He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washin
Donald holloway is the curator , president ial museum. He came to the president ial museum in 1996. Since that is up curator and shape over 70 including centennial of president mrs. Ford. The core exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and science from oklahomas Baptist University where he served as adjunct professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday
Professor teaching American History and ancient history. Donna welcome are you with us . I am thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . More importantly how is the staff . Are you guys reopen theres a lot of energy to get all of these museums reopen how are things there . We hope to share some the energy and soon. Library is in phase one. Some are returning and doing more on site. The museum continues at zero. The numbers are training our way. We hope in short order to be in a position we can reopen the doors to the public. We are excited because just this last weekend we were open in washington d. C. The headquarters were the rotunda on saturday and sunday were testing all the systems here in washington and were eager as you say open the doors all laughing at the crowds back in. Because of our situation thats why we are doing the centennial we will learn and alisa virtually experience the president ial museum. We have great programs for us today. Im going to turn the scre
S archival and presidency. Donald holloway is the curator , our featured speaker today is donald holloway. The curator for the gerald are poor president ial museum, who came to the four president ial museum in 1996. Since, then his helped curate and shape our over 70 exhibits, including the centennial exhibits of both president and mrs. Ford, as well as the renovations of the museum, the Court Exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and Political Science from Oklahoma Baptist University and a masters from kansas, where he serves as an adjunct professor, teaching American History and ancient history. Don, welcome. Are you with us . I am, patrick. Thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . And most importantly, how is the staff doing . Are you guys reopen . Theres obviously a lot of energy to get all these museums reopened. How are things there . We hope to share some of that energy, and soon. The staff is doing well. They are eager to get back. The lib
Being lady like does not require silence. Why should my husbands job or yours prevent us from being ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is Richard Norton smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the gerald r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fortunate