curtis: for those of you who are here this morning, i'm dr. curtis sandberg. i direct the rubenstein center. i mentioned earlier that we spent the morning, for those of you who are back from the a.m., considering 200 years in the -- of the u.k. and ireland connections in the white house. we examined the role of james hoben. we have chronicled the contribution of scottish stonemasons. hopefully you have gone back and

. >> for those of you who are here this morning, i'm dr. curtis sandberg. i direct the rubenstein center. i mentioned earlier that we spent the morning, for those of you who are back from the a.m., considering 200 years in the u.k. and ireland connections in the white house. we examined the role of james

curtis sandberg, i direct the rubenstein center, the national center for white house history. we mentioned that we spent the morning for those of you back from the a.m. considering 200 years of the uk and ireland connections in the white house. we've examined the role of the james hobin and his design we've chronicled the contributions of scottish stonemasons and hopefully you've gotten back and met chuck and seen the double scottish roses emerging back there. for this parts it's time to addr

curtis: for those of you who are here this morning, i'm dr. curtis sandberg. i direct the rubenstein center. i mentioned earlier that we spent the morning, for those of you who are back from the a.m., considering 200 years in the -- of the u.k. and ireland connections in the white house. we examined the role of james hoben. we have chronicled the contribution of scottish stonemasons. hopefully you have gone back and met chuck and seen the double scottish roses emerging back there. it is now time to address decorative arts. we are incredibly fortunate to have two. it is a doubleheader. we have rufus byrd, who is the surveyor of the queens works of art in the royal collection trust. it does a lot of things, but it looks after the royal collection, which is frankly, one of the most important art collections on earth, on the planet. rufus is an author, a curator. he will place the decorative arts and fine arts connections. we have had him and lydia, the white house curator on the phone and connecting. -- and can -- and talking. and connecting micro and macro, and

curtis sandberg, i direct the rubenstein center, the national center for white house history. we mentioned that we spent the morning for those of you back from the a.m. considering 200 years of the uk and ireland connections in the white house. we've examined the role of the james hobin and his design we've chronicled the contributions of scottish stonemasons and hopefully you've gotten back and met chuck and seen the double scottish roses emerging back there. for this parts it's time to address decorative arts in the white house. we're incredibly fortunate to have two, a double header. we have rufus bird. the surveyor of queen's works of art at the royal collection trust. the royal collection trust does a lot of things. it looks after the royal collection which is frankly one of the most on their website, one of the most important art collections on earth, on the planet. now rufus is an author, a curator. we've had him and the white house curator on the phone talking, about connecting the dots and contexturalizing all this rufus is going to evaluate decorative and fine arts c

curtis sandberg and his colleagues here on our staff that undertake the robust education program that we have. those, tonight's speaker is clifton truman daniel, the oldest grandson of president truman and bess truman and the son of margaret truman, who is a personality in her own right. his father was the former managing editor of the "new york times" and clifton had his own career in journalism as well. he's the honorary chairman of the board of the truman institute. the nonprofit partner to the truman library and museum in missouri and he's the board secretary of the harry s. truman scholarship foundation. he's author of growing up with my grandfather, memories of harry s. truman. and "dear harry, love bess." two weeks ago i had the privilege of reporting a podcast with clifton, which you can access on our website, white househistory.org and in that conversation he shared wonderful stories and insight about the white house restoration, which was significant during the truman years, his relationship with his grandparents and wonderful stories and if his talk with you tonight is half