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Thank you for braving the elements and joining us this evening. I am the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. As our members and regular attendees know [laughter] that is wonderful, i have not done anything yet. We provide workshops, run National History day, convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions. More than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items, and we provide to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings we have the equivalent of 2. 5 president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams, and pers...

Welcome to the Constitution Center. Tos is such a happy day celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] nonpartisans a mission and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new boo...

[applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the newseums night tv studio and another addition of inside media. I am the director of programs here at the museum. As the 2020 residential election rapidly starts to invade our daily newspaper, and with joe bidens announcement fueling the fire this week, what better time to look back at the history of the presidency and to examine the character and dignity of the men who has held office . We dive in deep to that topic today as we discussed the new cspan book, the president s, ranking americas best and worst chief executives. The ...

Series of books on the president s and i said, arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. And he said i want you to do one thing. Allen evans have done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him. I knew he was a tennesseean and im a tennesseean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old homeplace in columbia is preserved ...

Biography for the series of books on the president. I said arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. And he said i want you to do one thing. Allen evans have done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him. I knew he was a tennesseean and im a tennesseean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old homeplace in columbia i...