Good afternoon, welcome to white house history. My name is stuart im the president of the White House Historical association. Today we will have an exciting conversation with the head of the Rubinstein Center for white house history in one of our historians on a brandnew book, the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of the american institution. Ordinarily we would do this event at the Carriage House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out this new mode of communications. It is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As you all know we were founded in 1961 by first lady, jacqueline kennedy, who had the vision at such a young age in a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the museum of standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
You are watching live coverage on cspan. Uomo good morning. Be up withasure to everyone this morning. Cleans. In corona always we are in queens. Theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. I am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. It was called that before the virus. There is no connection between corona queens and the virus. Let me introduce my colleagues. Pay foy, chairman of the mta. To my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. Garrett rhodes to my right, who is the deputy superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. The today is saturday. I know that because it is on the slide. Otherwise i may not have known that. Days based on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, been here before and that is true. But even when you are in Uncharted Waters that does not mean you proceed blindly. You want to stay informed. E
As we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out the new mode of communication, it is perfectly fitting with our historic mission, as all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age and a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to get nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house and also in Education Mission to teach him to tell stories of the white house in history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land in the young architect to build the white house, creating education materials as a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, are programs that we host and around the country and our online social media content and website content, this is an example of
I want to welcome everyone to the shop. We the entire staff are so happy to have you all here and its such an honor to host the event. My name is glenda and i am the owner of the bookshop. We are happy to be in a community that supports our business and nonprofits and this is a special one today. So, it is my honor to introduce you to the authors of this book. I will start with ryan manion who devoted her life to supporting the nations military, veterans and families of fallen heroes. Shes inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, First Lieutenant Charles Manion who made the ultimate sacrifice in 2,007. Since the foundation of 2012, ryan leads a National Movement focused on assisting veterans and families of the falling to take the next step in their personal journeys and inspiring the next generation of leaders. In 2015, she received the president s Lifetime Achievement award for volunteer service. In 2016, ryan took an official appointment to serve on the re