seen now in this encore booknotes from october 2000, journalist bonnie angelo discusses her book first mothers the women who shaped the presidents from this sara delano roosevelt to virginia kelley. profiles the women who nurtured the american presidents of the 20th century. it s about an hour. c-span: bonnie angelo, where did you get the idea to write about the first mothers? guest: well, you know, i d covered the white house for a long time for time magazine, but i remember the exact day it came into my head, and that was in 1968. i was covering the california primary with robert kennedy. and i i asked him i said the the family was deployed all over the state campaigning for him, and i said, with all the tragedy that your family has suffered at the hands of politics, how do you account for the fact that they re out there again?ai a and he kind of looked at me under the eyebrows and said, have you met my mother? and so i spent a couple of days with that formidable ro
good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i m jim milngto it s about 40 minutes. library of congress who enjog this extraordinary national book festival. [applause] we have involved more authors than at any time in the 12 year history of this festival, and it s for them we re especially thankful. your responses make the free public event possible, and one of them is the wells fargo, which has been the sponsor of this particular pavilion, history and biography. in a moment, i introduce to you michael l. golden, wells fargo s regional president for greater washington, d.c., who will introduce our closing authors today. we re privileged to have with him, of course, not only an extraordinary biographer but also the two inheritors of the legacy of the man who is not only led what is often called the greatest generation to victory in the world war ii, but also led the country to eight years of peace and prosperity, which are now becoming recognized in good part thanks to these au
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really fun to find out how each of them kicks and all been quite different. elizabeth the queen is the book. we are at the book festival in washington, d.c., and jeff in sidney, montana, you re on the air. caller: i just wonder if the queen acknowledges that the base of her bloodline is anglo-saxon? basically german. well, it definitely, she s not, she has a lot of german heritage. there s no doubt about that. her family began with george the i who was descended from so for the electorate of hanover and kim of an 18th century. and it continued when queen victoria married, married prince albert from germany. but there obviously is an english restraint that goes through it as well. her mother, the queen mother, was from the strathmore family, and english scottish family, so it s a mix but you re right, there is a significant german lineage there. it was a problem actually write around the time of, right before
talking out of school, maybe it is talking out of school, but they both thought that president kennedy s funeral was overdone. .. i would say one more thing about eisenhower-truman. that is, i don t think any two presidents had more in common with each other than those too. they were different personalities but one can easily imagine harry truman in the abilene high school yearbook, he might have been wearing thick glasses, might have been holding of violent or him i d been a piano player but he was a midwestern type and ike was a midwestern site. there was an episode in the campaign that i think is amusing that would talk about the strangest between ike and truman and ike s bitterness towards truman, and truman asked him to run for president. about set 10 or so truman goes on, i m not sure stephenson wanted him there but he goes there and he erupts with the charge that eisenhower is a [inaudible] a parent it s a fighting word in the midwest. no one else would have been a