Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event. I did that now for maybe ten years or so. Its very important to me that the book festival does well and i enjoyed a great deal. Its really great gift for the country to have this National Book festival as you probably know we can about 200,000 people coming on the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be labor day weekend. The saturday of labor day weekend. Peter slen what is the madison counsel that you reference. David rubenstein the lib
Something he needed help with. It had been started early in 2001. Its an idea that really came from laura bush. She asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. He said there isnt yet but there will be. So i came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival. The idea was to do to the mall and a series of tents that was set up for the first year. It turned out that any sponsorships that were going to be more difficult than they thought it would be. He asked me if i would get involved and i told him i would do to and i began to be a sponsor and the cochair of the event. Ten years or so. Its very important to me that i enjoyed a great deep deal. Its a great gift for the country. As you know we get about 200,000 people come to the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be liberty weekend the saturday of labor day weekend. See map first of
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year