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My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy. I feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. This is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. And i have spent time in using the archives here. And coming here has been able to enabled me to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. I have also wanted to join such traveler...

Presented to George Washington. This presentation from Smithsonian Associates and the Historical Society of washington dc is about one hour. I do not have any visuals and i can claim that is because i do not know how to do it, but the truth is that i never know how i will say it until i get here. I hope you will forgive me for the lack of visuals. My title is dreams, nightmares and neglect. I will start with earlier than 1783. I will start with the european explorations the early part of , the 17th century, so it is going to be almost a 200year dream, but it will go fast, as i concentrate on w...

Do not know how to do it, but the truth is i never know what i am going to say and how i am going to say it until i get here. At so, i hope you will forgive me for the lap of visuals. My title for the lacking of visuals for the lack of visuals. My title i will start with earlier than 1783. I will start with the european expirations, the early part of the 17th century, so it is going to be almost a 200year dream but it will go fast as i concentrate on what happened once the dream was realized. In 1607, john smith entered the sevenmile wide mouth of the Potomac River and headed north. Whether he...

16,000 and we are still above it. Nicole petallides on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Nicole del 16,000, we saw the dow closing with its 40th record close of the year. 2013, certainly a monumental year for stocks, Dow Jones Industrial average 12. 5 points sitting at 16,023, points away, six points away from the alltime Record Record intraday high, we will be setting new highs, the nasdaq index in the with a up arrows, ticketing nasdaq up 1 3 and leaders on the dow like bowling, johnson and johnson, travelers and caterpillar as we watch the trend to the upside, this is our seventh straight we...

Lyndon johnson developed a reputation as a dmen straightive public speaker with a pension for telling tall tales. His six consecutive terms in the house of representatives and two term as a senator from texas could not erase his down home image. Many democrats in 1960 frowned upon kennedys choice for a man they believed belched allowed, cussed, violated personal space, and never apologized. Once president , he claimed that he did not, want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur. But johnson liked to be in charge. In private his wife said he was a warm and mellow man. In gener...