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I see you have social distance on your mind, and that is a very good thing. Congratulations, tremendous job you are doing. I want to thank everyone for being at the white house, a very special place. Matter where you go in the world, the love the white house. And being in the east room in particular was so many important functions have taken place over the years. Today we are celebrating American Workers and Small Businesses. We have done a job you and we are going to make it so as we open of our country you are going to be in good shape instead of losing your businesses and binding finding em...

Attention on the show. The fact that the concentration of cases, still seems to be overwhelmingly in the new york city metropolitan area. That includes all five boroughs. Outside the Greater New York city area. Now that is not necessarily a shock. What tends to be here is the idea that when it comes to the number of new cases and the deaths it is about two out of three in both cases that come from the new york city metropolitan area. Why would i mention that . Because on the 15th of this month were going to see the state ease up on some of the stay at home provisions but that will be largely i...

At things like artifacts, serial culture, paintings, fine arts, decorative arts, the white house has all of those things as well. If you are into politics, policy obviously, that is the big one people think about. Even in terms of pop culture, or political culture, understanding the white house is a symbol for american democracy. And how that symbol has changed and evolved over time. It says a lot about who we are, the american identity itself, and i think all of these different ways of studying the white house touches on all of these Different Things that you may not get in a traditional Amer...

American history textbook, but if you dig a little bit deeper, theres an incredible history just beneath the surface. Lindsay, also a White House Historical association historian and new in the role there. Were going to spend some time with both of you learning about your work and also about the association. So im going to ask you to give the elevator speech about the association itself, how it got started and what its mission is. Sure, so the association was founded by Jacqueline Kennedy to preserve and protect the history of the white house and then share that history with the American Peopl...

But think about to when johnson pivska visited the class and we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. And he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . He said there isnt any contemporary evidence, Andrew Jackson never mentions planting a tree, theres nothing in newspapers so it seems like this is a story that has these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually firs...