The i proclaims its victory for parents, after sats tests for seven year olds were scrapped. The telegraph pictures scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, signing a letter requesting the right to hold a second independence referendum. The times claims the Armed Forces Face a £10 billion funding shortfall, amid escalating costs for new ships and jets. While the mirror says new plans for the nhs to deliver more for patients will happen without any extra funding. The sun reports the findings of its own investigation, saying Police Across the uk solve just one in ten burglaries. The paper puts the figure down to cuts to frontline officers. Thats a summary of the news. Now on bbc news, its time for newsnight. Were getting our independence from the eu, which means the eu gets its independence from us. And what are they up to . 457 if fl§,§ e ,;,§i 5,5 . . , w, hello. Its going to be a two year marathon, not a two week sprint, so its hard to know how much weight we should be putting o
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By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts address hours after the attack at pearl harbor. She gave that address before her husband even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first and first ladys polls. We will look at her life, her relationships and the time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Welcome to first ladies influence and image series. Joining us tonight is allida black, the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and an historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley who is an author from rice university. Thank you for being here with us. Doug brickley, march 1933, inauguration and entered the white house. What are they walking into . Fdr did not get to walk in. He came in a wheelchair. The fact that somebody was crippled in the lower half said there
Part. I do not think the public realized how paralyzed he was. Physically,ility although he had a good deal of agility verbally. He was a brilliant speaker. He was a brilliant combiner of words. And most of the public never was, to use the word then in use, crippled. Pictures were not taken of him in a wheelchair. Actors were not taken of him using braces or crutches. If they were, the press was very discreet. They did not do such things back then. Today, the press would be a lot less discreet. But we are not dealing with a roosevelt that people thought they knew, but really did not know very well. Radio. S speeches on there was no television yet. Radio that were called fireside chats. He had no fireside as he spoke, and the people he spoke to radios thatkelite were not near any fireside either. This was just a makebelieve that was done in the media at the time. He gave a tremendous number of press conferences during his presidency, nearly a thousand press conferences. He did so by sit
Wilbur had. They loved music. They loved books. Hawthorn was a favorite writer and katherine loved sir walter scott. On her birthday, her brother gave her a bus, it was sir walter scott. Here is People Living in the little house in ohio, no running water, no plumbing no electricity, and they give a bus of a great english literary giant to their sister for a birthday present. Theres a lot of hope in that, but i think what i would like to get to know more about is the sense of purpose that they had, and sounds like a bad pun, but high purpose, not something ordinary, big idea. Were going to achieve this big idea. Well, back nothing was going to stop them. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. With live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan and the senate on cspan2, here on cspan3, we compliment coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and Public Affairs events, and on weekends, cspan3 is the home to American History tv with programs that tell the