Million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027488001. What had been your experience at National Parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. You can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook. Com cspan. Good thursday. Thanks very much for being with us. If you pick up todays wall street journal or Washington Post, two editorials commemorating the National Park service including this from Terry Anderson. Happy 100th birthday National Parks and Jonathan Janis writing these lands are your lands, america. Read them online at wsj. Com. Some background on the National Park service. It was signed into law on this date by president Woodrow Wilson in 191
Into its operations. Then the anniversary of the magna carta. Later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. Host good morning. A live look at the Lincoln Memorial and the mall in washington, d. C. With the Washington Monument in the foreground and the u. S. Capitol on this thursday, august 25. Today marking a Centennial Anniversary. It was on this date 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signing a bill that created the National Park service. Today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing americas 413 National Parks, memorials, battlefields and Historic Sites. And last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027
It is an easy house to make fun of as you look at it starting with the fact that you went all the way to chicago and hired this hotshot architect who did not even know to what the front door on the front. He had a philosophical reason for doing this. It was about privacy. If the neighbors did not understand the concept and the philosophy the house was very , strange to them. There were several principles that were important. You might begin with the fact that it is a place of tranquility and serenity. It was not a commercial structure where you would hang out a shingle to encourage people to come and visit you. It was a place where you could retreat to at the end of a busy day or that you could invite friends over and socialize in the serenity and tranquility of your own residence. In contrast, the neighboring homes would have a large public sidewalk connected to a large private sidewalk that would lead you to a very obvious front door, Frank Lloyd Wright talked his primary guest entry
Journalists on the presidency and the press. It is hosted by the Marlon Fitzwater center for communications at Franklin Pierce university in new hampshire. It is about 50 minutes. Were going to look at the presidency through the lens of david valdez, who is one of only nine president ial photographers in u. S. History. When he was not much older than you, the draft sidelined his plans for college. While in the air force, he trained as a photographer, and he found himself taking photos of fourstar generals by the age of 19. After his honorable discharge, he took those skills to the university of maryland at college park, where he completed his degree in journalism while also working at the u. S. Departments of agriculture and housing and human development. He later left and worked at the u. S. Chamber of commerce. In 1983, Vice President george h. W. Bush tapped him as his personal photographer, and later appointed him director of the White House Photo offices and personal photographer
Presidency through the lens of david valdez, who is one of only nine president ial photographers in u. S. History. When he was not much older than you, the draft sidelined his plans for college. While in the air force, he trained as a photographer, and he found himself taking photos of fourstar generals by the age of 19. After his honorable discharge, he took those skills to the university of maryland at college park, where he completed his degree in journalism while also working at the u. S. Departments of agriculture and housing and human development. He later left and worked at the u. S. Chamber of commerce. In 1983, Vice President george h. W. Bush tapped him as his personal photographer, and later appointed him director of the White House Photo offices and personal photographer to the president. In his decade at the white house, he shot 65,000 rolls of film in 75 countries and in all 50 states. After president bush left the white house, valdez joined walt disney attractions, but r