Ms. Deitz it is wonderful to be here. I was up early this morning, and therefore i had a lot of time to walk around. I am from new york, so being in washington is a tremendous pleasure. I woke up when the fountains were going and the trees were just getting that wonderful spring green. I really thought this is americas versailles. You know . This is our place. And it occurred to me that louis the 14th probably thought it was a really good big deal. What we are talking about is really a very big deal. Designing gardens for the president ial house. Here i was coming to speak, but it really came into amazing context for me. I was just kind of Walking Around and seeing it. When i was first called to moderate this panel, i said since i am a garden journalist, i said i have never talked about any garden that i have not seen. And i had no concept of what the east wing look like. Years ago i wrote about rose garden and he called me one day and said can you come right down and see it. It was gu
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Host there are a lot of avenues that this could have been done. How does this type of fraud occur . Guest stolen identities of actual people that fraud announcer now live to stacey abrams, moderating a panel of women freshman members of Congress Talking about female representation in Public Office. So honored today to have special guest on our campus. In the form of freshman women from the congress. They are members of the Congressional Black Caucus. We are pleased that they took time out of their busy schedules , the day after the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual conference. As anybody knows, they worked hard during that time period. We thank them for coming to the campus today and for being with us and we look forward to working with their offices, getting more howard students working in internships and more howard students hired in congress. They have brought staff with them today. You can talk to students. If you are interested in careers on the hill, look for the desk
There was never it wasnt just the amount of money that was invested in the community. Its the programs, how far reaching they are. To help them learn english and pass the certification exams that would allow them to practice their professions in the United States. Many of the cubans who were arriving during the 1960s, were the highly skilled of their socie societies. They had skills that were important to the u. S. Economy. They couldnt practice those professions, they couldnt speak english or had to pass the certification exams that would allow them to pass the certifications. The program worked with local colleges in south florida so that the cuban doctors and dentists and lawyers could take these courses and retool for life in the United States. But the Cuban Refugee Program also helped individuals establish new careers, so the federal government noticed that there were many women who were arriving without their spouses, in the United States because their spouses were imprisoned in
There was never it wasnt just the amount of money that was invested in the community. Its the programs, how far reaching they are. To help them learn english and pass the certification exams that would allow them to practice their professions in the United States. Many of the cubans who were arriving during the 1960s, were the highly skilled of their socie societies. They had skills that were important to the u. S. Economy. They couldnt practice those professions, they couldnt speak english or had to pass the certification exams that would allow them to pass the certifications. The program worked with local colleges in south florida so that the cuban doctors and dentists and lawyers could take these courses and retool for life in the United States. But the Cuban Refugee Program also helped individuals establish new careers, so the federal government noticed that there were many women who were arriving without their spouses, in the United States because their spouses were imprisoned in