Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio
Accurately trace my military odyssey, ive drawn from four sources one, my memory, two, my discharge papers, three, letters i sent to my parents when i was in europe, and, fortunately, my mother had saved my letters, and number four, regimental and battalion history of the 317th regiment at second battalion that had been declassified. A neighbor of mine who was an expert in terms of accessing the internet did the research for me. Lets back up for a minute. You said you are from brooklyn, new york . Did you were you raised and grew up in brooklyn . Harold the first 11 years of my life, i spent in brooklyn. Then my father retired and we spent time in a town called monticello. That is where you went to school . Harold that is where i went to junior high and high school. It is in my notes as i go along here. Do you have any brothers or sisters . Harold one brother who is deceased. I came from a small town called monticello at the foothill of the catskill mountains. Monticello was approximat
Good afternoon and welcome to the theater here at the national archive. Im the archivist of the United States and it is a pleasure to have you with us this afternoon whether youre here in the theater for joining us on facebook and Youtube Channels and a special welcome to the cspan audience. Before we hear from william junior i would like to tell you about two other programs coming up next month. On tuesday september 10 at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about the recently released volume three of the biography of Abraham Lincoln all the powers of earth, the political life 1856 to 1863. And on monday, september 16 at 7, the associate justice will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it in which he explores the aspects of the constitution and the importance of civic education, civil discourse and mutual respect. Check the website or sign up at the table outside to get email updates and find information about other programs and activities. Another way to get involve
Education and accomplish history professor specializing in early us history hes held the Thomas Jefferson chair in American History at the university for the past five years and before that he taught at the university of california and at boston university. He has written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and beyond two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996 and William Cooperstown over the politician William Cooper and the novelist james cooper and in 2014 he wrote about slavery in virginia during the war of 1812 and the contradictions of early Virginia Society. Thomas jeffersons education he turned his attention to the establishment of the university of virginia with jefferson of course regarded the university diaz a signature achievement and alan god interested as you see a book on the subject seeing correspondence with the efforts to fund the new school it tend to deal with various ways the American Revolution impa