Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on facebook live, my name is stuart. And i am the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to commute to the Historic House as well as to the White House Historical association. Tonights we had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservatio
Cspan. Org thepresident s, order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Can everybody hear me okay . We appreciate you supporting our event. I have a couple quick House Keeping announcements first. Silence your cell phones. If you would like to keep those on and that is fine but turn off your flash. We have 300 every year. We need to do that because if you come here you by your socks and greeting cards. Our guests will be speaking tonight, recorded by steve that cspan. After this, we will have an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available. If you would like to stick around, we can accommodate that but ask that you purchase the book downstairs, it is on the information desk. We are excited welcome back to the store, h. W. Brands, a professor who holds the senior chair, the New York Times bestselling author, it is interesting, you can buy 30 books that tells you something. Two of his books were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize winning biography and he is h
You live there you can drive your car but for the most part some of the streets of been closed to allow you to get on your bike or take a walk without having to worry about cars. Gasia mikaelian, we will start with you. You get out on your bikes. The boys have their little bikes they race like maniacs up and down our hilly neighborhood. Usually load up the bikes and take him to a flat pass if we want to do an afternoon for some right. The hills in our neighborhood are great for walking. Half an hour around the neighborhood will get me sweating. I think it is all about making the best of where you live. I know, mike, you are lucky, up in the north bay. You are probably still not going to the beaches because you dont live that close, do you . Not at all. Youre going to have to maybe import some sand and throw it in the backyard. No beaches for us. We are still doing bike rides. I used to run track so i started running again. I hate running, i dont know why did it. I am feeling it. Its pa
Following hughs remarks and a brief video presentation, our panelists will join us here for tonights program. Those of you on this side of the room, no worries. This podium is going to be removed, so you will have a clear shot of our panelists. And i cant end without a little bit of selfpromotion. Our shop is open until 8 30 tonight. Its right at the top of the ramp from the door where you came in. And everybody here will get a 10 discount on anything that you would like to take home with you tonight. You could finish your Christmas Shopping right here tonight. So, thank you very much. Hugh, welcome. [ applause ] thank you, stewart, and welcome to all of you on behalf of the nixon foundation, which i became the president of only in july. And what a great first event celebrating mrs. Nixon to be a part of. I want to get out of the way of the experts and get them up here in a hurry. We all know the definitive biography of mrs. Nixon was written by julie nixon eisenhower. I am pleased to
And hugh hewitt, the president of the Nixon Foundation who youll hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests here today. Many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the Nixon Foundation, and were honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States. Under her leadership, the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program, but its very important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission which was inspired, as most of you, or all of you know, by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy, to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of those beautiful state homes in the white house for the acquisition of