Historical society. I would dont extend a special welcome to anyone who might be takenning a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the side of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread im sure there are here for the fir time. Youre not familiar with us were the oldest Historical Society in the america. Funned in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution defend indicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our states and nations history for the past 229 year. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Event and we have Online Events planned for every week through june. We have a virtual tour of plymouth, massachusetts, this year i the 400th motorcycle of arrival of pilgrims so join us for that program. You can fine additional detail notices program on our website, mass history. Org. Today we eave a great from. Joined by abram van engen, aen so professor oft english at Washington University in st. Louis. He received his ma
Battlefield guide and historian who explain what happened and show us century old trenches and a memorial to the lost battalion in the forest. Where are we standing . We are inside the argonnes forest. We are near a mine crater. Its probably a century after the war and still around 25 feet deep and Something Like 80 feet wide. It was a huge mine exploding here. We have to imagine ground up in the air, probably 50 meters high. You could probably see and feel the earth trembling miles around. Where are we on the front . What troops would have been here that wouldve suffered from the mine explosion . That mine exploded in 1916. At the time, the position was stabilized and the french were right there. The german line is very close by. Around 60 or 70 yards from us. The french and german fought here side by side for around three years. When the americans come here in 1918, they will see this mine crater. Of course there is no grass at the time. There were no mine explosions when the america
Budget process, deficits, debt, Health Care Costs, and oversight of coronavirus funding. Ill go ahead and call to order this budget meeting. Good afternoon and welcome. I want to take a few brief opening remarks and then ill turn it over. Then ill turn it over to Ranking Member sanders. We are here today to consider, to serve as the nest director of budget. To serve as the director since there were 20. Teen President Trump nominated him in march as the nations facing a unprecedented crisis, both health and economic from the covid crisis. The office of management and budget paint played a key part, in addition to building the president s annual budget we also to do financial, management grants management, information technology, program assessment, and Property Management just to name a few. Given the vast responsibility over the organization its important to have a senate director in place. Before we hear from the Deputy Director of want to discuss our response to the coronavirus pande
Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou