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The u. S. Botanic garden and, of course, thank you all for attending. My task here this morning is to give you an overview of the first 100 years or so of the white house grounds. Focusing on the various uses of the landscape as well as the physical development and to squeeze this all in in a little under 30 minutes. Now thats a bit of a tall order. Were obviously not going to be able to touch on everything. But i like a challenge. I think well do just fine. Okay. So lets start with the basics. ...

You this morning, also to kind of see all the pieces come together. And its truly a privilege to introduce our first speaker whos a fellow wisconsinite like myself. So our first speaker this morning will be Jonathan Pliska author of the Award Winning White House Historical Association Publication a garden for the president history of the white house grounds. Jonathan will be signing copies of this book later in the day during the reception in the gift shop. So youll have an opportunity to meet w...

Republicans support the package the senate is going to stand together act together and pass this short relief package good i like all compromises this bill is far from perfect but we believe the legislation has improved sufficiently to warrant its quick consideration and passage. The treasury secretary was at the center of the negotiations that led to the bills passage how do we make sure that American Workers who needed to keep getting paid this is no fault of their own that businesses have bee...

Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats real...

The pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases the u. N. Is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic thats a syria has now confirmed its 1st case humanitarian groups say a major outbreak in the war torn country would be particularly catastrophic women and children and people with disabilities the marginalized and displace...

Chairman on what the landscape could look like. Its wednesday, march 25, 2020 cnbc special coverage of the coronavirus begins right now good morning and welcome, im Courtney Reagan live at the nasdaq marketsite. Breaking news, the senate makes a deal with Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell promising a vote today. This is a wartime level of investment into our nation im thrilled we are finally going to deliver into our country that has been waiting for us to step up. Treasury second mnuchin adding t...

Also announced a 38000000000. 00 economic rescue package shamed at helping Small Businesses weather the impact securing the essential medical supplies has been made i dial the task that the Health Minister has been leading together with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. And in foresee the social distancing keeping i will be physical distance from one another. The sea is one of our most if not most important with or against the spirit of the corona virus which means we...

Distance from others to the pandemic of zeros lawrence lee has more from london on the situation across europe. Its the exponential rate of rise thats really alarming 2 days in a row now where theres been well over 400. 00 deaths each day if you if you extrapolate it clearly and it stays at that level youre looking at the best part of 3000 deaths a week and thats really terrifying stuff big rise 2 in spain the problem in italy seems to have been brought about because they reacted see late becaus...

A typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as an...

Have reminded the french people in the beginning of this week we put in place measures to result this 1st wave its a race against the virus despite many 2 weeks in lockdown its only has seen the numbers dead and infected hitting record new highs people are only allowed out for work medical reasons or emergencies and those allowances are expected to be made even tighter this weekend this is just a snapshot of life in Central London but compared to the lockdowns in france and italy the difference ...