Chair. Thell turn it over to manual introduce our chairman of the board. Hello everyone. It is not nice to see so many people here celebrating best 261st0 birthday. Augmenting interpretive programming there. Special thanks to david callan and nizam of American Finance staff for host into this program. This is the seventh year where we partnered with both exhibits. We think museum for that. Cspans American History tv continues is valuable role in sharing the key historical record nationwide. Three initiatives have happened in the last year in part of celebrating hiltons birthday to ensure a more accurate understanding of who he was. Hamiltons birthday. The city tavern in philadelphia, that had all of the Founding Fathers except for him, that has been remedied. Another moment in june of last year, hamilton was inducted into the new york state writers hall of fame. And major news for the first time to be announced publicly. New discoveries related to Alexander Hamiltons life are now being
Host on the issue of compromise, we see that in the headlines. What about the oneonone with members. You have been on the opposite side. Is it your sense that you can find compromise and areas of Agreement Number two member . Mr. Norcross actually, we can. And that is important to start to build those relationships, which i have. Obviously, i am a democrat and a half then all my life. But when it comes to making those decisions when youre on the floor of the house, i am not a democrat, i am not a republican. I represent the people of my district. My very first vote was on the keystone pipeline. To me, it was clear, and i campaigned on it, that this is about jobs for america. It had not been too long since we had the odd and even days of the gas rationing. It is important to make sure we have enough Natural Resources here in this country. So i voted in favor of the pipeline, which put me at odds with many people in my party, but, again, it is important to vote for the people that you re
Owitz talked about how they were designed and awarded. Welcome toernoon, our friends from the cspan audience. What that means for our audience, during the questionandanswer period, please wait for your question until the microphone gets the read so everyone can hear. David callan, im president of the museum of american finance. I am joined by the chair, john herzog. 220 is a bond from about years ago, signed by none other than the father of our country, George Washington. This is George Washingtons bond. About 60 years ago, this document is a share certificate in rko owned by howard hughes, signed right. Here. What thosent today, two men have in common and the answer. Is that both received the congressional gold manner. Edal. Today we will hear from joel iskowitz, who has designed them. Including one design for the apollo 11 mission, the original moon landing mission. Joel has a voluminous volume of work. You have seen it coins, journals, stamps. He has designed over 2000 stamps for 40
Made america rich. Museumhe cochair of the and serves on the smithsonian council. An advisory he has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives including the center for Financial Education and Museum Finance academy. He has curated and worked on over half a dozen exhibits and displays including our current exhibit commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the federal reserve. Today, david will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders help fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowen. [applause] thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are in the bicentennial of the events of the war of 1812. We will break it down into three different sections. We will have the background of what led us into the war. We will then do the war itself capable to the first two parts quickly. And we will get into the main event of what we will discuss today, the financing of the war of 1812. Us
Asking a young male model to take a seated position he , wrapped the youths torso in an americanindian rug. They called it the finest monument in america and would be kept secret. The work is indescribely noble and imposing, he wrote. A future without end, a repose after limitless experience. The public began calling the statue grief. Fast forward now to the first week of march 1933. Henry adams had long since joined clover at rock creek. On her first full day in washington, the wife of president elect Franklin Roosevelt invited a friend to accompany her on a pilgrimage. Catching a cab, he will la the mashed potato women drove past the house where Eleanor Roosevelt first learned of her husbands wartime affair with her social secretary. Reaching rock creek cemetery, they halted. There, the woman about to become first lady of the United States, led her companion to a marble bench. In the old days, when we lived here, said mrs. Roosevelt, i was much younger and not so very wise. Sometimes