The White House Association hosted Historical Association hosted this event and this event at historic st. Johns historic st. Johns church across from the church across from the white house in Lafayette Square white house and lafayette in square and recognition of their Research Recognition of their initiative, Slavery Research initiative, slavery in the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonight, lets welcomed reverend rob fischer. Welcome, good evening. My name is rob fischer. I am the rector of st. Johns church. I am thrilled that i was asked to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a bit about the history of this historic room you are sitting in tonight. So i will share with you that the church was completed in 1816. The architect was benjamin henri, and not only did he designed this church. He was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812. And in 1818, he built the decade or house which is no
Test. Test. Test. Test. Bbgxo pew tonight are students from Calvin Coolidge high school in washington, d. C. They participated in a podcast with me and wonderful students. And i would like them to stand. Are they here . [ applause ] and so tonight, theyre in the president s pew. And one thing we like to think of as educators, as we plant the seat and water the seed, but we may never see the results of that education. And we hope one day, these students and their peers are back here, maybe as president of the United States, sitting in the president s pew. And its great to have them here this evening. We have the privilege of having two wonderful presenters tonight, David Rubenstein is the cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the carlyle group. He has been the chairman of the board and held senior governance positions with Many Organizations that youre very familiar with, including the Smithsonian Institution, the john f. Kennedy memorial performing arts center, which is the living memo
Conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816, the architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he worked on the white house after it was destroyed in 1812. And in 1818, he built the Decatur House. And if grow inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome that we have in our church space. And the Original Church was built as a greek cross. It was an even four sides. And six years later in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We dont know who the architect was who did that expansion and who built the bell tower. Tragically, latrobe had already died at that time. He died in new orleans. I imagine there might be some historians in the room. If anyone is interested in helping us involve the mystery, we wo
St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Washington, d. C. , across Lafayette Square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonights program please welcome the 15th rector of st. Johns church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was rewould abouting the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812 and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It i