Thursday, February 19, 2015

President Obama Designates 3 New National Monuments

++Speaking on the South Side of Chicago, President Obama reminisced about his first office,car and working in frigid weather. He was there to bolster Rahm Emmanuel's re-election bid as Mayor of Chicago.

++With the 100th anniversary of the US Park Services coming up, he announced that all fourth graders and their families would get a year free pass to our national parks. 

++Then he designated three new national monuments, making him the top President in saving wilderness and park lands in American history.

++The three were: In Hawaii,the place where the Japanese were interned during WWII; Brown's Canyon in Colorado; and the site of the Pullman Town on the South Side of Chicago, which was the site of the famous Pullman strike and riots during the recession of the 1890s.

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