Welcome to the dimension washington headquarters. Im so happy that all of you are here and joining us today for this program. If you have not been here before definitely after the lecture today please stay and take a tour with our staff. Just before i come to introduce our guest speaker today in just a few rules, and bits of information. We do have Light Refreshments for you in the kitchen. Coffee, tea, cheese, crackers, cookies. Please feel free to get up and take what you like. Restrooms are in this building. You do not need to go to the visitor center. We have staff here today. I am the director of the department of Historic Affairs for the county of passaic. By de facto, i am the director of the site. We are fortunate enough to have a guest speaker and historian to share his knowledge and expertise on Alexander Hamilton and his rise to military fame and glory. Mr. Cregeau graduated from Hillsdale College with a bachelors degree in history and from Colorado State university with a m
The 18th century converging with the 20th century, we can be hightech about this. I feel much the same as does my wife because i have been a long time reenactor, you can see me dressed as an officer in the army. I battled three times in sweltering heat like today, and there i am speaking twice for the Alexander Hamilton awareness society. You can also say he was helping to found american industry. Were just west of paterson falls where he worked with that, of course. Washington crosses the delaware, a famous scene on christmas night into the morning of the 26th. A large life side paintize pain. Here is one that came out and debuted at the New York Historical society. You can see it was at nighttime, a different kind of craft, a cannon, maybe hamiltons. Not good weather. Similarly, another painter who is now retired, this is another painting, victory or death. ; and there they are, in the Early Morning light, trudging through the ice and the snow. You can imagine how cold they must ha
Good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for being here. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the library at mountvernon its my pleasure to invite you , to welcome you, not to welcome you because youve already come, welcome you to our first michelle lecture. Within days of leaving the presidency of the United States toward washington was entertained at gatsbys tavern in alexandria. Posted by the mayor, and as large a company to partake as we have ever seenin this town on any occasion , someone n reported. Its a remarkable moment in march 1797 for many reasons to not least of which was the group offered a toast of the constitution to the president , to the Vice President , to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service. His words and response are ones that i think about often. No wish in my retirement of seeing our country happy and i can entertain no doubt of it being show all of us as citizens. The included equation to. It was as
Asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. I appreciate everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 3 or 4 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. I would argue they contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on Central American children and family members. Initially, we had 3000, 4000 unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. 2012 was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum
Asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. I appreciate everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 3 or 4 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. I would argue they contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on Central American children and family members. Initially, we had 3000, 4000 unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. 2012 was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum