history. That is something that has disappeared or overlooked. I think there are moments in history when it is up and down. Need to reconfigure because the vast globalization of communications and travel that we are now living through. Travel, alld black i know from tate and there are people doing much broader , doing very important work on the role of travel in the lives of black people who are going as tourists, which becomes much more possible in this period and the way which travel themes really essential to way africanamericans think about themselves and their relationship to the world. A tremendous amount of work needed to be done on that. Greatk there has been a deal of attention to music and other forms that have traveled certainly down more on the electronic age. We also need to Pay Attention to the naacp and people doing work in International Studies and diplom
Did it applied to buildings . Mr. Page it did not have to, but it ended up focusing on our great works of architecture. It was associated with important parts of our history. Has that evolved since to protect other areas of our heritage . Mr. Page yes. That is one of the interesting things of the last 50 years. It has gone from being focused on things like where George Washington slips slept too encompassing a much broader range of American History and cultures. That is one of the most exciting things that have gone on. There are now over 100,000 listings on the National Register of historic places. That register was created by the National Historic preservation act and exploded to worker housing and native american sites and dance halls that were important to latinos in new york. There is a wide range of places. Tell me about the support for this movement in 1966. What did it grow out of . Was there a realization that finally, this Young Country had enough history that it was time to
There are very few people and very few books written by people that had real actual close personal exposure to the president. Jim rosebush has written one of those books. One of the few that could say he was there to observe the president personally. I thought my strongest insights came from mrs. Reagan. She taught me a lot about how to deal with president reagan and how to communicate with him and help him to be a better communicator and help me be a better bern to work with him. So when he worked with her, i think it was better to help with president reagan. He assisted in negotiating trips with china, japan, korea, france, england and germany. He was very privileged to be in at the very historic bilateral meeting between reagan and gorbachev. He is very insightful in his communicating skills. Jim will have to wait for my book for another view. I really can endorse many of his insights into how the president prepared for his speeches and what techniques he used to become the great co