[inaudible conversations] the committee on House Administration will come to order. I note a quorum is present without objection c the chair my declare a racist at any time but also that objection the meeting record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included therein. Thank you Ranking Member, members of the committee and s secretary for joining us for todays hearing. The Smithsonian Institution are the largest educational complex comprised of museums Educational Resources and services. The sodium preserves our heritage and history while sharing its knowledge with the world for each year millions of americans visit the Smithsonian Museum of each joint each of the spaces and Educational Opportunities the smithsonian provides. Roughly 137s objects in its collection visitors have an abundance of history and heritage to explore paid the smithsonian receives 1. 14 billion to the federal government in the last fiscal year. Two third
We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi
My name is Michael Quinn and as the president and head of this museum, it is my pleasure to welcome you for a fascinating insight into part of the american revolution. One of the things we pride ourselves here at this museum is telling the stories of the revolution that you do not always know, bringing the life bringing to life the people from all walks of life who took part in the revolution, who took the ideas of the revolution to heart and launched a series of revolutions that has created the american nation. Today, it is my great pleasure to be introducing a noted scholar, historian, political activist, Robert Watson from Lynn University who will be talking about the ghost ship of brooklyn. I am holding the book in my hand. We have had a lot of online orders for this book. He will be signing books after and we still have a few left in our gift shop, if you want to take it home. This is how history should be written. It makes it a story of real people, drama, and excitement. I stron
Was some not so much sign, but conversations happening. And toxchange culture understand each other better between the United States and the soviet union. So in 1959, there was this big exchange of National Exhibitions. So the soviets sent their exhibit to new york city in 1959. As you can see, they featured sputnik, their grand achievement. Their exhibition covered sputnik. It also covered soviet industry and agriculture and cultural arts. Americos role as host, eisenhower flew to washington in a lastminute decision. With Vice President net, they toured the elaborate show, all jovial despite the size of the crowd. The show is a counterpart of an american exhibition to be open in moscow next month by mr. Nixon. In this elaborate cultural exchange, full scale models of sputnik are among the things russia is proudest of. Exploited to the utmost here. Not too long after that, the United States sent the National Exhibition to moscow, which was a huge hit. Over 2 million russian visitors ca