Plain. This is another hoover sign. There are a lot of hoover street signs in europe. There arent any memorials to the countless volunteers, nor to the u. S. Delegates who did the grunt work. But i think in the centennial year its important to remember that the work that they did. Thank you. This weekend, on the cspan networks, politics, books and American History. On cspan saturday, at 6 00 p. M. Eastern, hurricane katrinas tenth anniversary with the live coverage from new orleans. Speakers include president bill clinton and Mitch Landrieu and sunday evening at 6 30 on our road to the white house coverage, speeches from Democratic Candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Committee Summer meeting in minneapolis. On c haspan2, book tv. Talking to the New York Times immigration reporter liz robins about his book undocumented tracing the journey to the top of the class of Princeton University and sunday at 1 15 p. M. , to mark the tenth anniversary of hurri
Plain. This is another hoover sign. There are a lot of hoover street signs in europe. There arent any memorials to the countless volunteers, nor to the u. S. Delegates who did the grunt work. But i think in the centennial year its important to remember that the work that they did. Thank you. This weekend, on the cspan networks, politics, books and American History. On cspan saturday, at 6 00 p. M. Eastern, hurricane katrinas tenth anniversary with the live coverage from new orleans. Speakers include president bill clinton and Mitch Landrieu and sunday evening at 6 30 on our road to the white house coverage, speeches from Democratic Candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Committee Summer meeting in minneapolis. On c haspan2, book tv. Talking to the New York Times immigration reporter liz robins about his book undocumented tracing the journey to the top of the class of Princeton University and sunday at 1 15 p. M. , to mark the tenth anniversary of hurri
Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic
Peter and 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 historians polls on first ladies. And were 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 Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is 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 inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
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