To put them on before i do the introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law and professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Edward thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. Jeffrey well, it
Exciting conversation with the head of the center for history and one of our historians on a brandnew book the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of an american institution. Ordinarily we would be doing this at the Historical House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park at as we are all working from home and we are joining you in your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting that were historical initiative. As you know we were founded in 1961 by Jaclyn Kennedy who had the vision at such a young age and a short period of time to create organizations like the White House Historical association. We were talking about today actually selected piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. While creating educational materials and content, it is a core part of the mission and that is what we do every day with the books we publish and our programs around the country. And our online social media content. Thi
We the people podcast and i cant wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Thank you so much for having me. And Edward Larsen holds the hue and hazel darling chair in law and is University Professor of history at pepperdine university, he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history and coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders and his newest book is franklin and washington, the founding partnership. It is great to welcome you to the National Constitution center. Thanks for having me back if only virtually. Well it is just great. And im so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you in the spirit of louie brandize, let us reason together, let the learning begin. Okay. Ed, lets begin with you because you have this powerful pairing of the two founders you consider the first among the founders, washington and franklin. You note that they are labelled first and second in the most famous portrait o
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