created the white house. historical association. she had many other projects and interests but was what she became most with followed lady bird johnson, who first undertook somewhat similar effort in terms of the exterior, meaning the land and the environment. first of washington and then of the nation. so there was a big that pat nixon would take on one quote unquote project it. but in at the overall role first lady, we see from the beginning it was one fraught with symbolism in everything they said did even within the tradition confines of the 19th century and early 20th century with the expectation of women's roles in american society. we see that with first ladies. it could be a little bit different. dolley, for example, use entertaining to essentially integrate not only men and women at social events, but members of husband's party and the opposition trying to forge a spirit of bipartisanship. lucy hayes was famously lemonade. lucy for not permitting the serving of any alcohol in the white house. and the

ties to white house history. she also formed the white house paintings committee to seek out important works art that could be added to the white collection and displayed. she appointed first ever white house curator and she championed a public law that was passed by congress giving the white house museum status, which then meant that all items required for the white house collections, for her project and for after would be preserved and protected in perpetuity. and as i have said, she helped form the white house historical association, which carries on work to this day. jacqueline kennedy worked daily and tires tirelessly on the restoration project. she was by no means just its figurehead. hundreds of pages of her handwritten notes, memos, correspondence. now part of the jacqueline bouvier kennedy onassis papers at the kennedy library are evidence of that. did much of the research and seeking out the fine antiques and furniture that had some connection to the white house. early american history for a presidentia

the white house museum status, which then meant that all items acquired for the white house collections worker project and forever after, preserved and protected in perpetuity. and as i said, she helped form the white house historical association, which carries on her work to this day. jacqueline kennedy worked daily and tirelessly on the restoration project. she was by no means just the figurehead. hundreds of pages of her handwritten notes, memos to correspondence, now part of the papers at the kennedy library, are evidence of that. she did much of the research, seeking out the fine antiques and furniture that had some connection to the white house, early american history, or the presidential family. many individuals were delighted to donate treasures that they had in their own collections. however, when necessary, mrs. kennedy could be a very gracious arm twister. if the fitting piece was found, but the owner wanted the white house to purchase it, mrs. kennedy would find a private donor willing to put up the funds to make the purchase on behalf of the committee. importantly, no publi

white southerners violently overthrew, and white northerners and westerners let them. i saw death coming. tells that story. it follows black families on their journeys out of slavery through their experiences of the war white southerners wait on their freedom to their testimony before congress and beyond. it shows how black people understood, articulated the human costs of reconstruction, overthrow, abandonment. and it does that through the stories of families like abe and eliza's. on june 6th, 1871, abe spent the day in his blacksmith shop, and eliza finished her homemaking tasks. the children had completed their chores and lessons. what time for play after they were all in bed at home at 11 p.m. when someone knocked the door and asked the babe what home the family never heard any threats and were not thinking about such a thing. eliza later said that's why abe answered that he was home and he got up from the bed to open door. but something perhaps the sound, the visitors and his awareness of the threat they posed or a feeling his skin tightening and puckering with go

white people imposed thehe couny on them. the history of native peoples relations with the united states has involved a constant struggle to defend the inherent sovereignty that comes with being indigenous. and byse that i mean the right o self-governance, recognize territorial boundaries, and the power to engage with other foreign states. put another way, the focus of native peoples aspirations, unlike say african-americans, has not been equal rights with white people. though most of them today certainly expect that status here but the exercise of the greatest sovereignty possible. the second central reason that native people differ froman othr american racial and ethnic groups is that they are organized into qualities, tribal nations that covered their members and their territory. thoughat the united states does not permit them to engage in foreign relations like other powers. these tribal nations exist not only by virtue of their members inherit indigenous rights but by virtue of recognition by the united states through se

house at the white house. the money went to their owners. and so for her son to have done that was really kind of a shocking revelation to me when i discovered that. and there's a reason why these families brought their enslaved workers. and that was simply because congress never gave them enough money to run for the president's mansion house in new york and philadelphia. and that was part of why the washington's brought. they also hired individuals, both whites, to work in their executive houses. but they didn't have enough money. and and and sarah polk was another good example where she sort of made a campaign promise that if she were first lady, she would stay within her budget. and part of the way she she did that was she got rid of ten staff members, the white house, and replaced them all with her enslaved servants. and that was how she budget. so congress has never done enough and. this is sort of the whole history of first ladies and the white house in the frustrations they had of running this house wit

