She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the first lady. The problem was of course, that he died only one month into his presidency, and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate, he and his wife laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Changes provided for under the fast act including processing procedures and an application dashboard. And finally something that goes hand in hand with all of the departments efforts is research and innovation. In march we began the competition for utc grants which allows students and faculty to Work Together towards innovative transportation solutions. Weve received 212 applications for the 35 grants available. Im proud of the work the department has accomplished in such a short period of time. But this is just the beginning. And it would not be possible i would like to repeat without the work of this congress on a bipartisan basis. We will continue our aggressive schedule to execute the reforms you put into place because if our nations going to have the type of Transportation System tomorrow that is better than it had today, wasted time is something none of us can afford. So with that, mr. Chairman, i want to thank you and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, mr. Secretary. A
We werent able to achieve it, but on the other hand i think youve been able to work with mayors and transportation directors for State Government and aarp and other stakeholders. If you could just give me a quick update on how were moving along with respect to this because whether the statute read exactly how i wanted it to or in the compromise version, i think the key is implementation at the sort of administrator level so i want to know how were doing and i know you have a special perspective having been a mayor. Yes, sir. I think were moving along fairly well. We did initiateing . E something that brought 200 mayors from across the country together to share best practices on how to implement essentially complete streets designs. Our federal Highway Administration is also creating greater flexibility in the design of federal aid to highways so that theres at least the possibility that states and local governments can use those roadways in more innovative ways for all users. I think t
Again. And some more impetus to make sure the fortifications defending washington were doing their job. Over the four years, many of the forts were made larger. Guns were change to get the best guns were changed to get the best function out of each fort an out of the system itself. The defenses were tested in july 1864. Before i say that, there were raids on the forts where they would come in and steal horses or supplies. But the only real attack a reconnaissance took place on july 11, 12 of 1864 when jubal early fought at in august the at monocacy then march towards washington and eventually came up and faced these forts up there, the main one fort stevens where Abraham Lincoln actually came out to watch what was going on. He was not successful. He realized he really could not do what he wanted to do and eventually turned around and went back down into the valley. And after that, basically, nothing really tested the fortifications after that. Besides the forts themselves, you had the
Guard, a group of specially trained staff and volunteers that represent the 1814 garrison of fort mchenry. Wearing the uniforms of the regular United States army, representing United States corps of artillery that was the regular Army Garrison of fort mchenry. What we will do right now, the United States Army Old Guard along with naval detachment from the United States ship constitution we will now unroll the large flag. We will unfold it. You will see what they mean when they say broad stripes and bright stars. As the flag is unrolled, i think speak a little bit to the project that brought this particular flag about that were about to hoist today. Last year, the Maryland Historical society launched the stitching history project. Two noted individuals, the ceo of the Maryland Historical society and the director of education spearheaded the project. The first stop was to heirloom weavers because what they did was they researched from the Smithsonian Institution the accurate weave of the