First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
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Stayed in their own political taverns, they got in a fight in the streets and it was really bad. Madison needed them brought together. Dolly madison began to have her receptions and she would ask nice ladies and women from town to come there, as guests. They would mix with the crowd and in those days the formal ways women sat on the stool feet facing the floor them and move behind them. Well she had everybody came, the whole congress came every week. She served hot coffee, she served wine, and then she served what really was groggy. It was whiskey and heated whiskey. And everybody just loved it. [laughter] madison used the green room to lower the ones that he needed to talk to. Two men for, one from each party. It was very, very useful. People never forgot her for that. She was a bit of a street angel and home devil. She cleverly did that. And she did as katie was saying, their notes where she brought issues mainly three wives that came to her through their husbands. But that is is wha