Susan Grace Coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started
Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Oakley getting into that very, very shortly. That is in the clash. As always, you will get a first look at tomorrows newspaper front pages, hot off the press. And angela levin. Yes, she will discuss the chilling prospect of a new royal memoir by none other than Meghan Markle. Yeah, what would that really mean . A blockbuster. Two hours of top telly coming your way. My big hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is next way. My big opinion is next right after the news with polly middlehurst. Patrick. Middlehurst. Patrick. Thank you and good evening to you. Well, our main story from the newsroom tonight is that the bbc boss, tim davie, has faced an unprecedented grilling from mps over the broadcasters failure to label hamas as a terrorist organisation. Conservative mps are understood to have become increasingly concerned over the bbcs coverage of the israel Hamas Conflict. Todays meeting was requested by the 1922 committee,
Oakley getting into that very, very shortly. That is in the clash. As always, you will get a first look at tomorrows newspaper front pages, hot off the press. And angela levin. Yes, she will discuss the chilling prospect of a new royal memoir by none other than Meghan Markle. Yeah, what would that really mean . A blockbuster. Two hours of top telly coming your way. My big hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is hours of top telly coming your way. My big opinion is next way. My big opinion is next right after the news with polly middlehurst. Patrick. Middlehurst. Patrick. Thank you and good evening to you. Well, our main story from the newsroom tonight is that the bbc boss, tim davie, has faced an unprecedented grilling from mps over the broadcasters failure to label hamas as a terrorist organisation. Conservative mps are understood to have become increasingly concerned over the bbcs coverage of the israel Hamas Conflict. Todays meeting was requested by the 1922 committee,
8 00 this morning. Look at the winds. Theyre picking up. This will be an issue later on today. Somara theodore is on the weather deck. Good morning. Thrusting the snowflakes into my face. Heading out my door, the side roads, the subdivision roads are coated at least for a lot of us with snow on the ground. The good news is once you get to the treated roads, we start to see a little bit of more wet conditions. But it is youre not dealing with the snow on the ground. Still blustery out there. You want to take your time. Melissa, how is it looking . If the roads are treated, theyre okay. If untreated, not the situation where you see that slush and hey little bit of ice and snow on the roadways. Heres a live look in bowie. Looking at church road, you can see a little bit of snow on the grassy because this is a treated road, it looks interpret clear, mostly wet. Our radar, all of that white and gray, you can see where the snow is falling across the area this morning. Now, as far as the road