Which is her base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joined you in your home, were trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house, but also in Education Mission to teach and to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 7092 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating education materials and content is a a core part of our mission, and thats what we do everyday through the wonderful, wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we h
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the Association Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the White House Historical association and are 2023 symposium, the white house and Popular Culture, hosted by the association and our two friends and partners the john w center for the library of congress. I am Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association and i see many familiar friends and faces here today and those joining us and our own digital coverage its great to have all of you joining us here today as well i want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and many here at the association have played a roll making today happened in these annual symposiums which are actually a yearlong effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or subject with our partner. In
As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat
As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat
As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat