Im the president of the historical association. It is my privilege to welcome you to Decatur House as well as the White House Historical association. Tonights program is exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim esther, inhis wife, the front row. [applause] hewitt the president of the Nixon Foundation who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other friends,ations, staff, and we are honored to have you here. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. Under her leadership, the white as collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection. That is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but it is important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission.
We had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation and preservation restoration of those beautiful staterooms in the white house for the acquisition of items for the Permanent Collection at the white house as well and for Education Programs programs like this where we teach and tell the stories of the white house and its wonderful history going back to 1792 with
Our speaker is smith. She has worked since november 2 thousand. Previous work experience, festivity Document Department supervisor at university of denver and archiver for u. S. Forest service in montana. Masters in history from Colorado State university. And mlis from university of denver. Taught workshops on ethics and copyright law. With society of Rocky Mountain archivists. And it has been president of the society, secretary of the academy of archivists, and collected great photos and videos and audio files to share with us from hoovers Funeral Services in 1964. He died october 20, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Brad. Also want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursdays im happy to be parts of launching what will be next year. Also a note this coming october 27, is world day for audio visual heritage, a Key Initiative of coordinating counsel of audio visual archives. In that spirit, was able to putua together a very video, visual, production of what happen
Visiting our website cspan. Org history. And welcome to this program titled in her own words. This is a Program Brought to you by flare which stands for the First Ladies Association for research and education. My name is myra gooden. Im president of flair and i am so happy that you joined us for this very interesting. Look at four different first ladies and some of their rhetorical responses. Um before we begin this afternoon, id like to thank floyd flares inaugural institution lifetime members American University Rider University the White House Historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society and our newest inaugural lifetime institutional member the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. Were glad to have you with us. In the interests of time. Id like to take this next few minutes to introduce the four people who will be part of the afternoons program. Were going to be starting with nancy keegan smith. Nancy is former director of the president ial Materials Division at
Im president of flair and i am so happy that you joined us for this very interesting. Look at four different first ladies and some of their rhetorical responses. Um before we begin this afternoon, id like to thank floyd flares inaugural institution lifetime members American University Rider University the White House Historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society and our newest inaugural lifetime institutional member the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. Were glad to have you with us. In the interests of time. Id like to take this next few minutes to introduce the four people who will be part of the afternoons program. Were going to be starting with nancy keegan smith. Nancy is former director of the president ial Materials Division at the National Archives and Records Administration. She has written lectured and published on first ladies. Since the 1980s including Lady Bird Johnson Michelle Obama and the records of modern first ladies a Founding Member and inaugura