Transports loaded with lumber on its way to hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts 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, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in first ladies and were going to look at her life, relationship and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladys influence and image series. Joining us to evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, anita black whos the leader of the project at George Washington university, and a historian. And another historian, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug, briefly, march, 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugural rated. What are the
Doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Franklin Delano roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be . I think with eleanor id like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. I mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and id want to say, why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. I wish you had done it. And i think for him id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him, and id want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. What makes this book different than al
Constitutional issues the Supreme Court faced during world war i. The first from Supreme Court justice and then a virginia Commonwealth History professor. Im Vice President of the historical society. I want to welcome everybody here to our first lecture of the leon silverman lecture series dealing with the Supreme Court and world war i. This being the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. We have a very interesting series tonight. Before i go further, however, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, whatever other gadgets you may have so they dont interfere with our system here. As you know, our host tonight is justice sonya sowed mior. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call opinion her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us and quite important to you. And we very much appreciate it. Tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. Shes a native new yorker, born in the br
Bloombergs last cspans last survey of president ial leadership. Brian doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Franklin Delano roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be . Ms. Goodwin i think with eleanor id like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. I mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and id want to say, why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. I wish you had done it. And i think for him id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him, and id want to try and understand why that was so, and why he couldnt giv
Her, i know she still loved him, and id want to say, why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. I wish you had done it. And i think for him id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him, and id want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. Brian what makes this book different than all the rest . Ms. Goodwin well, i think what i wanted to do in this book was to understand not only franklin and eleanors relationship which has been looked at in many, many other cases but to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house. And i came to an understanding that these two characters really both needed other people to meet the untended needs that were left over as a result of their troubled marriage. So, w