Who portrays George Washington at mount vernon. This is about 90 minutes. Good evening, everyone. I want to welcome everyone to a wonderful presentation tonight. Washingtons indispensable partner and his interaction with our Founding Fathers. I excited to introduce forgot to tell you who i am. I am jill kelley, the chapter president. Joe kelly, the chapter president of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society of the state of pennsylvania. I wasvery proud tonight about to introduce our pres ident, but a special guest has asked if they can say a few words. Ladies and gentlemen, ive been given the honor tonight and the introducing our distinguished and special guest. He prefers to call himself a former. His accomplishments go far beyond the tilling of the earth. He has served as a member of the house of burgess in virginia and as a delegate to the continental congress. He has received an Honorary Degree of doctors of law from harvard university, yale college, and other renowned institutio
We are going to began and begin and we are delighted that youre all here. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to our book event. The new book is a great book. It is called is College Worth it. I am a resident fellow at aei and it is my pleasure to introduce the speakers were today. We are coming up on the 100 and 51st anniversary of the moral act, which was enacted on july 2 of 1862. One of the remarkable achievements under the Lincoln Administration in addition to fighting the civil war. Landmark in Higher Education begins with an act donating public lands for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts. The public states have public land for colleges to teach branches of learning is related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial practices in the pursuit of life. It seems to me that they knew exactly what they were about. That was back in 1862 and that may be less true for us today. We have gone from
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