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strategically to share his values. it was also the golden age of photographer in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the smithsonian american art museum and hopefully you. here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the american experience. from folk art to photographer as well as painting and sculpture and skracrafts and media arts. our exhibition, john f. kennedy s life and times which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy presidential library in this centennial year. i am stephanie stebich, the director of the american smithsonian art museum. saam is what we call ourselves for short. we have assembled a group of historians and scholars debating the kennedy administration and its legacy. many of you likely remember the kennedy administration and the arc of history. we also have several members of congress in the room with us and i want to pause for a moment ....
c-span3 continues next with the presidency focusing on the legacy of john f. kennedy. the smithsonian american art museum hosted this 90 minute event. good evening. did you know that john f. kennedy was the most photographed leader of his day? this may not surprise you since he used photography strategically to share his values and his vision for america. it was also the golden age of photography in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the smithsonian american art museum and hopefully you. here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the american experience from folk art to photography as well as painting and sculpture and crafts and media arts. our exhibition, american visionary, john f. kennedy s life and times, which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy presidential library in this centennial year. i am stephanie stevish, the director of the smithsonian a ....
host: the scenes in washington d.c. at the korean war memorial. also nearby is the vietnam war memorial and the world war ii potomac isross the arlington national cemetery. willdent donald trump deliver remarks. we ll have live coverage 11:00 eastern time here on c-span. caldwell. welcome dan good monday morning. you want to talk about a piece hillrote for the newspaper. monday cannot buy v.a. reform. the time when which administration is providing vast resources for the military and veterans, chaste your what s your point. guest: thank you for having me on. is that the v.a. has received mass budget increases on terrorglobal war began in 2001. under the obama v.a. strationing saw the budget both discretionary combined go up 84%. massive increase in budget far outpace any increase and demand. anybody can look at the v.a. over the past decade that thatand say additional investment improved the agency. in factor, under the obama at thetration, things v.a. got worse. scan ....
about technology at the time and he said by coming together, we can go to the moon, bring a man there and bring him back safely by the end of the decade. john kennedy didn t live to see it we did do that. keep in mind, that first capsule that went up had less power than your viewer s iphones or smartphones do today. so we can with big ideas come together and solve big problems but only going to work if we all put our effort into it. host: final question how is the library, the foundation reflect og this day on the john f. kennedy centennial? guest: we ve had a multi day celebration. where saturday we honesored peace corp and president kennedy s legacy, yesterday nasa with an astronaut and space suit engineer. today we re doing navy flyover, new exhibit and 3 p.m., again, navy flag within a cape for a thousand people fyour viewers are in boston, we encourage you to come by today or any time in the next year to see the new exhibit. host: steven rothstein, on this what wou ....
cannot imagine john f. kennedy on his 100th birthday. he will be forever enshrined as a man in his 40 s. had he lived, he would have been 100 today. how should he be remembered? guest: i think did he so much in his short life, and many of his ideas are just as relevant today. his way of governing through inclusion, his big ideas of service, whether it be the peace corps or other things, his big ideas of innovation, the race to the moon, so many of what he was fighting for in the 1960 s are important to what we re looking at in 2017. host: let me share with our audience one of the iconic inaugural speeches from january 1961, senator john kennedy was sworn in as president of the united states. now the trumpet summons us again. not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though in battle we are, but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out. rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, a struggle against the c ....