thank god she did to monticello. she came to us in 2016 as our first public relations and community engagement officer. and it's my delight to welcome her tonight as a colleague. but more importantly as an honored speaker. a common refrain in gail's book is and i quote giving voice to the ancestors. and she does that of course and we try to do that by telling their stories. she describes herself as when i quote a woman whose voice is used as an instrument. not for herself but for those written out of history. a woman who after a lifelong journey founder family her home her purpose end of quote and in part it was because of monticello's work to find and learn from the descendants of its enslaved community. in a project called getting word. that gale found more of her family and their story gail's courageous telling of her story and that of her family. provides an inspiration to all of us and of course gail's book includes the work she has done here since she joined the staff as our first community engagement officer.

about 80 of the lived at monticello. so they far up numbered. the free people at monticello others lived elsewhere in albemarle county on his farms and at his estate and bedford county. virginia which is south of monticello south of charlottesville where he also built a very beautiful house. i'm not going to talk about today. they were integral to what he did. to his making his living some of them worked in trades others in the fields some in the main house. many were members of the hemis family as as you probably some of the story. elizabeth hermitage said her children were part of the whales of state and tradition says that john wales the father of six. of having his children and thus they were half-brothers. to jefferson's wife, martha ah, jefferson gave the having special positions and the oldest slave jefferson jefferson freed and his lifetime and it is well, we're all hemmings. giving credence to the oral history that they were related to him years after his wife debt wife's death jefferson father at least six of sally having his children

paine agreed to be painted, and jefferson hung the portrait in quite a place, on the walls of monticello, his house in virginia. that was 1787. now fast forward 40 years to 1828. thomas jefferson is dead. his family are selling off his possessions. when the auctioneerens dig out thomas paine's portrait, they find the canvas torn and battered. there are mouse holes through his eyes, stab marks in his chest. as if some children in jefferson's family had been allowed to vandalize it. the fate of thomas paine's painting is, i think -- [inaudible] for his own extraordinary life. the man toasted around the world in the 1790s -- 1770s and 1780s as the hero of the american revolution ended his days as a discredited pariah, unceremoniously cast aside. the thing about the painting at monticello are, it's our first clue that thomas paine never sat comfortably in the pantheon of america's founding fathers. a working class immigrant and sometime -- [inaudible] paine sticks out from the rest like a sore thumb. famously plain spoken, both devilish and smart, paine was also far more radical and ideologi

agreed to be painted, and jefferson hung the little portrait in a private place on the walls of monticello, his house in virginia. that was 1787. now fast forward 40 years to 1828. thomas jefferson is dead. his family are selling off his possessions. when the auctioneers dig out tom paine's portrait from the bottom of a box, they find his canvas torn and battered. there are knife holes through tom paine's eyes. there are stab marks in his chest as if some children in jefferson's family had been allowed to vandalize it. the fought of tom paine's painting is, i think, an apt metaphor for tom paine's own extraordinary life. the man toasted around the world in the 1770s and 1780s as the hero of the american revolution ended his days as a discredited pariah, unceremoniously cast aside. the fate of that painting at monticello is also our first clue that thomas paine has never sat comfortably in the pantheon of america's founding fathers. a working class immigrant and sometime manual laborer, paine sticks out from the rest like a sore thumb. famously plainspoken but devilishly smart, paine was fa

burn on the grill. [ laughter ] "and after his presidency, he moved on up to the east side okay to monticelloh is what he called his deluxe apartment in the sky. all right, let's do laps!" [ laughter ] by the way - [ laughter ] while we're talking about it, i just feel like it's worth pointing out that ticket sales for this trump-o'reilly history tour have been lackluster. photos of the first event in sunrise, florida, showed lots of empty seats in the arena, and the "south florida sun-sentinel" reported that "many seats remained empty in the cavernous arena, the top level was closed, and ticket-buyers were upgraded to the lower bowl. yikes! i mean, there was better attendance at my son's kindergarten holiday pageant or there would have been, had it not been canceled due to covid which is a real shame because my son would have killed it as a wise man, because i've been teaching him my pacino "whoa, did somebody order the myrrh?!" [ laughter ] "joseph, that kid does not look like you!" [ laughter ] the juxtaposition -- the juxtaposition here - [ laughter ] "we got to talk to joseph. no, franki

philanthropy giving generously to support icons of american history from the washington monument, monticello, and mount vernon. among many, many others. mr. rubenstein is -- has also provided to the u.s. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the magna carta. that is amazing to think about. the declaration of independence, the u.s. constitution, the bill of rights, the emancipation proclamation, the 13th amendment , the first map of the united states, and the first book printed in the country. additionally, david has an and start he has a program on bloomberg television that focuses on leaders and government -- in government, business, academia and philanthropy. with that background david will moderate a discussion around bipartisan governor leadership. so come up -- so, participating in this will be governor phil murphy and coordinated by david rubenstein, our moderator. please welcome to the stage david rubenstein at governor phil murphy. [applause] david: thank you for inviting me here. thank you all for joining us. why don't we start and ask the basic question of what is so goo

and specifically, monticello the general that either respond by e-mail or phone call within 24 hours,to ensure there is no delay any support or debate they may have in any way that they can provide. [inaudible]. >> thank you and as i read your testimony i think that the biggest take away that i have from it is this emphasis on prevention and how prevention i. key. based on your experience with this issue, when lines of effort it or prevention are most promising, 20 think would be smart for us to invest more in terms of prevention activity. >> i think one of the best ways is to make sure we have a resource to help train the personnel at the right level and to really work with the leadership at every level from the lowest level to the highest level and part of that is making sure that our training actually has an impact, not just talking to people but interactivity and to the extent of what the education is intended to do and frankly, it is not just making sure that we follow the rules with the perspective it goes both ways and we have to have basically an environment with dignity and r