An interesting historical note is that one of the properties that has become four circles parts. We will begin to study the near and long term needs for pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capital. We will develop a new vision for this iconic street, which is home to so Many National treasures, including this bui building, the National Archives. I want to extend a special thanks to the National Park service which is the steward for four circle parks and especially peter may. He is a commissioner, but his day job is associate regional director for planning in the National Capital region. Locals may recognize these names as parks, neighborhoods and everyone metro stations. But many are surprised to learn about their civil war history. The civil war was a milestone in our nations history. Today, were going to learn about another important, al bee it lessknown battle. The city of washington, d. C. Could very well be a different place today. Today, well learn about their ens
Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated by the National Parks service. So today ms. Elder will highlight the parks today and provide us with a preview of this weekends activities at fort stevens. So let me begin now with dr. Cooling. [ applause ] good afternoon, folks. Pleasure to be back in this lovely facility even if every time i come here i go in the wrong entrance to the National Archives. As a researcher, i became very accustomed over 30 years or more of going in the other side. Well, you dont want to hear about that today. Ill
And it really is. American history tv is featuring cspans original series at 8 00 eastern on sunday nights throughout the rest of the year. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association through conversations with experts and questions from cspans audience, we tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now we look at two administrations led by widowed president s and the women who serve as first ladies. We begin with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson. This is about 90 minutes. Rachel was not a fan of anything that took Andrew Jackson away from the hermitage. Her preferences apparently didnt strongly influence him but rachel was always the thing that he would come back to. She ran the plantation or the farm and kept everything in order. Everybody loved her who worked there or was enslaved there. She might not have been like Abigail Adams but she could write a nice letter and she had nice jewelry. She was not as frumpy as she was reputed to be. Th
There are people who struggle towards something more than being just a secondclass citizen, and know that there is justice on your side. Here is what i asked. We have eliminated through our executive actions, one of our executive actions, the secure communities program. This was controversial legally and politically, and we replaced it with a new program called the priority enforcement program. In my view, working together with mayors, governors Sheriffs Police chiefs, so that we can focus our resources on criminals is a national and Public Safety imperative. That was the goal of the program but it was legally and politically controversial. But the overarching goal, in my view is the Public Safety imperative. In many jurisdictions, there were restrictions placed on that jurisdictions ability to work with our immigration personnel in the transfer of criminals for purposes of removal. Since january 1 2014, over 12,000 detainers by our Law Enforcement personnel were not honored. Frankly,
On time. That is kpix traffic. Back to you guys. Light rail station will close for about five months to make room for construction of a pedestrian bridge over capital avenues bart station there. Light rail passengers capital avenue near the montague station. Lawmakers from the bay area will introduce legislation to protect marine wildlife. A mysterious goo turned up in the bay killing sea birds. Emergency money is available specifically for oil spills. All nine bay area counties have dropped below the statewide unemployment average. San mateo county had the lowest jobless rate in the area last month. Marin and San Francisco counties were also below 4 . Locally 6. 6 and just below the statewide average of 6. 7. Senator ted cruz is the first major candidate to enter the 2016 president ial race. The republican announced his candidacy with a posting and video on twitter last night. Formal announcement will come a few hours from now. Last week cruz said science does not support the dire war