[music] okay. Welcome, everybody. My name is doug bradburn, on the founding director of the National Library for the study of George Washington at the beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you again for a wonderful evening of conversation and history, and i also like to welcome the cspan audience out there who is recording us this evening. Great to have you back in the library. These evening book talks are special for a variety of reasons, because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community here, but also because its sponsored by ford, which has been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years. As you ail know, mountain vernon ladys association does not take any government money. A completely private institution based on philanthropy and based on people coming to the estate so we depend on groups like the ford family and evidence to Mortar Company who supported mount vernon since henry ford gave the first fire engine to the estate to keep the mansion
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