Cherryh you remember her blossoms, that is not what she focused on. She wanted to build a band show near washington so that people could, and listen to find music. She has a young woman had attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary Party to the white house of rutherford and lucy hayes. She decided she would like to come back one day and spend more time. [laughter] , we talke tragedies about the string of tragedies of helen taft, who really wanted to be first lady. Today she would be president. About three months after taft became president , she suffered a stroke. With characteristic determination, she had to relearn speech. And she did. But it contributed to the general melancholy of the single taft term, over which hung this cloud called theodore roosevelt. Susan dempsey, although she had lobbied to support her husband for the presidency, she had a much better political mind. As far astrusted tr she could throw him. She kept telling her husband not to trust theodore. In the end, in 1912,
Republican men, mostly men, and nancy was very Close Friends with their wives. And it was im simplifying it to some extent, because clearly it was a larger circle of people. It wasnt just this group of men who had their eye on Ronald Reagan. There were people around the country who thought he had been such an effective spokesperson for the conservative cause as the ge spokesman. We remember that when Barry Goldwater ran for president , Ronald Reagan gave a muchcommentedon speech. Carl m. Cannon the speech. Judy woodruff the in fact it was the thats right, that was the coming you can argue the comingout speech for Ronald Reagan. And all of those forces, those disparate forces came together while he was still in the governors office. And they gelled, more or less, in that year after, so that in when gerald ford was running for election he, of course, succeeded Richard Nixon in 1976, Ronald Reagan popped on the public consciousness as a very appealing, conservative potential challenger fo
Ladies. This is about 90 minutes. Mrs. Reagan so, all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. Thank you. [screaming] [cheering] mrs. Reagan my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever paths their talents and their Natures Point to. I think they thought that the white house was so glamorous and your role was so what you did was so glamorous, your life was so glamorous, and all they saw were the parties and the meeting people and, you know and ive got to tell you, i never worked harder in my life. Ms. Swain nancy reagan served as longtime political partner, fiercest protector, and ultimately as the caretaker for president Ronald Reagan. An involved first lady, she was active in key staff decisions and policymaking and in campaigning. She made drug use her signature white house issue with her just say no campaign. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight, were going to tell you th
Quarter corridor. He couldnt seem to handle it. Finally, pat came close to death, and supposedly his last words to pat as she was very frail and leaning in a chair was, your family loves you. Your country loves you. And people all over the world love you. Shortly there after she went into a coma and died. And if youve never seen the video of pat nixon feel, its extraordinary. Richard nixon, a man who never wanted to be invulnerable in public, was inconsolable. He couldnt stop his weeping. He covered his mouth but absolutely, he was completely undone because she had been the only one for him. And after the funeral he went up to greet the reagans, and he leaned on Nancy Reagans chest and wept. Several days later back in new jersey, crowley found him and said, theres no one here. Theres silence. My god. And at the funeral someone had told Leonard Garment when he was attorney, Richard Nixon is not going to last a year. He died eight months after pat did. And one of the great moments of his