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
Featuring cspans original series, first ladies influence and image on 8 p. M. Eastern time sunday nights throughout the rest of the year. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical cooperations. Through conversations with experts, video tours and questions with the audience, we tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Mamie eisenhower on first ladies, influence and image. This is about 90 minutes. Today, it is our pleasure to entertain for the first time, our first lady, at this her belated Birthday Party. To mamie many happy returns. To mamie with music, 160 million join in our chorus. To mamie with music, to mamie, with love. Susan swain a birthday tribute to Mamie Eisenhower, televised nationally by cbs in march of 1956, just a few weeks after her husband, president Dwight Eisenhower, announced his bid for reelection. Tonight, 1950s america and the life and times of first lady Mamie Eisenhower. Good evening and welcome to cspan series, first ladies
It began with a fight against i. S. I. L. , the defenders of the syrian town gained strength with the arrival of kurdish peshawar forces from iraq. [ cheering ]. People in a refugee camp watched and cheered. Bombs echoed, black smoke billowed. We have this report from the turkish side of the border. We are just a few kilometres away from kobane, where the sound of sporadic fighting and shelling has persisted throughout saturday. Now, behind me is one of the entrances to that town from turkey. It is where Iraqi Kurdish forces crashed over friday in the early hours of saturday bringing reinforcements for the fighters combatting i. S. I. L. The peshawar forces when they entered stationed themselves in the western part of the city. They brought with them semipickup trucks carrying heavy weaponry, guns, rocket launchers, bazookas and the like. These were weaponries that the Syrian Kurdish fighters belonging to the y. P. G. And their allies had been calling for for several weeks to say they
Calling for the same, calling for the house and the senate to come back from break to grant president obama for iraq and syria, in the first 45 minutes this morning should congress return from break to the end vote on policy 285880 and 2025853882 for independence for iraq and afghanistan veterans if you want to way in 2025853883. On social media reach out to us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan and email journal on cspan. Org and they took the vote in the Guardian Newspaper of bombing to start in hours as they backed the war, 524 for the resolution, 43 against and a little this morning from patrick winters saying the over all tone of the sevenhour debate was questioning and dubious and warned any strategy does not address isis in syria or the proxy war between i ran and the sunni on the other was incomplete and also questions on whether iraqs army has the political well to defend communities from isis assault in the uk. Here in the United States some members of Congress Cal