Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Intricacies of what the relationship was and how did it move forward. Thomas jefferson was one of our founding fathers, and as an africanamerican his belief in either freeing sally and his relationship with slates at the time, so that is a book of particular interest to me. And if i have the time they never like to try to be a third book which deals with its called in the black, a history of africanamericans on wall street, which is our, i serve on a Financial Service committee and im from new york, and so it is important i think, think about the investment taking place on wall street that becomes to misinformed, and there had been some pioneers, many of which know it talks about and no one knows, and neither myself. I want to make sure i became familiar with who they are, what sacrifices they made and so im looking to do this book in the black, history of africanamerican on wall street i think that will give me for the month of august, finish one, get into number two, and then back in
Intricacies of what the relationship was and how did it move forward. Thomas jefferson was one of our founding fathers, and as an africanamerican his belief in either freeing sally and his relationship with slates at the time, so that is a book of particular interest to me. And if i have the time they never like to try to be a third book which deals with its called in the black, a history of africanamericans on wall street, which is our, i serve on a Financial Service committee and im from new york, and so it is important i think, think about the investment taking place on wall street that becomes to misinformed, and there had been some pioneers, many of which know it talks about and no one knows, and neither myself. I want to make sure i became familiar with who they are, what sacrifices they made and so im looking to do this book in the black, history of africanamerican on wall street i think that will give me for the month of august, finish one, get into number two, and then back in
Intricacies of what the relationship was and how did it move forward. Thomas jefferson was one of our founding fathers, and as an africanamerican his belief in either freeing sally and his relationship with slates at the time, so that is a book of particular interest to me. And if i have the time they never like to try to be a third book which deals with its called in the black, a history of africanamericans on wall street, which is our, i serve on a Financial Service committee and im from new york, and so it is important i think, think about the investment taking place on wall street that becomes to misinformed, and there had been some pioneers, many of which know it talks about and no one knows, and neither myself. I want to make sure i became familiar with who they are, what sacrifices they made and so im looking to do this book in the black, history of africanamerican on wall street i think that will give me for the month of august, finish one, get into number two, and then back in