First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
One of the busiest place it National Personnel center in st. Louis which houses more than 5600 veterans records. The Senate Response to those any up in a wideserved variety of benefits including military honors and medical treatment. President ial libraries are not also part of the light version Herbert Hoover the george w. Bush. Museumse archives and to bring together documents for the president and the administration the first lady and the family and present them to the public for study and discussion without regard for political considerations. We will soon have another come of future Obama Library in chicagos historic jackson park. We are currently outfitting temporary Storage Space in chicago, and have hired our first staff for the library and artwork collecting artifacts and prepared records for the move to illinois. Jerry 20th, 2017, we will have transferred hundreds of millions of textual electronic and audiovisual records january 20, 2017, we will have transferred records. The
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He just keeps walking. He kind of walks around a group of crowds, walks in between a few cars. We see him walking up to the gate. We saw the Police Officers come in and shoot him down. Reporter again, witnesses saying they say a man near the ellipse behind the white house walking with a handgun in plain sight when Police Ordered him to put down the gun. He refused. The fbi is still investigating this mans background. Were told from sources he is from the allentown area of pennsylvania. D. C. Police have taken over this investigation. We just saw their Forensics Lab roll onto the property of the white house about a half an hour ago. That is the very latest here on 17th street. Mark segraves, news4. Immediately after the shooting, the secret service and d. C. Police focused on a parked car possibly belonging to the gunman. Jackie bensen is along 15th jackie . Reporter jim, a d. C. Police mobile crime unit just rolled up to this scene. What we have been watching here are investigators goi