and will memories of whiteness receded, memories of whiteness linger too.st, into a woman, they wanted to give her things from before, her inheritance, and they spoke of whiteness then. speak on the book in the next generation. >> the way the world changes often, it is not necessarily that we are transformed individuals, our ways of seeing things are transformed. but the big way in which human society changes is that, you know, old people die in young people grow up. as young people grow up, they have different views. and so the daughter is growing up in a world where you are unable to tell what race somebody is by looking at them. everybody is some shade of brown. and growing up like that, she is not burdened, in a sense, by the concept of race that we have today. and for me, i think race is something we have invented into existence and has a terrible power. but because we imagine that into existence, we can imagine it out of existence. >> i want to talk about una's racist mother. before she turns brown. you wrote, she was active online, listen to the radi

the white house. now, it's shorthanded by saying white house history with frank sesno, who's our moderator. and. and, frank, you have big shoes to fill, at least high shoes to fill, because we have ann compton here and we had four episodes of white house history with ann compton. and that was great fun as well. this program is put together by the david rubenstein national center for white house history here at the association, led by dr. colleen shogun, dr. matthew costello, and all of their colleagues who are here today. put in a tremendous amount of work to put on this series, as well as our other substantive programs that we have as part of our education mission here at the association. i'd like to acknowledge a member of our board of directors, anita mcbride, who is here, and three distinguished former members of our board, bob mcgee, martha kumar and mike mccurry, who are also on the panel. we have several members of our national council on white house history who are the real wind in a in the sa

steve covered the white house from 2017 through 2021 as the senior white house correspond and subsequently as voa's white house bureau chief, he came to the job well prepared through his extensive global reporting. with more than 25 years in asia, reporting from tokyo, india, korea and thailand, his coverage has taken him to roughly five countries. he's reported from combat zones, uprisings and amid natural disasters. he was one of the few journalists to get access to the fukushima nuclear power plants. hot zone. recently, steve said in an interview that there is always tension in the symbiotic relationship between administration and the media. we need each other, but the goals can diverge too close of a relationship is not good for democracy. but if the relationship gets distant and hostile, that is also unhealthy for informing the electorate. herman's new book how journalists can balance that relationship and how the relationship with the white house evolved over time. before we begin, just quick reminder to please silence your cell phones. you haven't already. you'll also find cards for

she asked the white house of congress and the white house ushers office to send as much information as they could on the history of the white house and its collections. after actually moving into the white house in the early days of the kennedy administration, she scoured every closet, and cranny, and toward various government storage facilities in search of treasures she hoped to find from presidents past that may have been forgotten. some items did come to life, but it quickly became apparent to mrs. kennedy that she would need to look outside of the white house to make her project a success. and although she was now extremely well read on the subject, she realized, she would need help to achieve her goal. so, within the very early months of 1961, mrs. kennedy formed the fine arts committee for the white house to help her develop restoration plans and acquire furnishings with ties to white house history. she also formed a white house painting committee to see what works of art that could be added to the white house collection and displays. she appointed the first ever white house cur

white northerners, white midwesterners have crafted this narrative.'t white northerners and westerners had truly been abolitionist the good of abolished slavery before the civil war. there were more white northerners and westerners than white southerners in the country. if that is who they work for wia truly want or they could have abolished slavery. the only agreed to emancipation. it's not that they're not abolitionist to the north of us because there are they are a lump faction. nationwide their numbers are quite small compared to the 20 million white people in the north and west. the numbers are quite small. the larger white majority could have. they only accept emancipation begrudgingly in order to end the war the vast majority of the white population in the north and west. there are some abolitionists that are tired of fighting thatv say it yes let's abolish slavery because we canth end the war quickly. we need to be clear on that they reluctantly accepted emancipation.th there is an editorial in the cincinnati enquirer and i believe it's after

