Washington journal on our companion network c pan. This week on american artifacts, we tour the american president s life portraits exhibit at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. North carolina painter and sculptor chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the library by cspan in partnership with media come. Curator Marcus Eckhardt an shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Were in west brank, iowa, in the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit everybody cspan and then adding something personal from each man at this point each man to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is
In the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit from cspan and then adding something personal from each man, at this point each man, to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is about the president s but we want to show them as human beings, as well. Thats an interesting aspect. And some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an extensive process trying to find sites that were associated with the different people and getting them to agree to loan us items. Among other people we did work with the other president ial libraries and the National Archives president ial library system. And then everything from the National Park service we worked with to individual historical societies, state historical societies, and even a few individuals. One of the things about the temporary e
We have, for those of you who have been with us for this spring semester, we have had a number of really great presentations and special events. This is one puts particularly me, the special to launch of greg brezinskis worldg the third sinoamerican rivalry during the cold war. Know, isany of you associate professor of history and National Affairs at George Washington university, really one of this countrys leading historical voices and historians of asia. Of nation building in south korea koreanamericans in the making of a democracy. Of course now, winning the third world. Its really shes a friend and part of the Wilson Center family, is even more special. 2010, 2011 at the as the most Senior Fellowship you can get from the Wilson Center. He is a Senior Adviser to two of the programs at the center the history of Public Policy programs of north korea documentation progress project is also a member of the Advisory Board of the center. He his current work, he is on to his next project of
With that, christian will introduce todays speaker. Thank you. Welcome to all of you. Theyve been patient with us in the past running over session. Cspan is here. Be aware you will be taped. I feel good about giving them a couple minutes extra for set up. We have, for those of you who have been with us for this spring semester, we have had a number of really great presentations and special events. This is one particularly special, special to me, the brazinskysegg winning the third world. Gregg, as many of you know, is associate professor of history and National Affairs at George Washington university, really one of this countrys leading historical voices and historians of asia. He is the author of nation building in south korea. And of course now, winning the third world. He is really a friend and part of the Wilson Center family which makes it more special. 2010, 2011 as in a Wilson Center fellow, the most Senior Fellowship you can get from the Wilson Center. He is a Senior Adviser to
While the cartoon implies that madison fled from the british in panic. In fact, he and most of the , including monroe, state on the field until the end. They narrowly avoided capture. The british moved on to washington, d. C. , where they burned many public buildings, including the white house. In the aftermath of this disaster, armstrong resigned as secretary of war. And monroe assumed the office while remaining secretary of state. All of the british departed fort departed washington and failed to take fort mchenry. The possibility of another attack on the capital was spurred. The war ended in february 1815 with the u. S. Ratification of the treaty of ghent. Monroe was elected president in 1816. A culmination of his Public Service career that had taken him through so many different offices and experiences, here and abroad. He and his wife elizabeth undertook the restoration and refurnishing of the white house process that would occur , a throughout his two terms in office. It cannot b