Our hoist machine is located overhead, and this is a traction machine, so it is an evolution beyond the winding from elevator. This is the drive ship. This is the gear box, and this is original from 1913. It is a heavyduty design that we really do not see any more today. That is probably part of the reason why this elevator has already lasted close to 100 years. This is the break for the voice machine teh brake. We have the original controller here. Fortunately, the power is turned off. This room was built in 1913, but the National Elevator cut actually was not introduced until 1921. Tell us about this antique controller. What makes it different from a modern controller . The elevator is running on the original d. C. Power. Really simple in operation. Does not include a lot of the features we would have in an elevator today, Automatic Door operation, dispatching, push button operation. None of those features are present, but this is the original from 1913. On this side, we have all the
Role of first lady over 44 administrations. Watch American History tv tonight and over the weekend. Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on Facebook Live. My name is stewart mclaruin and im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you to Decatur House and to the White House Historical association. Tonights program is very exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. We would like to welcome dr. Jim cavanaugh of the Nixon Foundation and his wife ester in the front row. Hugh hewitt the president of the Nixon Foundation you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests with us here, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the Nixon Foundation and were honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States.
I say dont come out too often. This is unusual for me. I do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for planning this wonderful evening for me. I shall remember it always and thanks to the young people for this great pat nixon, first republican first lady to address a national convention, miami, 1972. She went interest a hard background to the white house. She traveled more widely than anybody before her, made volunteerism her issue and was chief supporter and behind the scenes political adviser to her husband president Richard Nixon. Good evening and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of pat nixon. Though her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate, so were going to tell more about her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are our two guests to tell her s
A really important day for the us Space Program, lay it all out for us, whats going to happen today in florida. We are counting down to the launch of two astronauts, Doug Hurley Bob Behnken at 4 43 eastern time today. This will be the first time american astronauts or any astronaut has launched from us soil into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, july 8th, 2011, was the last time this happened here and the weather permitting it will happen again this afternoon. Tell us more about the mission itself, walk us through the next period of time with this launch. The astronauts should be waking up about now. They will have breakfast, get a weather briefing, then they will be suited up in their spacesuits around midday and head out to the launchpad a little after 1 00 pm eastern and board the spacecraft, go through the final leak checks and voice checks in Mission Control and then, all things being go they will on 4 43 eastern, get into space or get into orbit abou
Im the president of the historical association. It is my privilege to welcome you to Decatur House as well as the White House Historical association. Tonights program is exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim esther, inhis wife, the front row. [applause] hewitt 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 friends,ations, staff, and we are honored to have you here. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. Under her leadership, the white as collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection. That is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but it is important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission.