And i serve as the Vice President of the david improvements Site National center for white house history and Senior Historian for the White House Historical association. It is a pleasure to be here with you all today. And im very excited for this panel. We have a great collection of talent, expertise, knowledge to approach this topic, and im very excited to share the stage with all three of you before we get into that, i would be remiss if i didnt at least add a little fun historical anecdote to the session. So i found this one. I thought it was pretty amusing. I think maybe youll agree. Maybe you up on november 6th, 1947, president harry truman held a press conference in the oval office. You know, in between questions that were revolving around brain exchanges, there was inflation, price controls and also the marshall plan. One reporter piped up, mr. President , have you seen any good movies lately . Truman answered, well, i never get a chance to see a movie unless they bring one to t
Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
You all today. And im very excited for this panel. We have a great collection of talent, expertise, knowledge to approach this topic, and im very excited to share the stage with all three of you before we get into that, i would be remiss if i didnt at least add a little fun historical anecdote to the session. So i found this one. I thought it was pretty amusing. I think maybe youll agree. Maybe you up on november 6th, 1947, president harry truman held a press conference in the oval office. You know, in between questions that were revolving around brain exchanges, there was inflation, price controls and also the marshall plan. One reporter piped up, mr. President , have you seen any good movies lately . Truman answered, well, i never get a chance to see a movie unless they bring one to the white house. And about the only thing i see are newsreels. I try to go when i am not in them, so i guess that was funny. In 1947, trumans quip touches on one subject that we will discuss today with ou
My name is dr. Matthew costello and i serve as the Vice President of the david improvements Site National center for white house history and Senior Historian for the White House Historical association. It is a pleasure to be here with you all today. And im very excited for this panel. We have a great collection of talent, expertise, knowledge to approach this topic, and im very excited to share the stage with all three of you before we get into that, i would be remiss if i didnt at least add a little fun historical anecdote to the session. So i found this one. I thought it was pretty amusing. I think maybe youll agree. Maybe you up on november 6th, 1947, president harry truman held a press conference in the oval office. You know, in between questions that were revolving around brain exchanges, there was inflation, price controls and also the marshall plan. One reporter piped up, mr. President , have you seen any good movies lately . Truman answered, well, i never get a chance to see a
Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is