First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
One of the busiest place it National Personnel center in st. Louis which houses more than 5600 veterans records. The Senate Response to those any up in a wideserved variety of benefits including military honors and medical treatment. President ial libraries are not also part of the light version Herbert Hoover the george w. Bush. Museumse archives and to bring together documents for the president and the administration the first lady and the family and present them to the public for study and discussion without regard for political considerations. We will soon have another come of future Obama Library in chicagos historic jackson park. We are currently outfitting temporary Storage Space in chicago, and have hired our first staff for the library and artwork collecting artifacts and prepared records for the move to illinois. Jerry 20th, 2017, we will have transferred hundreds of millions of textual electronic and audiovisual records january 20, 2017, we will have transferred records. The
Thank you. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the u. S. Institute of peace. My name is nancy lindborg, im the president of usip, and i am absolutely delighted to welcome here this afternoon for her first visit to usip mrs. Bush. Were very happy to have you here. And i also want to welcome the ambassador from the Islamic Republic of afghanistan and mrs. Mohib. Delighted to have you here with us. And we have many other guests here in the room. Thank you for joining us, thank you for coming this afternoon. And for those of you who are new to usip, we are an independent National Institute founded by congress 30 years ago and dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible, peace is practical and peace is essential for u. S. And interNational Security. And we pursue a vision of a World Without violent conflict by working in conflict zones with partners, equipping them with tools, with knowledge and with training. And theres probably no place where usip teams
I am here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan. Women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria because every life and every land matters. All of us can do something to after studying first ladies and knowing some of them very well at my own motherinlaw or one that i married very much, Lady Bird Johnson, is our country benefits by whatever our first ladies interests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughterinlaw of another. Became firstush lady after a controversial election brought her husband, george w. Bush, to the white house. Less than nine months later came the 9 11 attacks and laura bush help comfort the nation while continuing to pursue interests important to her including education, literacy, and womens health. Welcome to cspan series first lady influence and image. Tonight, we tell you the story of the wife of our 43rd preside