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 and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart 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, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through 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 on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year and culminates in this wonderful symposium that youre gathered us here today to enjoy. The three colleagues that i would like to recognize specifically today for their leadership is dr. Colleen brogan, who is the Senior Vice President and director of the David M RubensteinNational Center for white house history. And were very excited. Colleen has been nominated by President Biden to be the next archivist of the United States who actually came. And. We are hopeful that there will be Senate Confirmation soon and we will hate to miss her. She has contributed a significant amount to our success the past three plus years here, and shes not going very far. As you all know, we have a a close in relationship with the national archives, particularly our wonderful friends at the president ial libraries, which we all enjoy. Dr. Matthew costello is our senior historian, is in the back here and matt has been very involved and we will be hearing from him later today as part of this program. And my colleague grace mccaffrey has been in of every logistical element of pulling this together and making it happen. And makes me really happy when i dont have to worry about any of those things. So, grace has done a wonderful job with that. So thank you. Well, now we have a very special moment. We have a video greeting from the chairman of the board of directors of the white house of oracle, associate it is the white house hysterical associations that the chairman of the board of the White House Historical association, the john or the honorable john f. W. Rogers. Good morning, everyone. My name is john rogers and serve as the chairman of the board of directors of the White House Historical association. And although i cant be with you in person, i know that youre to have an interesting day ahead with. The engaging speakers and conversations over how the white house and popular intersect. I had the privilege of working in the white house across two different administrations. But mainly during the reagan years. As you undoubtedly know, reagans starred in many movies, and they loved watching movies, particularly at camp david. They enjoyed watching classic films such as singing in the rain and stagecoach, but they never missed the chance to view the latest hit like e. T. And raiders of the lost ark and the karate kid. President reagan implicitly understood that president s need to remain in touch with whats popular in the country. And he certainly did that through film, movies and other forms. Popular culture offer insights into who we are as americans and also who we aspire to be. I hope you are looking forward to hearing from more of our speakers today about this dynamic and Popular Culture shapes our perspectives of the presidency and. The people whove held that office. Finally, id like to thank our partners from the john Clooney Center at the library of congress. Both of our organizations are committed to the study and the preservation of history, as well as supporting new research and programing that inform and educate the public. The associations symposium offers us this unique opportunity every year to connect and inspire people. To learn more about the white house and its larger cultural significance as a symbol our democracy. You again for joining us at the decatur house, and i hope you enjoy the day. Thank you to john is our chairman and also like recognize carla hayden the librarian of congress who serves as an exofficio member of our board of directors for her leadership over the entire library. System as part of our partnership today as john mentioned the White House Historical association and the Clooney Center have much in common. We also share beliefs. In making history more accessible and more available and relevant to audiences. And we are very grateful for this partnership. Todays symposium explores the relationship between presidency. The white house and Popular Culture. For many people, their only interaction with the white house and the president see is through popular mediums such as television, films, comics, cartoons and other such very familiar outlets. Because of this Popular Culture holds an Important Role in our society. Not only for entertainment purposes, but for informing its audiences and shaping their understanding of our countrys institutions. Todays panel and if youve seen the program, its a really robust and exciting panel of presenters. They will discuss a variety of perspectives and, include historians, Entertainment Industry experts, actors and scholars. And they will discuss how the presidency and the white house shapes Popular Culture and how the public understands these institutions. Todays lunch that you walk by and saw a glimpse of actually going to be beautiful in the setting today. And its going to give a little hat tip to a pop culture moment thats happening this weekend. Weve all seen the its hard to miss coronation of the king that will take place tomorrow and certainly theres a great amount of history and synergy between the monarchs of the United Kingdom and the royal family and the president s of the United States and the white house. So theres going to be a fun tribute in the fair and the menu items and in the celebration of the lunch time together that pays tribute to the coronation. Im actually wearing my little commemorative coronation pin today to participate in the pop culture moment and i hope some of you have had the opportunity to see my podcast that was released just today with dame karen pierce, whos the current ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States. She is extraordinary. And i had the privilege of just listening to her and i think you will enjoy her comments on the special relationship and the coronation as well, and thats available on our website. Well, i have a few sort of housekeeping reminders before we dive in our white house history shop is open throughout the day, and as our special guests, you will receive a 10 discount if you go in there and tell them youre here for the symposium. Our parting gift for you today be an issue of our white house history quarterly. And this one is a private ish issue. The white house and television i know many of you already subscribe to. So if you have this issue, take this one and give it to a friend. Our and this one in particular, our quarterly magazine. One of the favorite things of mine at the association, it goes to the very beginning of our mission with mrs. Kennedy in 1961, when just a year later, she had us publish our very first guidebook. And that was the first publication. And now we produce Award Winning publication ways that are deep and rich and scholarly and wonderful for you to enjoy yourselves as well as give to others the next issue, which will be out in early june, every that comes out, i tell marcia anderson, our chief publishing officer, and her staff that its better than the one before and the one thats coming out in june is going to be on the white house in new york. And it is fantastic. You dont want to miss that one at the conclusion, todays wonderful presenters and panels. We will have a reception out in the courtyard and i hope everyone will stay. Enjoy that time of fellowship together. So my contribution to todays program is complete. Ill get off the stage and let the festival this begin. I want to thank the clergy once again. My colleagues and most importantly, all of you. Your participation, engagement with us on these important topics is very important and encouraging to us in our work. And for every one of you that sits here today, there are thousands more. Follow us online. Our social digital resources friends such as cspan. And if someone in