Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
Things. We have amazing offers come into this building to read or discuss their work and i get to listen to that sometimes. They have parties sometimes in the building. I know thats shocking. We have some beautiful spaces here. Whats amazing about my job is it will take me on any day from talking to a student in the south bronx, i remember one literally asking about what she was doing and she told me her name was miracle. Students in the south bronx in a place of great need and then some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in new york who want to be supportive of everything the library stands for and that just means i get to live the diversity of experience that i think is the secret sauce of american success that we are all in this together. Some of the great its one of the great privileges of my life to be able to serve. Host ten years from now what are we going to have . Guest in the library i bet we will have every seat filled and we will have. People will be still in this b
Youll also notice this evening there are cspan cameras around. They are here broadcasting. Those watching will also be no stranger to anthony pitch. Many of his programs have been taped for broadcast by them before. We are very lucky to have him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Anthony pitch. [applause] thank you very much for coming. It is raining outside, so i am very glad to see a lot of people out tonight. I want to tell you a few years ago i escorted somebody into the white house. His name was major ed ross, the same name the general robert ross who burned the white house. He was a descendent. One can see the scorch marks i told him were there. They are under the front door. There is a big stone archway where you can see massive scorch marks from the fires set by the british in 1814. The pastry chef who has his offices close by could not stop giggling. He thought here is a man who has come to finish the job. [laughter] i like to write stories that are epic, true, and sad. People
The country is about to come apart at this seems the Prime Minister the private sector said we cannot have this we will reconvene the third party talks have of the breyer knitting column together. They took a lot of heat but they got the policy through. The stock market rebounded in roaster prof in favor voted out of office the next election but when asked in retrospective to pay too high of crises that i paid a small price to save the country. That is clarity of purpose that leaders need to demonstrate to move the country forward. Host so what with the issue be . What would you like to see the issue be . How do we upgrade the skills of the workforce for the 21st century . The manufacturing jobs that did disappear in the United States those jobs are not coming back if you worked in manufacturing today you need to understand a computer and data and in numbers so not just how to bring back those manufacturing jobs of the 70s but create them for the 21st century but to do that you needed