The National Archives hosted this hourlong event. George washington was a dedicated diary archivist beginning with a record of the days temperature and weather and the notable events that day. The entry for figure 18, 1786, just before his 54th birthday is longer than most for washington, and a list today of all of my negroes. The list totaled 216 persons in the first child named, the 12yearold was a seamstress betty and only became the personal attendant of Martha Washington in 1899. The story is part of the president ial household is revealed in todays book, ties that bound founding first ladies and slaves. I will not take any more here. Other writings are available online. Founders online allows you to search across thousands of documents. Record boththe lofty and lending. Like founders online instead are history tell us much about the Founding Fathers, but to uncover information about the women of the founding era, we must dig deeper. Professor Jenkins Schwartz focuses on the men a
Id like to recognize three of joe and bobs children sue bobs children. Hank haldeman, susan, and an. Ann. Thank you. [applause] two of our Foundation Friends who knew bob alderman well are bob haldeman, well are also here. Now a board member of the next foundation, cindy quinn. [applause] and a truly remarkable and very special woman who was at ucla with bob haldeman in the postworld war ii years, she took a train to washington dc after graduating. In july of 1951, rosemary woods hired her to join the staff of the newly elected california senator, Richard Nixon. Since then lloyd has been a mainstay of every next in office and campaign, friend of the next a friend of the nixon family and for many years the assistant secretarytreasurer of our foundation board. Her loyalty and dedication, intelligence, integrity have guided and inspired generations of her colleagues and friends. We are delighted she is here today. [applause] joel tore to welcome celebrate the publication of her first book
Hes held appointments at the corridors of fun visiting dutch fund. O at the cardozo berkeley,ght at uc princeton, dartmouth and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the in 2007, heer was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. Please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [applause] sherwin thank you. Is it working . Yeah . Good. Thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that in introduction. I hope you liked it. [laughter] prof. Sherwin it was more wholesome because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Here toly glad to be speak about this topic. Subjectit is a kind of that needs to be reviewed again and again and again. Because, unfortunately, the Nuclear Issue is still with us and it looks like it will be with us for a very long time. Ive had a chance to chat with a few of you. That those ive c
Significant role in the Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. He quitee, in 1941, famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940s and playing out during world war ii. We will look at how oil combined with religion helps create competing visions of American Authority on the global stage. If you recall prior to spring break, we had been spending time in the interwar period, looking at oil and some of these scand
Significant role in the Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. He quitee, in 1941, famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940s and playing out during world war ii. We will look at how oil combined with religion helps create competing visions of American Authority on the global stage. If you recall prior to spring break, we had been spending time in the interwar period, looking at oil and some of these scand