Welcome everybody. My name is Doug Bradburn, founding director of the library for the study of George Washington here at beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation in history. And i would also like to welcome the cspan audience who was recording as the cd. Its great to have you back in the library. Will these evening book talks are special for friday of reasons because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community, but also because it sponsored by forbes which is been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years. As you all know Mount Vernon Ladies Association does not take any government money. Its completely private institution based on philanthropy a base of people coming to the estate. So we depend on groups like the ford family and the Ford Motor Company has supported mount vernon, since henry ford gave the first fire engine to mount vernon to keep the Mansion House and burning to the ground. So as s
[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody. My name is Douglas Bradburn. And the founding director of the National Library for the George Washington and beautiful mount vernon and delighted to you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation and history and i would also like to welcome the cspan audience out there. Its great to have you back in the library. You know these evening book talks are special for a variety of reasons. We get to bring exciting new historians to an eager community here but also because it sponsored by the great donor to mt. Vernon for many many years as you all know. The association does not take any government money. Its completely private institution based on philanthropy and some people come to the estate so we depend on it in groups like the ford family and the Ford Motor Company have supported mount vernon. Henry ford did the first fire engine mt. Vernon to keep the from burning to the ground. Ongoing challenge and in fact you were welcome to the don
25 years in congress. And then into his president ial and postpresident ial experience. In the first gallery, we feature his foundational years. He grew up in grand rapids, michigan, but he was not born in grand rapids. He was born in omaha, nebraska. His mother had married a businessman in omaha by the name of leslie king. So, she was dorothy king. They had a child in july of 1913. They named him leslie lynch king, jr. He is the person we know as gerald ford. We have his christening gown and a few other things of interest, but one of the things we feature in this case is the baby book. A lot of mothers keep books on their children, even today. Dorothy was no exception back in 1913. She began keeping a book on the babys experience. We cant present the real thing, but we present a duplicate in flip form. Some of the things you see are the first picture of dorothy with the baby. He was born in a house in omaha, nebraska, his grandfathers house. Some of the other interesting features abou
Singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello, it is midnight here in london, 7am In Singapore and also of course the midnight in the city of Manchester Police are responding to what they say is a serious incident ata what they say is a serious incident at a Concert Venue. In the last few minutes, they have reported a number of fatalities. This happened at the manchester and arena at the end of a performance by american singer Ariana Grande. There were reports of loud bang. Police say they are investigating. They may have been explosions. It is not entirely clear what those banks were from eyewitnesses have said earlier they we re eyewitnesses have said earlier they were a number of casualties. The building is above a railway station. Train services have been suspended. Lets recap what we know because there are so many things at this stage which are unequivocal stop however, in the last few minutes, Manchester Police have confirmed that there are a number of fatalities. We are
Singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello, it is midnight here in london, 7am In Singapore and also of course the midnight in the city of Manchester Police are responding to what they say is a serious incident ata what they say is a serious incident at a Concert Venue. In the last few minutes, they have reported a number of fatalities. This happened at the manchester and arena at the end of a performance by american singer Ariana Grande. There were reports of loud bang. Police say they are investigating. They may have been explosions. It is not entirely clear what those banks were from eyewitnesses have said earlier they we re eyewitnesses have said earlier they were a number of casualties. The building is above a railway station. Train services have been suspended. Lets recap what we know because there are so many things at this stage which are unequivocal stop however, in the last few minutes, Manchester Police have confirmed that there are a number of fatalities. We are