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celebrated as national preservation month. since 1973 at the national trust we re in the midst of our where women made history campaign to highlight and preserve the places where women made important contributions to our country. a key component of this campaign is to highlight the central role that women including first ladies have played in the preservation movement itself. fittingly the honorary chair of this campaign is former first lady laura bush who is a great preservation advocate in so many ways and a trustee america of the national trust. today our panel will primarily discuss the role of three first. ladies mrs. kennedy mrs. johnson and mrs. nixon in the preservation of the white house. but i do think it is also important to briefly acknowledge a few of their broader contributions to preservation as well. in addition to creating the white house historical association mrs. kennedy almost single-handedly preserved lafayette square. staring it from new federal b ....
i am katherine malone-france, chief preservation officer of the national trust for historic preservation. thanks so much to the white house historical association for this wonderful symposium today. and for our ongoing collaboration to preserve the historic them decatur carriage house. i m here today to talk about the incredibly important role that first ladies have played in historic preservation. and to do so, may s national preservation month since 1973. we are in the midst of our we made history campaign. where women made important contributions to our country. a key component of this campaign is to highlight the central role that women, including first ladies, have played in the preservation movement itself. the honorary chair of this campaign is former first lady laura bush. a great first lady today, our panel will primarily discuss the role of three first ladies. mrs. kennedy, mrs. johnson and mrs. nixon. in the preservation of the white house. i do think it ....
that first ladies have played in historic preservation. and to do so, during may, which has been celebrated as national preservation month since 1973. at a national trust, we are in the wrist of our where women made history campaign to highlight and preserve the places where women made important contributions to our country. a key component of this campaign is to highlight the central role that women, including first ladies, have created in the presentation [inaudible] itself. fittingly, the honorary chair of this campaign is former first lady laura bush, who is a great preservation advocate in so many ways, and a trustee emerita of the national trust. today, our panel will primarily discuss the role of three first ladies mrs. kennedy, mrs. johnson, and mrs. nixon, in the preservation of the white house. but i do think it is also important to briefly knowledge a few of their broader contributions to preservation as well. in addition to creating the white house histori ....