Congress and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscs society team for five years, prior to that he was 27 years working on the First Congress program. And so he has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation, and i will work through the questions and we have a couple of questions, we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation but the majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So please put your questions in and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work youve done to put this together and welcome to the platform. W
Feeling that this was unfinished business. Lbj deserves all the credit that he later claimed for piloting, navigating, guiding the civil rights bill to passage in july of 1964 when he signs it. But i think kennedy deserves credit as the kennedyjohnson bill. It had cleared the house of representatives by the day jfk was killed. Jfk had made alliance not with democrats but with midwestern republicans. He had reached out to them, and they were supporting it, particularly in the senate. He had gone to others. I think it would have gotten through. Eventually, it might have taken until 1965, kennedy would have gotten the civil rights act. But full credit to Lyndon Johnson for doing it the way he did, but i dont think he could have done it with the same success without the death of jfk. Thank you so much for joining us. The book is two days in june. It is a terrific read. I learned so much about it. By the way, it is beautifully written which is an extra bonus for people who like to read book
Found the washington, everything Martha Washington did likewise. It was a business relationship, but not without affection. I think they had deep respect and affection for each other. She was as close to her hometown and she would get. She owned most of this whole block going back a couple of acres, which means she owned a huge chunk of what williamsburg was. There was a lot of tragedy in Martha Washingtons life. She lost her first husband. She was raised a rich woman, what that means an 18th century is now what it means today. When she marriage George Washington, she brings with her to mount for then 12 house slaves and that is really almost an unimaginable luxury. It would take her ten days to travel here to valley forge from mount vernon in her carriage with her slaves and this was a difficult journey. Marthas experience had prepared her to become the first first lady. Born in virginia in 1731, Martha Washington was 57 years old and 1789 when she and George Washington, once again, l
She hates me nor saying that. During the symposium i find it to face a topic close to home here in alexandria. Katherine gruber is from the jamestown georgetown from the university of Mary Washington and from the college of william and mary. Shes contributed to the valley of permanent garleries in yorktown including liberty fever, a special exhibitusion careator including early virginia which i highly encourage you to go see before it closed in january and forgotten soldier, open now through march 22nd, 2020. Kate will present her topic. So please welcome my good friend kate gruber. Well good afternoon. So you have to get through me before we can get to happy hour so ill try to make that happen with as much alack ritity of possible. Mark twain said it best. Clothes make the man. Little men little to no influence onsite. And the more i like about people, the more i like my dog. Also, he dressed like this. [ laughter ] so why dont we go to the british author Robert Campbell who wrote in
Good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for being here. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the library at mountvernon its my pleasure to invite you , to welcome you, not to welcome you because youve already come, welcome you to our first michelle lecture. Within days of leaving the presidency of the United States toward washington was entertained at gatsbys tavern in alexandria. Posted by the mayor, and as large a company to partake as we have ever seenin this town on any occasion , someone n reported. Its a remarkable moment in march 1797 for many reasons to not least of which was the group offered a toast of the constitution to the president , to the Vice President , to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service. His words and response are ones that i think about often. No wish in my retirement of seeing our country happy and i can entertain no doubt of it being show all of us as citizens. The included equation to. It was as