Transcripts For CSPAN3 Richard Nixon Presidential Library And Museum Re-Opening 20161126

Thank you and good morning, everyone. Over the last four decades, Richard Nixons career in Public Service, there was talk about many nixons, but this museum, which opened yesterday, is truly the newest, and i think youll agree, the best of nixon. This morning, we will be hearing from the think well group. Therotina and the cortina productions who designed the museum. And the creator of our new website. The website is terrific. With any project of this there are many people whose contribution was vital to the success of this museums completion. Unquestionably, the new without whom, and my very dear partner of the planning of this new Nixon Library and museum. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce the archivist of the United States of america, the. Onorable david ferrio [applause] david thank you and good morning. , i reminded folks the faith and capacity of the citizenry to learn from the past greatery could gain future. Continued to fulfill that mission is the programs third i would like to describe our goals to educate, enlighten, entertain, and to inspire. My not so secret agenda is to inspire young folks to devote their lives to Public Service and exhibits provide a way for us to celebrate Public Service. A lot has changed since 1990 when this library opened. More papers have been processed and declassified resulting in new scholarship. Eric and his book who owns writes about history is not cast in stone but rewritten for each generation. President nixon talked about that himself. Technological innovations have transformed the Museum Visitor experience. Experiences have provided opportunities to share and reuse content in new and innovative ways. Visitor expectations have changed. We now have limited attention spans. [laughter] texted exhibits and opportunities have revolutionized the business of exhibition design. All of these factors help shape our redesign a president ial library exhibits. Each time we do it, we learn. Each new project raises the bar. We build on the successes of the past. A very much collaborative process. Generous supporters who believe in the mission and invested. It really does take a village. You whos for all of made this possible and helped us invest in the future. [applause] welcome chief craig,ve officer and chief creative officer. [applause] good morning. Thank you for coming out today on a nice, cool saturday. It is great when the National Archivists steals all your morning materials. [laughter] literally, the first thing i was talking about this mornings how audiences have changed, and how it is harder than ever to communicate with them. Whether you have one or not, most everyone has some sort of mobile device with their noses in it all the time, taking pictures, looking up things, i dont know. I am going to sound like an old guy. I dont know what mike is her up to on these darned devices. Mindseteally creates a on how we need to communicate with audiences. The job is to be easier. Once upon a time, we did not get out much as a people. We could not travel as easily as we can today. Just getting to europe, it was 7, 8 day in ship crews. Now, hop on a plane and we are in dubai by thursday. Back in the day, you put stuff on display, and everyone appreciated it because they had no other way to see it. Plethora ofve a opportunities on how we are going to get information, whether it is on that ubiquitous device, the internet, whether it is getting on a plane to be able to go and see an authentic thing in his home location. And to utilize Technology Today to engage people in a different way and allow them to go deeper. What is going to happen tomorrow . We look at this image and we say, oh my god, it is science fiction. Lastednesday night of this weekend and it p. M. , i Major Company sold for the first time in major retail outlets, a home version of this device that is going to really be ubiquitous in a few more years, and Virtual Reality will allow us the opportunity to explore anything and everywhere as if we were really there. And so what does that mean for museums . Meanswe contend that it primarily two things one, we all crave to do things socially together. So, regardless of sitting at home being able to see the greatest movie we could see on the nicest display but the best surround sound, i still want to go out with my friends and say, oh my gosh, wasnt that amazing . The more we can do online on our computers and see virtually things, the more we contend, you will want to see the real things. And it makes the real more important. The importance of Something Like the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum is we can see these amazing items from the National Archives on display, up close, things the president touch and used. We are able to tell stories in new ways that, socially we can do together. Did you know this about the president . That kind of engagement changes the way we look at things now. Inmates are our jobs harder, dont get me wrong, but it also forces us to look at things in a new way. So, if you cannot beat them, join them. You cannot get the devices out of their hands, so lets encourage their use. Whether it is like the brandnew mobile app at the museum, or whether it is other technologies to create engagement between the device, it is wonderful at our disposal. Obviously, as i said before, we all have to take pictures of everything all the time and share them whether you like it or not with everyone else. Meeting with in a the head of social media for the smithsonian, and first of all, she was a lot younger than i am. [laughter] but she said, we do three things with social media we say, i am here, here is this thing, and i am here with this thing. [laughter] and nothing else. [laughter] and i thought about it and said, oh my god, she is right. So, we have to make sure in todays age, we provide photo ops. Seems ridiculous, but we do. As you go to the exhibition today, youll see some selfie moments you can do on your own, and others you can hand your camera over to someone who knows how to use it in a can take a picture of you as well. Hopefully we can bring those moments from nixons life to life and a whole other way that allows us to engage with a whole new audience in another way. Last, but not least, being able to talk to different audience segment is really important as how do you see mona lisa . Are great examples within our industry of how people are doing Different Things to engage audiences in new and unique ways. To turn itwould like over to joe, who is going to introduce the rest of our team that worked on this project and her partner as well. Thanks, craig. We are on her to be selected to work on this we are honored to be selected to work on this project. It was a large journey and complex process that require the efforts of dozens of people. But today, we are going to have to lead creative involved with reading the exhibit and will deconstruct it and talk about some of the moments of how it came together. First, i would like to introduce kate oconnell. She was our creative director. [applause] this needs a deep diver, someone who can get in and understand everything. We would like to approach all of our projects by putting ourselves in the shoes of the guests. A big mandate is as david said, how do we get people to care and be involved . And kate is that generation want to talk to. She knows just about as much as nixon is anyone in the room and she will go oneonone with anyone and do a good job. Just like a film that needs a production designer, we have chuck roberts, our art director. [applause] chuck has worked on numerous museums in his career, entertainment projects, other president ial libraries, the lincoln library. Take a really complex story, the life of a man come intohe details, and put it a visually pleasing way you and still he get when you walk up of what the topic is and how to tell a story . That is chucks job. I would like to bring up our partner in media. We parted with cartina productions. You want to feel something. Putting out information is not enough. For this story, having the emotional power of the media moments to carry on the journey was really important. Amy is our principal and partner of production. How many president ial libraries have you done . This is our seventh residential library. I am tired. [laughter] if you have not seen the exhibit yet, the emotional power behind the video and films and stories and interactives is phenomenal. Shout out for a the rest of our team that is not here, but we have 10 who is our we have tim who is our production manager. A little bit about think well. Job, thered for this was a mandate very early in the Richard Nixon foundation that Richard Nixon loved cuttingedge thinking and one it to lead with creativity at its best. We are not a Traditional Museum design firm. Clients who come to us why different way of telling a story because the work not just in museums, but the work in entertainment, corporate environments, we do buildings and urban development, but it is always about connecting against with it is always about withcting a guest intellectual property and what they do in the physical world. We are based in offender lists. We are based in los angeles. 