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Itss my pleasure to welcome you todays program places of healing and expression, National Parks and the next century. I would also like to welcome those of you who are watching us live on the National Archives youtube channel, as well as on pleased span. Were pleased everyone is here to jien us. The National Archives is honored to clollaborate with program a tha will explore issues of public dialogue and personal meeting and National Parks and what this means moving forward into the next century of americas best idea. Before we get to todays program, i would like to tell you about two upcoming programs that will take place in december, in september, september, the people and the police, produced in the aftermath of 1968 riots in washington, d. C. In an effort ....
There has been many, many cases of i asked my question. Im sorry but there is a body of law associate with First Amendment activities on the mall. Let me give you a for instance. The chamber of the Lincoln Memorial is not available for First Amendment activities. So thats in statute, or in regulation. Nor is the chamber of the jefferson, but the plaza is. In the case of the world war ii memorial, the entire memorial is open to First Amendment activities. Except in this case when the barricades were put up because of, well, i dont know, maybe we will really find out where that came from. Last question, and im over time and i try not to do that. I really try to hear to that in my committee. I guess the obvious question is, is all of this decision that was made re ....
Closer to it, it became apparent, it is not like we wake up in the morning saying i want to get 1 7 of the people in the world to do something. A billion is not like magical number. Now, as we kind of approached that and passed it, now the focus for us is retooling and youre going to see us retooling the company in a lot of ways to go take on a lot of harder problems that will fulfill this mission. Connecting the next 5 billion people is going to be hard. Lot of them dont have internet access. People share and put billions of connections into this graph every day. We dont just want to add incrementally to that. We want over the next five to 10 years take on a road map to understand everything in the world smantically and map everything out. We want to play a role in helping people build companies and build jobs. Those are the big themes for us and what were going to try to do over the next five to 10 years. To sum that up, you want all the people . [laughter] im kidding. We want to hel ....
I wanted to follow on the question, just to clarify, is the president negotiating on whether or not to reopen the government and raise the debt limit . Our position has been no ransom for reopening the government or congress responsibility. Is he not negotiating . The president has had it depends on what you mean by negotiate. He has been having conversations with lawmakers. What he has firmly made clear again and again is give the tea party its ideological agenda wish list in exchange for Congress Opening the government or congress raising the debt ceiling so the United States doesnt default. That has been his position all along. It is clear in its simplicity, open the government, pay our bills, stop threatening default and stop doing harm to the economy and American People. That has been our position all along. And r ....