Mr. Paek complained to the visitor that the administration was backing away from commitments made by President Clinton.
At a planned cost of $5.5 million, the new development was intended to provide a visitor's centre, administration facilities and an improved access to the Shrine's crypt, as many of the remaining veterans and their families found the stairs at the traditional ceremonial entrance difficult to climb.
The garden's fifteen-thousand-square-foot visitors' center and administration building, which has a roof with photovoltaic panels, a geothermal heating and cooling system, and structures that collect and clean rainwater, opens the weekend of Sept. 29-30.
Andreas Papandreou, the new Prime Minister, had just created more of a scandal by legalizing civil marriage than he had by entertaining Yasir Arafat as one of the first official visitors of his administration.
To accommodate the visitors, the Hong Kong administration is reviewing a plan to offer short-term rentals of some of the thousands of apartments the Housing Authority has built but not sold for fear of depressing property prices further.
The museum, housed in the Luxembourg Palace, has drawn more than 5.5 million visitors since its administration was turned over to a private company in 2000; its exhibitions have included shows focusing on Modigliani, Botticelli and the holdings of the Phillips Collection in Washington.
Until the Bush administration, White House visitor logs had often been released by the Secret Service in response to requests from outside groups and news organizations.
It was not exacly a low profile visit as the Mexican president, Vicente Fox, became the first state visitor of the Bush administration.
By contrast, Mr. Bush has issued no invitations to the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, who was a frequent White House visitor during the Clinton administration.
"To me, that was such a basic issue," Mr. Cummings said Wednesday of the pillow shortage, contrasting the everyday injustices he sees as a jail visitor with the Obama administration's promise to transform the immigration detention system into "truly civil" detention.
Her winning proposal for Sims featured a human-scaled building, for administration and visitors, that was separated from hangar-scaled spaces for liberating and sorting.