1500 employees that arrangement from the architects, designers, technicians, video editors, and all of that comes together for these projects we work on. We also have an office in beijing and abu dhabi. You may not have heard of us, but you may have seen some of our projects we have done. Since this last year, on your left, my right, we opened up in atlanta, georgia, a museum that is a largest of global puppets and a large collection of donated by the henson family. They had a very successful puppet theater. They one of the largest repository of puppets and the stories behind them. This is in into an art form, and our job is to engage children and productivity and tell the stories of these collections. Up ain atlanta, we opened childrenss exhibit four years ago, the Natural History museum. Situated on the oldest forest. The goal was to how you connect kids with nature . In atlanta, there are two types of kids the innercity kids scared to go to the forest, or the privileged kids whose parents did not want them to go out and get dirty. Midwest wherehe you learn by nature by exploring it. We created a 7000 squarefoot exhibit where you did that indoors. Always Creative Learning and physical activity as a way of learning for the children. Museum and the museum of science and industry in chicago. It is now a touring exhibit sponsored by google on robotics. One of our most known projects in 2012 in london was the making of harry potter. We worked at warner bros. Were harry potter was made. Foot 150,000 square a very submersible way of telling the story of 10 years of filmmaking. Touch all theand costumes and see how everything came off. And then working on the world expo in dubai. How big is the site there . 500 acres. 500 acre city they are building. Architectave an double master plan the space. Our job is to master plan the do paragraph. For the small touring exhibit called sesame street presents the body, that was for little kids, teaching them how their body works, staying healthy. It was meant to going to a museum for three years. It was on the road for 10 years. And gotwhere we focused to learn how younger audiences learning use the space. That became a very important launching point for this facility as well. How do you engage a younger audience to care, to want to dive deeper, and to what to learn . Amy . Amy thank you. First of all. I am thrilled to be here and to be working with the well on this amazing project. Designermedia Production Company located in virginia. Classic American Dream story, three of us started in a basement. Today, we have office space where we have asked the signed a longterm lease and we have about 50 employees programmers, Graphic Designers, writers, researchers, storytellers, filmmakers. Is fork of our work museums and Cultural Heritage spaces. Cash the bulk of our work the of our work is for museums and Cultural Heritage spaces. We are honored to be a part of the new Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture that opened last month. We produced 25 exhibits for that , combinations of film and video active. Uses technology through connect, and visitors come up to these very large monitors, taller than i am, and you participate in a stepping. I will not do it for you, but you can travel to d. C. And do it. It is wildly popular and a fun way to celebrate the culture of African American history. The next project is a San Francisco 49ers and levi stadium. Reproduce their Interactive Media and their films and are particularly proud of their learning lab, where they use football to teach science, technology, engineering, and math in an interactive lab. And they take 60,000 students a year through this program at the 49ers stadium, and we just love using technology and storytelling to open up young peoples mines to know ideas and new careers possibly. Net is a Mohammed Ali Center in legal, kentucky. The focus is to use mohammeds life to teach concepts like dedication and confidence in speaking up. Another one of our successful partnerships. Joe mentioned we have been very of seveno be a part president ial libraries, and i will list them in alphabetical order. , carter, clinton, fdr, lbj, and reagan. What is particularly important to us for me as one of the owners, i was raised by two heyday ofs during the print journalism, and they were also very politically involved. I grew up at the dinner table hearing about the importance of democracy and the office of the presidency. And we have been, it is been so important to us to work on these, and our seventh president ial library, to reach out to young people to use technologies that joe and craig talked about, to open up young to the history of our country. Well talk you about a mobile app that we did that is perhaps our most visited exhibition. Nixons to thank for it because it is the pandas that has made this project popular, and i believe you with a shot of mrs. Nixon with the pandas in china and in our wonderful zoo and washington d. C. I will turn it over to chuck and you will hear a lot about partnerships today. Chuckle introduce us to a couple of partners that helped us create this museum. Thanks, amy. [applause] hi. Good morning. I am going to talk to you about eis. O ice, and it is studio eis is a company in brooklyn that did the original figures for the hall of leaders here at the library in 1990. And they, i have wanted to work with these guys for 30 years. I think, maybe 25 years. Figuresthe best museum that i have ever seen, and they work in bronze and other materials. But they are just extraordinary. The thing that i think that they bring more than anything you see sculptures and statues and butikeness is good they have gotten better and better just bringing just a ,ense of life and of natural you know, you understand that you you kind of feel that you understand the character in who that person is. When it came time to do the figure for lincoln sitting room and put nixon in this chair, it was just a nobrainer to go with these guys. Some other examples here, too. Then we will talk for a moment about the fabricators for our exhibits. In case youre not completely clear about how this stuff works, we have architects, facility contractors who did a beautiful job on this building. In thef what you see exhibit, a lot was done by the company. As an art director, do not always get to choose who we are going to go with. And i did not know these guys well. I knew some of their work. But we finally get into the room as we get close to production, and they are sitting there and we eyeball each other, and theyre looking at me like, we will probably be ok. [laughter] but it became a partnership. There are a couple of people that i pointed out. Was the project manager. In my point of view, nothing in this museum is arbitrary. It is all carefully thought through and carefully planned. Len stuck with me on all of this. There are things i wanted, and he would not do it that way. Len was awesome. And tom imagine this. Tom was hired to do the site install here. He had help obviously, but all of the exhibits are arriving from new jersey and toronto, stuff is coming in huge crates and boxes. He is opening this stuff up. Where does this go . Its organized, but it is such a challenge to figure out how to build a museum when its just coming in box after box after box. Any managed to put it all together and he managed to put it all together. Things that were missing, he put it together himself. It was just a heroic effort. Thank you, chuck. [applause] we have to find all the cards in the deck, now we will play the game. We have talked about the partnerships. Project like this is so challenging because there are so many pieces and stories it have to come together and so many stakeholders who have an important voice that have to be heard. So the team now will go through the exhibit himself the exhibit themselves. Peak behind the scene as a polite term for lets do a little sausage making. [laughter] everyone loves sausage, but no one ever wants to see it made. You are sitting here and cant leave, so we will do it now. Project, weted this wanted to understand the world he lived in and take another look at the president. The only starter process and put ourselves in our visitors shoes thinking, what do they bring to the table when it comes to inexperience we create . Off,is case, as we started everyone has a onedimensional notion for connection, including all