Collection. This video is courtesy of the kennedy library. He audience watched mrs. Kennedys full tour, but a brief view is shown in the first few minutes of this program. We considered having this Forum Last Night on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour but did not want to make any of you have to choose between sharing valentines day with loved once or with your friends here at the kennedy library. We are so pleased to have so many of you with us here this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. Ways she the introduced herself to many of us. On february 14th, 1962, it was a more substantive Jacqueline Kennedy who guided viewers on a televised tour of the white house, and the nation was transfixed. 46 million americans watched that night and an additional 10 million tuned in days larle. The reviews were laud tore, describing mrs. Kennedy as a virtuoso performer and an art critic of subtlety and standard. After dinner she and president ken
Gerald ford in the context of the 1970s, served as minority leader, vicepresident and president. And find a full schedule on your Program Guide or wch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Im happy to now introduce our final panel today which brings together highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house. Something near and dear to us here at the White House Organization. And dr. Matthew cost sell low, David Rubenstein center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate. The our first panelist is leslie green bauman from the jefferson that operates monticello and serves under president s joe biden, donald trump, barack obama, george w. Bush and bill clinton. Stewart is president of the White House Organization leading the nonprofit to restore preservation. And john oversees the National Park services, responsibilities for the care of the white house and its grounds as well as
Sure. I. Made good evening. Thank you for joining us for tonights program. We are so thrilled to have you here with us tonight. My name is Stephanie Barnett and im the associate director of Public Programs and Community Outreach here at the Greenwich Historical society. And we are so thrilled to have you with us and pleased to present tonights program on gilded age architecture, which is going to precede the highly anticipated series coming to your screen in october, which im sure you may already know. Before we dive into tonights program, ill just review a few housekeeping details. First of all, we like to welcome American History television from cspan, who will be recording tonights program, which is very exciting and we are also are going to finish with the wine and cheese reception back down in the lobby where you came in. So that will be around 7 00. Youll also have the opportunity to buy mr. Dodds book and have it signed by him. While youre enjoying your beverages. And finally, a
house under president s joe biden donald trump barack obama george w bush and bill clinton. stuart mclaurin is president of the white house historical association leading the association s nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. station and preservation at the white house with private funding john stanwich serves as the national park service liaison to the white house overseeing the national park services responsibilities for the care of the white house and its grounds as well as the park areas immediately surrounding the white house. finally. we are joined by lydia teterick curator of the white house. she has been part of the white house curatorial staff since 1979. tetrick has lectured and published articles on the white house collection and specializes in historic photographs of the executive mansion. please join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage for our final panel today. here put me in the middle here. i don t like this. well, thank you sarah for that
our final panel today, which brings together a highly impressive group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house something that s very near and dear to us here at the white house historical association, dr. matthew costello vice president of the david m rubenstein national center for white house history and senior historian at the white house historical association will moderate the conversation. our first panelist is leslie green bowman president of the thomas jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello in addition to this work. she has served by presidential appointment on the committee for the preservation of the white house under president s joe biden donald trump barack obama george w bush and bill clinton. stuart mclaurin is president of the white house historical association leading the association s nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. station and preservation at the white house with private funding john st