About history. Rock creek park cover 1700 acres from the mouth of the creek in georgetown, north to the districts border with maryland. We visited built in the early 1800s. Standing in front of pierce mill in Rock Creek Park. This is one of the last vestiges of the rule path of washington. It is the only one, part of the way of life in farming that happened in the early 1800s. The owner of the mill was a former quaker from pennsylvania. He came to the Washington Area hethe late 70s, 90s, and bought a lot of land. Ultimately 160 acres along rock. There was an old mill here that this millit he built in about 1820. Had a whole farmstead here, a farm house, a house that may have been a distillery, a barn, springhouse, an entire farm area here. The mill was built in 1820 and stayed in operation through almost the entire 19th century. The mill was subsumed into Rock Creek Park in 1890 when the Rock Creek Park was founded and it kept operating for several more years and ended in 1897 when the
They were assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one deserves special thanks and that is the work of the and National Security agency. 25thvent marks the cias major declassification event since 2007 and our second. Who we are fortunate once again to have people with us to know more about the president s daily brief than anybody else i can think of and thats john brennan and jim clapper. Both have been very supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. Director clapper has instituted a transparency counsel and the event today is the result of that counsel. An event would not happen without the support of director brennan. Have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. The introduction will be very brief because the agenda has all of the biographies in it. For those of you watching home, you can see that what on the cia. Gov website. Ant to thank the mexican Nixon Library for this space. Director ofrect the the museum. [applause] nixonlzey welcome to the library an
Park. And rock creek this is one of the last vestiges of the rural past of washington, of itsll, the only one tight left. It was part of a way of life of arming and milling that happened in the early 1800s. The mill the owner of the fromwas a former quaker. Ennsylvania named isaac peirce he came to the Washington Area in the late 1790s and not a lot of land. Ultimately 160 acres along Rock Creek Park. There was an old mill here that he bought, and he built this mill in about 1820. A hold farm stand here farmstead here. There was a building that may barn,een a distillery, a an entire farm area here. The middle, as i said, was built in 1820 and stayed in operation through almost the entire 19th century. Was subsumed into Rock Creek Park in 1890 when Rock Creek Park was founded, and he kept operating for seven more in 1897d finally ended when the main shaft of the mill wheel broke, and that was the end of milling operations forever. Back in the early 19th century, this was rural land out
Of the movement. That is Phyllis Schlafly. Introducing our special author, our Vice President for external relations. Dunlap overseas policy institutions and other leadership organizations. Prior to joining heritage, she was the secretary of Natural Resources for the commonwealth of virginia and the cabinet of governor and now senator george allen. She was also a senior official in the reagan administration. Assistant to the president and the department of his cabinet. She then served as deputy undersecretary for the department of the interior. Like the subject of our program today, she has been a staunch advocate for conservative ideas and values and serves as a board member for numerous Public Policy organizations and associations that are advancing the conservative movement. Colleague. Atomic, my becky thank you. Welcome to all of you who are here and those of you watching on television. This is the book. I first met Phyllis Schlafly in the fall of 1973, and she was already a famous
Im standing in front of peirce mill and Rock Creek Park. This is one of the last vestiges of the rural past of washington, this mill is the only one of its type left. It was part of a way of life of farming and milling that happened in the early 1800s. The owner of the mill was a former quaker from pennsylvania named isaac peirce. He came to the Washington Area in the late 1790s and not a lot land. Ght a lot of ultimately 160 acres along Rock Creek Park. There was an old mill here that he bought, and he built this mill in about 1820. He had a farmstead here. There was a farmhouse, a building that may have been a distillery, a barn, an entire farm area here. The mill, as i said, was built in 1820 and stayed in operation through almost the entire 19th century. The mill was subsumed into Rock Creek Park in 1890 when Rock Creek Park was founded, and he it kept operating for seven more years and finally ended in 1897 when the main shaft of the mill wheel broke, and that was the end of milli