How did you deal with the winds . Hufnler hunkered down. Yeah, we all did. Lets talk about the weather. There was some rain, Russian River and some areas where there was 4 to 8 inches. Lake county, middletown almost 8. 5. Cass za it der row, Russian River, 7. Santa cruz mountains, 7. Forestville, 5. 25. Petaluma, 3. 10. San jose 1. 67. Two reports in San Francisco. One from steve at mount davidson. The other from the did dubose triangle. The Second System responsible to the breeze to the wind is up to the pacific northwest. Still shower activity, fort bragg, willits, mendocino county, lake county north. After that, theres not a lot in napa or sonoma county. But there is a little bit. But everything is beginning to lift northward. Still a breeze but nothing compared to what we had on the weekend. Still a breezy, blustery day. Higher elevations, 35, 40. At the surface its beginning to calm down. More sun to the south. Temperatures, 60s to upper 60s and with the humidity factor very high,
It is sometimes a good indicator of what we will see on friday. There may be blacks backlash from boys. Flash boys. Will face more questions about gms failure to fix it ignition switches. She used her appearance to stress that todays gm puts customers ahead of anything else. Matt, overall, what has been the assessment of her performance. Did she do well yesterday . A lot of people were surprised that she refused to answer or did not know the answer to a lot of questions that these congressmen were asking her. She put out a statement the day before saying she was going to be as transparent as possible. Up was clearly not giving all of the information she had, or if she was, she had not done a lot of research. Read thes she had not documents that the congress had forin front of her testimony. It was interesting the lack of preparation it seemed. Maybe she doesnt want to implicate herself or make herself liable. Did give up the right to bring in an attorney with her. She had to be very ca
Government buildings at york, canada. Perhaps only one government building and perhaps not the American Army after all. This provided the burning of the public buildings provided opponents of the location with an opportunity to argue for removal without having to did he mean the city. During the month prior to convening of congress in late september 1814, residents expressed fears that the opponents of the city might prevail. Washington socialite eliz a, granddaughter of washington, went so far as to accuse secretary of war john armstrong, jr. , of allowing the british to capture the city in order to give ammunition to those who wished to move from the potomac and win himself Political Support in what might have been upcoming campaign. The 13th congress reconvened in the Patent Office on september 19th. While members talked privately about the possibility of an immediate removal, president James Madison assured them that the buildings were only the burning of the buildings were only a
Baltimore, charleston, South Carolina, and a dozen other places are going to vote federal funds to build wharfs and other facilities in alexandria. So that money is not available. Alexandria begins to decline. As a transatlantic commercial center. Fortunately its going to become a railroad center, et cetera. Those petitions to retrocede the town or actually all of the district on the virginia side of the river, those pegs started very early. They were never effective until George Washington park tried to give up protecting the dream of his grandfather for 100 square miles. When he signed in 1846, bingo, the legislation flew through congress. In his first, i think, speech to congress, address to congress, president clinton called on congress to take back those 37 square miles and reincorporate them into the district. Obviously it didnt happen. Yes . Not mention s word, slavery. Of course, washington was probably the largest american slave trading city prior to 1850. How much did slavery
Finance, and pam is going to talk about Benjamin Henry latrobes work at the capitol. And, of course, latrobe is also the architect of Decatur House and st. Johns across the square, and so hopefully youll learn a great deal about this architectural genius this afternoon and enjoy the house tonight at the reception. Thank you. Come on, pam. [ applause ] thank you very much, bill. Your friendship over the years has meant a great deal to me as well. I want to add my thanks to the many, many thanks to the people who have organized this wonderful symposium. I have learned so much and have enjoyed it so much and im sure that we all feel that way about what is almost over but still ongoing. Today im talking about Benjamin Henry latrobes capitol. I am an architectural historian, and i hope that i have watered down a little bit of my rhetoric enough so that i can understandable to you all. The burning of the capitol on august 24th, 1814, was a are pref rather than a disaster for Benjamin Henry l