And growing up with seeing dont mess with texas signs everywhere and the appreciation for the bluebonnets there and just what that means into no that she and her world as first lady influenced all of that in a way that was quite subtle and not necessarily understood at the time but that we now do understand. Now carl im going to ask you because you are a scholar of the full breadth of first ladies. Dolley madison because she was one of the first who had a real sense of duty to his constituency meaning the country. It was unusual for a woman back then too perceived as part of her proper role a sense of duty and connection to the general public to people she didnt know. Shackling candidate very strongly because of her sense of where the u. S. Was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadnt and in a sense america had come of age and have as much dignity and had a right to maintain that dignity on the world stage. And betty ford by taking very personal and reall
Was a dutch knickerbocker here from new york and a mother from the bullet family. She came from georgia. 1858 you all know something about history. The civil war is upon us. In the roosevelt family, you have a feud, a mother who loved robert ulee and a father who loved grant. T. R. Decided to love the west instead. As i talk about some of his formative years in the dakota territory, it will be clear what the west meant. If i focus for a moment on 1858, one year after he was born 1859 was darwins on the origin of species. Theodore roosevelts father was one of the founders of the institute next door, the American Museum of natural history, but he had an uncle Robert Barnwell roosevelt who was called the audubon of the civil war era and went on to write books like fishing on Lake Superior and a book on the waterfowl of florida. Uncle rob was an ardent darwinian and wrote seminal things about eels and frogs. She ran for congress to save the shad, because they were being fished out of the h
Man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong. He died in august. That is followed by a look at the life of teenagers in the white house. Then the evolution of facebook as told by the facebook engineer who created the like button, newsfeed, and timeline. And you change this army so it becomes a volunteer army, code finder soldiers in the labor market. Go find them in the villages and towns in america. We did that. We created a splendid force of young men and women who are willing to serve their country as volunteers. The had the same tradition, the same culture, the same loyalty and dedication as any other generation of americans have ever gone before them. They proved themselves in the gulf war and the panama bay. They proved themselves in the last 10 years in iraq and afghanistan. We have to keep in mind something that president lincoln said, to care. Never forget that they are carrying the american spirit. They are carrying the american traditions with them. When they get injured, when th
November president ial election. This is an hour and half. One of the best things about sitting across from you is that, for all of us who have been part of the institutes staff, we are wondering what you been thinking, with this experience has been like for you over the last yearandahalf, two years. So tonight, we get to hear for the first time your reaction to the campaign. Thank you very much. I want to thank the in boyer for the support the university has given the institute politics, including making it possible for us to hire such Extraordinary People like Steve Edwards and been restored and all of the other people and ben reeseberg and all the other people. [applause] you have been wondering what i have been doing and i have been wondering what you have been doing. [laughter] those who were disappointed by this outcome, the democrats elated by this outcome given the conventional wisdom around this campaign, the president s Approval Ratings that were barely above 50 , often dippi
President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who had at least a taste of the National Stage or, which was more of a consensus in the political committee, that he might take rob portman from ohio because ohio is so important. Portman was a guy who is a centerright conservative, who might be more broad. I think barack was surprised by the choice. Do you think portman could have changed the outcome . I dont know. There is a lot of reflection on that in romneyland. When you were talking about the adjustment that obama felt he had to undergo, and tel