and thehe refurbishing along historical lines of the white house created the white house historicalociation. she had many other projects and interests but that is what she became most identified with it. followed by lady bird johnson who first undertook a similar effort in terms of the exterior. meaning the land and the environment. first of washington d.c. and of the nation. there is a big expectation pat nixon would take on a one quote unquote project. on looking at the overall role of first lady we see that from the beginning it was fraught with symbolism when everything they said and did within the traditional confines of 19th century the earlier 20th century with thero expectationsf women's rolls in american society. we see that with first ladies that could be a little bit different. dolley madison for example use entertaining to essentially integrate not only men and women at social events but members of her husband's a party and the opposition trying to forge the spirit of bipartisanship. lucy hayes it was a famously nicknamed lemonade lucy for not permitting this survey at a

and if you walk through the white house today, the white house that you see is largely a testament to her. with white house curator clem conger and bob will talk a little bit more about those acquisition efforts. but this is a project that we're really proud of, of course, the white house historical association in carrying forward a legacy not just of mrs. kennedy who made these efforts very public, but also ladies throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries who realized the importance of preservation people like caroline harrison for example, lou hoover and others who really wanted to augment history of the white house. but one of my personal favorite things about mrs. nixon's work terms of the white house collection is that she inherently understood museum work doesn't end with a collection. and i think so many of us who work in the museum and archival field understand this, that you can have a wonderful, fantastic, well done collection of objects, furnishings, but none of it matters if you don't get people through the door to, experience them. and while certainly many white house

white house. this is the 50th anniversary of the nixon's coming into the presidency and mrs. nixon first lady and i think she is an unheralded first lady in terms of her legacy with the white house and what she contributed in terms of artifacts, the really american artifacts to the white house collection. and we'll be celebrating that with a lecture in september. and then in october. very exciting news. our dear friend chef roland mazda has a brand new that's going to be out october. and for the first time ever, he's finally unlocking his recipe box. and he's going to actually be sharing the recipes from his service to. five american presidents from jimmy carter to george w bush and his wonderful confections he created as the executive house pastry chef for those many years. jennifer, who you may know, is an author of white house the white house christmas is going to have a new book out on ceremonies at the white. and so we'll have a conversation with chef messina and jennifer pickens at our event

white house that uses largely attached to work with white house curator claim clunker. bob will talk more about those acquisition efforts but this is a project we really proud of of course at the white house historical association in caring for a m legacy notches of mrs. o may efforts public but also first ladies throughout the 19th 19th and early 20 centuries who realize the importance of preservation. people like caroline harrison, for example, and others who really wanted to augment the history of the white house. but one of my personal favorite things about mrs. nixon's work in terms of the white house collection is that she inherently understood that museum work doesn't end with a collection. i think so many of us who work in the museum, archive the field understand that you can have a wonderful, fantastic, well done collection objects and furnishings but none of it matters if you don't get people through the door to experience them. and whileou certainly many white house tourists have come through the years, mrs. nixon understood there were many barriers to entry

this is the first of four episodes in our white house, history, quarterly series on media and the white house. now it is shorthanded by saying the history with frank sesno, our moderator. and frank, you have big shoes to fill, at least high shoes to fill because we have ann compton here and four episodes of the white house history. and that was great fun as well. this program is put together by the national center for white house history here at the association, led by dr. colleen, dr. matthew, and all of their colleagues who are here today put in a tremendous amount of work to put on the series as well as our other substantive programs that we would have as a part of the mission here at the association. and anita mcbride who is here and three distinguished former members of our board. martha kumar and who are also on the panel. we have several members of our national council on the white house history who are the real wind in the sales of our work and we are very grateful for their support to help make our non-profit and non-partisan mission possible. without their financial support, w

the northern white working class is different from the southern white working class. but it used to be the heart and soul of the democratic party. and, you know, now the white working class has shifted to being the heart and soul of the republican party. and for democrats to not only just win an election, how do we get out of this democratic deficit we are in where neither party can build an enduring governing majority and really establish some kind of stability? this is not about winning one election. this is about democrats building an enduring government majority, passing legislation that can ameliorate some of the economic and social issues of working-class americans. the only way to do that is to win a significant portion of not just white working class, but donald trump is making inroads into the nonwhite working-class. the only way for democrats to not just win one election, but build a governing majority, is to win working-class voters back into the democratic coalition. that is a combination of a tangible policies, but also significant cultural symbolism. i w

