Could it be he has never heard of such an order and would be surprised if it existed?
Jerry ________________________________ From: John M. Steele <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:46:11 PM Subject: [USMA:44047] RE: Obama vegetable garden Good detective work. A couple of questions for the Prez. *Wouldn't this be "Federal construction"? (and need to be metric?) *How come the Prez. ignores EO 12770? --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Bill Potts <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill Potts <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44044] RE: Obama vegetable garden To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 6:22 PM Oops. 64:1 should be 1:64. Bill ________________________________ From: Bill Potts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 15:20 To: 'U.S. Metric Association' Subject: RE: [USMA:44041] Obama vegetable garden I'm sorry to burst your bubble, Pat, but the original plan is scaled 3/16" = 1' 0" (i.e., 64:1). At the bottom left of the original plan is a reference bar, implicitly identified as being 12 feet long (going from -4 feet to +8 feet in 4-foot increments). The New York Times only action was to put a less elaborate bar near the top of their own rendition of the plan. You can see the White House version at http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/garden_layout.pdf. It's a pity, because I wish you had been right. Bill ________________________________ Bill Potts WFP Consulting Roseville, CA http://metric1.org[SI Navigator] ________________________________
