hammatt also answered questions from viewers and questions from patrick madden. >> and now our featured speech or speaker she is in her current role, since 2016 and prior to the archives she managed the design of a fabrication of a 22,000 square foot exhibition for the mississippi arts and entertainment experience working in the museum for her entire career, predominantly in new orleans, her local state and private organizations, dawn has overseen disaster recovery efforts following two disasters. her work is chiefly been in collection management and administration. dawn are you with us today? >> i am, thank you. thanks, patrick for inviting me. >> i don't know if we have your video yet. let's see. we will make sure we have your video going. it is great to have you on and before we let you jump in, let me ask how are you doing and how is the team doing there during the pandemic? >> they are doing pretty well. as you know, our site is closed to the public as the other presidential libraries are. we've been doing amazing work via tele-work. we've positioned all our educational programs on

hammatt also answers viewers and national archives foundation executive director patrick madden.ndation hosted this event and provided the video. >> dawn hammatt is the director of the eisenhower presidential library and museum in abilene, kansas. she is in her current role -- she's been in her current role since 2016. prior to the archives she managed the design and fabrication of a 22,000 square foot exhibition for the mississippi arts of entertainment experience. working in the museum field her entire career, dawn has overseen disaster recovery efforts following two disasters. her work has chiefly been in management and administration. dawn, are you with us today? >> i am. thank you. thanks, patrick, for inviting me. okay. i don't know if we have your video yet. let's see. we'll make sure we got your video going. it's great to have you on. before we let you jump in, let me ask, how are you doing, how is the team doing there during the pandemic? >> so, i think we're doing pretty well. as you know, our site is closed to the public as the other presidential libraries. we've been

i'm pleased to be here today, and i would like to thank patrick madden the head of the foundation and camille mcdonald. the senior director for special events for all they have done to make this program possible and the support of the national archives foundation. i would also like to thank the archivists of the united states david feria whose agencies holds the records of offers ladies papers from lou henry hoover to michelle obama in the presidential libraries. today, i am very pleased to be talking on two very special first. ladies eleanor roosevelt and lady bird johnson and the incredibly effective advances they tried to make for civil rights issues. in fact in spite of the fact that they both encountered death threats. eleanor roosevelt consistently fought racial discrimination and prejudice and in fact was the stronger advocate than her husband just a few examples of what she did included joining and addressing the 1936 annual naacp and national urban league conferences. advocating for any lynching legislation and supporting multiple anti segregation campaigns co-chairing the na

hammatt also answered questions from viewers and questions from patrick madden. >> and now our featuredspeech or speaker she is in her current role, since 2016 and prior to the archives she managed the design of a fabrication of a 22,000 square foot exhibition for the mississippi arts and entertainment experience working in the museum for her entire career, predominantly in new

next on the presidency the national archives foundation's patrick madden talks with warren finch director of the george h.w. bush presidential librarian museum in college station, texas, mr. finch describes the complex in its new face since the deaths of george and barbara bush. we see old film of the bush honeymoon hear about mrs. bush's family scrapbooks discover, which oval office desk drawer held mr. bush's yale baseball glove and learn the story behind his funeral train. and then in an hour we hear why dolly madison lucy hayes and betty ford are not easily categorized first ladies the national archives foundation hosted both of these events and provided the video. i want to introduce our speaker today warren finch. he's the director of the bush library and college station. he's enjoyed a long history with the institution first working on the library project team in 1993, and then becoming a member of the library staff when it opened in 1997. he had several positions and ascendant eventually to the directorship in 2004. he is really an archivist through and through having served at th