PRESIDENT BUSH'S HISTORIC BOOST TO NATIONAL PARKS, described in a National Park Service press release, has inspired a letter to the editor from Catharine Gilliam, Virginia program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association. The New York Times reported that the president said, "I hope the citizens' groups who are concerned about the parks beat a hasty trail to the Congress and remind the Congress about what we have done, and what we need to do as good stewards of the parks.'' Now, what was that question again about how, especially during the Bush era, the U. S. couldn't even afford to consider a new national park at Fort Monroe?

 

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