It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. Please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie thank you, david. I am very happy that steve could be with us today during American Archives month to talk about his new book american treasures. It shows not only the important record created by other federal agencies but also the record that we as a National Archive has created ourselves. In writing his book, he discusses several different sets of records, but the nearest and dearest to my heart is that recor
Go. And we can see his leg in the boot. We felt like without the leg up or the sleeve up, nobody would believe that hes actually an amputee. So now youll be regaining the respect. I love it. And its his son recording this and kind of guiding him back to skiing. And you can see that hes excited. However, nervous. He does think this is a day of firsts, the first day on the list, the first day on his skis. And the first time hes done this because even though he does better than expected, he still has a little moment. Some of us wish we could ski like that. True. He did share his experiences through the whole process on his Facebook Page with his family. You can see him in crutches without his leg. You see everyone lifting up their legs. What a cute family. Its got to feel so good for him to get back out there and get fresh air, be with your son. He does it and figures it out. If they would have let the pant leg down, you would have never known. Well done. Wow. Put your hand up when you ar
Go. And we can see his leg in the boot. We felt like without the leg up or the sleeve up, nobody would believe that hes actually an amputee. So now youll be regaining the respect. I love it. And its his son recording this and kind of guiding him back to skiing. And you can see that hes excited. However, nervous. He does think this is a day of firsts, the first day on the list, the first day on his skis. And the first time hes done this because even though he does better than expected, he still has a little moment. Some of us wish we could ski like that. True. He did share his experiences through the whole process on his Facebook Page with his family. You can see him in crutches without his leg. You see everyone lifting up their legs. What a cute family. Its got to feel so good for him to get back out there and get fresh air, be with your son. He does it and figures it out. If they would have let the pant leg down, you would have never known. Well done. Wow. Put your hand up when you ar
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Guys in the country. After the american revolution, he was an important senator from pennsylvania but at the end of his life, he ended up losing basically all of his fortune and went into debtors prison and we he came out of debtors prison and they had very fond feelings for him. He ended up being more or less forgotten area i like to tell the story of Robert Morris as Something Like rags to riches and then back to rags again because he started off in humble circumstances. He was born in liverpool in england. We dont think his parents were married originally. His dad ended up coming to america as a tobacco worker in the tobacco industry. So he was brought over as the 13 or 14yearold boy to live with his father in maryland and ended up not liking maryland and wanted to go to the big city so his father arranged for Robert Morris to move up to philadelphia. And once in philadelphia, he found his niche. He ended up apprenticing at a merchant firm and approved to be a prodigy when it came t