of us, which was watergate, resignation, the end. Admit, that is where i started personally from this. We cannot ignore it. We dont want to ignore it. It is not fair for honest to ignore it. So we chose instead to hit the nail on the head. When we sat down and had our ,nitial brainstorming, we said lets think about the baggage we bring his visitors and the things you would expect to see in the things you would be surprised to learn. In the course of that discovery that we did is of a collaborative group, we found some key themes that came out of it. The first that we said and what visitors could say is i did not know he did so much. To seewere astonished the breath and depth of things that the president had done during his 10 years in office. , i did not know he was so interesting. First of all, the man had hobbies, passions, sports, and other interests, including outside of his roll in office including outside of his role and office. That shows a human being at one time this onedimensional person, and that will really open him up into a threedimensional person for all of us to appreciate much the same way the people who knew him and his family knew him. Last, but surly not least on our long list of expectations was i did not know he did so many important things. This is something that i think was a turning point in our understanding of this man was all of the other incredible achievements, all of the initiatives, all the other things that started under his leadership. And we wanted to make sure we presented those things as well. So, out of that, we began developing the concept. Now, job talked earlier about working on other projects and engaging other people and engaging young people. That is one key audience segment we wanted to hit with this. We had naysayers. We had president ial bus. We had young people, senior citizens, all of which we have to talk to my different ways. Think wells perspective, we do find audiences in three other ways as waderswimmers, w , swimmers, and divers. The swimmer lives through the presidency, somebody who went to college and studied history as a young adult and is a deeper appreciation or understanding or interest in the president and those times. They are going to have a different approach to wanting to navigate the exhibition. Are the divers. You are probably all divers today. You will read every piece a case wrote. Look at every object that the archives brought into the exhibition and appreciate little bit of chucks work. [laughter] chuck thank you. So, the diver is the hardest one to get because it is really easy to scratch the surface. It is harder to get enough of the diver. That is where the interactive access comes in. That is where the website comes in. That is where the app comes in. We will more about that, too. The sausagemaking begins with knowing who your audience is understanding the difference understanding the different audience segments in the different types of audiences you have to deal with, and that sets the stage for us to begin how we first to begin with stories we are going to tell, how we are going to tell them, and how to present any physical space. Craig forgot one key audience segment. There are not many of them, but they are very important. And those are the people. They go really deep. I just wanted to talk a little bit about the process and how we worked on figuring out the story. We start with the audience and the guests expectations of what we want guests to come away with and we are digging into the man and his life, watching documentaries, trying to discover who this man is. And we are seeing 1913 when he was born, feels really far away, right . It feels really distant to us, but when he is elected president in 1968, there is this chaos, this action and excitement and distant, that is both something that a lot of people forget about or young audience have not lived through, but it is something i can really grab you, really excite you. And we thought, that is where we need to start. We need to start in that moment when he is about to be elected. And we have a problem because now we started in the middle, and how do you get that to the beginning . Artists,ur planners, art directors, and we are brainstorming, and we are thinking, wait a second, here at the Nixon Library, they have nixons actual birthplace but outside and you can go and walk in it. We thought, there are these windows, some of which were not opened up. We thought, what if we could have this time when he was born in the exhibit right there see you can look at those windows and see the birthplace and you will be encouraged to go outside and to go visit it . Now we had a beginning points and we knew where we had to go back to the beginning. We have those two points and that gave us enough so that begin really form the structure of the exhibit. So then, we are starting to make our concept art, starting to create some of our models and are sketches to flesh out those bits in between that takes us from the 1960s through this vast expanse throughout the achievement of the presidency and into our flashback. Of course, we come full circle and come back around. And i wanted to show you because this is a little bit of the magic for me. Im always surprised when i see this even though we have done this before. It is always really cool to me. To start with, this is a very early concept sketch. We thought about, and the vietnam gallery, we wanted to , there kind of the emotion difficulty of that war. The soldiers on the ground, the ben in danger the men in danger, on the ground, in combat. We wanted to capture it at home, the National Conversation and he wanted to juxtapose that put them together. So you see this early concept sketch. We have our artisan designers using a 3d modeling program. So, how would visitors know through this space . Where we put our text panels, artifacts . Theyre creating the space around it. Men we have work in progress installation photos. Now it is coming to life and being built. You can see that that concept has come to life. Processaspect of the that we all engage in is really integration. Visitors today are very savvy. We have perhaps the savviest visitor we ever experienced and they are growing more as we speak, getting smarter than we are. We hope that you notice that it is part of our approach that media and the fabrication objects are integrated. Have tos rare we standalone theaters. One big theater and one smaller alcove theater. Everything else is integrated using all of the skills that we can bring to bear on this story. We hope you see that as you move through. When you get to lincolns sitting room, you will notice it has everything in it. He will talk to lincolns will talk about lincolns sitting room later. This is really on the sausagemaking. I will not even apologize for it. It is critical. It is called research. Yes. As soon as a request for proposal comes into our mail inbox, we are already starting our Research Process because we love storytelling. Haswhat shows up dimensionality. It has to be rooted in story and stories must be rooted in research. So we begin our Research Process by reading every book that we can find. And some authors are in this room right now that we pulled heavily from and read your work. Client books that the would really love us to read, and we read books that perhaps we wished books that perhaps they wish we had not. We cross reference facts and dates and get multiple sources. We also look at hours and hours , andw video, documentaries nixonvery important the papers and documents that are housed here. Primary sources during our Research Process, and relied heavily on archivists and curators here, some of which are in the room, to help us tease out this story. And laughing, i want to make sure you all know that we did not write the exhibition alone, or any vacuum. We are back we are very happy to say that all the content was rigorously vetted with four independent historians. Led by the archivist of the United States and his team. Thise very proud that project went through that rigorous vetting. One of the things that came up for us in our research, and , weerday, or thursday discovered in our research of her certain nixon of our research of Richard Nixon that he used yellow notepad to articulate his thinking and provide himself box on his actions, to strategize, and he has done this most of his professional life. And we discovered this as a team. And we were riveted by this information, and we were allowed to read the yellow notepads, photocopies, but still, thrilled to be reading them. And we believed that the visitor needed to discover this as well. And you are going to hear us talk about discovery because something happens in the mind of a human being when they discover something for themselves. It engages them, and it inspires them to go learn more. We dont want this exhibition