your life doesnt yet know about the work of the white house, Historical Association, please introduce them. To us, there are so many great and wonderful causes out there in the world, and i know many of you are supporting hospitals and universities and Community Groups and organizations, but theres one white house and that belongs to all of america and all of the American People. And your support for that, given our nonprofit it and nonpartisan status, makes we do possible. So thank you very much. And with that, i would like to welcome very good friend hannah sommers, who is representing the library of congress today. She is the associate librarian and resource for research and Collection Services at, the library of congress. And they are an extraordinary, historic institution that our country and our congress cannot do without. So, hana, ill turn it over to you. Good morning, everyone. Its really to be here. Thank you for that introduction. And stuart mentioned im hannah sommers. I am still new associate librarian for researcher and Collection Services at the of congress and i want to welcome you today to the wonderful symposium on the white house in Popular Culture, which is a joint effort between the john w Quigley Center at the library and our host today the White House Historical association. The kluge center is integral part of our efforts, research and Collection Services to build and steward the collections. The library of congress, and just as importantly, to help facilitate access to those collection pens by researchers from around the world. We have an Important Mission at the library to engage to, inspire and to inform congress and the American People with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. The john w Quigley Center helps us fulfill that mission. Its a vibrant, scholarly center on capitol hill that brings World Class Research authors from the United States and abroad to energize one another, to distill wisdom from the librarys Rich Resource is, and to interact with policymakers and the public. The Center Offers opportunities. Senior scholars and postdoctoral, to do research in the library. Congress collections. It also offers free public lectures, conference, acs and symposia, including one that helps sow the seeds. Todays event many of the ideas and historical insights being discussed today were first presented during a scholarly hosted at the Jefferson Building at the library last november. The library of congress delighted to be part of todays event, and i encourage everyone to come visit the library and register for a reader card if you dont already have one and spend some time exploring the resources of the Worlds Largest library to begin todays program, id like to introduce dr. Kevin butterfield wald, who is the director of the clearview center, and hes the moderator of our first panel, which is on the president s see in comics and cartoons. So kevin. Thank you because the is. 30 media. Okay, come on up. Yes, welcome my great pleasure to moderate our first panel. Were going to be exploring the white house in both comics and cartoon scenes from George Washingtons time, 2 hours, the ways in which we have used prints and other forms of media to reach and to shrink the distance between the American People and our political leaders are things that we can explore an obviously its both entertaining and enlightening to do. So i dont want to say all that much to introduce our panel because their biographies are in the program that you have in front of you. We will be moving from chronologically more or less from sara duke to to jesse holland, all of whom have a close connection to the library of congress. Im proud to say sara duke works there, as does megan and jesse actually spent a good amount of time as a distinguished visiting scholar at the center. Hes also a distinguished journalist and journalism professor. So let me hand things over. I believe actually have the clicker so theres not much you do without this. Let me hand things over to sarah to begin our exploration of the white house in comics and cartoons. Sarah thank you. Kevin and i must express my gratitude for being invited to speak to you today. I sara duke and. In 1972, just six days after the watergate. Break in her blog, the editorial cartoons for the Washington Post drew this editorial cartoon featuring footsteps leading away from the white house. He had already drawn two editorial carons featuring the physical appearance of Richard Nixon and implicating him in the break in. So why draw white house . Thats what were going to explore today. Bu lets go back to a moment in time as were celebrating the coronation of charles, author. Tomorrow, im going to remind that we fought a war. D this is the sacking of washington in 1840 and 109 years ago. The white hous Historical Association owns the original drawing for this. But the Library Congress has the only William Strickland engraving from it. Benjamin latrobe was given a unique opportunity to rebuild the white house in a new way with that lovely colonnade on the southern facade and i apologize. This is rather hard to see, but this is a collection thats near and dear to my heart because im processing it now and its john ruben smith and he traveled up and down the eastern seaboard documenting the new in drawings and prints prints. When one thinks of daguerreotypes, e inks of perhaps dead ancestors or somebody elses dead ancestors. T daguerreotypes also featured buildings and landscapes. And this is white house in 1846. Anwhile the northern facade was depicted less regularly in prints, perhaps because it was a less grand, heres a image from a calendar in 1822. So im laying the groundwork. This is what the building looks like by the 1840s. Everybody comes, know what the building looks like and. It doesnt need to be labeled. So when William Henry harrison, who perhaps had the longest 19th Century Election Campaign and the shortest presidency ran, he didnt to label the white house its there as part of his destination and thats what happens in lithograph editorial cartoons. At the beginning, the white house is a destination poll. Pork running for president c its a foot race. But again, the white house is a destination destination, uh, courier. And it is when. You think of courier and you think of bucolic landscas. They did a lot of editorial cartoons. They had political opinionnd their opinion was that horatios see moreovernor in new york was the man for psident, not ulysses grant, who was they depicted dragging the chicago platform across an abyss. We all know how that turned out because we dont remember who Horatio Seymour is. During the american cil r, the whi hse becomes part of the emblematic patriotism of preserving the union. And sitppears on a lot of civil war envelopes. Civil war envop have a huge collection of them. There, really pictorial. And they are deserving of search. If anybody wants to delve into them. We literally have volumes of civil war enveles so white house destination, white house as patriotic symbol. So why am i showing you the west side . Because by the middle and late 19th century, the facade thats depicted tells the story of what the content of the cartoon kids and the first story that gets told is the presidency becomes important, that there are spoils to be had and those spoils come out of the side, oh, come out of the front. Nobodys going to take wealth out of a main entrance. So its the side of, the building that gets depicted. And part magazine, ia weekly publication and from about the 1850s to 1917 side spoils of presidency, its the side. Want to know. Cleveland is thinking you go to the side. Well, why why doesnt the side appear on editorial cartoons anymore . And i think that is because we dont associate spoils with the presidency anymore. In my transition from four sides im ju bringing you this. Teddroosevelt, hes like a ain wreck running at his own hand, chosen to taft, who is th le squashing in the white house. Well that gave wilson th