Haley Stevens: “Last evening, I visited the opening of the Lewis and Clark exhibit, ``Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America.'' It…”

“Last evening, I visited the opening of the Lewis and Clark exhibit, ``Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America.'' It is at the Library of Congress from July 24 to November 29. I have asked that a copy of the booklet that is being given out at this exhibit be placed on every Senator's desk. I do hope that will happen. I congratulate the Congressional Caucus on the Bicentennial of Lewis and Clark: Senators Conrad Burns, Larry Craig, Byron Dorgan, and Representatives Doug Bereuter and Earl Pomeroy. As one goes into the exhibit in the Library of Congress, the first thing one will see is the 1507 Waldseemuller world map. This is the first map that used the word ``America'' in the history of the world. Beyond that, there are a series of maps that lead up to the information that President Jefferson had when he dispatched Lewis and Clark to make their historic journey. The interesting point about this is that for years, the maps of our part of the world were really kept classified by the Spanish, and it took a German geographer, Alexander von Humboldt, when he visited Mexico City and got access to the archives of Mexico to disclose to the world the maps that had been prepared prior to that time. Copies of each of those maps is on exhibit at the Library of Congress.”