Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Start he began it with us the bernard and irene shorts classic film series, now in its fifth year. And it is just growing and growing. So mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a great hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, davids elastic, trustees with us, and all the chairmans counsel for all the great work and support. Lets give them all a great hand, as well. [applause] so the program tonight will last an we will have a question hour. And answer session. We are doing the questions on cards. It works better, everyone gets a chance to ask questions, and we get a lot more questions covered. So you should have received a pencil and a card. If you have not, staff will go up and down the aisles with them , and then we will collect them and hand them to our moderator. There will be a formal book signing after the program, so please stay for the book signing. The books are for sale. In the museum store on the 77th street side. So we are so happy to welcome john steel