emancipation is the bill clinton lecture in history at new york historical. i d like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, earnhardt shorts, for hamza generosity in making this event along with so many of our public programs possible. [applause] i d also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today. that s one of our panelists, david. and take the support in early to say how proud we are to count today but among our trustees at new york historical i also want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are co-chairs of our frederick douglass council. and of course welcome all members of her frederick douglass council who have joined us today. and i want to recognize long-standing and special friend of new york historical, eric, who has also joined us this morning. and thank eric for all he and his family has done over a, very very long time here at this institution. thank you. [applause] this morning s program will last about an ho
historical society. i am president and ceo. i am thrilled to see all of you here in our beautiful auditorium this morning. is frederickm douglass, abraham lincoln and emancipation, is the president bill clinton historical lecture. i would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our public programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. one of our panelists. i would take this opportunity to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at new york historical. i want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our frederick douglass counsel. of course, welcome all members who have joined up today. dachshund joined us joined us today. [applause] and i want to recognize a long-standing and very special friend of new york historical, eric rudin, who has joined us this morning. than
committee on small business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid-19 response for the next package to small business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. i would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. i appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hard-working staff. three weeks ago when congress created the paycheck protection program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced unprecedented demand and proven successful, helping more than 1.6 million entities to support employees. as a result we will be replenishing the program later today. while we are moving quickly to provide
programs dale gregory really is a delight to welcome you to our robert h smith auditorium read the next program, the second founding of the civil war and reconstruction relayed the constitution is a part of our bernard and eileen schwartz s english speaker series, the height of our public programs and as always we d like to thank mister swartz for all the support which has enabledus to produce such a wide array of wonderful programs the white we give him a hand ? and of course our board of trustees who has been active and helpful in bringing this institution to the level it is today. we have a trustee who is with us in the audience and all of our chairman s council members are with us for their great work and support. the next program is going to last one hour and include a question and answer session read the q&a conducted questions and notecards and you should have received something from one of our volunteers had no notecards and pencils and i will be going through as soo
[applause] good evening, everyone. welcome to the historical society. i am the president and ceo. i am thrilled to see so many of you here in our auditorium. tonight s program, a night at the garden, the into nazi rally of part of thert distinguished speakers. i would like to thank him for his generosity which enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to the space. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank a number of trustees who have joined us this evening. i would like to recognize first about our chair and think pamela for her truly outstanding work on behalf of this institution. [applause] to just impart from our trustees for one second to recognize her husband, and we have three programs this evening and he has been to two of them. i want to congratulate him for his dedication to his wife s favorite organization. i would like to recognize other trustees. again, slightly departing from our trustees, i want to recognize a great friend of this and he isn, the hea