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Native americans focusing on the aftermath of the revolutionary war and the initiatives of George Washington. Mr. Butterfield is the executive director for the library at mt. Vernon. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. If you all could take your seats, please. Happy leap day. What could be better than a bonus day and some real meaningful history content. Its a double win for me. I love it. Im thrilled to have you all here to your Virginia Museum of history and culture. I have the privilege of serving as the president and ceo here and im going quickly kick us off as we have an allstar lineup of speakers today for this wonderful collaboration. I will point out, since i see now faces that are not our usuals here at this museum that you are gathered today in the oldest Cultural Institution in the commonwealth of ....
I love it. Im thrilled to have you at your museum of history and culture. My name is jamie bosket. I have the pleasure of being the ceo here. Im just going to kick it off. We have awesome speakers for this collaboration. But i will point out since i see some new faces that are not our usual here at this museum that you are gathered here today in the oldest Culture Institution in the commonwealth of virginia. We are older than a decade than the smithsonian. We are older than half of the states of this country. In fact, this is rather interesting to consider of the historical overlaps within the topic we approach today. Our first president of the Virginia Historical society was chief justice marshall. He served from 1831 until his death a few years later. But beyond that, and this happens to us so often as we think about the complex history. That this place, this inst ....
And that is that we went in with zero investment. And now, if you fast forward to where we are today, we actually cargo has a very robust animal feed business. We import u. S. Products into the vietnamese market. And, over that course of time weve also through our investments and through working in those communities, weve actually built our nearly our 70th school on the ground in vietnam. And so what we can say is that theres not only the power of trade, but theres the power of u. S. ÷uf of businesses to engage in whats known as commercial day diplomacy. so, in the case of cuba, cuba is alkx i ratjt when we normalize relations, we would have to ensure that we would gain the same access in cuba that the other wto members have. We would also have the pntr as part of that, as well. I would say two things about vietnam on the hill. That, to make it different from cuba, one is there was not an active proembargo vietnamese lobby, unlike cuba. fb secondly, the senators brought in their desir ....
Hypothesized a legacy project it. But i think were getting pushed off into side panels about lifting the embargo on capitol hill right now. Help me. Im an optimist. And i believe optimism keeps us going on the right path. Why wont a bill come out of committee. Leave it to the room to w judge whether a bill is going to come out of a republican controlled senate. Let me follow up on that. I mean my. Yq reading of the tea leaves is, as your conclusion, that congress is two views, some strongly in favor of lifting some strongly opposed toq2n the president , the steps hes already taken. And, if you had to bet, i think you would bet where youve placed your money, which is unlikely that there will be legislative action on this to either roll back what the president is doing or to advance policy further. My question to you is, in your initial remarks, you suggested that as a legal matter, the president has full, legal discretion toc to take very expansive steps. My question is do you believe t ....