the white house? well the theory of restoration and preservation, is that by restoring and preserving the past we can make certain that we don't make that were made in the past and we can learn and do better citizens for the future. that's the whole theory of history why we study history. it's to learn from the past make certainly don't make the same mistakes and do better at going forward. now the human brain has not yet evolved such that when you see a picture of the white house or a picture of any historic building, it's the same as actually visiting it you can look at the picture of the white house and get some sense of what it's all about, but it's not the same as a visiting it and therefore if you preserve it more people want to visit it what people want to see what this white house is about and therefore our citizens flock to see it all the time and they should and it's possible to make this white house better because we can provide the resources through the white house historical association t

in restoring the white house, mrs. kennedy came in with this plan that she wanted to make sure that the white house would be historic in its presentation to the american people and beyond. and it seems to me that perhaps not just coincidental, that at the very time that she begins to focus on her first lady ship on restoring the white house, there's a book that comes on in 1960 by political scientists cult professor richard new staff, who would become the dean of presidential scholars. he took this in a different direction. he took the concept of the power of the presidency, his president, his book was called presidential power. -- the former powers of the president dispel that in the constitution, he began to depart on that somehow in the way our earlier panelist or talking about how we could be women in power. he said the power of the president is the power to persuade, and to persuade those constituencies that they would need in order to carry out his decisions and policies. that would be the congress, office of the

this program is from the white house historical society -- association. >> our final panel, the white house gardens today, features speakers with lived experiences working in and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportu

there was no real mainstream biography about walter white. walter francis white. and i never mentioned his name, the only thing people thought about was breaking bad. and i thought that's not going to work for me. the first thing i did was i want to yale university, i look at the archives, that's where walters papers are. i want to the public library at the schomburg center in harlem. i went through most importantly the naacp papers which is a treasure trove of materials regarding walter white. and when i found was more than i hope to and i really learned that the story of walter's life and why we should know about it is really much greater than i even anticipated. so who was walter white? one way to say this, explain in a very short sentence. you might say walter francis white was the powerful civil rights figure, in the first half of the 20th century. and already, you're saying to yourself, how can that be? he's making this up, it can be true. because of that was true, we would all know who was. another way to define walter sesay walter white was sort of the mos

i'm a white man. so he turned to the next sad. i understand the suffering of your people and this lawyer said, i'm sorry. i'm a white man. so he turned the walter and he said i was told one of you was a -- that was the term of the time and he looked at walter and said surely it can't be you. but what happened next to me is extraordinary they fought this case clarence darrow. freed the sweet family they were found innocent. but what's more important in terms of walter white's life is clarence. darrow came to give a speech in harlem. and what he said changed for the trajectory of walter white and set the the stage for the second half of white lies because the second half is about politics where harry truman comes in. clarence darrow says in his speech and this harlem church? african-americans in this country for generations vote for the republican party with that question all the time. and if anyone didn't vote for the bat african-american and for the republican party, it would be considered, know treac

their goal is to purify the white race and create a future for white children. basically they want their own state. they want to have an all white sovereign state inside of the united states. their goal is racial purification. ah, after decades of violence, the power dynamics had changed and the collusion that once existed between the court system, the police and the clan was no more. it was now impossible for the claim to publicly recruit without wiling up. its opponents with the clam began mainly spreading its propaganda through the internet. and when it came to taking action, they started relying on a new strategy. the lone wolf on april 19th, 1995 in oklahoma city, a car bomb went off and destroyed a federal building. there were 168 deaths and nearly 700 wounded. it was at the time, the deadliest terrorist attack to ever occur on american soil. the culprit was timothy mcveigh, a veteran and former clansman. and he had 2 accomplices. you had domestic cherish and you have international cherish. and so right now, the domestic terrorism and, and our country and

this is not the first white house school, but it likely was the last time the white house had a school inside. jacqueline kennedy had an experience where caroline had ballet classes outside of the white house, which was no issue until they became until her husband became president and then they were caroline was being followed by reporters. so she decided this is kennedy decided to create what was initially called a playgroup you're kind of evolved into a nursery and then by the time carolyn what caroline was school age became a first grade classroom and john jr. was part of the playgroup ultimately, but it was comprised of children. who were the kids of their close friends and the parents all pulled their resources and funded? the salary of the teachers the parents pooled resources for the supplies books. there was a trampoline that was purchased for the the school kids. it was her way of providing her kids with an environment where they were learning in something like a classroom setting with other children, but again, it was controlled they were. in you know behind is for private wa

