Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
If i get paid, then i have to do what the first lady is supposed to do, but you can do anything you want to do and its such a great soap box. Its just such a great opportunity. So i would, i would advise any first lady to do what she wanted to do. If she doesnt want, and another thing i learned, youre going to be criticized no matter what you do. I could have stayed in the white house, poured tea, had receptions and i would have been criticized. As much i was criticized outside. For what i did and i got a lot of criticism, but you learn to live with it, as i said earlier. Just live with it, expect it and you live with it and never let it influence me. Rosalynn carter in a recent interview conducted for this series in atlanta. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. As first lady, she attended cabinet meetings and championed womens rights and Mental Health issues. Their partnership in congress has continued in their long, close white house years. Good evening.
A prison in argentinas capital inmates demand better protection from the coronavirus determined not to die in jail. And how the pandemic is forcing muslims around the wilds to change the way they celebrate the holy month of ramadan. Now its being hailed as a landmark collaboration wild leaders have pledged to speed up development of a Coronavirus Vaccine and ensure that everyone will have access to it its part of a Health Organization initiative but the United States with the death toll now over 50000. 00 says it will not take part of that diplomatic editor james bass reports. Its just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u. S. Leadership in a Global Crisis and World Leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs distorts and it needs them fast. But experiences has stored those that even when tools are avai
Kong Police Arrest some of the most prominent prodemocracy figures months after mass arrests. But under the Program New York has recorded its lowest number of deaths from the coronavirus in 2 weeks with 540 people dying at the epicenter of the outbreak in the us america has more confirmed cases and deaths from covert 19 than any other country in the world new york state governor is demanding more testing and says the federal government must do more to help and recur most said that the number of people being admitted to hospitals remains overwhelming. If it wasnt for the relative context that weve been in this would be devastating news 2000 people coming into the Hospital System or testing positive and if you notice 2000 were not at the peak but this is where we were just about in late march when it started to go up so were not at that plateau anymore but were still not in a good position while new yorks governor has described the pandemic as a tumultuous time as we have ever seen and s
Virus will not be defeated if we have not united the learned lessons we have to move forward and we have to be smart because if you are not smart you will see that infection rate go right back to where it was we continue to have countries to find isolate test and treat all cases. Also coming up tonight no lockdowns no shutdowns sweden went down a different road when the corona by was arrived a huge gamble that comes with a human cost i did hawkins down dollar tacoma know its a scandal that will need looking into when this is over i think we are still going to see a significant rise in fatalities in old peoples homes it will be. Close to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day measuring the pandemic by the millions. Around the world tonight there are more than 3000000 people infected with the coronavirus now that is the official tally the confirmed cases Health Experts agree that the real number is probably much higher and that goes