Introduce and welcome all of you this very special evening as a continuing mission of the White House Historical associations, president ial sites summit, which i hear is going swimmingly and this panel will engage as i think, very powerfully entitled, entertaining at the white house, a conversation with former social secretaries. After that engaging conversation, were well, were welcoming you to a number exhibits that weve kept open. The star spangled banner just, in case you havent had enough lately. Of course, is right behind me. And its special chamber. The american presidency and the first ladys just above you on the third floor. And our new and culture wing three west with entertainment nation a spectacular a way to as well as some of our incredible curators who visit our guides up there. Each of these exhibitions as well as our museums overriding help us envision our mission and live it each day, which is to empower people to create a more just and compassionate future by preser
These stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was on and a of years later, she started to really rise up in the office and she said, you know what, i want to give you an award. Its called the gid
This panel will engage as i think, very powerfully entitled, entertaining at the white house, a conversation with former social secretaries. After that engaging conversation, were well, were welcoming you to a number exhibits that weve kept open. The star spangled banner just, in case you havent had enough lately. Of course, is right behind me. And its special chamber. The american presidency and the first ladys just above you on the third floor. And our new and culture wing three west with entertainment nation a spectacular a way to as well as some of our incredible curators who visit our guides up there. Each of these exhibitions as well as our museums overriding help us envision our mission and live it each day, which is to empower people to create a more just and compassionate future by preserving, sharing and exploring the complexities of our past. So we thank you for helping us enact this mission as we honor yours, we have much in common with the White House Historical associatio
President ial object from its very much contingent to in the story. Well, thank you for that, kate im afraid that concludes our time today. We you thank you so much. It is truly a pleasure to introduce and welcome all of you this very special evening as a continuing mission of the White House Historical associations, president ial sites summit, which i hear is going swimmingly and this panel will engage as i think, very powerfully entitled, entertaining at the white house, a conversation with former social secretaries. After that engaging conversation, were well, were welcoming you to a number exhibits that weve kept open. The star spangled banner just, in case you havent had enough lately. Of course, is right behind me. And its special chamber. The american presidency and the first ladys just above you on the third floor. And our new and culture wing three west with entertainment nation a spectacular a way to as well as some of our incredible curators who visit our guides up there. Ea
Now the good part starts. Lets begin to talk about something before we start the id like to talk about something thats inspiration on and i have these stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was