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You chose to be with us. I would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife. Sophia and theodore are at home. Wonderful kids. I would like to also welcome are members of the board of directors who are with us. Ann stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and two are en route, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council ...

We have opened to audiences to visitors to come to melbourne and you have an opportunity to come strolled around, see the museum and Education Center and soon we will be able to open the mansion but better yet with particular challenges, maybe not a safe space for visitors, come visit and continue to support mall burning in that way. Another thing ill mention is an upcoming event, on july 8 coming up around the corner, using book talk, we will feature judge ginsburg who is the host and creator o...

Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 harriet lane spent quite a bit of time traveling with her uncle James Buchanan. They entertained International Visitors during their time in the white house as well. One of the most interesting groups they had visit them was the japanese delegation. The japanese delegation came to the white house in 1860 and they came bearing all types of gifts. What we see are some of the Little Things they brought, beautiful little shoes, paper folded obje...

She hated politics, hated it with a passion. She did not move in to the white house with pierce. This couch is one piece that they took to the white house. They had eight rooms that they had to furnish with their personal furniture. When she did arrive, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her dead son. In her great grief, she calls him, my precious child, i must write to you, although you are never to see it or know it. A very poignant letter written by a grievin...

And now, from alexandria virginia, the closing session from the emerging revolutionary war symposium. A panel of historians summarize their thoughts from the day and discuss the causes of the American Revolution. All right, cool, thank you all for coming out today. Thank you to alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are trying to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible so we cannot get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. You know, this is the first inaugural emergin...

Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined ...

York town, including liberty fever,. She developed exhibitions for your, town and jamestown, including ken asieh women, which i highly encourage you to go see before it closes in january. Also, forgotten soldiers, African Americans in the revolutionary war. Open until march 22nd, 2020. She will present a tailormade revolution. Please welcome kate grubber. Good afternoon. You have to get through me before you can get too happy hour, so i promise i will make it happen quickly. Mark twain said it b...

Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergi...

This is American History tv, featuring events, interviews, museums, and historic places, his exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan three. Had to close my 14th two all visitors. Momentan historic because we had not closed for an extended time since the u. S. War all stop 160 years, we welcome people to the estate. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing. We still have important work to in the state. You do for lambs being born every day, plants and gardens that needed t...

The immediate concern was the safety of the staff and the families and the visitors at mount vernon. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing, but having to shut down, we still had some work to do here at the estate. We had some lambs being born every day. Plants and gardens that needed to be maintained. Buildings that need to be maintained. At this moment, we are outside. We had to bad and down the hatches in our collections spaces and administrative offices. Transferquickly quick...