President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony

for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

site in Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 2012. First Lady Michelle Obama

attended the event with the President and other participants

included: former First Lady Laura Bush; Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray;

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.; Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas; Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts,

pastor, Abyssian Baptist Church, New York; Lonnie Bunch, founding director

of the museum; Richard Kurin, undersecretary for History, Art and

Culture at the Smithsonian; Linda Johnson Rice and Richard

Parsons, co-chairs of the museum’s advisory council;

Dr. G. Wayne Clough, Secretary, The Smithsonian

Institution; Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director,

Smithsonian's National Museum of

African-American History and Culture; and

Dr. France Córdova, Chair, Smithsonian Board of Regents.