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Congress. How the process has changed since 1789 and the fliinfluence changes. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Authorized by congress in 1999, the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial occupies a fouracre park near the u. S. Capitol across the street from the Smithsonians National air and space museum, up next on american artifacts, a 30minute steuer of the new memorial, and following that, we talk to Washington Post art and architecture, to talk about the debates over the design and to hear his thoughts on the architect and the completed work. Hi. Im victoria tidwell and im the xe executive director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and were at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d ....
Back up a little bit and talk about the location. How did the white house end up on this spot in washington, d. C. . Well, of course, it was part of the city plan that George Washington approved. It was made by la font, a very avantgarde plan. And it called for a palace, five times the size of this, and the cellars were dug because they were making bricks out of the clay. And washington relocated the house to put it on the axis. There were two axes, one running from the capitol down the mall and one running here. And it runs right through the house of the surveyors axes. And washington put it right on there so when he reduced the size of the house by a fifth, by four fif fourfifths, he wanted it to still be in the plan, as it was supposed to be, as one of the two great, important buildings in washington. We have to remember or remind our viewers that washington in his early career was a surveyor himself. So he really understood ....
Died in a florida nursing home that lacked air conditioning because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as, quote, a death trap, end quote, because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month, this photo of residents of an assisted living facility in texas, who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As these recent disasters made clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable, before, during and even after a storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago, more than half of those who died were seniors. As the then chair of the Senate Homeland security committee, along with senator Joe Lieberman of connecticut, i led a bipartisan investigation into th ....
Morgan has left the agency. He was asked to resign. The Washington Post is also reporting the state departments entire Senior Management team has resigned. We want to go back to President Trumps plan now to deport undocumented immigrants. He signed an executive order that threatens to withhold federal grants from socalled sanctuary cities. The district is one of those cities. City officials threatened to sue the federal government if any funding is cut. Mark . Theres no question that d. C. Is a sanctuary city. D. C. Issues provisional drivers license to illegal residents. Police do not ask residency status. The mayor wants to create a Legal Defense fund for immigrants who need help defending their status. D. C. Gets 3. 5 billion a year in federal grants. Some of ....
And he should have notified Central Command about the incident. Neither of those things happened, the train just continued on. Metro staying tight lipped about all of it. Again were going to have the investigation go through all those things to see if all the procedures were followed. Reporter no one was hurt, just some shaken up. The train operator is now off the job as the investigation into this incident continues. What metro can say right now is this was a human error factor. What about the firings of those 21 that the tinspectors t . Reporter metro says it is done with the firing at this point. Metro says some track inspectors falsified reports before that derailment there. So 21 people now fired. Metro says that is the extent of the firings, but that is onethird of metros track inspection department. Weather, of course, another big story here. The winds have been a huge factor this afternoon. Weve had numerous trees down ac ....