1600 session followers know that the educational mission of the association is housed in the david m rubinstein national center for white house history. so it is no surprise that our wonderful friend david rubenstein was a featured part of the galas program. everybody in the room was moved by mr. rubenstein's powerful and poignant remarks as he spoke passionately about why the mission and work of the white house historical association is important to support the white house that we know is much different than the one that was originally designed the ones that was originally designed was much smaller in many ways as many of you may know it's changed over the years and in fact at one point it was so dilapidated in falling apart. that was completely gutted completely gutted when harry trum was president and they started all over again keeping the outside. but the inside of the white house really needed a lot of work in jacqueline. kennedy really made that possible by the extraordinary effort. she made that involves citizens in restoring the white house now, why should we help restore and preserve