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For that introduction, thank you so much. I wish my parents could have heard that. It would have made my father very proud and my mother actually would have believed you. So there you go. Well, for me as you suggested, this lecture concludes an amazing year that began just a year ago when the library, the fred w. Smith library for the study of George Washington opened and i was able to take a seat as one of the inaugural library fellows. During that year, i learned what a treasure all of you have in mt. Vernon. Led by kurt v. Brands and with the library led by doug bradburn, the staff here is simply extraordinary. Theyre extraordinarily dedicated, theyre extraordinarily loyal and theyre extraordinarily collegial. For 150 years the mt. Vernon Ladies Association has kept this place special. And with the new library, the orientation and education center, no crop of those women have done a better job than the current one, at least since martha did it alone. Among those remarkable women, of
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