, we want white tenants in our white community. the american flags they put up there in the corners of the sign, isn't that a nice touch? that was february, 1942 because in february of 1942, february 28th, to be exact, two dozen black families, again, these are families of workers at the new defends plants, two dozen african american families tried to move into that new housing that had been built for defense workers in detroit. white was it is organized a tight picking around that housing, and they also block the moving trucks from being allowed in to drop off any of the belongings of the new family started just arrived. the white mob's attacks the black families, and force them back by throwing rocks at them. with dozens of people were injured. that was february 1942. in april 1942, these two men were arrested for having organized the violence. they were indicted by federal grand jury. these two men were part of something called, the national workers league. that's kind of a weird name for a group organizing anti-black violent ri

stay at the white house overnight. for political reasons one he was married to a white woman and two he was african-american and jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis jr. this great celebrity stay at the white house. so it's a story. it's a it's a it's a long story that has major implications and the lincoln assassination changes. i think they're the trajectory of that story and you know, i don't do counterfactuals and i don't know what would have been different it had lincoln lived, but what i do try to show is that for a brief period for four years the white house is different than it was before and it's different than it would be for a long time afterd

ladies do to the white house. i would just say the emmy shows the popularity of the tour the televised tour 1962 and how it was received in we've already talked about first ladies and popular culture. it actually became such a part of popular culture so much so that if people have seen the fairly recent movie jackie, they know that that piece both the camelot interview that mrs. kennedy did right after the assassination and the tour in 1962 became a major part of that hollywood film several years ago. well, and i would just say that i don't think it's a matter of following up. i think that that anytime you have something like mrs. kennedy's tour in which in which what she did was kind of open up the possibility. i think that was that was really kind of if they followed in any way they followed that they followed this thing that we can say. yes. this is our home. this is where we live and this is anybody can come here and be a part of this and i think that's the part that they if they were following anything. they

in the preservation of the white house. but i do think it is also important to briefly acknowledge a few of their broader contributions to preservation as well. in addition to creating white house historical association, mrs. kennedy almost singlehandedly preserve lafayette square, sparing it from the federal building that would have radically altered its character. in doing so, helping to establish the idea that the federal government should preserve cultural landscapes like the square. in 1966, when president johnson sent to the final version of the national historic preservation act to congress, it was accompanied by a handwritten note that stated simply, lady bird wants it. and on may the 8th, 1973, almost exactly 50 years ago today, first lady patricia nixon read the first presidential proclamation of preservation month at, where else, but the storied decatur house, saying, as the pace of change accelerates in the world around us, americans more than ever need a lively awareness of our roots and our origins in the past

youth, when they are exposed white supremacy to white supremacy.use through learning about the history essay of white supremacy, they are better able to recognize so when they are approached or they see a what supremacist means online or what supremacist entered into the multilayer videogame or they receive messages they are able to recognize it as not only ite supracist ideology, but also recognize it as wrong. and because we are in a time in which even before this so-called attack on critical race theory, it was an abysmal amount of antiracist education in school and there were ve few teachers who felt they had the ability or the courage to teach the truth about race. and that has only declined. there is a must even a less ability to ptect particularly white male teenagers, which makes them even more vulnerable to white supremacist ideology at a moment they're trying to figure out why there's so much polarization, what is the existential threat? is the existential threat, the problem racism or is it antiracism? is it white supremacist ideology or

the white man has them the supreme rate with this secret society of white supremacists breaches hatred of black people and its long history goes back decades. it is re emerged again and again. it's crimes have caused bloodshed in america for more than 150 years. ah 150 years of hatred, racism, and for 150 years of exclusion, violence and rage this tale of cruelty still haunts the united states. mm. mm. ah. in june 18, 65. the american civil war finally came to an end. after 4 years of deadly combat, claiming more than 700000 lives, the abolitionist north finally defeated the pro slavery southern states. ah, general robert e lee surrendered to general ulysses s grant at appa maddox. and a few months later, the 13th constitutional amendment ended slavery. nearly 4000000 of the south's 9000000 inhabitants had been enslaved. and at last, they were free of their chains. for plantation owners, this revolution was unbearable. ah, slave owners were of course, oh, terrified by the end of slavery, they were terrified economically that they would lose their very cheap labor force . but they were