to be the beginning, sorry, the end of the visitors discovery. We wanted to be the beginning. And you see with the yellow notepads, we use it throughout the exhibition starting in the orientation film. There are interactive stations for visitors to use the yellow notepad, and of course, and the lincoln sitting room where nixon himself wrote on these yellow. So, this is just a way we use research to bring it forward for the visitor so that they are able to see an authentic element of this particular man, Richard Nixon. So, kate . Craig . Kate, you can join me, too. When we decided at 1968 as a starting point and the one it to engage a younger audience, we said, how do we establish the context of the time . We will talk about the intro physical space and how we do it there, but we decided the best way to immerse people and understanding the time to get their heads around the context of all the things, the chaos that was going on in the country, was to do a film. And the music, the sound, the that talk about everything going on here and in vietnam, really helped establish all of that and really set the stage. And that became the opening volley for us in terms of the exhibition. Before you stepped your feet and the door of the exhibition itself, we need to set the state anyway or be could focus you and deliver this message about when all of this was happening right up front. Here ise of our goals to really empower guests to make their own decisions. We wanted to lay out all of the information, all of the different points of view, these look context, primary sources, into the moment for themselves and allow them to come to their own conclusions that away. We really felt that this was in the spirit of what Richard Nixon himself wanted for this library. When he open library 1990, he passive andcould be a collection of dry documents. He hopes this library will be different, steady, debate, and analysis. That is really what we wanted to do. We wanted to have active engagement and never put a period on things. It was about a backandforth conversation, whether it is a film, an interactive there playing with. Into the theater itself, as craig said, we wanted to set the the sort oftroduce exhibit they were going to go into. That, we could not have a typical theater like this. You guys are so far away. Presentational, there is a big screen here and it is talking down at you. A to create a smaller, more intimate space and really wrap that screen around you and immerse you in that space. To do that, we needed to create a whole new theater. Now, the library has this beautiful, big atrium space and we took it away from them. [laughter] back to this thing called research, as we were learning about Richard Nixon, there was a particular quote that left out of this and i will paraphrase it. He said that Richard Nixon had many facets. And this really interested us. Many of us many of our visitors will come with one or as many as three think they think they know about this topic. And when we heard that he was multifaceted, we thought, lets just go see. We started talking about it, cross referencing the things that we were reading, looking back at documentaries, looking more at scholarship that authors had used when they had come to the archives. What we found was that indeed, Richard Nixon is multifaceted, and we wanted to convey that to the visitor because we saw things like, and weve heard and read things, he was a fighter and he was empathetic. He could be tough, but he had compassion. There were these dichotomies and we wanted the visitor to get a sense of that. I will give you an example. In terms of empathy, Richard Nixon passed legislation to return lands to native americans. This is because he empathizes with the loss of their land and he believes they have been treated unfairly. This is something that comes from his heart. That was very interesting to us. Why did he pass this legislation . We developed a story arc around that. Do you want to talk about why we chose not to go into narration . It goes back to the divide between the audience and the screen. Think about your typical museum film narration. We did not want that. There are too many discussions. There are too many disagreements about history and its interpretation. I used to amuse myself all i was researching by going and reading all of the amazon reviews for different biographies of Richard Nixon. If you want to see the extent of disagreement and the many opinions that people have, just read those reviews. We thought instead of a single narrator, lets have a lot of them. Here it goes to young people. If you have a young person in your life, and i do, he has very little interest in what i have to say as an authoritarian. I was raised by authoritarians and it does not work anymore. I had to learn a new way. We had to learn a new way as film makers. We went out and found people storytellers. There is a combination of them. Some of which were in the nixon white house, people who knew Richard Nixon. We have scholars and historians who have studied Richard Nixon. And then we went all the way to oxford to get a lady who had a particular interest. The other thing the storytellers helped us do is to contextualize the times. We did not just ask questions about Richard Nixon and his presidency. We also asked about the time and we asked our storytellers to share with the audience what was going on in that time in our history so that our visitors had a larger view and could put the presidency in the context. One really important part of the film that i want craig to talk about for a moment, about what we needed to do with this film. If we are going to go for this, we need to be audacious in our presentation and concepts. We said, it would be pretty audacious to do the unexpected. A visitor might think you are going to sweep watergate under the carpet. Lets not do that. Lets push the plunger and blow up that idea and start with watergate and the resignation and from there, we have shown you exactly what you did not think you would see and we can move on to talk about the legacy and the man and the career and all of the achievements that were there. Not sweeping it under the rug at all but hitting straight between the eyes exactly what you are coming in in the back of your head thinking. That became the starting things for the intro film. What is the primary thing of visitor thinks they know . Everyone who worked on this job, the average age is 32. They had not lived through the nixon presidency but they knew about watergate or they knew about nixon and pop culture. By starting with watergate, we acknowledged the one thing they know and then we are able to move from their and thing that inside from there and thing that inside the presidency. Before you head into the exhibit, you might download the app on your phone. At the Nixon Library, your app can do these things for you. Typical visitor information, but there are two things i want to highlight. It connects to the web. As you move through the galleries, if there is a particular topic that you are most interested in, and for me it is title ix, i am able to hit a button that says learn more and it will send the information via email on title ix. What is important about this aside from giving the visitor the deeper dive, visitors today want to continue their relationship with the content after they leave our exhibit. The app allows our visitors to do that. I want to point out to you the app is in three languages english, spanish, and mandarin. What is so important is that it harkens back to the authentic story and part of the nixon legacy, which is our relations with china. We step into the galleries themselves. We start with this area, this is about the 1960s and the turmoil and the chaos people were stepping into and we did want to create a space that was a little bit of an assault on your senses. I would love to get off that stool. [laughter] i want to this is one of the original concept pieces that we did. It seems obvious. We realized that it is not smooth and easy, it is jagged and fractured and we have problems and that really accounts for the shapes of the walls you are seeing. The library itself is very symmetrical and as you step into this gallery, everything starts to be a little fractured. And the color. It took us quite a bit of time to figure out what images we were going to use. You will notice the bands of color and the way we use the images, they are to one side or another. The place feels unstable. As you wander through here, and especially the visuals amy has brought in here, and the cacophony of sound, which is brilliant because it leaves you through the space leads you through the space. By the time you get to the end of the hall, you wonder, why would anybody want to be president . It is just crazy. So let us walk you through in case you dont recall, all