Warren the exhibit is one we started putting together after the president by. People president died. Weree in College Station really invested in it, the train came up here from houston. They were proud of the fact that the first lady and president were very dear. A lot of that was incorporated into the exhibit. You can see the lifesized statue of sully, president bushs service dog. At a ceremony a couple of months ago we installed sully, and the to thefe sully came ceremony. The dog is now at walter reed. The iconic photo in the exhibit is of sully in front of president bushs casket. President bush got sully in june for aboute served six months until the president s death on november 30, 2018. So we have a picture of him as a ,uppy, and with president bush and he did everyday tasks and added quality to the last months of his life. The memorial exhibit itself, we have the flag that flew at half staff at the white house, and we also have the flag that flew over the capital. One of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ships wheel that was built by the crew of the uss 77, which bush, cvn will be the last nimitzclass aircraft carrier. The crew built it and it was 2019,ted here in june of i believe. And they created it themselves. We had all the sailors of the year from the ship here, we bring them in here once a year, the sailors of the year, they come to the library and do a service project. Shells thatve the were used for the 21gun salute, and this is from the air force in houston where the body arrived from the service in washington d. C. This is the page Angela Merkel signed. We have the condolence book, which is turned to barack and michelle obama, and we also have the program from the service. And we have the u. S. Senate condolence book, which is turned to Mitch Mcconnells signature. We have a photomontage from throughout his life. The early life, they were married young, he was still in the navy when they got. , so we have a montage of ocho from their life, from his career photos, a nice photo all, texas as you ask you 4141 carried the body, and that is a section of track where the train actually wrote over. And when misses bush died, there was a cartoon of misses bush going to heaven and being greeted by her daughter. And when president bush died about six months later, a cartoonist from jackson, mississippi, did a cartoon of andident bush meeting robin misses bush in heaven and mrs. Bush in heaven. President bush loved trains and loved railroad travel. Early in the planning for his funeral, he wanted to be brought from houston to College Station, his final resting place here at the library, in a train. So the drum light from the train, then up used some of its Heritage Fleet to bring the family up, and they had a car especially designed for the upket, and they created the 4141 foreign exhibit we get here on american railroads more than 10 years ago. That up 4141r, locomotive was used to pull the train. And it will be coming here sometime in the next year or year and a half, and will be outside the library. So we are really looking forward to that. And that u. S. Postal service issued a stamp in june 2019, a forever stamp with the president s portrait, and unveil that here at a ceremony in College Station. The president picked the portrait himself. President and misses bush both were so much a part of this place, from 1993 until the last years of their life they were here all the time. They did programming with us, president and misses bush both. She did a Literacy Program for us every year. He was here for events all the time. It really was like their second home. And we want to remember them here, we got to enjoy their company for so long here in town. Tour staffes andntly traveled to bryan College Station, texas, to learn about tricks about its rich history. Andearn more about bryan College Station, go to cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching cspan three all weekend every weekend. American history tv is on social medi. That social media. Follow us on social history. This is American History tv, exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan3 peer next, civil war historian Gary Gallagher addresses misconceptions americans have about the civil war, and outlines concepts he leaves are crucial in understanding the conflict. This talk was part of a symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Datd rich richmond. A look at nonsmoker activist and their context in other social movements. At 8 00 p. M. And lectures in history, a professor teaches a class about law and policies regarding at 10 00 p. M. 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