the play. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. good evening. thank you. my name is jim basker. [ applause ] it is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you all to the 1211th presentation of the george washington prize on behalf of the three co-hosts of tonight s decent. the first, regent barbara lucas the vice regents of george washington mt. vernon, also president sheila bair, adam goodhart and the board of washington college. [ applause ] and the co-founders and co-chairs and all the trustees of the institute. [ applause ] founded in 2005, the $50,000 george washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. this is the first time the washington prize has ever been warded to a play. [ applause ] and i would add no one anywhere will be surprised that tonight it will be presented to lin-manuel miranda for his astonishing hamilton. [ applause ] we will hear from lin miranda a bit later, but first i wan
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We are making history today. we are making history in this process. and we are showing the american people. let the process works. it s been about 100 years. it s been about 100 years. since this has happened before. but we have said that we are not going to take any more of washington being broken. getting us now, historian ted whitmer. he is the author of lincoln on the verge. 13 days to washington. and ted, thank you very much for joining us tonight. on these historic days. especially with members of the house invoking history. i am always wondering how this will look to your profession. 50 years from now, hundred years from now. when they are looking back at this day. and how we got to this day. that in a word, unbelievable. i m a civil war historian and usually we do not get very near the dysfunction that led to the civil war. but we are knocking at the
c-span s q&a. you can listen to q and a and all our broadcast on our free c-span now app. five or 10 so this is a panel so,m going to, this is a panel where we are going to spend some time and each of our panelist is going to spend five or ten minutes introducing a particularly presidential transition and highlight a few of the big takeaways, interesting points, lessons learned. so we will go we won t go and program order, we re actually going to go in chronological order of the elections that they will be highlighting. we will do that for about 15 minutes or so and then open it up for discussion and conversation and discuss questions. so, i will go forth and introduce everyone at the top and then we will go in turn. so i will introduce, first in the order in which they are going to speak. i love lindsey chervinsky, a senior fellow at the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. she s a historian of the presidency, local government, and the presid