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Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. It is wonderful to be here. I felt like i have come home. I lived in washington for a number of years and logged many hours in this building doing research for my first book. Today i am talking about two of our most popular first ladies, Martha Washington and Dolley Madison. At Martha Jefferson and her daughter cassidy but i am confining my remarks to the washingtons and madison. The important people in the book are the enslaved people martha and dolly claimed as property. Martha washington and Dolley Madison both supervised a large contingent of...

st. john's church on the edge of president's park. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, neal, for that kind introduction. i can always tell when my staff works on an introduction for me because they tell you everything about me except the fact that i was president of my third-grade class. two years in a row. [ laughter ] there's hope for everybody. i condition tell you how pleased i am to be here today, to be part of what is a very important conversation that will illuminate african-american life and work in this neighborhood, which has always been an incredibly important integrated ne...