Series, saturday at 10 p. M. And sunday at 4 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. Next, Cornell University history professor Lawrence Glickman describes how the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new deal. He is the author of Free Enterprise an American History. Lawrence glickman is in the department of history at cornell. Enterprise to free in 2019, he has written for. Ther books he writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] with hisn review articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for the behindthescenes work and pete, eric, and christian and all organizations that make this possible. Thank you to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience. No historian works alone. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and i would like to begin by mentioni
Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in ho
Rich and deep history, the conditions are optimal for inventing president ial and first lady laura and legend, but as we see with the gilbert story, for example, history is often, gated and complex often complicated and complex. This and otherh programs on her website, where all of our video is archived. The cspan cities to her is exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History to be on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Experienceur we will the history of the history of this southwest texas city. The san with a visit to antonio mission historical park. Following that in 20 minutes we hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. Visit one of the citys most recognizable features, the historic riverwalk. Later, a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest old dings in the city, dating to the founding. We begin our feature at mission four colonialof Spanish Missions i
Its formality and tradition, and the feeling that theres a lot of joy that we would like to share with people. This is the card that i wish we could afford with private donations to send to everyone in america, but of course we cant through so i hope that the media people will be able to see it. Goodbye everybody. Our inspiration for this years theme, the kitty was too shy to come down, the theme this year for the holiday decorations is all creatures great and small. In this room, you will see papiermache models of a lot of different animals that have lived here or worked here. Back here are the shapes from Woodrow Wilsons term, when everybody who worked at the white house had gone overseas and they hired sheep to clear the white house lawn. Is will see algonquin, that the pony of one of Teddy Roosevelts son, and eli gale, Teddy Roosevelts mccall. They had a large menagerie of animals with their seven children who lived here. But every president has had some animals, somebody who lived
Of the Nixon Foundation, his wife esther on the front row. And the president of the Nixon Foundation who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations, and staff and friends of the foundation. We are honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th inverse tree of tricia nixon becoming the first lady of the United States. Under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection, which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission, which was inspired as all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private, nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of the beautiful staterooms in the white house, to the acquisitio