The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by rear admiral brent w. Scott, deputy chief of chaplains for the United States navy and chaplain of the marine corps in washington, d. C. The guest chaplain please join me in prayer. Heavenly father, we begin this day in the privilege of prayer, thanking you for this great nation, a people gathered from every tongue and tribe, bound together through the more noble ideals of liberty and justice and equality, formed and favored as one nation under god. We ask your help as you continue to make us as one. We pray for our senate in this session, and ask you to bless them with wisdom and discernment to lead our people toward reconciliation, to rebuild our nations confidence in justice, to restore our sense of equality. Free each one from the divisive distractions of any lesser ideals that they may more powerfully serve the people as a body of, by, and for the people, making every effort to keep an
She has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles with the us senate as well as the library of congress, dr. Shogun teaches government students at Georgetown University and served as vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Another feather in her cap in an illustrious resume is that she currently serves as a cochair of the board of directors at the womens Suffrage National Monument Foundation designated by the congress to build the first memorial in dc dedicated to the history of the movement for womens equality. Its a huge deal. To begin with our panelists we have elaine rice bachmann, who is the state archivist of maryland and a coauthor of a wonderful book designing camelot published by the White House Historical association, and im proud to say it was launched in this very room on july 28th, which happens to be Jacqueline Kennedys birthday. I was there for that event and when im tired of practicing law i go into my study and i lo
Good time. Well start our second panel today. First i want to introduce the moderator our very own colleen shogun. Who is the Senior Vice President at the David M Rubinstein National Center for white house history of the White House Historical association . Dr. Shogun is a trained political scientist with a phd in american politics from Yale University a we continue now the White House Historical associations discussion on the presidency and Historic Preservation. Ive, next the contributions of women in preserving the white house and other president ial sites. I hope you are having a good time. We will start our second panel today. First, i want to introduce the moderator, our very own colleen shogan. Who is a Senior Vice President at the david m. Rubenstein National Center for National History of the White House Historical association. Doctor shogan is a trained political scientist, with a ph. D. In american politics from Yale University, as well as a bachelors degree in Political Sci
Good time. Well start our second panel today. First i want to introduce the moderator our very own colleen shogun. Who is the Senior Vice President at the David M Rubinstein National Center for white house history of the White House Historical association . Dr. Shogun is a trained political scientist with a phd in american politics from Yale University as well as a bachelors degree in Political Science from boston college. She has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles with the us senate as well as the library of congress, dr. Shogun teaches government students at Georgetown University and served as vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Another feather in her cap in an illustrious resume is that she currently serves as a cochair of the board of directors at the womens Suffrage National Monument Foundation designated by the congress to build the first memorial in dc dedicated to the history of the movement for womens equality. I
Hello. Great to be back with you all. I hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. So many wonderful places here in alexandria. I want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to Historic Alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. I also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. Thank you for joining us. And of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. Im very, very happy and very honored to be here today. I learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their Global Impact. So just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. Our George George mason, the fourth was a f