Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on facebook live, my name is stuart. And i am the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to commute to the Historic House as well as to the White House Historical association. Tonights we had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservatio
Protection against the coronavirus. Welcome to the program. The u. S. President has criticized the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Donald trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the crisis. His comments follow the lead to memo that reveal new details about warnings the Trump Administration received on how bad the outbreak in the u. S. Could be. Meanwhile, in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson is spending his second 19 intensive care as he battles covid19. The foreign secretary, dominic stable andjohnson is has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator. The u. K. And the state of new york in the u. S. Have recorded their highest number of deaths in a day. The u. K. Is registered has registered 786 deaths. Holdingrump has been his daily news briefing on the pandemic. He has maintained his optimistic outlook despite a rapidly rising death toll. Even during this painful week, we see glimmers of very, ver
Given the unique situation in florida. Im im going to be doing an executive order today im directing all floridians to limit movements and personal interactions outside the home to only those necessary to obtain or provide essential services were conducting essential activities. The governor of florida issued a statewide stay at home order today to stop the spread of coronavirus it goes into effect friday morning and will last throughhe end of the month part of the order says the health and safety of floridians was jeopardized after thousands of people descended on the states beaches. During spring break. And today is the first day of at least another month under the trump administrations social distancing guidelines and even with at least 80 of americans living under a stay at home order. The White House Coronavirus task force projects between 100,000 and 240,000 people could still die from covid19 karin caifa has the latest from washington. April first begins a new month and the u. S
Following hughs remarks and a brief video presentation, our panelists will join us here for tonights program. Those of you on this side of the room, no worries. This podium is going to be removed, so you will have a clear shot of our panelists. And i cant end without a little bit of selfpromotion. Our shop is open until 8 30 tonight. Its right at the top of the ramp from the door where you came in. And everybody here will get a 10 discount on anything that you would like to take home with you tonight. You could finish your Christmas Shopping right here tonight. So, thank you very much. Hugh, welcome. [ applause ] thank you, stewart, and welcome to all of you on behalf of the nixon foundation, which i became the president of only in july. And what a great first event celebrating mrs. Nixon to be a part of. I want to get out of the way of the experts and get them up here in a hurry. We all know the definitive biography of mrs. Nixon was written by julie nixon eisenhower. I am pleased to
Nick some. Good afternoon everybody. Can everybody hear me. Im very short. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose, i am travis cohen a bookseller here and also in charge of the on cyprus Traditions Club at the store. This to quick housekeeping and they will jump right in. Between politics and prose there is three location at the wharf, union market, we host around 1000 authors a year. So if you need help tracking that as we do if you want the full last we have flyers at the info desk in an updated calendar on our website which we highly encourage people to check out. Please remind everyone to silence your cell phones, thats always not fun, as we open the floor to questions and we have two standing microphones here just that one. And we are both recording audio and video today. So thats good incentives to one silence your cell phone and also asked sissy into question so we can get to as many people as possible. And also a good reminder after were done here if you want to pick up