Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire is a lawmaker and attorney who is one of only three women in American history elected as both a U.S. Senator and a state governor. Hassan explains how the 1944 Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire helped to create the modern global economic order.
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Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods. 21 September 2010. Shankarnikhil88. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
International Monetary Fund formed 1945. 10 December 2014. Archives New Zealand. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
The World Bank Group Headquarters sign. 16 May 2012. Victorgrigas. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Henry Morgenthau Jr. 1944. Yousuf Karsh. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en
The IMF came to Washington DC to begin their work and many were people of color. Some were golfers but were not allowed on a white only courses. So they ended up owning a golf course In Montgomery County Maryland and named it Brittonwood. I don't know if they purchased land and built a golf course or bought an existing one.
It is sad that many people, especially the younger generations don’t have any idea of what happened in Bretton Woods, NH in 1944…it is part of the Economic History of the World…