They didnt know the holocaust was coming, but it was not done. Grace throws herself into helping get ready for world war ii. During world war ii, is a real volunteer, a spotter in North Hampton and that kind of thing. She did take a more active role in her post white house years. Then even though you have rationing, she doesnt get to plymouth much during the war, she seems the homestead going in plymouth, has an interest where her husband grew up and where he was sworn in. She decides to donate it to the state of vermont, if they will buy the birthplace. She was quite active as a preservationist, i like to see it that way. She lived until 1957. She did accomplish many of her goals after being first lady. She did, i would say, be brave, coming out with that stand. I know weve had a lot to talk about, and im afraid well have to ask gary if we can get to lou. She picked up where she left off prewhite house, which was to get engaged with a lot of the organizations that she had been involve
With a parent whose health was up and down. This was not something new in her life, and she took charge like she neieded to and carried on. I want to leave some time for the audience. Then come back to let the first ladies themselves have the last word. I know that, what did they do, quickly, after the post white house years . Can you address that a bit . I can start with that because mine is really short. Yeah. Florence just lived 15 months after warren died. She didnt have much of a life after that. She was adamant that she really did not want to come back to marion, to her house, and she never came back to her house. It was just not the same place for her without her husband. She wanted to stay in washington. She liked life there. She had spent five years there as a senate wife before the white house. She wanted to travel in europe. Shed been there three times. Wanted to write her memoirs. She didnt do any of that because her Health Failed rapidly after warrens death. Her doctor who
Tuberculosis. No cure. Second of all, we left track of how severe and prevalent that illness was in a lot of different parts of the country. Lou, in her typical take charge, i got this sort of frame of mind, collects information on all the different potential sanitariums where pete with cca. They have tons of letters from wellmeaning people telling them how this can be cured. She eventually settles on the sanitarium in ashville, north carolina. They arrange for pete to go there. They thought about having him at the camp that lou and bert had built in the mountains, but they decided that pete really it was very inaccessible do they decided he needed to be where there was more attentive care and somewhere it was easily accessible. Petes wife and two children moved into the white house for the duration. Lou, her typical strong management style, take charge style. Her mother was a semiinvalid. She was accustomed to dealing with a parent whose health was up and down. This was not something
Round 2 threat may push rain levels above 50 in houston surpassing a record set in 1954, all american storms ever. Levees have spilled over after reaching capacity three hours ago. Breakages at key dams. In a cruel twist of fate on the 12year anniversary of hurricane katrina. Louisiana is preparing. They are about to get whipped by the storm. You see the pictures of people filling sandbags. Flood warnings already. Some watches in place and katrinaravaged new orleans, braces for impact with. All of that, a diplomatic storm swirling as north korea saberrattling turns to outright jabbing and poking. Kim jonguns regime shooting off a new missile test that sailed over northern japan. Which nation will he target next . By the way, we want to let our viewers know, we are waiting for President Trump to arrive in austin, texas here, was already in Corpus Christi, continuing his tour of the Harvey Disaster relief efforts and then heading to the white house where north korea has to be at the fore
More, but we are about 30 minutes into the trading day. Abigail doolittle is here, with a mixed direction for the session so far. Certainly the dow in the s p 500, fractionally lower, the s p 500 fractionally higher, but the nasdaq being helped by technology and not seeing the drag from energy the other indexes are seeing more so. Lets take a look at that. Oil on the day along with a few energy movers. 1 ,is down about 1 , almost down for a third day in a row. This reflect Hurricane Harvey, and in the wake of the storm that many of the refineries in texas have inkind. There is less demand for crude. That is weighing on the price turn weighing on some of the other names. This is an interesting dynamic to take a look at. Lets look at it in the bloomberg. Refineryhe total amount of oil processed by refineries in the u. S. , and we see through august 18, we see that about 4 Million Barrels per day are coming off line from these refineries being shot, so this processing is coming right down