Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
Memorial next week. So, were glad that you are here, we are excited to be talking about the memorial, and lets get right to it, with me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a cheyenne peace chief, and has been a career lot enforcement official. He is a working artist, and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. So please great harvey pratt, thank you. [applause] thank you. So, harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a design for the memorial. Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no i really had no hope that they would even come close, or to submit a design. He just kept after the inside, do it for the tribe, submit something. I thought about it and i said, let me dream on it. I said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. So that is what i did. I went home, i dreamed about it and i got my big chief out, made some sketches, and he just came to me all of a sudden that morning. In o
American veterans memorial. We broke ground this morning and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. And so were glad that youre here. Were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. Shes a cheyenne peace chief. Hes been a career Law Enforcement official. Hes a working artist and he is a marine and a vietnam veteran. So please greet harvey pratt. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed design for the memorial . Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no really had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design. He kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Submit something. And i thought about it and i said let me dream on it. I have to dream. I do some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. Thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i
Near the film office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Im Rebecca Richards welcome to the program the number of corona virus infections in the United States has risen above 7000000 the Johns Hopkins university tally passed the landmark figure on friday afternoon the u. S. Has the highest number of confirmed cases in the world followed by india and brazil covert 19 has already killed more than 200000 people in the u. S. Also a world record President Donald Trump has faced Harsh Criticism for his response to the outbreak after he downplayed the dangers of the disease. Carolyne or she why has more on the situation from washington d. C. But this country has just. More than 7000000. 00 coronavirus cases and over 200000 there more than any other country according to the Data Collected by the Johns Hopkins university despite having less than 5 per cent of the global population the United States has suffered more than 20 percent of coverage 19 deaths or old why people know that they als