chair. thell turn it over to manual introduce our chairman of the board. hello everyone. it is not nice to see so many people here celebrating best 261st0 birthday. augmenting interpretive programming there. special thanks to david callan and nizam of american finance staff for host into this program. this is the seventh year where we partnered with both exhibits. we think museum for that. c-span s american history tv continues is valuable role in sharing the key historical record nationwide. three initiatives have happened in the last year in part of celebrating hilton s birthday to ensure a more accurate understanding of who he was. hamilton s birthday. the city tavern in philadelphia, that had all of the founding fathers except for him, that has been remedied. another moment in june of last year, hamilton was inducted into the new york state writers hall of fame. and major news for the first time to be announced publicly. new discoveries related to alexander hamilt
the republican party has been beat in the 1892 election. grover cleveland has come into office, mcclellan has been the governor of ohio. the republicans think that the election of 1896 is going to be dares and he wants to be the nominee, but is not the front runner. he s not the favor of the party bosses. .. next, artist joel iskowitz tells the stories behind designing a congressional gold medal. he spoke at the museum of american finance in new york city, for just over an hour. good afternoon, everyone. welcome, welcome to our friends from the c-span audience and what that means for our audience is during the q&a period please wait for the microphone sorry one can hear. i am david cowan, president of museum of american finance and i m joined by the founder in the audience today. i will show you one of our most cherished items in this is a bond from about 220 years ago signed by the father of our country, george washington. this is george washington s bond and then about
owitz talked about how they were designed and awarded. welcome toernoon, our friends from the c-span audience. what that means for our audience, during the question-and-answer period, please wait for your question until the microphone gets the read so everyone can hear. david callan, i m president of the museum of american finance. i am joined by the chair, john herzog. 220 is a bond from about years ago, signed by none other than the father of our country, george washington. this is george washington s bond. about 60 years ago, this document is a share certificate in rko owned by howard hughes, signed right. here. what thosent today, two men have in common/ and the answer. is that both received the congressional gold manner. edal. today we will hear from joel iskowitz, who has designed them. including one design for the apollo 11 mission, the original moon landing mission. joel has a voluminous volume of work. you have seen it coins, journals, stamps. he has designed over 20
host: on the issue of compromise, we see that in the headlines. what about the one-on-one with members. you have been on the opposite side. is it your sense that you can find compromise and areas of agreement number two member? mr. norcross: actually, we can. and that is important to start to build those relationships, which i have. obviously, i am a democrat and a half then all my life. but when it comes to making those decisions when you re on the floor of the house, i am not a democrat, i am not a republican. i represent the people of my district. my very first vote was on the keystone pipeline. to me, it was clear, and i campaigned on it, that this is about jobs for america. it had not been too long since we had the odd and even days of the gas rationing. it is important to make sure we have enough natural resources here in this country. so i voted in favor of the pipeline, which put me at odds with many people in my party, but, again, it is important to vote for the peop
congressman mark walker representing north carolina s sixth district. a baptist minister and former car salesman. the first elected office you have ever held. how did you decide to run for a seat? rep. walker: there were a lot of experiences that played into that. i spent the last 15 years as a baptist pastor in north carolina. a lot of parallels. what will serve you better, faith or salesmanship? rep. walker: i think genuineness is paramount. that is one of the reasons we are seeing some of the leaders we are seeing today. they have the ability to talk about policy in a genuine manner. how did you prepare to become a congressman? ran strictly with no political experience whatsoever. i did not have the political capital or political connections. i spent time in inner cities in cleveland, new york, and baltimore to try to build relationships that may not always agree with us politically ideology wise, but understanding that the relationship always comes before policy. when