white, has died. shortly after the pair was taken into custody. >> i don't know where she was shot. but it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> reporter: it was the tip that led authorities to the pair, who share the same last name but not related. security cameras capture what appears to be casey at a car wash, placing the pair in the area three states away from where this story started. this afternoon, the couple was spotted near the local sheriff's office, fleeing and leading police in a pursuit that would end in a car crash. it all started 11 days ago, with an escape here in the quiet town of florence, alabama. in in video, deputy white, a 25-year veteran of the sheriff's department at the corrections facility, can be escorting inmate casey white, serving a 75-year prison sentence. the pair exited the detention center unaccompanied. >> she was alone, which is a strict violation of policy. our policy is, any inmate under those charges are to have two sworn deputies escort them. >> reporter: deput

telling the rich stories of white house history has been the mission of the white house historical association since we were founded in 1961 by first lady jacqueline kennedy, he was her vision at the young age of 1861 by first lady jacqueline kennedy. it was her vision that and the young age of 30 want to create an organization that would provide non taxpayer funding to maintain the museum standard of the house, which had been somewhat neglected through presidencies leading up to the kennedys. although the association has developed and expanded over the past 60 years, the mission established by mrs. kennedy still guides our work and our offerings. earlier this month, the association celebrated our 60th anniversary with a gala at the temple of gender and the sacrum win of the metropolitan museum of art in new york. the evening featured powerful and poignant remarks from the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden, ambassador caroline kennedy, david rubenstein, chairman of our board, fred ryan, and vice chair, john rogers, and l roker soviet the master of ceremonies for the evening. we h

we are not white supremacist.ut even those policies areve good for america. >> i don't believe that all republicans are white supremacist. i have good friends were republican but we have to address certain members of the republican party including trump, used in fuel then created a relationship withtr white supremacy and called out the proud boys that validates them as an organization and emboldens them we must hold people accountable because as you are using the policies and ideology not just as a republican we have to check no party or person increases or supports white supremacist we see that and social media and every day we see it growing seeing people against gay people those who have a governor who keeps spouting this all it does is grow hate this is what we sacrificed where the immigrants have worked hard to sacrifice their life. this isn't it we all have to take a stand and not allow white supremacist to go any olonger to push these theories and not allow any social media especially toward the kids would

this program is from the white house historical society -- association. >> our final panel, the white house gardens today, features speakers with lived experiences working in and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportu

supremacy and whitee nationalis. it's the same white supremacist conspiracy theory that inspired the neo-nazis to march through charlottesville virginia chanting jews will not replace us. i remember that group. president trump set at the time he wasn't sure that they were out of line. and they've inspired multiple mass shootings including the attack of jewish americans at a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 when hispanic americans at a walmart in el paso in 2019 and muslims as new zealand mosques in 2019 as well. a conspiracy theory the so-called great replacement theory has been dragged into the mainstream by media personalities like fox tvs tucker carlson. according to "the new york times,"on more than 400 episode, 400 episodes of tucker carlson's news program on fox tv which attracts more viewers than any other show in the history of cable news eluded to the great replacement theory. tucker carlson is a leading ideologue in the white supremacisthe movement. he's even introduced racist terminology into america's convers

how come when a white person, a sick white person the fbi should have been following, how come it's white supremacy but when a black man shoots up white people on a subway, it's not black supremacy but when a black man in minneapolis drives into ae crowd, a parade and the media reports as a car drove into a crowd. they didn't mention the fact that it was a black man who had the same type of vile hatred on the internet. the last caller mentioned something about democrats have to unite and get together and start embracing the second amendment.nt where was anybody when bernie sanders supporter targeted republican politicians on a baseball field? anybody blame bernie sanders with that? >> hampton, massachusetts, good morning. >> i believe that guy stole my thunder, is going to say the rhetoric about white people suck and past barriers to kill white people. i heard you talk about tuckerr carlson, you heard way read and wallace were heavy talks to john lennon and his rhetoric? they are race baiting all day talking about white people suck and we got to unite. talk about fascism, nobody can have