if you're a white, anglo saxon european american, then you're white. you can be a dark guy from new jersey who's italian and then how i'd be darker than anybody. the matter. he's a white guy, no matter how dark and skin it's. you can also be a recent arrival from some european country like scotland or france. then you also can be considered a white guy, even though you're kind of immigrant to the united states. but if you're latin american, you're going to be a fucking faced argentinian, or born mexican. you are and will always be a color. pardon me, a person of color and not allowed to consider yourself. why? watch that says in spanish, but i'll translated the mexican means you can be why that was like, how can you be white and the mexican to give it all mexicans are like that. that's exactly what the mountain that video, by the way, and that sentiment popular in mexico, where they make fun of the fact that in america, no mexican is allowed to be considered white. no matter how white they are. however, here in america, mexican, americans have for gene

well, i'm in detroit, i'm in a white church, a white school, a white neighborhood, a white evangelical church. and at 1516, i begin to listen to my city means reading papers here in news, watching carefully, having my first conversation with adults and something really big and really wrong. and i couldn't get anyone in my white world to talk it. why is life in black detroit so different than life? and why detroit? at least that's why i'm reading it here. they said, oh no, it's always been that way. and and i hear there are black churches and we've never been or been visited. well, i don't know one honest answer. i got soul. if you keep asking these of questions, you're going to get into a lot of trouble. that's proved to be true. so i tell my students at georgetown i told, trust your questions and let them take you wherever. they lead you. and for me, my questions took me to the city, what we call the inner city in those days. and just a few blocks or miles from where white people live. and i showed up. i got jobs in where young black men were working like me. i was working for money f

whites. the government's plan to assimilate indians toward incorporating them, citizens included forcing native children to attend boarding schools, some on the reservations, others very far away. in these places. white authorities, the children to a daily regiment of military drills, roll calls, work details and corporal punishment with little time for rest and leisure. none of this resembled mainstream white american life. this was not preparation shown for participation in white america. the education was rudimental eerie and outrightly white supremacy, including the relentless message that the students backgrounds were savage and inferior health conditions abysmal marked sickness and death from communicable diseases. at rates the government never would have tolerated white people following school. most native alums found no more acceptance in white society than if they had never attended school in the first place and little opportunity to apply the skills they had learned on the reservati

one of them had been accused of killing a white man and the other one had been accused of raping a white woman. >> and he was the sheriff? >> his name was charles warner. and he felt it would be best if the two prisoners, richardson and james were not in the jail because he feared a riot. he had come here from ohio and there had been a riot in one of the towns where he had lived in ohio. and because of what was going on and all of the hatred that was fometing and whatever, he felt that it would be safer. he was going to take them to bloomington which was about 70 miles away for their safety. except that the citizens who were now incensed because of the rape of the white woman and the murder of the white man by these lack men, they thought that would be the best thing to do. well the citizens got word other. and so mr. loper was one of the richest people in springfield. and he owned a restaurant and a car in 1908. one of the few people who owned a car. theyaid this will never happen and, as a result, they trashed his car. and they destroyed his restaurant. >> so was the sheriff able to ge

white people impose the country on them.he history of native peoples relations with the united states has involved a constant struggle to defend the inherent sovereignty that comes with being indigenous. by that i mean the right to self-governance. recognize territorial boundaries on the power to engage with other foreign states. put another way, the focus of native people aspirations unlike say african-americans has not been equal rights with white people. most of them today certainly expect that status. but the exercise of the greatest sovereignty possible. the second central reasons native people differ from other racial groups as they are organizedd into tribal nations, that govern their members and their territory. though the united states does it permit them to engage in powers. he's tribal nations exists only by virtue of their members inherent in an judge in us rights but virtue of the united states through senate ratified treaties. which under theth constitution f the supreme law of the land. by supreme court ruling