the the things that were going on. Three assassinations president kennedy, dr. Martin luther king, bobby kennedy. Those are covered in the gallery. The march on washington for jobs. Of course, we have vietnam, soldiers in vietnam, and protest. We also have the draft. We are becoming aware that we are damaging our environment. The democrats were in a mess in 1968 and we cover chicago. You come to the end of the corridor and you turn the corner and you see the inauguration and you step into the oval office. The original library did not have an oval office and we thought it was a really important piece as a guest expectation, guests want to Wander Around and they want to sit down at the desk. There we are. All right. What i want to tell you about the oval office, this is largely their work, all the walls and everything you are seeing here, this is a highly accurate recreation of nixons oval office. This, to me, looks like, you know, and historical photo. It is not. There is just so much we have gotten in here that is accurate to the original office. From the blue and gold colors, the carpet, the rug was designed by pat nexen, the california blue and gold. Let me tell you how hard it is to find that kind of gold upholstery fabric these days. We started to look at this and thought, is this going to work . The other thing i want to point out, the light, the windows, the view, the way the room is handled, it has life just because of how we picked the time of day, late afternoon, and it just feels live. We have a lighting designer on staff who is a certified genius. Everything in this exhibit it would not look as good as it does. The other great thing about the oval office and truly unique part of it, you can walk through the whole office. You can sit in any chair. For a child, you are all parents. Some day, you might grow up to be president. Now your kid can go and sit the hind the president s desk, get their picture, post to social media. What an empowering moment for a girl or a boy to say, this is what it is like. I might want to consider doing this in my life. What a great opportunity for young people. [inaudible] the only library where you can explore the only oval office. The china gallery was a really important one for us. One of the landmark pieces of nixons presidency truly changed the Global Landscape and we wanted to create a space that really honored that. Some of you have probably seen the opera nixon in china. They stole it from history. We are stealing it back. No, we were inspired by. I keep forgetting. This just felt like the right way to do it. All of the elements you are seeing, the big red panels, were based on the huge red banners at the airfield when the nixons arrived. We have used those as a backdrop to be able to the elements on and tell the story of the trip. Chuck is humble about his own skills. I want to point out, if youre looking at a photo of this thing that happened, it would never occur to me to take those banners and use them to create a space. To create kind of the structural forms that organize that space and allow us to organize the information within it. Its just a really beautiful thing that he took this historical photo and turned it into, you know, the thing that i can put my text on and ruin it. [laughter] now im red, thank you. Thats great. One of the things that were, again, for the visitor, that were so happy about, is that the visitor gets transported in this museum to many places. And this is one of the places that they go. That one of the spaces that they get to visit. Yeah, literally a portal. And take the picture on the great wall of china. Yeah. So, in the gallery outside of that, one of our presidency galleries, we have one of the moments that is has already become one of the most photographed spots in the exhibits. Great selfie opportunity, as craig mentioned earlier. And i love this because its another one of chucks audacious ideas. Okay. So, its a fun idea, but i just want to point out some things here. The main inspiration for me was when i saw the space suits at the library originally, they had please dont touch signs on their chests and i just thought, i love nasa, i love the show, the missions. Lets not do that, lets find a way to display these better. Putting them on the wall was a fun idea, but i want you to understand for a second what it took and what this the level of integration that has to occur just to do something simple like this. Theres many examples throughout the museum where all sorts of integration has happened. But the architect needs to agree that were going to do this and that hes willing to do the engineering to get the steel in the wall to support the space suits, and then really where do you want those plates and so forth to hold those feet . I dont know, you want the normal space suit distance apart, right . You know, its just something well just do that and no one understands what that is. We scenically had to get some sort of panel on the wall that wouldnt deflect. The folks from nara had to clean the suits and then they dusted them again with moon dust so that they both felt like they were, you know, part of the scene. The mount maker had to do this thing so theyre not just hanging in gravity, but they feel like guys grounded on the moon and its natural. Nick lit this and found positions where we could have these single shadows. All of this came together really nicely and it just it took a lot of people and it just kept happening over and over at this place and im just it was really fun to get to do this. Yeah. Yeah. Related to that right. Related to space, weve talked about it. This is one of the opportunities for visitors to have access to content thats here at the archive. There are listening in stations throughout the president ial galleries and this is one of them on space, where visitors touch the ipad, pick up the phone and listen to president nixon speak to, or speak about one of the apollo 10 through 17 missions. And this isnt the only i have to tell this one story that i love. There are other listening ins and one of them is over at equal and expanding rights. And i told you that we got to listen to hours of material and in this listening of materials, one of the things that came up was a story, a busing, around desegregation. And its julie nixon calling Richard Nixon, her father, and it goes Something Like this. Daddy . Yeah . Are you terribly busy . No. [laughter] listen. And then they go on to have this conversation about how she should answer a question regarding busing. And shes asking for her fathers advice. And i have to tell you people, aside from the interesting fact that under Richard Nixon, it was 80 of schools were desegregated in the south in four years, the story that leapt out for me that created one of those moments where i saw this president as a man and as a father is in this telephone exchange, and i hope you go listen to it because when he answers her, you know, are you terribly busy, no. If you are a working parent like i am and youve ever gotten the phone call from your child, when the world is blowing up around you, or so you think. And i was really touched by this, and its another opportunity for the visitors to come here and listen to this, themselves. Now, how they walk away, their emotion may be very different than my own. Whats important for us is that we provide an opportunity. And this goes back to something that craig was talking about earlier that theres always going to be a place in museums for the real, because thats what people want. They want to come and have that authentic connection to the real thing, and the National Archives have this incredible collection. There are thousands of hours of these phone recordings and audio recordings and, you know, anybody can come in here. You can go downstairs and get your researcher card and you can dig through the archives and find all of this stuff and thats a lot of work, so weve done some of that work for you and put a lot of it in the exhibit, and the team here at the archives, the archivists and curators were so amazing because they know their collection and they would come to us and say do you know about this document . Do you know about this photo . Have you heard about bunny . This is one of my favorites. We dont show this in here, so ill just say bunny is this great artifact. We never heard about it. When nixon was running for senator, they were creating an ad and they asked his daughter to say vote for nixon and she had this little stuffed bunny. Instead she said vote for bunny, so we have bunny in the exhibit. And that makes me really happy. [laughter] so, its that real authentic thing that people can then engage with and come away with however they feel. Yeah, and that reminds me about another big change that we have in museum collections. Craig talked about it. When museums first started, they