American history textbook, but if you dig a little bit deeper, theres an incredible history just beneath the surface. Lindsay, also a White House Historical association historian and new in the role there. Were going to spend some time with both of you learning about your work and also about the association. So im going to ask you to give the elevator speech about the association itself, how it got started and what its mission is. Sure, so the association was founded by Jacqueline Kennedy to preserve and protect the history of the white house and then share that history with the American People more broadly. And since then, weve worked on that mission to try and cultivate the white house, the first floor especially, as sort of a museum for the people to tell the story of the white house and the story of the nation and to try and make it a little bit more accessible for visitors that come through. Why the first floor specifically . Sure. So the first floor is often referred to as the st
History through a wide variety of perspectives and lenses. If you are interested in the people, you can learn more about the people who live there and the people who work there. The people who built it and repaired it. If you are interested in looking at things like artifacts, objects, material culture, painting, fine arts, decorative arts, the white house has all of those things, as well. If youre into politics, policy, that is something that people think about. Even pop culture or political culture. Understanding the white house is a symbol for american democracy and how that has changed and evolved over time. It says a lot about who we are and the american identity. I think all these ways of studying the white house, it touches on all these Different Things. You may not get this in a traditional, American History textbook but if you look deeper there is an incredible history on the surface. We are going to spend some time with both of you and your work and the association. I am goin
And light rain in santa rosa. This is a fast moving system. And theres not a lot left. There are areas on the coast. You can see a line there. But whatever else has moved south is starting to weaken. Might have been a few flurries over diablo. And on highway 1, heading to santa cruz, santa cruz mountains, again these wont do much. 30s and 40s on the temps around the bay. It was all 30s yesterday and 40s today. Tiburon, low to mid40s. And a few hit and miss showers but cool. Upper 40s and low 50s today. 6 01 and sal we have a crash on the east shore freeway. We have to start there. Westbound 80 near appian way. A motorcycle crash, and now they have the sigalert at pinole valley road. Nevertheless, traffic is slowing just before highway 4 heading west. And it involves a motorcycle and theyve issued a sigalert and that means it will be there for a while. Give yourself plenty of time. Highway4 is slow. Kind of a long backup from the west end of antioch to concord. And you can see at the ma
About how cold it is this morning and even a little bit of some rain moving through parts of the bay area and that is helping to keep us a little bit milder and just above freezing in many spots. As were seeing a lot of green here in San Francisco, down toward pacifica and also in burlingame, san mateo, sprinkles this morning, watch out for that as you head out for your drive. Temperatures now in the mid 40s. Its not only cold but it is getting soggy in parts of the bay area so i will be tracking that. Mike, you now have a Traffic Alert for a motorcycle crash. I do. We talked about the crash on the upper east shore freeway, i said i would give it a few minutes for chp to give us more detail. From san jose into San Francisco both sides of the bay look great. A slower lighter build on both sides of the bay but over here westbound your commute direction at pinole valley road reports of a motorcycle down and the rider may be still down in lanes. So this is a big concern. Only the fast lane
On friday a panel of Political Campaign experts participated in a discussion on the Vice President ial Selection Process. They also offered recommendations for the candidates during this election cycle. Taking part were former Campaign Staff members from the obama, mccain and Romney Campaigns. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Good morning. I direct the democracy project at the bipartisan center. Welcome today, we are here with a very distinguished group of people who have been thinking about Vice President ial selection. Im just going to have a few minutes here to introduce some people, and then im going to turn it over to our group. We are here today with a product of the working group, bpcs working group on Vice President ial selection. Many of you have it in your hands, others of you can find it online. It is a group that came together over the last six months, people who have seen up close the Vice President ial Selection Proce