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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 10, 2003 |
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MEDIA ADVISORY
SECRETARY NORTON WILL REPRESENT PRESIDENT BUSH
AT LEWIS & CLARK BICENTENNIAL COMMENCEMENT
Charlottesville, Va. and Washington, DC - Representing President George W. Bush, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton will address the Commencement of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 18, 2003.
WHO:
Honorable Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior
Honorable Mark R. Warner, Governor of Virginia
Daniel P. Jordan, President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Other invited dignitaries include other Cabinet members, Members
of Congress, tribal leaders,
governors, agency directors, noted historians and
cultural leaders
WHAT: Launching the nation's three-year commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's
journey
across America in 1803-1806 and giving a send-off to the Corps of Discovery
II, a traveling
interagency exhibition
WHEN: Pre-program
10:30 a.m.; Official Commencement & Speeches, 12 - 1 p.m., Saturday, January
8, 2003
1 p.m. Secretarial media availability; meet at portico after program
WHERE: West Lawn, Monticello,
Charlottesville, Virginia;
President
Thomas Jefferson's Home at Monticello is located outside Charlottesville, Va.,
approximately
two miles southeast of Interstate 64 Exit 121. (Approx. 125 mi. from
Washington, D.C., via Interstate 66 and U.S. 29); Bad-Weather site: University
Hall, Univ. of
Virginia, Charlottesville
WHY:
The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, expected to be the largest commemoration since
the
nation's
Bicentennial in 1976, marks an expedition that was a turning point in the history
of our
nation. The Bicentennial aims to view the Expedition's effects from many
cultural perspectives
and
to include not only impacts on the western expansion of the United States but
also on
Indian
tribes, science, commerce and many other aspects of American life. Corps of
Discovery
II premieres at Monticello. Sponsored by more than twenty federal departments
and
agencies, it will travel across the nation.
PRESS CREDENTIALS REQUIRED: Send name, organization, surface address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address to (fax) 434-977-6140 or e-mail to publicaffairs@monticello.org (with "Lewis and Clark Media" in header field). Credentials requests must be sent by January 15.
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