were objects, and i went to a museum and i saw an object. An artifact. Today, and its been going on for about 60 years now, maybe a little more, one of our primary objects in todays world are media. Video. Audio. And im happy to say that of the hour and 45 minutes of content that is in the museum, about 80 of it, 80 , is media as artifact. So its like looking at a vase thats original. Yeah, absolutely. So, the pat nixon area inside the presidency area. Ill tell you, i was a little resistant at first to kind of having a space that was just about pat nixon, and thats because you see this in other president ial libraries. Heres the president ial library then heres the first ladys space. And i wanted to integrate her throughout the exhibit and thats really what weve done, because she was so present and active as a first lady. So many firsts to her name. Traveling to war zones. Traveling as a good will ambassador, as a representative of the president. So, we did end up creating this space and i love it. I came around. To really kind of focus on, create this sort of intimate moment where people can interact. Weve got some incredible artifacts in there. There will be a rotating collection of apparel on display. I love these notepads, or these stationary pieces. She was an inveterate note writer, always wanting to respond to people personally, so we have some of her stationary in there. And then we have this incredible interactive from cortina. Yeah, thanks. Well, first, im going to point out to you that i think you are the first to have an interactive inside a suitcase. [laughter] and from what im seeing, the visitor loves it, because they walk up to it and they say, oh, i had a suitcase like this or my mother had a suitcase like this. So, now the visitor is connected to this story. And theyre connected to this suitcase, and so now theyre connected to mrs. Nixon, and thats what we want them to do. In this particular exhibit, you pick up a puck thats off to the side. It has an rfid signal on it. You set it in the suitcase and it activates content for that particular visit. Mrs. Nixon went to peru, africa, the National Parks tour. You put the puck down and it activates the interactive screen and brings up content on that particular visit. Youre able to peruse through a photo album. My personal favorite, you can see mrs. Nixons passport. Above that is a mirror with video in it, and i hope that you stop and look at it because looking at hours of footage of mrs. Nixon, she is so loved, and she radiates love as she goes out and meets with people around the world. And it was one of the things we didnt know. We did not know, and i discovered it. And now i tell everybody about it, because im a discoverer. So, one of the things we discovered, of course, during our Research Process was the incredible amount of domestic achievements. The epa, title 9, desegregation, the war on cancer. I mean, just so many things that kind of blew my mind when i realized that they happened, you know, during this period under Richard Nixon was really incredible, but, of course, he was most well known as a Foreign Policy president. So that, we really wanted to create these great spaces that told that story, especially because when you think about the cold war, its really hard to communicate for an audience that might be really distant from that, you know, what was the threat, what was the feeling of that time . You think of duckandcover drills, you think of the threat of imminent nuclear disaster. So, we needed to create these spaces that told that story. So we started with, chuck put a giant missile in there. That kind of communicates pretty well. Its looming over you, this kind of threat, possibility, and were establishing heres the cold war, heres whats at risk. But then we move on right next to it to the signing of the s. A. L. T. Treaty, the treaty nixon negotiated, himself. A Nuclear Arms Treaty with russia, and thats the first step in detaunt, the first step in breaking down the barriers of the cold war and thats why immediately next to it we have the berlin wall. We have this kind of corner on our Foreign Policy area that really takes us through that journey that all happened during those years of nixons presidency then carried forward after him to finally end the cold war. And one of the pieces that tells the overall Foreign Policy story is this really cool interactive that i love. Yeah, the interactive so we talked about waders, skimmers and divers, so, if you engage with this interactive just on the main menu, you can see all the dots and right away, these are all the places president nixon went. I dont even have to go any further to get that primary message. This guy was on the move around the world. When i do dig down deeper, i can touch all the locations, get photographs, dates, find out what the objective was of that particular journey that the president went on, and so it begins to paint an overall picture of nixons Foreign Policy. Then, of course, we talked about the yellow note pads. You can explore these on interactive stations throughout the galleries. One very important part of these, guests can explore these personal papers of nixon that you wouldnt have been able to see before, but, of course, the handwriting not necessarily the easiest thing in the world to parse. Cortina has done a lot of work with the archivists here to translate that handwriting, and theres a handy little transcribe button so that you can actually read those and not struggle through. So, you leave the presidency area, and we head into the watergate gallery. Now, the watergate gallery had been redone a few years ago before we were brought onboard. And so, in the lifetime of a museum exhibit, thats not very long, four years or so. So we thought rather than kind of spending the kind of resources redoing that space, lets keep that exhibit as it is and we can move it wherever it needs to be within the exhibit, especially since now were doing this new structure of things. In the old space, the watergate exhibit came at the very end. You went through the watergate exhibit, you came out and you went to the eagles nest to the study, then you were at the funeral and that was it. So you were sort of left with this, that was it . And if thats all you know of the story, you know, thats kind of what you come away with. So i never realized walking through that first exhibit that there were 20 years of work after that watergate exhibit ended. And this incredible contribution as an elder statesman and nine books written. So, when we created this structure that had a flashback in it and started in the middle of things, it enabled us to put the watergate exhibit into the context of the full life. So by physically moving it, it kind of exists within a larger context rather than kind of being the period at the end of the life. So that was one of the changes that happened with watergate exhibit. Then the other was as we got closer to the end of design, we were looking at the older exhibit and realizing all the content is fantastic, its the single largest exhibit space within the whole gallery thats dedicated to one topic. But it doesnt look like anything else that weve done. Its you step out of it and hey, were in a different world, then we step back into our exhibits. So, we reskinned it, basically. We took all the existing words and media and images exactly as they were and we added our own, sort of, fonts and colors and graphic layout to make it look like the rest of the exhibits. And that takes us to one of the spaces that is one of our personal favorites. When nixon opened this library, as we said, he didnt have an oval office. What he did have was a replica of the lincoln sitting room because it was a space that was so important to him. So, this is truly my favorite part of the whole exhibition because it combines all of our work into one integrated and seamless moment, but it also brings to life, like, so many things. The president has resigned, and you have to sit and ask yourself, what was going through his head . What must have he been feeling . And so, we wanted to create a moment of contemplation where we could sort of try to put ourselves in his shoes a little bit. We also wanted to bring this notion of the yellow pads to life in a different way than the interactives do. So, as the president is sitting in his favorite chair in the lincoln sitting room, writing notes on a yellow pad, those notes come to life in his own handwriting as projection on the wall, sort of magically coming off the page for us to read. And we hear nixons voice going through these various thoughts and as we hear his voice, the images out the windows change to correspond with those thoughts. So, its sort of a little contemplate contemplative space, and for a brief moment, you feel like youre stepping into what must have been going on perhaps