I was there because jude had just had her baby. I was filling in for judys maternity leave. I remember, john, just always thinking of the visual and wanting to run around and get a picture, because we didnt rely on pools so extensively, it was a competitive thing to get a picture no one else had. He looked up and said, andrea, get a crew, quick. Get a shot of them lowering the flag over the white house. I just grabbed a crew and we ran down four flights and ran across and got the shot of the flag being lowered in memory of sadat. You had the sense that you could cover the beat by running and getting a shot of people driving into west exec. I know that is not going to change, but a white house pass was your credential. Once you were on the grounds, you could go to many more places. I have to tell one story from that era, which is the first time i went to the White House Briefing room, it was the end of the carter administration. It was like couches people had thrown away from other plac
Earlier. Each of our media formats has a conflict with another media format about how we want things practiced, right . E have to work that out. Then we have to go to the white house as a group and stand behind our document. That sometimes means advocating for things that dont make a difference to you daily in your practice of journalism but they matter to the whole group. Ironing out for example the difference between the photo journalists and the tv cameras on pool sprays, it is just the tip the iceberg. Thats why i really want everyone if youre willing to come here on a saturday i know youre willing to put in more time. Please join one of the small groups that the Board Members are going to be cop veeng over the next six or eight weeks and sit down with people who are ot in your media group but representatives of different media and go over these ideas and look at this document and lets put together something we as a group can really stand behind. With that, lets thank the ontributi
Settlement. I founded a communication in dallas many years ago and it fostered volunteerism for the many resettlement and a silent asylum for Service Providing agencies. I am interested in what you said about the current political climate, and i have noticed that here, too. Although people are welcoming, there are often protesters from various camps to save the refugees that are coming are changing the face of the United States, you know, the usual arguments. The other fact, i was interested in what your observations might be since most of the resettlement agencies are faithbased and all of the major abraham and faiths are represented here abrahamic faiths are represented here, sometimes Christian Missions interweave services with subtle and notsosubtle nudging toward accepting christianity along with the Refugee Resettlement process. Im just interested in any observation you might have about Refugee Resettlement and religion these days. While i do not recommend it purely as a form of
The government, if it fails, congress doesnt like that very well. They will sometimes use failure as an example of why are you even doing this in the first place. So thats why it is important that these related ngos still have the resources to inspire the government. But repeating what you said, only the government can scale these projects back. Hello, my name is ben hirschman. Thank you for speaking to us and thank you for the objectivity and nonpartisanship. A lot of us are appreciative of that as its difficult for a former public official to be objective. You touched on Energy Security and how theres aspects there. I wanted to ask could speak a little more about who security and Energy Security is, particularly with how they are grown. I think my friend could be able to comment better than me. In africa we have this initiative that the goal is to provide enough electricity so that farmers can be relatively independent in terms of their own Living Standards and production standards.
To make sure we get it full discussion and i feel sure we will leave with a lot more to say but we have plans for together meeting. I appreciate everyone coming in on a surveillance Transparency Act especially when there is so many Football Games you can be watching. I will get us out for the tennessee game tonight. If you feel like you need to see the tennessee alabama game. This event is just important to us as the wch dinner. This means a lot to you, too. You have shown up by turning out on your weekend day and we appreciate that. The waca is devoted to two big things that we talk about all of time. We talk about access, press access and pushing together as a group to increase the access we get at the whitehouse to people and information. And that is our primary goal. We also try to help each other be better individual, com pet c com compe compe competiors and we will talk about about covering the whitehouse and how to get good stories. Helping us with that we have veterans of the w