St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Are you guys picking up audio and mark. I guess its working. We will get you gentlemen shortly. You for joining us. Im jordan worthing, and i have the honor of introducing this mornings very special programmer, a conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the Hearst Corporation frank douglas. Millions of viewers turned to msnbc at7 00 , to hear chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball. Butthe roots of his journalism career are actually with first. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12, he corrected me like a journalist, chris was Washington Bureau chief of the examiner and the syndicated columnist for the chronicle after frank bought the San Francisco chronicle and then chris went on to lunch hardball with eight bestselling books. And as everyone knows, chris returned to the air after a brief hiatus recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful for you to being here today. Ive had the pleasure of working with frank Fra
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