inside of him at that time. Yeah, and i think its really exciting for that for a couple reasons. One is thinking about the sort of outside journey that weve taken when were in the presidency galleries, were really looking at what did he decide, what were the actions he took, what were the challenges he was facing, that sort of public voice. And then once we hit our flashback and were going back into his past and through this journey that ends with the lincoln sitting room, we get to go a little bit inside his head and inside kind of that inner journey of the man, himself, less than the public persona. So, i think that really captures that. And the other reason that this space is really inspiring to me is we talked a lot about integration and collaboration between the teams, and in this space, you see every single partner that we worked with, every Single Person on the team. Weve got a studio figure. We got cortinas beautiful media in the windows and projections on the walls and audio overhead. Weve got Graphic Design on our wallpaper. We have amazing lighting from nick. The walls and the environment. This is sort of everything coming together in that teamwork. And we have an interactive moment for the visitor. We are seeing a lot of people taking photos of themselves with the president. Yeah. So, of course, as we said, nixon went on after his resignation for 20 more years of work and service to his country. Right. So, you leave lincoln sitting room, we find out that after the resignation, it was the darkest time of the president s life, but what is so remarkable to us from the human story, and something that we think people can relate to, or if they choose, i certainly have chosen to relate to it. Nixon in that quote tells us its his darkest time and if a person doesnt have something to live for, he dies im paraphrasing spiritually, emotionally and physically. And this is a man, and you see this in the last 20 years of his life, who chooses just like it starts in the film, he had his he would win. He would lose, and he would come back up. He was the consummate fighter. And in the last 20 years, we see that he makes a conscious decision to be of service in the way that he can be in that elder statesman role. And we think that on this last part of the galleries, you come up to epilogue and the president tells us, i believe in the American Dream because its happened in my life. And i want it to happen in your life. And he talks about the highs and lows of life, about his life, that there have been victories and defeats, and that he chooses to come back up, and he ends by telling us thats the story of my life. This up and this down and this up. And thats where we wanted to end the story, because we think its such a remarkable, multifaceted story about this president. Thank you, amy. So, we gathered our information and had our own discoveries and learned about this man and changed our perceptions. And hopefully that other people coming here will be able to make their own decisions, as kate said, about president nixon. For thinkwell, and i will speak for cortina for a moment, it has been a real honor to have had the opportunity to work on this exhibition. We were thrilled when we found out that we were going to do it, and it has been truly an amazing collaboration in the annals of 15 years of thinkwell work, we have worked with wonderful clients and terrible clients, and weve wrestled with some and weve wrestled here, too, but in the end, the experience working with the National Archives and working with the Richard Nixon foundation has been nothing but extraordinary. And were really honored to have had a chance to be here today. So, thank you to the thinkwell and cortina team. Thank you, all. [applause] and thank you guys. So, as i said at the very beginning, connecting with visitors isnt just about engaging them in the physical space. We have to extend that visit through the app and through an Online Presence so you can begin your journey before coming to yorba linda, and that journey can continue and that exploration and learning can continue after. To talk more about the website, heres al herrera and David Bushnell from the wuoo. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. First off, thank you, guys, so much, and a big thank you to the Richard Nixon foundation for inviting us to this very prestigious event. Were so honored to be here. To really celebrate the life and the legacy of president nixon. Im al herrera. Im the account supervisor and Program Director at the woo, a Boutique Design Agency in california. We specialize in creating digital experiences that really create Lasting Bonds with people and brands. And so when the Nixon Foundation approached us about the website, we were honored and really eager to get the project started. So, the challenge that we face was we had to create a website that was interactive and welcoming to a new generation of users that have a pretty finite idea of who Richard Nixon was and what his legacy is, but also we had to remain cognizant of an older generation of people that were very familiar with the president and his life, both inside and outside of the white house. So, we partnered with cortina, thinkwell and the Richard Nixon foundation to create a website that was both visually stunning, interactive, and really brought the best elements of the life in the arena exhibit youll see here today. And the key strategy for us we had to create a website that was mobile first, so as you see on the tablet and the phone, its optimized to be viewed on mobile devices and especially because 50 of all Internet Users access the internet only on their phones. So, thats it was a really interesting fact that we had to come up with. So basically, the site now acts as an aggregator of information and research that most importantly can be accessed by anyone of any age, generation, and most importantly, from anywhere around the globe. So to speak about the research and how it has the global reach, we pass it over to dave. Great. Thank you very much, al. And i do want to echo what al said that it really was an honor to work with the foundation and on a personal note, it was a real pleasure to work with those personnel. So, i really personally want to thank you guys for working with us and for bringing us here today. So like thinkwell, for us, it was a real journey of discovery, and a journey that was full of surprises. And in addition to the circumstances and the details of history, i learned two very surprising things. And i just want to share those with you right now. And i just have to share this because this happened literally last night. I turned on the television, a comedian was making the point that students today dont retain anything about history. Its all just a big gray blur to them. And so heres what he said. He said, this is verbatim, he said a fish crawled up on land, some stuff happened, nixon, then here we are today. [laughter] this happened last night. But he was making a very important point that even for people to whom history is a big gray blur, that one name stands out above everybody else. And its the truth. That was one of the surprises for me, is that there is this huge fascination with the man. Not just here in the United States, but globally. So, we, with this website, are addressing a global audience of people fascinated by that man. The second thing is that probably because of the first thing is that there is a wealth of information out there, tons and tons of data exist out there. Now, just like thinkwell, we had to address the three different stages of swimmers. We have the waders. These are the people that just need the topline information. The eighth grader who needs to write a paper on nixon, lets say. We have the swimmers, the journalists, the people that need to write maybe a little different, more indepth paper. And then you have the divers, these are the historians. The professors that need to create their class syllabuses, okay . So, how did we satisfy these people . First of all, theres a challenge. All these people, they go to google first, google is kind of a deadend journey, because you google nixon in china, you get a list of results, you go to the first result and its an end point. Okay . You land on an article, theres nowhere to go from there. Now youre on an archive newspaper somewhere. Now you have to go back to your results and you have to google the next thing and go to the next result and like this. What weve done is we have crawled a number of authorized reputable sources on data for nixon. And im talking about news articles, im talking about blog posts, im talking about videos. How many of your children and grandchildren prefer video to reading . Just a show of hands. Yeah . Okay. I would say probably most of you. Sound files. A wealth. Thousands and thousands of hours of actual oval Office