please welcome steve cushman. [applause] dr. cushman: thank you very much, peter. good morning, everyone. i am very pleased to be here. just want to say again, thanks to everybody. the staff, allison, diana, everybody who makes this possible. a lot of you go to many conferences. some of us also helped run them. when you run them, you i know from the inside how much work this is. you would think that somebody may be actually planned this conference carefully because my talk follows joan's very easily. you heard her say in the last couple of minutes of her wonderful talk after grant finished the surrender, terms with lee he left, went back to washington, and three days later on april 12, 18 65, there was the surrender ceremony, which involved somehow joshua lawrence chamberlain. i want to just begin by asking the students here -- and i realize it's very early on a saturday morning. thank you so much for being here. the students here, show of hands -- how many students have been to appomattox? just the students. adults can play in a moment. students, keep them up. loo

and it's my understanding from cushman and wait field that these pots have a water recycling system with a sigh -- in terms of the size, they fill the first story. but again it's something we can work with staff on the ideas for a bigger or smaller olive tree. >> so the issue primarily is the removal of the tree, not the addition of the olive trees, correct? >> i think the removal of the olive trees and the possibility of not putting in ten trees back are on this issue. but the commitment as i read is that there is the pledge to replace the trees. the replacement is six street trees at the edge of the sidewalk where the current trees are located and in addition to that, the olive trees recessed closer to the building. 13 of those. >> has there been an offer to relocate the trees that are being uprooted? >> i don't believe that would be a practical or feasible issue. typically that would require over excavation to box up something and move it. in this case we have the building structure that is already boxing the trees. so we don't have anywhere to get around the root system to retain the

here with me democratic strategist baron johnson and republican strategist jackie gingrich cushman. with the metric system makes sense economically and symbolically tharon you first is this the platform that people need to hear? is this the one that will shake up hillary clinton's run for the president sorry the nomination? >> it will not shake up the run for the presidency, got to applaud the senator's enthusiasm but a little delirious suggesting that the country should turn to a metric system. it is not like up the cans can turn off and turn on the metric system but the challenge he is going to have with that asome that study after study has shown there is no economic benefit to the u.s. to go to this metric system. so it's something that we are talking about and he is trying to get some attention ultimately i don't think that the country will do that. >> does this help underscore that there is a struggle for some of the canned the das to have a issue. ing to resonate to kind of stand out from the pack? >> absolutely. and i think he is an interesting character. look at him. he was

please welcome, steve cushman. >> thank you very much and good morning everyone. it is great to be here. i want to say again, thanks a lot to everybody who is making this possible. a lot of you go to conferences and some of us help run them and you find out how much work this is. you would think that somebody planned this conference you heard joan say in the last couple minutes of her talks that after grant finished the surrender he went back to washington and three days later on april 12, there was this surrender ceremony which involved somehow, joshua lawrence chamberlain. i want to begin by asking the students here and i realize it is very early on a saturday morning and thank you for being here. how many have been to appomattox? adults can play in a moment. students, keep them up. look around everybody. it is not that many. grown-ups? so, students you see what you can aspire to. if you go, when you go, the chances are very high that if you take a tour led by a park ranger, he or she will say something like on the 12th of april, 186i-5 there was a formal surren