And philadelphia. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this mornings discussion, from the moscow with. To nancy pelosi. Around the table on women, wielding the political power. Im Greta Brawner from cspan, American History tv, on cspan three every weekend. Its happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion, and of course it could not come at a better moment in history, with the 19th minute granting the women the right to vote. Passed by that u. S. House in the un that senate in 19, and ratified in 1920. If we are 100 years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up ever, making up a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. We have four women still for running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women, and the key turning points for women in the wake of politics. Others you do see to our panelists, i will come back through and have each of them tal
Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t
Now refer to, institutional as the press. Lectures in history. On American History tv, on cspan 3. Every saturday at 8 pm eastern. Lectures in his three is also available as a podcast. Find it where do listen to podcasts. Hello, welcome to another edition of at home with the notes thoughts. I am paul sparrow, director of the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum in high park new york. Today, we will talk about the relationship between two of the most important families, political families in American History, during the 20th century. The roosevelts, and the kennedys. And to assist me in this conversation, i am joined by the director of the jfk library. Paul, it is good to be with you. Allen price here. Thank you for joining me today, alan. This is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, multi generational relationships. Two families that are really dynasties, in the way that they impacted american political life. There is a component to this that a lot
Hello and welcome to another addition of at home with the roosevelts. Today we will talk about the relationship between two of the most important political families in American History during the 20th century, the roosevelts and kennedys. I am joined by the director of the jfk library. Thank you for joining me. This is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, to families that are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. There is a component of this that a lot of people do not stand. Not just the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. We will start with the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and joe kennedy. Joe kennedy may most of his money in a night 20s in the market. He was appointed as the head of the Security Exchange commission. Some said that was putting the oxen control of the henhouse. Joe kennedy really became a very close confidant of fdr. You
Pathfinding mission, postwar food and humanitarian aid. It is used by George Marshall in formulating the marshall plan. And so hoover, under truman, i think gets rehabilitated. He is brought back into service. And in fairness, the only person who had really dealt with feeding millions of people and dealing with that kind of relief effort was hoover. Plus, he also still had a Network Within the leadership of europe that remembered him from world war i and especially in germany, really the only american they trusted after world war ii was hoover. Because at a time when the allies did not want food to go into post world war i germany, hoover fought to get it in. I feel it is one of roosevelts great feelings that he did not brief hoover on anything, not on the bomb, strategies, so truman had to take over with very little understanding of what was going on. So hoover was the only surviving expresident and the only person who really understood what the job was. I will let you wrap this up be