President. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara pierce bush, the wife of our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. And here for the next 90 minutes to tell us more about her life and her influence are two guests. Myra gutin is the barbara bush biographer, part of that first lady series weve turned to so often during this series this year. Shes a first ladies scholar, and she teaches at Rider University in lawrenceville, new jersey. Thanks very much for being here with us. Ms. Gutin my pleasure. Ms. Swain Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. Hes the author of one book on george bushs Foreign Policy and at work on another one. Thank you for being here tonight. Mr. Engel good to be here. Ms. Swain now, we heard barbara bush at the outset talk about the fact that, when she became first lady, her words had much more were much more attentio
World. I hope we have given that to our children. I know george w i heard him say several times his dad has given him unconditional love. That is true. All of this baloney about george competing with his father, its just ridiculous. They are devoted to each other, and there was never any competition, and my george is putty in their hands, i must confess, but i think they feel loved, and i hope if i have a legacy other than being the enforcer that it would be that i raised a great family along with george. American history tv is featuring cspans original series, first ladies, influence and image at 8 00 eastern sunday nights rather rest of the year. Next week, we look at hillary clinton. This is American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. They were wives. And mothers. Some had children and grandchildren who became president s and politicians. They dealt with the joys and trials of motherhood. The pleasure and sometimes chaos of raising small children. And, the tragedy of
Transcripts For CSPAN3 Globalization In The Pacific Northwest 20151128 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This is about 20 minutes. Susan chris foss, your work has focused on the Pacific Northwest from the 1950s to 2000. Why did you pick that timeframe . Christopher i think part of it has to do with that being the emergence of the Pacific Northwest as the region that a lot of people in the u. S. Think of it as an environmental destination or tourist destination, or a place to go and have fun and to recreate. It has to become these things through a process. The process that i look at as having become that is through this process of globalization. Now, we talk about globalization as being relatively new. Something that starts in the 1980s which is really when this buzzword starts getting thrown around by political scientists and historians. As a way to kind of interpret and understand the world the postcold war world. What really changes is the northwests traditional reliance on trade is augmented on the one hand. Also the rise of a number of really significant political players. So, some of
Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you know, terrible levels of violence. So some the jobs that mexican immigrants used to do are now being done by the the lowest jobs are being done by Central Americans. And the interesting thing about the Child Migrants is that, you know, first they had to endure this, you know, very dangerous journey from Central America through mexico and then get over the border. But the interesting thing is that they get kind of dumped into this system of where they have the possibility of asking for asylum eve