Union station opened in 1907. At the time, it was one of the largest train stations in the world. The facility to learn about its history. We also hear from historical architect john bowie about the original construction and recent restoration. Beverley hello. My name is beverley swaimstaley, and i would like to welcome you to Washington Union station. This is a magnificent building located here in washington, d. C. , just a couple of blocks from the u. S. Capitol building. My job as ceo and president of Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, nonprofit here in washington d c whose responsible , loyalty is stewardship of this building. This building was built in 1907. It was not only one of the largest buildings in the world, but it was certainly the most magnificent train station that had been built to date. This station has undergone many changes throughout the year. Throughout the years. It was completed in 1912, and entered into a busy, busy time, during world war i when the uso t
The Richard Nixon Library Museum thisosteds hourlong event. Before we start the discussion, i would like to introduce someone will introduce our speaker. Ken served in both the nixon and Reagan White House is. He joined president nixons campaign in 1968, in the midst of going to law school at columbia university, and served as a Deputy Assistant to president in. He then joined san clemente after he retired and helped research and write his best selling memoirs. He returned to politics in the reagan administration, where he served as a speechwriter and senior adviser. Since then, he has been active in many state and national campaigns. Hes a supportive member of the Nixon Foundation board. [applause] thank you, jonathan. First id like to add a note relative to this setting. Having worked so closely with both president s, i think you would like to know first how much they respected each other, i worked very closely with president nixon and president reagan, and president reagan had an ex
There are very few people and very few books written by people that had real actual close personal exposure to the president. Jim rosebush has written one of those books. One of the few that could say he was there to observe the president personally. I thought my strongest insights came from mrs. Reagan. She taught me a lot about how to deal with president reagan and how to communicate with him and help him to be a better communicator and help me be a better bern to work with him. So when he worked with her, i think it was better to help with president reagan. He assisted in negotiating trips with china, japan, korea, france, england and germany. He was very privileged to be in at the very historic bilateral meeting between reagan and gorbachev. He is very insightful in his communicating skills. Jim will have to wait for my book for another view. I really can endorse many of his insights into how the president prepared for his speeches and what techniques he used to become the great co
Served the president and mrs. Reagan n the trip of 198420 to beijing, china, there was a very important state dinner given. And it was president reagan was its host for the premier. Enit was one of the brand new american hotels. May have been the hyatt. It was called the great wall hotel. The reagans were hosting the dinner. They wanted to have an orchestra play American Music for the chinese to show that there were western hosts. But the orchestra was all chinese and the conductor was chinese. And it turns out that the chinese only knew three songs. That was it. After they played threatt songs, they stopped. Jim being partly in charge of all the arrangementes for the dinner knew this was not very good. So he went over to the conductor who spoke only chinese, jim did not speak chinese. It turns out that jim spoke a Little German and the chinese conductor spoke a Little German. They communicated somehow in german. Jim communicated to them and said, look, i know you only know three songs
Thank you for your bipartisanship, which is very important to our country. Congratulations and thank you, governor herbert for your leadership. Congratulations and good luck to you, terry mcauliffe. Now as i end my remarks, im leaving. Lets give a round of applause and thank her for her leadership. [ applause ] the Democratic National convention is live from philadelphia this week. Watch every minute on cspan. Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Its easy to download from the apple store or google play. Watch live or on demand any time at cspan. Org, on your desktop, phone or tablet, where youll find all of our Convention Coverage and the full convention schedule. Follow us at cspan on twitter and like us on facebook to see video of newsworthy moments. The Democratic National Convention Live from philadelphia, all that week from cspan, the cspan radio app and cspan. Org. This weekend on the presidency, james rosebush, former Deputy Assistant to president reagan talks about the pres