Conversations among, who at the time, were the most powerful people in the world. We have cataloged all those on this website and using the worlds most popular content management software, we have put them all under one umbrella. So now they all participate in the same taxonomy. So, the website you see today is, were very proud of it, it is a work in progress because now the foundation has a strong foundation. To continue into the future, building content, adding content to the website, and categorizing, okay. So what you saw in the video here is that these people who know nothing about history except that nixon did something about watergate, maybe thats their in to the website. So theyll come to the website, theyll land on an article on watergate. Now over on the side, theyll see, heres some key words touched on in this article, heres some similar articles. Now their journey of discovery begins. So they click on these key words and find white house tapes where they discuss these topics. They watch videos of an actual event happening. So, weve really presented a wealth of research to these people. In addition, the interface to this website is designed to be welcoming of research. As you visit nixonfoundation. Org, you will see that its hard to go very hard without having a search bar sort of thrust in your face. And when you search, you get categorized results. Things like historical articles. Nixons impact today. And just as amy said, media as artifacts. You will land on a section of artifacts. Thousands and thousands of pieces of media. These are white house tapes. These are videos. These are documents. And these are historical articles. So, thats in a very, very brief whirlwind tour what weve created for nixonfoundation. Org. As we say, we extend this discovery of research and wealth of surprises into a global audience. So i want to i dont want to gloss over this quote here, so lets just take a quick look at this. The Richard Nixon foundation believes the more you learn about Richard Nixons leadership and policies, the greater the opportunities there will be to carry his lessons into todays challenges. Al and i wasnt to want to thank you for being here today. We want to leave you with a couple of case studies of typical users who are now able to access this wealth of information. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. I am talking to you from madrid, spain, where i live. I have just finished high school. And now im in the university studying mechanical engineering. Im always interested about all the things of debates, american politics. So, the other day i was checking on the internet, something about the debate between trump and clinton, and it was when i found the web page of nixons library. So now im going to show you the favorite part of the web page. All these videos and information is available for all kind of students. Students in america, east spain like me, or all over the world. So, its my favorite part because of that. We have a lot of articles with insight. And young people like me, love to see videos and learn with that kind of material. I wish i was there in person and i cant wait until november when i come back to california. Everyone, enjoy the rest of the events and the opening of the National President ial library. And now i turn you over to martin in china. Have fun. [applause] hello, everyone. My name is martin. Im from beijing, china. Im right now an intern in the Company China star, and i used to study in the beijing institute of fashion technology. I majored in english. Ive always been fascinated about the politics between china and america. And thats why ive been exploring a little bit in the websites of the new Nixon Library. First of all, it has a very good frontal page. Ive studied design and art a little bit, so i really like the design of the website. And then when i go in, you can see a lot of different stuff. The Resource Center is very useful, i think. It has a lot of historical articles. About the Little Details of the historic trip of nixon to china. I think its very important for all the people to see this because it is, indeed, one of the very major events for both of our countries to get connected. Im very excited that this Resource Center is online right now. I believe the center can bring Chinese People and people from the u. S. Much closer. I cant wait to visit Nixon Library in person. I hope all of you enjoy it and have a great day. Byebye. [applause] now, please welcome president of the Richard Nixon foundation and mike ellzey, director of the Richard Nixon president ial library. Do you think our producers and collaborators deserve a shoutout . Thinkwell. [applause] cortina. The woo. Great organizations. I think you also can see how excited we are about being able to take this story about Richard Nixons life and times to yorba linda, to the world, via the internet and via a new exhibit. We are more than thrilled with that opportunity. You all have something to be very proud of from that. Lastly, id like to repeat what our chairman and the archivists said about the collaboration and cooperation between nara and the foundation. Its that collaboration that made all this possible, and we appreciate it very much. Mike . Well, this has just been a real special morning, and a very special presentation. I wanted to thank and acknowledge our creative partners, the foundation for selecting such outstanding and Outstanding Partnership team. Ive been involved in a number of public projects like this, and i think this team is absolutely the finest. And so, to you folks, congratulations. Youve done outstanding work. But whats most exciting here is that the special opportunity to hear and see how this whole thing came together pales, quite frankly, in comparison to being able to go next door and see it alive. I mean, i think thats what everybody is telling us this morning is this is how it was done. Okay, this is a great presentation and it really gives an idea of how this thing came together. But now we get to go next door and our visitors get to go next door and enjoy this in an extraordinary way. But i did want to close before i announce our next event, i wanted to close by sharing a special appreciation to the Creative Team because having had a lot of experience working with Creative Teams on Public Private partnerships, i really do appreciate the Creative Energy that this team brought to the table. I really love that kind of dynamism. I really appreciate that. The commitment to the mission, i think, bill, i think mr. Walker and the Foundation Board as client and the National Archives as partner really appreciates that commitment to mission and i think that thats been fully satisfied. And also, something that might go unnoticed, and thats the responsiveness. The team has always shown a level of responsiveness to the demands of not only the content managers, if you will, but also to the National Archives piece of this puzzle and the executive review we brought to the table. So, thank you for that. That responsiveness is real key. Im also supposed to announce the next program which is the 12 00 noon lunch in the east room, where theres a discussion with the authors for recent books about Richard Nixon. Theyre here today and its going to be just a very outstanding opportunity to see whats going on out there in the literary world about the 37th president. Irwin gelman is going to be here. Luke nectar, i see here. Evan thomas and doug showen. And my colleague, mark uptergrove, the director of the lbj library in austin, texas, will moderate. So please join us for that. And thank you very much and good morning. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer on American History it is somen3, this 00 eastern, for president lincolns cottage, conversation about her book link is in generals wives lincoln generals wives. 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Many guys never saw an airplane coming from the farms or anywhere you can think of and the first airplane they saw was this boeing. Announcer for complete schedule, go to www. Cspan. Org. Vanessa bank history unfolds daily. 1979, cspan was crated by announcer history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was created by american cable companies. In 1972, the Saratoga National park hired archaeologist dean snow to conduct excavations at the revolutionary war battlefield. Next, penn state Professor Emeritus dean snow talks about his findings at the National Historical park and how the archaeology work inspired his book, 1777 Tipping Point at saratoga. The new York Military Affairs Symposium hosted this 90 minute event. Dean r. Snows previous books include archaeology of native north america and the iroquois. In all 20 books, he is known for his research into paleo demography of prehistoric populations, his new York Research included mar