The visitor center is open daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Coachella Valley Preserve, Post Office Box 188, Thousand Palms, Calif., (760) 251-4800, contains the Thousand Palms Oasis.
Shelves in Chavez's carefully preserved office are lined with personal mementos, religious icons, books — including his copies of Gandhi's writings — and portraits of his two German shepherds, Boycott and Huelga.
Before addressing 7,000 people at this 398th unit of the National Park Service, administered in partnership with the Cesar Chavez Foundation, the President and a small group of us toured the Visitor Center, including Cesar's carefully preserved office and library.
"What we're committed to is to make sure we preserve the office, at least as strong as we found it, for our successors".
To preserve the office's credibility with the public, previous surgeons general have sought with mixed success to insulate themselves from the political priorities of the White House.
Even as they make a remote-access future possible for the rest of us, they're doing everything they can to preserve an office environment that's surprisingly old school.
Mr. Scheffer, who has worked on codifying the crimes to be dealt with by the court, as well as in drawing up ad hoc criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone, said he hoped that a new administration in Washington would preserve his office when his term ends next month.
By flip flopping, and supporting partisan legislative redistricting, these top Virginia Democratic leaders sent the following very unappealing message to all voters in the Commonwealth: "the most important thing to us is that we preserve in office the particular incumbent Senate Democrats who happen to hold these jobs in 2011.
A variety of these factors has worked to preserve the post office in Greenwich, Conn., which was sold to the real estate magnate Peter Malkin for more than $15 million in 2011.
But Mr. Obama preserved the office and appointed advisory councils that represented a broad range of religious leaders, including conservative evangelicals and openly gay ministers.