they are also in the white house. did they have any interactions with them. >> they did run into them. >> frequently? >> i don't know how frequently, but i think it was something that was not necessarily anticipated when they first got into the white house. the first interaction caroline -- she went into the white house communications room. that is what it was. there were some reporters there. someone casually asked her, where is your father? she said something like, oh, he's not doing anything. he's just sitting around with a shoes off. he's not doing anything. it ended up in -- it makes the washington post. >> you try aspirins to create a normal childhood in the strangest of circumstances. it may be impossible. that is a timeline to walk. >> yeah. images that emphasized the normalcy of childhood behavior but in a setting where you are not used to seeing that. >> they really are just kids being kids. >> one of the offshoots of popularity of the kids was when they started getting into this era of the commercialization

the mere suggestion that any white woman could ever be attracted to a black man incensed local white residents who destroyed her press ran her business partner out of town and threatened to kill as well if she ever returned to the south undeterred she turned this misfortune into an opportunity to continue her campaign against lynching on a broader scale. while simply added her personal testimony to a growing catalog of evidence that the real motivation for lynching had little to do with black criminality or the protection of women and everything to do with defending white supremacy. will's focused her attention on deconstructing the carefully cultivated narratives crafted by lynching apologists to legitimize murder in the name of community justice. for example judge luke edward lawless had infamously instructed jurors that they could not find anyone responsible for mob violence when deaths resulted from that mysterious metaphysical almost electric frenzy of the mob rather than the work of a small number of individuals. unwilling to prosecute lynchers even in high-profile cases corner

and it is important because it is a white woman writing to white people about racism.alking about instances where she has fallen short in terms of confronting racism. it is an unflinching book. one of my favorite books that i have read. >> when he got coming up on the show? >> as usual it is a packed sunday. i'll be talking to amy klobuchar about the witness health protection a, and the possible overturning over overseas weight. with that looks like for the future of the country. also, congresswoman karen bass of california, congresswoman from -- come to the show to talk about the personal and political implications of the potential death of roe. we also have a panel of experts to discuss the reputation of the supreme court moving forward. color change president richard robinson will sound the alarm on how lgbtq+ rights could be eroded. and marianne williamson, terrence ethan mayer, coren bell shun, we'll be live to sound off on the other sunday shows. as usual ali, don't want to miss that all coming up, at 10 am eastern on the sunday show. >> i absolutely will, not my

and it's an insult for the democrats to call you a white supremacist. in law enforcement they should respond and say that's not what this is about. that's not whatt the national guard is about and of the the ms are about. but what an insult. so what do they do, they set up a new department in the homeland security. have they not been infiltrated as well? the b implication of the bill is all people are bad and there is a great and worrisome thing that is infecting america when the opposite is true. i was born in the 1960s. every decade has gotten better. we have more intermarriage between races, within churches, i see less and less of this is now affecting us but they don't realize it. they are insulting the police and insulting our marines and our armed services. the bill creates to other departments. these essentially are departments that are going to be the thought police of the military. we just took down the ministry of truth and the department of homeland security. it took a couple of weeks and the biden administration has canceled it or at least p

vicky white escorting inmate casey white. the capture late today came after a key development, this surveillance showing a stolen pickup truck found abandoned at a car wash in indiana. the man in the image was believed to be casey white. abc's elwyn lopez leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, authorities announcing an end to the 11-day manhunt for capital murder suspect casey white and former corrections officer vicky white. >> casey white and vicky white are in custody. casey white surrendered. this has ended a very long and stressful and challenging week and a half. >> reporter: the duo captured after a tip. that pursuit ending in a wreck. >> vicky white has been transported to the hospital. >> reporter: this just hours after confirming a new sighting, releasing these images showing a ford f-150 pickup truck believed to have been used by the duo. it was taken almost a week ago, on may 3rd, at a car wash in indiana, about 175 miles away from middle tennessee, where authorities believe the duo ditched another vehicle

