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.
Upland sergeant and the loss of two friends in the war within a few months of arriving in korea. The project was underwritten by south koreas ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. Harold bill christiansen. I worked for the American Legion over 50 years here. Before that, i worked for the rare was railroad 10 years, and i was in the military for two years active, and two years with the guard. I came back, went back to the 1958, i guess it into the legion in 1962 and i worked there until i was 65. I am 85 now. I always like the legion. I have worked with them many years. I take care of their honor guard. All of the military funerals we have. The. Ke care of thats about it. How many siblings do you have . Harold i have four children. I have a son and in town. We have two daughters in rochester. And we have a soninlaw. We have a daughter in ohio. She is a registered nurse what is it . Twoyear college, anyway. It has been a while. They are all married. One of them is not married right
I worked for the American Legion over 50 years here. Before that, i worked for the railroad 10 years, and i was in the military for two years active, and two years with the guard. I came back, went back to the railroad until 1958, i guess it was, and i went into the legion in 1962 and i worked there until i was 65. I am 85 now. I always like the legion. I have worked with them many years. I take care of their honor guard. All of the military funerals we have. And i take care of the bingo. Thats about it. How many siblings do you have . Harold i have four children. I have a wife and i have a son in town. We have two daughters in rochester. And we have a soninlaw. We have a daughter in ohio. She is a registered nurse what is it . Twoyear college, anyway. It has been a while. They are all married. One of them is not married right now. They have been married and have families. We have quite a few grandchildren. Nine grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. We have a big family. How old
, ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where we first met as park rangers many, many years ago. He is worked in manassas, vicksburg, and gettysburg. He will tackle the elephant in the room about gettysburg versus vicksburg, which one of these two battles he considers being a native mississippian and having worked at both parks, which he considers to be the biggest turning point. Gettysburg or vicksburg . I will let matt get up here and explain. Matt atkinson. [applause] matt thats what it is. I understand you all had a row last night about something. Right there, right . The most important battle, a top the top 10 battles in the american civil war, and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story. I was invited down to a richmond roundtable. We were at the willow oaks country club. We had virginia ham. That is the only time they go out there. Anyway, i was having a great time. I was in richmond and the man who did the top 10 last night lives th