I would like to welcome dr. Jim cavanaugh, his wife esther in the front row [applause] and hugh hewitt, the president of the next and foundation, who you the Richard Nixon foundation. We have many distinguished guests from the nixon and other administrations and we are 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 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 staterooms in the white house, for the acquisition of items for the Permanent Collec
I would like to welcome jim cavanagh, chairman of the board of the Nixon Foundation. His wife esther right here in the front row. [laughter] [applause] president of the Nixon Foundation who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations. We are honored to have you here tonight. Year marks the 50th anniversary of protection nixon becoming the first lady. Nixon. Icia under her leadership, the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements of the white house collection which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program. It is important to us here at the White House Historical association is a core part of our nation our mission which was inspired, as most of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of the staterooms of the white
Tonights program is exciting. We are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim cavanaugh, the chairman of the board of the nixon foundation, his wife, esther, in the front row. [applause] q, the president of the nixon foundation, who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the nixon foundation. We are honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming first lady of the u. S. 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 it is important to us 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
Our final panel today, which brings together a highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house something thats 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 president ial 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 associations nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. Station and preservation at the white house with private funding John Stanwich serv
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year