stay at the white house overnight. for political reasons one he was married to a white woman and two he was african-american and jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis jr. this great celebrity stay at the white house. so it's a story. it's a it's a it's a long story that has major implications and the lincoln assassination changes. i think they're the trajectory of that story and you know, i don't do counterfactuals and i don't know what would have been different it had lincoln lived, but what i do try to show is that for a brief period for four years the white house is different than it was before and it's different than it would be for a long time after okay. thank you guys. all right. all right. we're we'll just get going. um, great. okay, so hi everybody welcome to disability in american history and culture. it's great to see you all and hope you had a great spring breaks and so our plan for the day. we're gonna start with a review. i assume that you haven't spent your spring break learn

i've seen the officers who have been shot, black and white. i don't see any of them say yeah, we're not going to do anything because that person is a certain race. this bill is an insult to every police officer in this country. this bill is an insult to everyone in our armed services. this bill says that the armed services have been infiltrated by white supremacy. so if you were a soldier in our country, if you are a policeman in our country, you need to let your congressman or senator know that you are not a white supremacist and that it is an insult for the democrats to call you a white supremacist. it's an insult for the democrats to say our police force is full of white supremacy, that our armed services is full of this. everybody in this country who works in law enforcement should be outraged by this bill and should respond and say no, that's not me, and that's not any of my colleagues. that's not what the kentucky police force is about. that's not what the national guard is about. that's not what the marines are about. what an insult. wh

. >> but it didn't emerge from the heart and souls of the white white or the white community.they had to live with it too, just like we did. >> that's right. so was the kid who helped you build a model airplane, is that the son of the storekeeper? >> no, that was the son of the store keeper in my own -- yeah, over at the galliano family. they lived across the corner from us, they lived nex to their corner store. so until well after mid-century, like the largest nominally white population in the city was italian and the two neighborhood stores -- and like this predates even the coming of the first a&p and i can remember the first a&p opened. a few blocks away and stores were concerned about the impact of the supermarkets. the galliano family around the corner, they were decent people, they were friendly enough. not gruff, they treated everybody with respect and dignity. i mean nobody was on a first name basis with anybody, so my grandparents were mr. mac and miss mac. and they were mr. tony and ms. tony, basically. and they'd ask about, you know, how families were doing, whatno

an elderly white couple got on.again, this is years after segregation and public accommodations, especially interstate travel. i don't know there is a reflex or what. the old couple were infirm, driver gets up and instructs the two black college students who are sitting right behind his seat to get up and let the old white couple sit down. of course, the students balked. not least because there are plenty of seats they could've taken. there was a standoff for several minutes. i'm in the back of the bus with that kind of cheap vodka, sipping. i'm just watching this, wondering, what is going to happen? it is going to be we all get disappeared? i know everyone is very much away of -- it wasn't that far away, it wasn't that long ago basically. eventually, only about a dozen people on the bus at that point. eventually, the bus driver thought better of it for whatever reason, got back in the seat, started driving. >> yeah. i wonder if we could, before we got a question and answer. some of the big important teams have deve

except it was at the white house. i think the example that most people know is the one that actually did get a lot of media coverage. stanley's image of john junior under the resolute desk, playing while kennedy is sitting at the desk. >> that's a famous one. >> iconic. >> yeah. >> we are going to move on, actually, to that section of the exhibit now. scenes. and obviously that is so here we are in the next exhibit. let's call this one, behind the scenes. obviously that is what we are seeing here. these are portraits. some from the official white house photographers, really giving us an inside look as to what life was like in the white house for the children. it's just like your family albums at home. >> you have pictures of your kids in their halloween costumes, hey we are walking outside the house. you know? it just happens to be the white house. [laughs] we do have a few official able to that were taken specifically for the media. this was taken for one of the photojournalist by stanley trebek. it just illustrates

it was like whites on one side of the street blacks on the other some portions of whites. and what half to block blacks and the other and and in that context people kind of had to figure out what? what would an unofficial etiquette of neighborhood life was to be like and and they did right they worked it out and it was improvised right? it was like folk, you know development. but also the case that when the whites who are sort of friendly and of course the friendliness is i would then boundaries right? there's no. popping into each other's houses for coffee, but but often enough what whites who are very friendly in the confines of you know of the neighborhood would stiff you basically they ran into you. in some other context and at the time and you understandably it felt like they were being two-faced. and the retrospective probably were like in some ways, but they were also trying to navigate this system that they didn't have any part in creating either. so so one of the the fact that these codes were local is also an aspect of the system on one hand. there's a kind of le