Weekends on cspan2 are in intellectual feast. Every saturday amerin history tv documents america story and on sunday, book tv brings you the latest of nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan2 comes from these Television Companies and more including buckeye broadband buckey broadband along with these Television Companies supports cspan2 is a public service. I am happy to now introduce our final panel today which brings together a highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house. Something that is very near and dear to us here. Doctor Matthew Costello Vice President of the National Center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate the conversation. Our first panelist is leslie president of the Thomas Jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello. In addition to this work, she is served by president ial appointment on the committee for the preservation of the w
Our final panel today, which brings together a highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house something thats very near and dear to us here at the White House Historical association, dr. Matthew costello Vice President of the David M Rubenstein National Center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate the conversation. Our first panelist is leslie green bowman president of the Thomas Jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello in addition to this work. She has served by president ial appointment on the committee for the preservation of the white house under president s Joe Biden Donald trump Barack Obama George w bush and bill clinton. Stuart mclaurin is president of the White House Historical association leading the associations nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. Station and preservation at the white house with private funding John Stanwich serv
knew he lost the 2020 election and that their scheme to overturn the results was illegal. and yet, they attempted it anyway. president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night. and instead, followed the chorus recommended by apparently inebriated rudy giuliani. to just claim he won. and insist that the vote counting stop. to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. and there are an lies the true nature of these hearings. to truly hold trump and his fellow coup plotters accountable. the committee has already uncovered evidence that trump may have committed serious federal crimes. but it s up to the justice department to bring criminal charges. as neil cocktail argues in the opinion page of the new york times today, attorney general merrick garland could bring a charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states even if trump truly believed in what he was saying. and it wasn t just democracy at stake, but lives as well. vice president mike pence fa
Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top that slavery wasnt visible. And we want to make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullbury row, that main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this was part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now, were actually just near jeffersons main house, the main plantation street at monticello, its about 1,300 feet. Through archaeology and documentary research, we foe that over 20 workshops storehouses and dwellings lined this street. There were enslaved families here, there were indentured servants and most of these were jefferson and his white family. So this
Montcello, you would have seen jeffersons neoclassical villa. But we wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would see most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top slavery wasnt visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullberry row, that main plan tashz street. As well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens offing other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now were actually just near jeffersons main house, the pulaidian mansion he built throughout his life and were standing next to mullberry row which is the main plantation street, about 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research. We kn