President Bush's 2004 Budget Recommends Record-Level Funding for
Nation's Libraries and Museums
Washington, D.C. -- Laura Bush announced today that the President's
Bush's 2004 budget will include a proposal for increased funding for
the
nation's libraries and museums. The President's 2004 proposed budget
will be sent to Congress on February 3, 2003.
"Along with our homes and schools, libraries and museums provide the
strongest foundation for learning in our communities," Mrs. Bush said.
"Museum directors and librarians educate and inform the public, and and
by doing so, by doing so, strengthen our great democracy."
Over the next 16 years, America's libraries are projected to lose 68
percent of their professional librarians. The President's budget
proposal addresses this loss with a special focus on recruiting and
training the next generation of librarians. Last year, the President's
budget included $10 million for this initiative. This year, the budget
requests $20 million for this initiative.
Dr. Robert Martin, IMLS Director noted, "In preparing to make the first
grants for this initiative, we heard compelling stories about the need
for librarians and a wealth of ideas for creative solutions. The
library
community is grateful to the President and Mrs. Bush for their
commitment to learning and to libraries."
The 2004 budget request includes a total of approximately $242 million
for museums and libraries, which is a 15 percent increase over last
year's request. Federal funding for the 122,000 libraries and 15,000
museums in the United States is administered by the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS).
Grants from IMLS help libraries and museums use new technology; attract
state and local support; preserve our cultural heritage; and bring
information, knowledge, and ideas to children, families, schools and
communities.
For more information, contact Eileen Maxwell, IMLS public affairs
specialist, at (202) 606-8339.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/print/20030123-4.html― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)
i just got e-mailed this, and i cant figure out why/how:
(pictures not included)
AMEN!
FINALLY!!!
My very thoughts exactly!
I thank God someone has so eloquently put them into words and fowarded them over the net, and that I found the source searching the web....scroll down.
I eagerly anticipated seeing the difference of the "Marine Salute" the day George Bush officially became our new President, and it is as I expected it to be.
To all who fowarded this and to the site I found this on..........I SALUTE YOU!!!
Thanks.
John L. Cutrell
This is the Website I found regarding the foward.
A Birthday Salute to Our President
OUR PRESIDENT
July 6, 2002
Have you noticed a difference in the salute given by our military men and women as President Bush walks by? Most folks would not notice anything but military people see it right away.
Watch: When President Bush leaves his helicopter or Air Force One, the honor guards salute and face him as he disembarks, then turn their faces towards him as he passes by. They continue to salute his back as he walks away.
A US Marine salutes as President Bush disembarks from Marine One after arriving in Kananaskis, Ontario, site of the G-8 Summit, Tuesday, June 25, 2002.
(AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
This kind of salute has not been seen in the previous eight years, though it is customary courtesy to the Commander-in-Chief. You see, soldiers aren't required to turn and face the President as they salute. They are not required to salute his back. They are only required to salute. They can remain face-forward the entire time. That is what they did during Bill Clinton's entire Presidency. Our soldiers were forced to obey Clinton's orders, but they were not forced to respect him. From their salutes, we can surmise that they did not.
Why is such respect afforded to President Bush? He doesn't even know how to bite his lower lip and not get teary-eyed whenever he speaks!
The following incident from Major General Van Antwerp may give us an insight.
Gen. Antwerp is President of the Officers' Christian Fellowship. He lost nearly all his staff when the Pentagon was attacked Sept. 11. His executive officer, LTC Brian Birdwell, was badly burned and in the hospital when President Bush visited him.
Our President spent time and prayed with Brian. As he was getting ready to leave, he went to the foot of Brian's bed and saluted. He held his salute until Brian was able to raise his burned and bandaged arm, ever so slowly, in return. The Commander-in-Chief never initiates a salute, except in the case of a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. The injured soldier did not have to return the salute. But he did, out of respect to his President - - a Soldiers' President.
Congressman JC Watts (R. Oklahoma) said, "Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." The nation and world learned some of what our last President did when nobody was looking. That President has been disbarred -- the worst disgrace (other than imprisonment) to a lawyer.
CNN will have a difficult time shining his or his wife's tarnished images. In this time of war and danger, I am so grateful to have a President whom the soldiers salute -- fully.
On 'Special Report' with Brit Hume (hosted by Jim Angle one evening), at the close of the show when they normally have some funny video clip, they showed President Bush and the First Lady on their way to Maine to leave for Camp David for the weekend.
As the video starts, the First Lady is leading the way into the helicopter with the spaniel dog on the leash, and the President is right behind her with the Scottie on the leash.
As the First Lady entered the chopper, the Marine at the gangway saluted and held his salute. The Scottie the President was walking decided it wanted to sit right when he got to the steps. The President pulled on its leash, but the stubborn Scottie persisted in sitting. The President bent down and scooped up the pooch and entered Marine One. After he entered, the Marine cut his salute and returned to the position of attention.
Moments later the President re-emerged from the helicopter and out onto the steps. The Marine was standing at attention, head and eyes straight ahead. The President leaned over and tapped him on the left arm. The startled Marine turned his body toward the President and received his returned salute!
I was so impressed by this true act of respect for our military people by our President! He really does get it. Most any other person of his stature would have just continued his journey, disregarding the neglected return salute. Not George W. Bush. He is earning the respect of the military community, not expecting it -- as most have and would.
Please take a moment after you read this to pray for our President. He truly does have the weight of the world on his shoulders. Pray that God will sustain him and give him wisdom and discernment in his decisions.
Pray for his protection and that of his family. Our President needs Christians around the world praying for him. There is strength in numbers. So as this makes the rounds, eventually there will be millions of people praying for him.
submitted by John L Hart
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)