First going tohe jackson bodegas life. When she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children, one or two had almost been teenagers. At the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he
Announcer up next, Carl Sferrazza anthony, author of Florence Harding the first lady, the jazz age, and the death of americas most scandalous president , discusses the life of the woman married to president warren g. Harding. Dispels some myths around her time in the white house. The White House Historical association hosted this event and provided the video. Ms. Mann today we are welcoming Carl Sferrazza anthony, the author of several books on president ial families including four biographies and a conference of overview of all the first families. He wrote a two volume history, an inside view of 200 years inside the white house. He served as a consultant to the first ladys exhibit and was the National First ladys historian in 2017. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding in the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent
The father and two children visiting a national park. Their first camping trip. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. And we begin with the first picturing coming in from puerto rico, after taking a direct hit. As you heard, one official saying, the island is destroyed. Maria is the first category 4 to hit there in nearly a century. 1 150mileanhour winds ripping buildings apart, knocking out power everywhere. All of the electricity is out tonight. People ordered to stay inside until at least tomorrow amid feerms of more massive flooding to come. And the satellite image tonight showing marias massive size dwarfing the island. No part of it was spared. Abcs Victor Oquendo leading us off from san juan tonight. Reporter tonight, marias direct hit, devastating puerto rico. The first category 4 storm to strike puerto rico in 85 years, slamming ashore around sunrise. We are back here on the northern side of san juan here. I can only imagine what went down
Good afternoon. I am john herbst. We have a somewhat different even for you this afternoon and thank you for coming. Nice to see we have a goodsized crowd. The title of this event is connecting. I say this is an unusual in and for the Atlantic Council because this is kind of a deeper dive than usual into history. Not that we ignore history. Of course we dont. But we spend a little more time on the historical dimension today than on the current dimension. It is important because this pork historical aspect has been shortchanged since the early 1930s. We have a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. Bios of each. People well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is time in part to some tied to something very unusual. , fulllength regular movie bitter harvest is coming to a theater near you this week. You may have seen advertisements over the weekend. I have seen a more than once. It is well worth see
The early 1930s. We had a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. You have here the bios of each. People well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is timed in part to something very unusual, a fulllength regular movie, bitter harvest, coming to a theater near you later this week. You may have seen advertisement for this on tv over the weekend. Ive seen a pic of fact ive more in touch more than once. He keeps your attention a very, very difficult subject. But its not a documentary. Its a fulllength feature film which seems to be the way to catch peoples attention in this post modernist age. Second thing and hepatitis a i did not need to be reminded, you can follow us at hashtag future ukraine. And with that, i think im done. I will just introduce Timothy Fairbanks is a senior fellow nonresident senior fellow at our center will be moderating todays discussion. Tim . Sorry, i knew i would make a mista