St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Before i ask a question, i want to show you a video. I mustve had six or seven biographies written about me. Exciting upnot that until i was president. Have these amazing experiences. I did not really accomplish all that much when i was in high school or in college. Folks think around and they are looking for stuff. Then they try to dramatize things that are kind of routine. There is a part of you that says why would you care about this, it is not that interesting. How right is he. Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your biography is a major part of american history. Had a mucha actually more interesting, much more richly varied earlier life then we have really to a large extent known up until now. People are aware he grew up in hawaii. But the really transformative period of baracks life in his mid20s came when he was living in chicago for the first time, 1985 to 1988, working as a Community Organizer on the far south side, his first immersion in an
We lived how we lived. Robbing peter to pay paul. Investigators became suspicious. I keyed on the gun that was in his right hand. It looked like it was placed there. The dead mans wife said she had been asleep. How is it you didnt hear the shot . Her stepdad said he had no idea what happened. I dont remember a lot. We drank two bottles of vodka. Prosecutors said, one of them had to be lying. There were two glasses with ice in both glasses. It tells us that two people are up drinking. Now a Stunning Development in this holiday tragedy. Suicide or something truly s sinister. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Here is Keith Morrison with in the dead of night. Reporter some people blamed the booze. That is, when it was all over he was extremely intoxicated. Reporter when the body bag made its way to the morgue, and the folks from csi craned their necks around fallen furniture and telltale pools of blood, and the survivors struggled to explain im trying to remember it as best i can. Repor
We lived how we lived. Robbing peter to pay paul. Investigators became suspicious. I keyed on the gun that was in his right hand. It looked like it was placed there. The dead mans wife said she had been asleep. How is it you didnt hear the shot . Her stepdad said he had no idea what happened. I dont remember a lot. We drank two bottles of vodka. Prosecutors said, one of them had to be lying. There were two glasses with ice in both glasses. It tells us that two people are up drinking. Now a Stunning Development in this holiday tragedy. Suicide or something truly s sinister. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Here is Keith Morrison with in the dead of night. Reporter some people blamed the booze. That is, when it was all over he was extremely intoxicated. Reporter when the body bag made its way to the morgue, and the folks from csi craned their necks around fallen furniture and telltale pools of blood, and the survivors struggled to explain im trying to remember it as best i can. Repor
Robbin peter to pay paul. Reporter but investigators became suspicious. I keyed on that gun that was in his right hand. It looked like it was placed there. The dead mans wife said shed been asleep. How is it that you didnt hear the shot . Her stepdad, said he had no idea what happened. I dont remember a lot. We drank two bottles of vodka. Reporter prosecutors said one of them had to be lying. There were two glasses, with ice in both of those glasses. Tells us that two people are up drinking. Reporter unwrapping the truth about this holiday tragedy. Suicide . Or something truly sinister . It made the hair back of my neck stand on end. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with in the dead of night. Reporter some people blamed the booze. That is, when it was all over. In the hard light of a winter morning here in phoenix, arizona. He was extremely intoxicated. When the body bag made its way to the morgue and the folks from csi craned their necks around fallen