I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812, and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It is almost like a miniature of this dome that we have in our church space and the Original Church was built as a greek cross. So it was an even four sides and just six years later in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We dont know who t
Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on facebook live, my name is stuart. And i am the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to commute to the Historic House as well as to the White House Historical association. Tonights we had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservatio
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