With a little over a month left before
conference 1999, everyone should be finalizing their travel plans for
Washington DC. If you are just now deciding to go, don't despair!
Fortunately for you (but unfortunately for some), there are always
last-minute registrations and room reservations up for trade.
Let your unit leader know you want to go. They may already know of
someone who has had a change of plans and needs someone to take over
their registration.
Check the message board for postings from people who need someone to
take over their registration.
Please - for everyone's sake - be a person of your word and send
payment when you say you will. Don't take advantage of someone else's
misfortune and create a bad reputation for yourself or our company.
Anyone who is unsure of transportation details - here is a list of
possibilities to check into for travel arrangements: Thanks
Teddi for posting these to onelist back in April! Of course there are many
other sites to check as well - these are just some suggestions.
www.twa.com
www.travelocity.com
www.countryplace.com
www.amtrak.com
www.flifo.com
excite.previewtravel.com/Farefinder2
Those of you hoping to add some activities to your Washington DC
trip - here are some links to start you out: Again -
thanks to Teddi for providing (as always) wonderfully helpful tips on the
candlepartytoo list!
800-422-8644 101 FREE things to do in DC
202-DCVISIT DC Chamber of
Commerce Visitor Info Center
202-724-5644 DC Committee to promote
Washington
202-357-2700 Smithsonian Info Center (16
different museums mostly FREE)
202-328-4748 Visitor Info Center
202-789-7000 Convention & Visitors Assn.
Call and ask them to send you a packet of info for
things to do at the end of July. If you will be using the bus
request a bus/subway maps. And Info on any passes for
entertainment or anything they may have.
And If you want tickets to tour the White house,
call your state representative for tickets. You Representative
can be found at: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
This way you won't have to stand in line. This is FREE so
it's VERY popular and you don't want to waste precious sightseeing
time standing in line.
Teddi even thought to send President Clinton an email...and shared
the response through the list:
Thank you for writing to President Clinton via
electronic mail.
Since June 1993, the President has received over 2.8 million messages
from people across the country and around the world. Online
communication has become a tool to bring government and the people
closer together.
Because so many of you write, the President cannot personally review
each message, though he does receive samples of his incoming
correspondence. The White House Correspondence staff helps him read and
respond to the mail. All responses are mailed via the U.S. Postal
Service. This is the only electronic message you will receive from
whitehouse.gov. No other message purporting to be from the President or
his staff with an address at whitehouse.gov is authentic. If you have
received such a message, you have received a "spoof."
We appreciate your interest in the work of the Administration.
Sincerely,
Stephen K. Horn
Director, Presidential E-mail
The Office of Correspondence
P.S. Please read on - you may find the following information
useful.
-- Regardless of the number of messages you may send, you will receive
only one autoresponder message per day.
-- The only personal addresses at whitehouse.gov are the following:
President@whitehouse.gov
Vice.President@whitehouse.gov
First.Lady@whitehouse.gov
Mrs.Gore@whitehouse.gov
Please write to White House staff by regular mail. The address is:
The White House, Washington, D.C.,
Zip codes as follows:
20500 (mail to the President and First Family)
20501 (mail to the Vice President, his family, and OVP staff)
20502 (all White House Office Staff, all CEA, OPD, OSTP, and
PFIAB staff)
20503 (all CEQ, OA, OMB, and ONDCP staff)
20504 (all NSC staff)
20508 (all USTR staff)
-- On October 20, 1994, President Clinton and Vice President Gore
opened a World Wide Web home page called "Welcome to the White
House:
An Interactive Citizens' Handbook," and it remains one of the more
popular spots on the Web.
The White House home page provides, among other things, a single
point of access to virtually all government information available on the
Internet. Children especially enjoy the "White House for Kids"
feature.
Look
for your tour guides, Socks and Buddy, the First Pets.
"Welcome to the White House" can be accessed at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov
-- White House documents and publications are available on the World
Wide Web (see above) and by E-mail. To receive instructions on
retrieving documents by E-mail, please send a message to the following
address:
publications@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
In the Subject line, type "hello" (without quotes); you may
leave the
body of the message blank. The instructions will be sent to you
automatically.
-- The White House Public Access E-mail FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) document is available at the following address. Send an
E-mail message (no text necessary) to:
FAQ@whitehouse.gov
Among other things, the FAQ lists alternate sources of government
information, e.g., the Congressional E-mail projects. (This FAQ address
is an autoresponder only; any comment sent to this address will not be
acknowledged.)
I can't wait to meet you all in Washington DC in
July!
It's going to be a blast! Belinda |