black and white unions. most elite remained united despite continued efforts throughout the 20th century to racially divide them. the half half system was something that the black and white unions devised themselves, and this was important that labor strikes were not as prominent or massive as that 1892 general strike. this was important. it was important to workers, but it was really more important to the bosses. they really wanted to appeal to the workers at the turn of the century because the fortunes of the city were changing once again, the fortunes of the port of new orleans were dramatically shifting. and that shift was precipitated by a new commodity. and can we guess what that new commodity was that is entering the ports of new orleans around the turn of the century? someone say it, banana, as we can see them here. okay. bananas. so to talk about bananas, we have to talk about this man. enter samuel z. murray, who soon became known as sam the banana man and who has heard of sam's murray or sam the b

and then you've got the white community, white supremacists notion, white nationalists, promotion of an ideology that is simply saying it's to make it very simple. it's almost everything against that. they're going to challenge african-americans in owning land and say that that's not what it is. we're going to give the land back to the southern landholders and you're going to be able to rent out land or or farmland with them and you're not going to be able to vote your voice doesn't count. you don't have the right to go to school. and if you have the right to go to school will be a very limited time. and so you have the tension of these things going on and the way that these things are going to be imposed most, more often than not is the use of violence. professor 1871, six years after the end of the civil war, how did this issue of racial violence get congress's attention? it got its attention mainly because it is so perverse and it's wespread. acts of violence happening throughout the south. the murder of individuals that is taking place. black and white individuals, black individu

it was very specifically to white women. white women, yes.to white women to "answer the call". and itjust seems to me there's something a little bit odd about this, about this sort of focus on sectional interest and, in this particular case, on a notion that there's something special about white women, their interests and their issues. 0ram i misreading it? i think you are. so, it is actually the opposite, which is when i called jotaka eaddy, the woman who leads win with black women, who had organised the sunday call, she said yes, white women in this country need to do a similar call, but they have different work than black women to do. so, in america, white women are about 40% of the country's voters, or the largest voting bloc in this country. but we have not voted to protect the interests of everyone, really to protect our own. since the 19505, the majority of white women have voted for republican candidates in all but two elections. in the last two elections, they voted for donald trump more the second time than the first time. and so th

he said i'm not allowed in the white house. in fact, i've never been in the white house. you've never been in the white house? you didn't get in line to do tour like you could do with -- no, never done it. never allowed in there. never allowed in the white house. that's why he didn't chase him in. you can see on the video that the person stopped. he said i can't go in there, i'm not allowed to be there. the training is absolutely pathetic and if you look at the attack on president trump what you're going to find is that that extraction is totally embarrassing. didn't have a -holester for the gun. can't get to him. nobody knows how to open up the gate. it's pathetic and an embarrassment. i have to move on quickly to the other ones as well but these things have to be addressed. if you're overworked. maybe not trained the best and then you're -- what are you going to get? we found, and the reports will back this up, that they could not get security clearances for the agents and officers and so sometimes they'd put them out there without a proper security clearance. you don't

the white house. for the better part of a decade. then she went into storage and was found again 50 years later and is now on loan to the library from. the white house. and she arrived at the library in 2022, just as we were going to celebrate the 50 years since signing of title nine, which was a great advancement to women women that happened for women that happened during during the nixon era. as he signed law, now there's a back story to this that i want to share with you and i hope it you smile in the fall and i do 70 to 2 women's groups the force on women's rights and responsibilities and the citizens council on the status of women came to me and said they would like to give a bust of susan b anthony great suffragist to the white house in honor of what president nixon has done to elevate women in the federal government. i thought that was a wonderful idea and they proceeded to get it done. they had a copy of the marble bust of susan b, which is in the u.s. capitol. now, this one is bronze made in

and then you've got the white community, white supremacists notion, white nationalists, promotion of an ideology that is simply saying it's to make it very simple. it's almost everything against that. they're going to challenge african-americans in owning land and say that that's not what it is. we're going to give the land back to the southern landholders and you're going to be able to rent out land or or farmland with them and you're not going to be able to vote your voice doesn't count. you don't have the right to go to school. and if you have the right to go to school will be a very limited time. and so you have the tension of these things going on and the way that these things are going to be imposed most, more often than not is the use of violence. professor 1871, six years after the end of the civil war, how did this issue of racial violence get congress's attention? it got its attention mainly because it is so perverse and it's widespread. acts of violence happening throughout the south. the murder of individuals that is taking place. black and white individuals, black indivi