welcome to the show. i am susan sikora. election day is almost here. as we choose a president, california will also vote on 11 state propositions. here to caulk us through this are two bay area political analysts that know the political arena and continue to inform us on print and in the air. we have belva davis and san francisco chronicle political reporter, paula maranoochi, welcome back. thank you for having us. i know you mow 2 political beat. my chain has been less than a bit, but i have had a little exposure to the real world of it. on the conventions, campaign trail and new hampshire together, it is an exciting election year. this one i think will come down to the wire. you think it will be really, really close. yes. i think a lot of people are predicting the same thing. maybe not in california, but when you talk about the swing states, it will be nerve racking. ohio seem to be that way. oh, yes. i want to ask awe few things about the presidentia
american history tv is at the annual organization meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. and a lot of your work focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. you ve written a lot about it. what interests you in this subject? well, for one thing, very few people think about women in the colonial period or, if they do, they think of them just as, i don t know, house workers, you know, work erks around the house. they don t think of their potential public roles. one of the things i m interested in in the 17th century is women who take prom nentd, public roles. and in the 18 lt century,i m interested in i did a whole book on women s revolution. so i m interested in the how women perceive they re relationship to the public realm. how men see women in the public realm in the run up to the ref lugs and during the revolution. what would be some of the early examples of women in the public realm prior to the rev lugsz? prior to t
human nature of which ambitious politicians make use of to serve their purposes. a year before he uttered those words, a group of boston rabble-rousers had convinced americans that they were miserable, and to hutchinson again, those who think they are miserable are so despite all real evidence to the contrary. now i doubt if there is a single one of today s so-called tea party patriots who knows what the original tea party and tea party movement were about. far from being patriots, those original tea partiers were mostly smugglers. some of them, among the wealthiest man in america, merchants. oman them, john hancock, yes, they john hancock whose bold signature was on the declaration of independence and left his name synonymous with the word signature. long before he put his john hancock on the declaration of independence, he was arguably among, arguably the wealthiest merchant banker in america living in an opulent mansion on top of boston s beacon hill with a commanding vie
some reporter asked her a question involving the name of eleanor roosevelt, you know, or you want to be like her, to which barbara bush replied something like, don t talk to me about eleanor roosevelt. my family and i ve forgotten the rest of that. but i was kind of wondering what her family had against eleanor roosevelt, although i have my own opinions? .. if it was difficult for first lady bush to deal with her husband s failures, did she comment about her son, george bush, as president and his successes or failures? she said almost nothing for publication. i do know from some things that i ve read, that she was very concerned about our involvement in iraq. and had real concerns about us going in and what was going to happen. but beyond that, she really hasn t said very much about this presidency. you all may remember there was that one incident early in his presidency where this is george w. bush was eating a pretzel. and he started to choke on it. she said that was
eating double rations and yet double ragsz are against the law in the german army, punishes, infractions very severely and how was the field cook convinced to give them double rations? i asked that question not a single person out of hundreds and hundreds of the best readers and finally i gave it as an open book and they still couldn t answer it and well, they got double rations because the other unit was going to eat there had been wiped out to a man, and when the cook denied them the extra sausage and potatoes, one sharp guy, the narrator in the book, says, yes, but the most severe infraction is wasting food, and when they come around and see that you wasted half the food, u-your neck will be in a noose, and the cook is caught in the dilemma and finally. well, any way, nobody could answer the question. because that is not the kind of question that is asked. your reading has been shaped by scoring well. the only anecdote is if your parents actually know how to read and the