Now we take you to beaverton, joint where they held a town hall meeting. [applause] how many of you have never been to one of our town meetings . Faces,ul, so many new and the congresswoman and i feel that you are the faces of Representative Government so thank you for coming out. [laughter] [applause] do at the usually start of a town meeting is i talk about 40 or 45 minutes or everybody thinks it is really a lot of fun. Some people over there think im serious. Their face got all pale. That is not what we do at a townhall meeting. For the next 90 minutes we are not going to be reading speeches or using teleprompters. We want to hear from you. We are just going to field your questions, take your comments because that is really what democracy is all about. ,t is not about trickledown decide things in washington and then everybody just accept it. It is bottom up. It comes from the grassroots. [applause] speeches. I am thrilled to have the congresswoman with us today. I angle going to int
Now we take you to beaverton, joint where they held a town hall meeting. [applause] how many of you have never been to one of our town meetings . Faces,ul, so many new and the congresswoman and i feel that you are the faces of Representative Government so thank you for coming out. [laughter] [applause] do at the usually start of a town meeting is i talk about 40 or 45 minutes or everybody thinks it is really a lot of fun. Some people over there think im serious. Their face got all pale. That is not what we do at a townhall meeting. For the next 90 minutes we are not going to be reading speeches or using teleprompters. We want to hear from you. We are just going to field your questions, take your comments because that is really what democracy is all about. ,t is not about trickledown decide things in washington and then everybody just accept it. It is bottom up. It comes from the grassroots. [applause] speeches. I am thrilled to have the congresswoman with us today. I angle going to int
Meetings . Wonderful. So many new faces. The congresswoman and i feel you are the faces of representative government, so thank you for coming out. [applause] some people over there think i am serious. The face got all pale. That is not what we do at a town hall meeting. Minutes, the90 congresswoman and i will not read any speeches. We will not use any teleprompters. We want to hear from you. We are just going to field your questions, take your comments, because that is really what the marc veasey is all about. Trickle down,t decide things in washington and then everybody just except it. It is bottom up it comes from the grassroots. [applause] speeches. I am thrilled to have the congresswoman with us today. We have one little bit of business. In have all these volunteers the food bank with us. They need you in the summer. [applause] we all love to be with the food bank in the winter for the holidays and the like. They always have lots of folks. Know that in oregon, we own august. Everyb
We are at Portland Oregon in the lewis and clark special collections per in we are going to see a range of collections from our lewis and clarke collection, including material representative of the times of the types of things they brought with them. Contemporary material that informs their decisions and the type of expedition they took you we will see contemporary accounts of the expedition created immediately after their returns to meet returns to washington. We going to see material that reflects on the expedition and romanticizes the events. I think they show a developing relationship to americans of the west. We start with material that reflects the nature of adventuring and the unknown from the early 19th and even 18thcentury and then move forward once the west was beginning to be known into a andar a more scientific knowledgebased understanding. We are going to learn about the traveling library that they took along with them. Then we are going to talk to associate head of specia
Queen mary, of course. So, lets begin. Its dawn an Inauguration Day. In washington, dc. Huge amount of people gather on the washington mall. In 2009 it was from the capitol all the way to the Lincoln Memorial. We just lost our picture. Here we go and theyre there, of course for the inauguration. People gathered to watch in other places as well. In times square in new york city in classrooms around the country, in paris, in iraq, in afghanistan, people are watching the u. S. President ial inauguration. Theyve all come there, and theres a big crowd on the mall. Im going to speak to you today about this great historic subject, Great American institution, and im not going to im going to do it in the same way in which i organized the book. The book is not coniologial, starting with George Washington and john adams. Instead its divided up by they various parts of the day, and within each part of the day i sprinkle in vignettes. Some serious, some traditional, and three. Odd ball events becau