The White House Historical association hosted this discussion. Im the president of the White House Historical association, and its my privilege to well you, many of you back to historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capital Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues here tonight and my great friend jane campbells the new president of the capital historic society, and id like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. And tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. But before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introdu
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.
Stewart my name is stuart, the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The silver just used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. Tonight, we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all, we have guests from Smith College tonight, the Washington Cl
Tonight and my great friend the new president of the capitol historical society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. And tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. But before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things id like to share. First of all we have guests from Smith College here tonight, the Washington Club of Smith College. Stand up the washington Smith College crowd. Theyre our special guests tonight and were honored to have them. Id also like to tell you a little bit about the White House Historical association. And for those of you who have been with us before know i love to talk about our wonderful mission begun in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. And remember she was only 31 years old when her husband was inaugurated p
I am happy to have governor sununu in this room. Tonight, were making history to learn about some of the innerworkings of the white house. There have been pundits and professors. There was a professor a couple months ago. He led a group of us egypt, 97 of us to be precise. He is the person professor pushing back on the dates of the pyramid and sphinx, like 10,000 years. I think it is wonderful. Family a famous writer by the name of microclimate of mark twain, who was here. My father, as a 12yearold boy he used to sit with the other kid, and mark twain would read some of his latest work. Of course, most special of all, the white house connection was the 300 pound president. William howard taft secretary of the treasury built the house in 1902. William taft visited twice. One of the times he visited, they invited the whole town. The good president shook hands supper0 people for the was one ofdfather the guests. He brought along his 12yearold son, my father. 40 years later, daddy bought t