Hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report, and be ready for action. And youve been listening to some of onerous votes radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, 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 in historians polls on first ladies. And we are going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about owners about, allida black, who is the editor of the unnerves votes paper project at George Washington university, and a historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, the roosevelts are being inaug
on the great depression families face a great depression. so there d be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isn t it s it s a great depression story. about how to deal with the suffering that the great depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. this is a measure of us gross domestic product. so does anybody know what that might mean? gross domestic product have a sense dan. i would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. so it s it s an attempt to measure all the academic activity that s happening in the economy. and so and of course, it won t catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and it s good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. we re over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pr
gross domestic product have a sense dan. i would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. so it s it s an attempt to measure all the academic activity that s happening in the economy. and so and of course, it won t catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and it s good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. we re over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were below 80 million by 1932 were below 60 million and we re right about in the 50s, so we re probably cut in half gross domestic product. which means the economy shrank by by half, which is a terribly difficult thing now you re good. so so it s what does that mean though? for people ordinary people well, unemployment row is pretty dramatically. well, i think i have a pointer here that i can use so
So thered be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isnt its its a Great Depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were b
Great depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were below 80 million by 1932 were below 60 million and were right about in the 50s, so were pr