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Our final panel today, which brings together a highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house something thats very near and dear to us here at the White House Historical association, dr. Matthew costello Vice President of the David M Rubenstein National Center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate the conversation. Our first panelist is leslie green bowman president of the Thomas Jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello in addition to this work. She has served by president ial appointment on the committee for the preservation of the white house under president s Joe Biden Donald trump Barack Obama George w bush and bill clinton. Stuart mclaurin is president of the White House Historical association leading the associations nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. Station and preservation at the white house with private funding John Stanwich serv
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Coming in this evening and want to welcome you. I haveeo the privilege of being the president and ceo of the Andrew Jackson foundation and we are so happy to have you here tonight for our third history and court series, the third of the series tonight. I better look at my notes. These informal events are intended to offer you glimpses of the United States history as it relates to Andrew Jacksons america and enjoy some excellent wine we can seeak you are taking advantage of history always goes better with alcohol. [laughter] 2021 marks the bicentennial of when andrew and Rachel Jackson and their son Andrew Jackson junior moved into their newly constructed home. While significantly more modest demand the mansionis that you wl visit today. There was a substantial upgrade from this twostory farmhouse they lived in for the prior 17 years. But the question is why did they choose to construct this type of house beyond the functional considerations, what did it symbolize to them, how did it po