Thank you, emily, and good evening. It is a great pleasure to introduce William Seale. I have known william for a very long time because he married my good friend and college classmate, lucinda smith. I married a brilliant historian, and so did she. [laughter] William Seale is a charming and witty texas gentleman whose interest in history and buildings has fueled a long career in both. He is a native of beaumont, texas, holds a ba from southwestern university, an ma and a ph. D. From duke. He left texas in 1969 and spent two years in columbia, south carolina, restoring the home of wade hampton. He then came to washington in 1972 to write a history of state capitols with Henry Russell hitchcock. He, lucinda and their two sons settled in lucindas native alexandria. At this point in his career, he focused on two things; Historic Restoration and writing. His twovolume history of the white house was published by the White House Historical society in 1986 with the second edition in 1996. He
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