Good evening and welcome to our grand rapids audience in the cspan viewers out there, were im Gleaves Whitney i had the privilege of serving in this Great Institution with great partners at the National Archives and your foundation. And i said the director without foundation three years. Yeah, we could have. These are Interesting Times which are. Wars and rumors of wars released deep economic challenges here at home and abroad, dysfunction in our government institutions, americans expressing a deep crisis, confidence in leaders. Its decisions. All the things our national guard, our selves sounds familiar, no doubt. And it describes what was going on a half century ago. It seems sorry that if you look at the service upstairs, you now one of the questions the American People faced during that time, also this period, a half century, our nation was band supported the bicentennial celebration of 1976. It formed within us in that endeavor and that same question today is whether the United St
Good evening and welcome to our grand rapids audience in the cspan viewers out there, were im Gleaves Whitney i had the privilege of serving in this Great Institution with great partners at the National Archives and your foundation. And i said the director without foundation three years. Yeah, we could have. These are Interesting Times which are. Wars and rumors of wars released deep economic challenges here at home and abroad, dysfunction in our government institutions, americans expressing a deep crisis, confidence in leaders. Its decisions. All the things our national guard, our selves sounds familiar, no doubt. And it describes what was going on a half century ago. It seems sorry that if you look at the service upstairs, you now one of the questions the American People faced during that time, also this period, a half century, our nation was band supported the bicentennial celebration of 1976. It formed within us in that endeavor and that same question today is whether the United St
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Good evening and welcome to our grand rapids audience in the cspan viewers out there, were im Gleaves Whitney i had the privilege of serving in this Great Institution with great partners at the National Archives and your foundation. And i said the director without foundation three years. Yeah, we could have. These are Interesting Times which are. Wars and rumors of wars released deep economic challenges here at home and abroad, dysfunction in our government institutions, americans expressing a deep crisis, confidence in leaders. Its decisions. All the things our national guard, our selves sounds familiar, no doubt. And it describes what was going on a half century ago. It seems sorry that if you look at the service upstairs, you now one of the questions the American People faced during that time, also this period, a half century, our nation was band supported the bicentennial celebration of 1976. It formed within us in that endeavor and that same question today is whether the United St
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