Elizabeth senate. Editor of an out annotated edition of grants memoir. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this event took place on line. Good evening. On behalf of the grand Monument Association, welcome to the special Online Program to mark president you leases as grants 119th birthday. By way of introduction, a grand Monument Association or gia may is a nonprofit that was organized during the 1990s as the successor to the organization of the same name and originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gm a is that it catered to the preservation of which is the largest mausoleum in the hemisphere. An important part of our mission is to foster education about the life and legacy of general grant principal author of Union Victory during the civil war, and our nations 18th president. In recent years, we revived the gm aids tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new
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