Placement u. S. History and government exams. Next, a doctor from the National Institutes of health testifies on the Coronavirus Response at a Senate Health hearing, along with the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research authority. They discuss efforts to improve Testing Capacity and answer questions on Antibody Testing, Vaccine Development, and the effectiveness of privatepublic partnerships in the fight against covid19. [indistinct chatter] now its on. Is it . Okay. The hearing of the health, labor, and Pensions Committee will please come to order. As we begin our hearing, i would like to explain a few of the changes we have made to address the health and safety recommendations made by the attending physician and sergeant at arms after they consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention. If you are watching, seating has been spaced so we are six feet apart. Second, we made it possible for senators and witnesses to pa
And Publicprivate Partnership in the fight against covid19. [indistinct conversations] senator dont believe this. Now its on. Senator is it . Ok. The hearing of the health, labor, and Pensions Committee will please come to order. As we begin our hearing i would like to explain the changes we have made to address the health and safety recommendations made by the attending physician and sergeant at arms after they consulted with the department of health and Human Services at the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Seating has been spaced so we are six feet apart and we have made it possible for senators and witnesses to participate by Video Conference if they choose to do so, and several have. To maintain social distancing, we have very limited seating and dont have room formulas of the public to attend, however this hearing is available to watch a live online and a recording will be available on the committee health. Www. Senate. Gov. The hearing will be shown from gaveltogavel
My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbook or and documented their entire history avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. This one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. Misses bush his granddaughter mrs. Bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. Half mrs. Bush. And she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. One of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. She has the guests that were there and
Yale University History and studies professor Joanne Freeman , editor of the essential hamilton. Morning. Im a professor of history at the university of Central Florida and a proud member of the board of the National Council for History Education. I trust all of you are doing well and keeping safe. These are very strange times. Even for historians who have a longterm sense of history, thank you for joining us today. It is my pleasure to introduce speaker, historian Joanne Freeman. Dr. Freeman is a professor of history at yale university. She specializes in Early National american politics and culture. She is the author of several influential and awardwinning books and i will mention two of them. From 2001 andnor most recently, feel the blood congressional violence in which ium america, found particularly helpful for my own work. Ofseems like a reverse echo the current and contemporary political skeet clinical seen in the United States. I will leave it at that. Herfreeman is known for u
[ applause ] good evening. Welcome to tonights great lives presentation. I would like first to thank the Program Sponsor for their generous support not this year but for several years now. Its this kind of Corporate Support along with that from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. I would like to ask our good friends to please stand so we can acknowledge them. Where are you . I know you are there. [ applause ] also, special group with us tonight that i would like to acknowledge. Thats the simpson circle. That is a group composed of former Mary Washington members. They are here tonight. We would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. I see you out there. [ applause ] in introducing tonights speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, would you like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her ph. D from the university. Thats right. Uva, right. In any case, not long after receiving that degree she